The vinegar I guess is what gets to you. Or maybe it’s the remnants of the sulfur in the cabbage?
One cooked vegetable the gets to me is spinach. I love raw spinach, but the texture of it cooked is just...too...yucky. Blech!
I like vinegar-I love just about anything else pickled and vinegar is the main ingredient in my favorite salad dressing-it is the smell of kimchee that gags me-it reminds me of rotten eggs-I don’t like that other rotten-smelling oriental “delicacy”-fish sauce-either. But I’m not put off by strong-smelling/tasting cheese-I’ve mostly lived in the country/on a ranch, where people do eat some stuff that isn’t on the menu in a city...
I grow spinach, and mostly eat it raw in salad. If I do cook it, I steam it just until it wilts-spinach cooked too long makes it icky and takes out a lot of the vitamin, too...