Classical Conditioning

When I was a little kid, I remember being in the kitchen with my mom while she cut a pomegranite. I jumped up and sat on the counter and she gave me some seeds to eat. I must have been sick, because after I ate the seeds, I threw up. And ever since then I cannot stand the taste or smell of pomegranite. I learned in this psychology class that I have been classically conditioned. I associate pomegranite with being sick. The unconditioned stimulus was the fact that I was sick, and unconditioned response was throwing up. But the pomegranite got in between there, and became the neutral stimulus, causing me to feel sick whenever I smell or taste pomegranite, being the conditioned response. Now it makes more sense to me why I hate pomegranite so much. I wonder if I can operatly condition myself to like pomegranite, but I'm not sure if that would work. I really hate pomegranites. A lot.