What meal made your heart sink as a child

When mum used to go away for work (once in a blue moon) we used to have Dads favourite veg, cabbage with sausages, which he couldn't stuff up. Dinner was a huge serving of boiled cabbage and a sausage. To this day I rarely eat cabbage, and when mum comes to visit us, Dad makes cabbage! To be fair, he now stir-fries it with butter so it probably tastes better!

My great aunt gave me tongue once. I couldn't eat a thing from the table for the thought of a great big cow's tongue. The thought still makes me ill now!

My mums fishermans pie :( and homemade rice pudding which you could put wallpaper up with.

Braising steak! With lovely veins of fat and gristle running through it. I used to hate it and refuse to eat the meat but the gravy and mash were ok. My mum used to be disappointed as it probably wasn't the cheapest meal but I just couldn't. Me and my sister used to give all the bits of meat to my dad who loved it! She persevered all my childhood and they still have it now! My DH had to suffer it too in his house as a child. We never have any kind of beef casserole now... Lucky kids have nice food!

Fatty mince at school... you know when you chewed into it and it was hard. I shudder just thinking about it.

BigTilly I only have brothers so I don't think so, perhaps they had the same book?

I'm so grateful that both my parents hate offal, so I've never been subjected to it!

I loved mince and potatoes - mince cooked with onions and an oxo cube crumbled over it to make gravy, Smash, and cabbage. Was delicious! Might put that on next week's meal plan actually and see what my Dcs make of it.

Boiled bacon and cabbage.

I remember coming home from school and the house smelled of old farts.

Pretty much every school dinner - but the absolute worst was pilchards in tomato sauce. The tomato sauce was nothing like ketchup, and was chilly and jellified, and tasted of nothing. Served with instant mash - it was vile.

Ham sandwiches for tea at my nan's house.

I am, and always have been, a vegetarian, yet she would always make me a ham sandwich.

Banana split is the other one. I hate cream and bananas; that pudding was effectively slime in a bowl for me.

Op made me laugh. Having mince and tatties here tonight (not tinned) and just bought Ready Brek for kids to try.

For me it was pork chops, new potatoes and Sweetcorn. Love it now though.

Lentil bake, and potato pancakes. I think the latter was because the potato stayed a bit crunchy and undercooked on the inside and I hated the taste.

I would happily eat both now - as long as the potato was cooked through!

My dmum was/is a brilliant cook. But I could never stand Roast Lamb.
I can't even stand the smell of it cooking now.

That's it though, I was lucky, unlike DH who has a big list of weird things his dmum used to make him eat - complete with threats

Yep, we also had the "standing over until it was eaten" thing OP.

And "think of the starving children in Africa" - that used to make me cry Actually found out when I was 11 that my jaw was in the wrong place - I'd been shouted at every mealtime for years and it turned out that I had a lot of difficulty eating. I just thought it was normal and that I was naughty

Oh god school meals were vile weren't they. I remember mince with garb swimming ok top and what I'm assuming were either tinted or frozen carrots because they were corrugated. They were watery and vile.

offal. There was actually a dinner called offal. Lump of god knows what part of the animal boiled in water. Even the smell was awful. I think she stopped cooking it by the time I was 10 or so.

For breakfast - gloopy porridge followed by gloopy soft boiled eggs ....vom face

School puddings - semolina, tapioca, and sago - yuk! yuk! yuk!

Can't bear any of them to this day!

And school mashed potato that tasted like sea water--ew ew ew

Tatie hash made from all the things I hated ie root veg and left over lamb. The rest of my family loved it especially my Dad.

My Mum always did mince and mash (in winter) or new pots (in summer). On Tuesdays I loved it, the down side was it was always tapioca for pudding which I hated.

School dinner liver, rice pudding or cornflake cake, I hated all of them.
At home, tinned garden peas, or anything with rice or pasta, it was always overcooked and there was too much of it.
To this day I gave no idea why this was served to me, surely doing frozen peas which were always in the house, or leaving off the rice/pasta woulddbe no trouble.

Sardines on toast complete with those crunchy back bones
Liver
Anything with mushrooms or peppers in

Boil in the bag fish in parsley sauce.

I'm a vegetarian now :)

Orange mash. Mashed potatoes with carrot and swede. The smell turns my stomach and even now I can't eat swede.

Cod in parsley sauce.

Stew and dumplings. The stew was ok but dumplings are just gross. Basically just lumps of floury fat

Mixed grill.

Big lumps of dried fried meat which hurt to swallow.

We were always having tinned fruit salad and cream or evaporated milk at school - you used to get about 6 tiny 1cm cubes of fruit - no wonder I spent my childhood hungry