What meal made your heart sink as a child

My nan was obsessed with getting things stuck in her throat, so whenever we went over for tea, anything she served was semi liquid, or cooked to death. the absolute killer was mash potatoes. She'd boil some horrid old non-floury spuds and then bash them a bit, no butter, no milk, no seasoning JUST SQUASHED BOILED SPUDS. and She'd serve them with everything. A particular special was Mash, Fish fingers and tinned plum tomatoes. huuurgh.

1970s Sherry trifle. I boak just thinking about it now. It combines all the most revolting food concepts in one.

COLD custard, usually with powdery lumps of Birds custard powder throughout

WHIPPED cream, solid and tasteless and freezing cold bleugh. I dislike cream to this day.

Hundreds and Thousands bleeding lurid 1970s E number colours all over the nasty cream

Sherry - yuk. And alcohol in puddings is vile. Nuff said

Hard lumps of tinned fruits that tasted of nothing but sugary water.

Farleys Rusks - this is what my mother used for the biscuit element. I kid you not.

Sloppy jelly. It was doubly vile if it was green jelly.

I've come over all queasy listing that lot.

Cauliflower cheese boak!

I dreaded every meal that had meat in,I wanted to be a vegetarian but wasn't allowed.
I would sit there gagging but still had to clear my plate.
Blloody cruel to make kids eat something they hate.

I have actually up-vomited in my mouth as I typed this.

Tinned Salmon that had DM had added copious amounts of vinegar to and chopped cucumber, huge amounts of bone in it. She then used it for sandwiches for Sunday tea.
Stuffed hearts
Liver and onions
Butterscotch flavour Angel Delight.
A very weird dessert with meringue style egg whites and mandarin segments, can anyone else remember having this dessert?

Mum is a really great cook, but her go to meal of lentil rice used to seem very boring. Lentil rice with chili flakes and raita. Ironically, now I have to cook every night, I love this meal.

I remember crispy pancakes as a kid, and I liked them. And tinned sausages.

OneLittleLady I saw Heniz curry baked beans in Sainsburys this week.

Mince crumble. Yes, that was every bit as bad as it sounds. It was bland, gippy mince with a crumble topping. I used to nearly puke.

Fish flan - hot quiche thing with tuna in it. Rank.

Cheese aigrettes - my mum got the recipe from the school cook (why? Why would you do this?) They were basically huge balls of fat rolled in breadcrumbs and baked in the oven - always made with that flavourless mild cheddar, not good cheese, ever.

Cod in parsley sauce - the boil in the bag ones. If really unlucky, this would be served with boiled potatoes (none of your nice new potatoes, just peeled potatoes cut into big chunks and boiled) and green beans from the freezer.

Por chops or lamb chops - what was the point in these? a 2p sized bit of meat surropunded by bone and gristle. Also served with the much feared green beans.

Pork chops.

Not because I don't like pork chops, but because we were expected to eat everything except the bone. I don't do fatty meat.

And I was a bit older than a child, but mashed potato in France at a uni canteen. They made it so runny it was served with a ladle. It's the only food which makes me heave to look at it.

Curried baked beans. Yes, CURRIED BAKED BEANS. I like baked beans, I love curry but they should never, ever be mixed. My father was responisble for these. He would buy catering sized tins of beans and the add the curry flavouring and we'd be forced to eat them for as many meals as it took to empty the tin

Anything involving meat that wasn't chicken, fish, turkey or stewed, good quality beef. I still don't eat other meats. My parents used to do a roast every week & refused to have chicken more than every other week. They wouldn't let me leave the table until I'd eaten everything on my plate which meant I'd sit there for most of the afternoon trying not to gag with each molecule. Eventually I discovered that I was allowed up for toilet breaks... That meant I could get a piece of toilet paper, wrap my meat in it when no-one was in the room & hide it under the piano until later when I could retrieve it & flush it. They never caught on & mum was horrified when I told her recently! She'll be even more horrified when I eventually work up the courage to explain to her that it's a sensory thing because I have Aspergers...!

wol1968
Your post has just made me realise I must have fallen asleep during MC the other night - I don't recall any pudding.

Most meat was overcooked and hard. Even in a casserole, which was always strongly flavoured with Worcestershire sauce. The rubbery, greasy pork chops with tinned apricots was another classic, along with the ubiquitous dry boiled potatoes and soggy veg.
When I was very little I wouldn't eat potatoes, so my mum always cooked pasta for me, no matter what the rest of the meal was. I have fond memories of eating pasta shells with my roast dinner.
We thankfully never got stuff like liver and tripe cos my mum was traumatized from eating these in her youth. However, we never had anything custardy or rice pudding for the same reason, although now I love these.

My Mum was a great cook, in a meat, potatoes and 2 veg kind of way & all our dinners were lovely.

I was responsible for my own school lunches from a young age though, which tended to be boring. I recall having peanut butter sandwiches for over a year.

Sunday evening usually consisted of a meal at my Grandparents house. There was always a salad and one of those ham shaped tins of 'ham' surrounded by gelatine I loved my Nana's Sunday dinners though so I can forgive her.

The worst meal my Mum served up was chops with chips probably, we had a chip pan which lived on top of the cooker and was in use most nights. She always tried to encourage me to eat the fat off the chop

Luckily we had a dog

Each and every school dinner.

I grew up vegetarian, which was absolutely fine my Nanna was a great cook and was very inventive. However, she used to make these "burgers" which we made of soy products and lots of nuts and seeds, no seasoning that I could make out, they were so dry and were served without condiments or bread with a side of steamed vegetables. Veggies were nice but always got really cold by the time I got to finish them because the burgers were so dry it took a full five minutes to swallow one mouthful of it. I remember them being huge too, although that might just be my imagination.

I feel sick. Many of these are vile but Madamecastafiore's pork horrors must win.

chicken chasseur out of a jar,hate that smell even now.

Also my mum used to do mashed potato and mix raw onions into it and grill cheese on top,and then call it cheese and potato pie,how is that a pie?! always served with burnt sausages.yuck.

LadyBaelish we were actually taught how to make that in home economics class in the very early 90's!

I made my own version still with pork sausage meat, chopped apple's & stilton...it's much better .

Step monster loved pork!

It would either be belly pork but not slow cooked with crackling, it would still be swimming in fat with big white streaks through it and rind like shoe leather or her speciality was lemon, cream pork. Yep, you read that right. It was pork chops with extra thick double cream smeared on them and lemon squeezed on top.

I now do not eat pork, the very smell of it makes me wretch.

Boiled tripe.

It was actual torture.

calamity

I don't know if I should laugh or cry at your microwave toast story.
I'm so sorry
PMSL

Stuffed marrow, broad beans and DM's idea of curry and chilli. (Mince plus appropriate packet mix with slushy over cooked rice.)

Everything. My mother's cooking was so bland and disgusting that I once thought walker's cheese and onion crisps were too 'spicy'.