What meal made your heart sink as a child

Fish pie

And "paste" sandwiches. Does anyone still feed their kids "paste"?

My lot love them! I bought some once as our fridge was on its way out and I thought it would be handy to have if it gave up the ghost altogether. They really raved about it and actually ask for paste sandwiches now!

I love pilchards on toast but the trick is to open up each one and remove the spine, I feel nauseous thinking about eating them. An ex boyfriends dad used to wait until his wife had finished de boning tinned salmon and would stand and eat the bones, on their own. I was actually sick after I saw him do that, vom city!

I have thought of another one, belly pork. Now properly cooked it can be delish, especially if it is done slowly so the meat is tender. My mother used to put it in the oven for about an hour so it was totally over cooked and tough as old boots, with really chewy stringy fat. I cannot stand fat on meat now because of that and the gristly mince.

This dish www.food.com/recipe/hungarian-paprika-potatoes-paprikas-krumpli-97075

My dps are Hungarian. My DM would make it, and she used to make it mushed up when I was a baby.

Liver and onions in gravy with mash.

Curried boiled eggs

Tinned pilchards.

Tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce - sends shivers down my spine.

Liver
Chops (or any meat and 2 veg type meal in fact)
Stew with dumplings (boyfriend at the time's Mum used to make this - dumplings=pure stodgy , tasteless, nastiness)
Sweet and sour (out of a packet or jar)
Curry using leftover meat (out of a packet or jar with sultanas added)

Funnily enough I'm veggie and have been virtually from when I left home.

Boiled potatoes (not new ones), boiled cabbage with either bacon ribs or "yellow" fish.

I'm a human dustbin so have always eaten most things, plus I'm a bit of a wrong'un in that I love semolina and tapioca.

I fucking HATE mushy peas though. And I'm also not a fan of hot tinned tomatoes - at school they were served alongside cheese and potato pie and even the thought of it all makes me gag - the tomatoes would get mixed up with the cheesy potato mix and it would all congeal and ugh ugh ugh.

I love cheese and I love fresh tomatoes (and tinned when used in sauces), but this was an abomination.

I also love corned beef hash, mince n tatties etc - but my mum is a good cook and never managed to mangle these. In fact I can't think of a single inedible meal that she's made.

Liver and onions. Mum used to force me to eat it because "liver is full of iron and is very good for you" never mind that it tastes revolting.
Cod and parsley sauce with boiled potatoes and broad beans.
Tinned ham sandwiches. The ham was covered with a layer of jelly and I have memories of it sliding out of the tin and plopping onto a plate. Mum always used to take tinned ham and tinned chicken with us when we went on holiday to north Wales. I am sure both naice ham and whole chickens were probably easily available in the local shops

Gooseberry fool, homemade with gooseberries from the garden.The sight of it would turn my stomach. A bowl of green,runny snot for pudding?

Braising steak stew (or chewing meat stew) lumps of leather like beef in a weak gravy with soft carrot, parsnip and Swede. I have to admit that I now love a nice beef stew but that's likely due to the copious amounts of wine I slosh in!

Reheated roast dinner leftovers. Gravy that had turned gelatinous in the fridge and reheated over cold meat.

Stewed sausages. Bloody awful.

Stew. My parents make terrible stew. It's all watery and horrible.

Plain boiled potatoes (not new potatoes) with salad - lettuce, tomato & cucumber - and tinned pilchards.

No butter, no mayo, no squeeze of lemon, no black pepper - nothing to make it more bearable.

I have remembered another - my mum always used to make bubble and squeak, on a Monday, to go with cold meat from the Sunday joint, using the cold, leftover veg from Sunday lunch. Most of the time it was OK, and sometimes it was delicious - but if we'd had sprouts, she'd put those in it - fried, day-old sprouts - urghhhhhh!

Shepards pie. It was mince, a tin of baked beans with some brown sauce mixed in covered in mashed potato. Bloody vile. I still can't eat mash. It's a banned food in our house much to my DP's displeasure!

Stuffed hearts. Bleeeeeuuurrrggghh.

Grey peas and bacon.....even the memory makes me gag!

BalloonSlayer - my mum used to make stuffed-heart casserole, and yes, it was a very educational meal

Tripe (only once) like magnified raw chicken skin. Boiled fish. Rabbit once.
Sardine sandwiches with curling dry bread.

Braised steak.

And, for dessert, semolina which used to make me heave.

My DM wasn't an awful cook and we were lucky to have a meal the days we did considering our financial problems, however at school I used to inwardly son when dished up like warm tinned plum tomatoes in 'juice' I still can't stand them now.

Pork casserole.

My mum is not the world's greatest or most adventurous cook.

Chunks of meat that managed to be both dry & slimy, onion slices that resembled worms & soggy carrot in packet mix sauce...bleurgh!

I wouldn't eat it now if you paid me.

Liver and bacon and tinned marrowfat peas

Bonne Femme.

Basically, white fish in white sauce with black bits in it. Vile.

Or liver, with white cabbage, just sheets of the disgusting stuff.

Mother was always on a diet, so mashed potato was just that. Mashed potato. No butter, no milk. Very hard to swallow.

Shepherd pie - specifically when it was the day after we had eaten spag Bol.

Mum would mix the leftover spag Bol mince with the shepherds pie savoury mince. Was foul. Special mention of the day that she topped it with mash that was mashed with leftover evaporated milk rather than normal milk. It curdled .

Another one for corned beef hash and my poor DD has to eat it at school! Mine was always dry as a kid. BLECK.