What meal made your heart sink as a child

Spam sandwiches, made with flabby white sliced bread and cheap margarine, occasionally with a sprinkling of fag ash..my stepdads mum made it every time we went there for tea, horrible.

Pasta shells with watery, not tomato-ey bolognese sauce or with tuna, cheese and sweetcorn.

To this day I never buy pasta shells as they depress me. Rigatoni/penne/fusilli etc all fine though.

I just remember the over boiled potatoes, soggy cabbage and tasteless stews.
I don't remember any other dinners my mum made apart from the Sunday roast.
When I left home I discovered all the foods i missed out on and wondered why my mum never did any of them.

Tomates con huevos. Universally known as sick on toast!

DM would scramble eggs then add a tin of tomatoes to the mixture, stir it through and serve it on toast. The toast would be soggy and the mixture looked as though someone had thrown up on the toast, I kid you not. Makes me feel sick even now and I don't think I've eaten it for forty years!

Not a meal, as such, but sometimes, as a treat, mum used to make Cheese Bread - I don't know if it is a proper, yeasted bread, or some sort of cheesy, savoury tealoaf/cake thing, but I really disliked it. It wasn't cheesy enough to make up for the really odd texture it had - sort of tough and slightly greasy.

Liver and bacon.

Sausagemeat plait. Sausage meat mixed with ketchup and onions that were somehow always still crunchy after cooking, in soggy pastry with a wonky plaited top. I don't know what possessed my Mum to keep making it as she's a great cook 95% of the time! I'll have to ask her if she still makes it, hopefully she won't think I want it and make it next time we go round!

With all the yuck stuff Mum gave us we never had liver or kidneys. She refused to cook kidneys as she said it would stink the house out with the smell of piss! Its only since I've lived with dp that we eat liver. His Mum used to cook it to Clarks shoes grade! Its actually a favorite dinner of my kids here, I flash fry it and don't allow it get tough. Its actually really nice if done right.

There is a scientific reason why kids don't like cabbage, the dreaded cauliflower etc. Its because they do taste bitter as a pp said, they're part of the Brassica group. Your taste buds aren't developed enough as a child so they taste horrible and not a bit nice. Now won't you all sleep better knowing that bit of shite and useless information

Cornflakes with warm milk
Boil in a bag spaghetti Bolognese
Heinz ravioli
Mulagatawny soup
Liver
Angel delight
Rice pudding

liver and cauliflower
good for us because of vit A rather have carrots...

Tongue (in the tongue press.... Yuk), roast lamb, liver, kidneys , sausages, mash and any form of cabbage. I give up all meat at 14 and never miss it! Natural vegetarian I think!

Mince & tatties for me too. They still make it now & I heave when I smell it!

lol having read the thread I see many of us have these in common

the cod in a bag
pilchards on toast
paste sandwiches.
corn beef hash
yellow smoked haddock
white sauce with alot of stuff

i am early 40's.

cod in parsley sauce with mash and green beans.

hate parsley, hate mulchy fish.

Stuffed marrow. We had an allotment so it was a way to grow and eat veg we'd not normally have.
Unfortunately it was really watery, and stuffed with mince.
My mum was a great baker but stuffed marrow was not one of her specialities.

I also have dire memories of school dinners - mashed potato from an ice-cream scoop; it always smelled like sweaty socks and it always had lumps in it. Fatty gravy, stinky fish, and cold lumpy custard with the skin on.

I loved my school dinners though, they actually tasted of something! AND we got a pudding!! We never had pudding in our house.

Late to the thread, but here's mine. My mum didn't believe in Oxo, or Bisto or stock cubes of any description. Her stews were vile. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, stew packs were discovered. Those bits of celery still make me gag. She'd put the Dutch oven on, fill with water add frozen mystery meat, then the frozen stew pack, boil it forever then serve.
I made a casserole at school, I brought it home, said this was the family's first ever casserole, not so says she. She makes it all the time, but it's called STEW! I almost said 'But this tastes good'.

New Years broth was my next meal that made my heart sink. Mixed dried pulses with the old turkey carcass. At least the carcass gave a bit if flavour.

I used to really enjoy school dinners, with the exception of one dish we christened "pedigree chum". I suppose it was intended as some kind of stew, but really tasted and smelled exactly like dog food. Vile.

Bogey the recipe could have been created by the Queen herself to serve other kings, it was still disgusting. And the kindergarten teachers would always force you to finish all of it. I still can't eat cooked cabbage to this day. Or stand the smell of hot milk. And it was in the 90's that we were served that shit. Bleaurghhhhhhhhhhh

this thread should be in the "Weight loss" section.

read through when peckish. you'll feel so sick you'll have a glass of water and if brave maybe an apple...

I honestly don't remember much of what my mother cooked, good or bad! I do remember her kind of giving up by the time I was 13 or 14 and I just made myself microwavable veggie burgers or macaroni and cheese from a box.

When I was little my dad was occasionally left in charge of dinner and he made tinned soup and grilled cheese sandwiches every time. I hated the split pea but that was because of how it looked...it was actually quite tasty.

As a teenager at school I used to pay a dollar for a "salad" which was a bowl full of chopped iceberg lettuce and nothing else except whatever dressing you picked. It was vile but I chose it so I must not have hated it too much.

Tripe and onions.I remember when my ma done this for dinner.I thoughtshe said trifle and sat down with gusto.Tripe is not teh same.

My mums Sunday dinners, just awful and the veg was boiled for about three weeks. I remember one stand off over a roast beef dinner once where it was brought out on the Monday and Tuesday until I ate it. I didn't. And her steaks, she'd hammer then with a meat tenderiser and fry them until they were tough little grey things. Just awful. It was only when I left home I realised steak wasn't meant to be grey.

I turned veggie at 14 just to avoid her cooking. Left home and ate meat again.

Seeing sprouts on an otherwise beautiful Sunday dinner.
Anything with mashed potatoes. I still don't eat mashed potatoes now.