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What meal made your heart sink as a child

742 replies

lemisscared · 05/11/2014 17:29

For me i think it was mince and potatoes. The mince was from a tin ffs!! With tinned peas and carrots.

My mum used to make me eat this and i would gag and cry! Oh and fucking ready brek as i would get pneumonia if i didn't eat it - boak

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KenDoddsDadsDog · 05/11/2014 19:34

Vesta paella
Omelette

GoringBit · 05/11/2014 19:33

Rice pudding. Can't bear the look or texture of it. DF loved it (as is OH the mad fool) so it was a regular thing.

Lambs hearts. They tasted okay, but just the thought of them would give my stomach a little lurch. Mind you, I do think that if you're going to kill an animal for food, you should eat or use pretty much all of it.

My nan was a whiz with Ye Olde Oak tinned ham. Can you still get it? In America, I saw chicken in a can, I was equally appalled and fascinated.

stephanielittl7 · 05/11/2014 19:27

Liver here too- dont know what my Mum did to it but it was like trying to eat rubber. Cant even look at it now.
Macaroni cheese- Tubes in glue is what it tasted like Envy vom
Spam fritters tasted like blocks of grease

Sausage casserole. Boiled sausages Can eat sausages today but they have to be really well done-Not white and flabby
Sprouts- evil things.
And the speciality of my Nans- Meat disguised as braising steak. She thought if i didnt know what it was i would eat it she was wrong Can eat it today but it has to be very tender.

Bogeyface · 05/11/2014 19:26

Its funny really that the meals our parents served us because they were "good for you" or the best they could do on a small budget are the ones we hated the most! Kids are really ungrateful arent they?!

I know that my kids hate lovingly prepared homemade soup. No idea why, I can cook very well and it has loads of lovely fresh veg in in it and often left over chicken too, its really nice but you would think I was serving up dog shit on toast!

Conversely I was once clearing out the freezer and cooked up all the half bags and boxes of stuff in there. It was a hot buffet of hash browns, sausage rolls, burgers, a few chicken strips, some corn on the cob, potato wedges, oven chips etc. I was so ashamed of serving them that but I couldnt bear to throw it away so I made them all eat an apple and a banana afterwards! Their favourite meal is now "Freezer Hodge Podge" and ask for it on birthdays etc :o

teacher54321 · 05/11/2014 19:26

Moussaka. There are very few things I can't eat (lots of things I'm not keen on but will eat to be polite) but aubergines are the food of the devil.

Carterama · 05/11/2014 19:23

Borja....are you my sister?! Vile meal, we had a slight variation which was Parsley sauce, I still gag at the thought of this foul offeringConfused

mrsmilkymoo · 05/11/2014 19:21

Liver and bacon! Still want to throw up just thinking about it, yuk.

Corestrategy · 05/11/2014 19:21

Stew

CaramellaDeVille · 05/11/2014 19:21

Beef Ghoulash (sp)
Blancmange
Semolina
Liver

All of the above were school dinners :(

misdee · 05/11/2014 19:20

Sausages, boiled plain potatoes and mixed veg.

kissmethere · 05/11/2014 19:20

KnackereMuchly same here, I hated it but like it now and again now.
Boney fish I hated and still do, and lamb!

Lemsy · 05/11/2014 19:19

Meal when there was no money: Rice, pilchards in tomato sauce and tinned mixed veg. A lot of it ended up in my pockets and then thrown out my bedroom window.

TheoreticalDudeOfFeminism · 05/11/2014 19:18

Fish fingers. I still have issues with fish.

Solasum · 05/11/2014 19:18

Bacon and liver casserole.

Tinned Mixed veg in tiny cubes, carrot sweet corn and something else, boiled to slop. Uuuugh. I still won't eat corn not on the cob.

Purplecircle · 05/11/2014 19:17

Liver!

RubyGoat · 05/11/2014 19:17

Liver & bacon, with mash, & onion gravy. I would eat the mash. The rest would go into the fridge, & come out for the next meal, & the next, until DM judged it wasn't safe to keep putting it in front of me.

mypoosmellsofroses · 05/11/2014 19:16

Broad beans, dry, bland, boring god awful things,like chewing on cotton wool and baked sausages, the smell made me heave.

Elliptic5 · 05/11/2014 19:15

Nearly everything my mum cooked, she even managed to make shepherds pie into a slimy mess, I was so grateful for school dinners.
She doesn't cook much nowadays, I tend to cook when I stay with her, saves loads on indigestion tablets Grin

Sicksquid · 05/11/2014 19:15

Spam on toast

Just baked beans in a bowl (we were poor)

blanklook · 05/11/2014 19:12

Sago Pudding - aka frogspawn

blanklook · 05/11/2014 19:10

Brains faggots - yes, really www.barelyedible.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/faggots1.jpg

Small wonder I've been vegetarian for the whole of my adult life.

Susiesue61 · 05/11/2014 19:07

Gran's pearl barley soup on Christmas Eve, with added giblets for the adults!! And gooseberries from our garden,again a treat from Gran. Thank God she only came twice a year (although she stayed for a month)

Orangeisthenewbanana · 05/11/2014 19:06

Stuffed marrow
Corned beef fritters

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Turquoisetamborine · 05/11/2014 19:05

Fullpleather that made me laugh! Give to Anthony!