What meal made your heart sink as a child

Haha great idea for a thread!
A lot of yours sound quite nice to me
At least it's solid food, my mum used to do soups that were so depressing to sip on especially as you'd never quite know what was supposedly inside it

Anything involving cauliflower as my mum was of the 'you'll sit there till its gone' persuasion and I really really don't like cauliflower, it makes me gag.

Other than cauliflower, probably my most dreaded meal was skirt and onions with mashed potato and cabbage.

My darling mother's take on pork in white wine. Following the various ingredient substitutions it became a pork, chicken soup and cheese casserole.

Absolutely hated corned beef hash. My mum used to cook up loads of veg in a pan with an oxo cube then thicken it with corn flour then she would chop a tin of corned beef into chunks & add it to the veg to warm. She would then put it in an oven dish top it with mash & grated cheese then cook it in the oven. It was vile. She also made stew with mince which was just nasty. Her fry ups were not good either always had thick sausages & bacon, over cooked eggs and baked beans & tinned tomatoes with added Worcester sauce, it was just wrong. Also hated tinned burgers, sprouts & cauliflower. She did amazing roast dinners though.

Savoury rice with barbeque sauce out of a package and boiled chicken. Gag
Corned beef hash.
Favourite "meal" was super noodles

'She' was my mum by the way! I've not eaten pork chops since and I never will, or roast beef! Another dry and tough meat. I'm a vegetarian now though so I'll never experience bad meat again!

Pork chops wrapped in tinfoil with LEMON JUICE and cooked (roasted?) in the oven until they were dry and tough. The fat was rank always soft, never crispy or anything and I refused to eat it. She was so good at cooking spaghetti bolognaise, cottage pie and mince etc so I don't know what she was thinking.

Dry, tasteless, shop-bought Quiche Lorraine with overcooked boiled potatoes, peas and sweetcorn. My DM is a very good cook generally, but sometimes she clearly just couldn't be arsed

Beef, any meal containing beef in fact. I used to be taken to have Sunday dinner with my grandparents as they had lamb every week where as we always had beef which I wouldn't eat.

Spag Bol. My mother didn't drain the fat off the mince, so it would form greasy orange lumps around the perimeter of the plate.

Fish fingers. Grey fish encased in synthetic orange breadcrumbs.

Cabbage with steamed earwigs... straight from the garden 🤢.

boiled fish, I'm not sure why my mum made it, I can only assume it was some sort of early 80's parenting advice that said it was healthy but It was horrible. When we protested we were allowed to put grated cheese on it to make it more palatable. So you then had boiled cheesy fish.

Mum would make a concoction. You never knew how it would taste, or what would be in it. It was a cross between a Casserole and stew, usually had leftover roast shredded, vegetables, and I expect as an adult was quite palatable! But as a kid I would pick and she'd grumble at me - why do I bother etc.

Tinned meatballs. Anything leftover and re-heated or food that should be hot, but was cold like a cold potato.

Liver and Bacon. All time hate is lettuce or any edible green leaves - disgusting and makes me gag even looking at them.

Steak and kidney pie
I was made to eat one and I threw up in it
Yuk

Semilina and jam :(

tripe and onions in white sauce. you could smell it cooking way down the street. My father loved it.

Kippers.
I actually loved kippers as a child, but my Mother, for some reason, decided that if we wanted to eat kippers we had to cleanse our palates first, so we were each presented with a small (about 100mL) glass of grapefruit juice, which we had to drink before we could eat the fish. She did this every time she served kippers for a couple of months. So I stopped eating the kippers.
I haven't eaten a kipper for about 40 years; they just make me so sad.
I still don't, and never have been able to stomach grapefruit.

Faggots

Crispy pancakes and croquette potatoes :(
Awful, awful toad in the hole with undercooked vegetables and burnt sausages and batter.
Hot pot. Undercooked awful circles of vegetable, mostly beans, somehow overcooked meat.
There's a reason I offered to take a turn cooking each week when I turned eleven and could be trusted with the hob

Peawack 🤢 and she used to do a vat of it which would last for 2-3 days. Hated it then and still can't look at it

My mum used to cook stuffed hearts. I refused to eat them so was cooked something else for tea. The stuffing for the hearts smelled delicious but I wasn't allowed the stuffing if I wouldn't eat the heart

Anything with beetroot. At school we had a evil old witch dinner lady that used to stand over me and force me to eat it, even as I was gagging. She said I had to get a note from my mum if I didn't want it. I secured said note, and handed it over, only for her to rip it up, dish me up a double portion and force me to eat it.

I cried over Brussel sprouts. I sat at the table on my own as I wasn't allowed to get down until finished. After 2 hours mum finally realised that I would sit there all night and relented and removed them. I still hate them.
WHY EAT SOMETHING THAT SMELLS OF FARTS??

Braising steak, I actually used to cry when she said that was for tea.