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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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WipsGlitter · 05/11/2014 17:45

All of them! I was a picky eater and my mum wasn't a good cook not a good combo!

GnomeDePlume · 05/11/2014 17:44

Stew with floury potatoes.

I still cant look at wet savoury food.

AMumInScotland · 05/11/2014 17:44

School dinner fish. In bright orange 'breadcrumbs'. Usually with a few bones left in. Served with lumpy mashed potatoes and peas which were nothing like the ones we got at home in colour or texture.

And with a side order of "Think of the starving children in Africa" when I couldn't manage more than a few mouthfuls.

bigTillyMint · 05/11/2014 17:43

Cod poached in milk with boiled potatoes and cauliflower.

Alibaba, do we have the same DM?!

Mine used to serve it up when I was ill. I didn't get ill too oftenWink

Mintyy, we used to get that at our primary school too. I never, ever ate that reconstituted potato

Ohfourfoxache · 05/11/2014 17:43

"Home made curry" - Lord knows what she put in it but it tasted overwhelmingly of Sharwoods curry powder. To this day I can't smell curry powder without wanting to retch. Oh, and there were always liberal handfuls of sultanas thrown in, just for good measure.

Lunches were always interesting - took packed lunches in and 99.99% of the time the sandwich would be two slices of bread and (not naice) ham. No tomato, or cucumber - occasionally coleslaw which would make me gag. I used to hide as much as I could and discreetly chuck it in the bin.

It's weird, because mum is really a brilliant cook. Don't understand it at all Confused

ReluctantCamper · 05/11/2014 17:43

Everything I hated I love now

Courgettes
Lentil and bacon soup
Mushrooms
Liver

It gives me great sympathy for my mum and none for my DS as I'm pretty sure that, like me, he'll grow to love all the things he currently acts as if are poisoned!

CMOTDibbler · 05/11/2014 17:43

At home, roast lamb and mint sauce - I hate lamb, hate the fat even more, and detest the smell. Plus the vinegary mint . Dad loved it and as we produced our own meat, there was a lot of lamb to eat.
I also hated the offal meals, but at least my brother allied with me on those, and it wasn't viewed as such a wonderful treat.

At school, the grey liver, followed by pink sauce.

AvonCallingBarksdale · 05/11/2014 17:43

Tinned red salmon - yuck, yuck, yuck! And then tinned tangerine segments with evaporated milk for pudding. A lot of tinned stuff in our house - think my DM thought it was "safer" than fresh stuff.

KnackeredMuchly · 05/11/2014 17:42

Boiled ham, boiled potatoes and boiled cabbage when visiting family in Ireland. It was night after night (or so it seemed)

To be fair, if I properly didn't like it I would be able to have an alternative so the fact I found it tolerable meant I couldn't complain!

juneau · 05/11/2014 17:41

Oh and if we're talking about school dinners too I give you:

Liver and onions (aka leather and onions)
Savoury pie (liver, tomatoes and mashed potato - vom vom vom)
Braised heart (they actually gave this to primary-aged DC!)

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lemisscared · 05/11/2014 17:41

Did anyone else's mother use to stand over you til you ate it? She would feed me too. Hmm she is still obsessed and iff dd doesn't eat her dinner she always comments "but she'll be ill"

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PestoSnowissimos · 05/11/2014 17:41

Liver

plantsitter · 05/11/2014 17:41

Mintyy I didn't remember having that meal at school but as I read your post I could smell and taste spam fritters and tinned tomatoes... the taste of gip. flashback!

dorothyparka · 05/11/2014 17:41

Stew followed by rice pudding

juneau · 05/11/2014 17:40

Anything my step-mother made! She is an appalling cook to this day. But I think the lowest of the low was probably sausages in white sauce with boiled marrow. Bleugh!

Gileswithachainsaw · 05/11/2014 17:40

Liver and onions.

That's weird suet bacon pudding thing.

Boak

Barabajagal · 05/11/2014 17:39

Sardines/pilchards in tomato sauce. Bleeugh. I am eating backbone for no-one. Other than that I pretty much ate everything put in front of me.

HesterShaw · 05/11/2014 17:38

Liver. Horrid horrid horrid.

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

kelda · 05/11/2014 17:38

My mum's homemade cheese and potato pie.
Sorry mum.

rollonthesummer · 05/11/2014 17:37

Shepherds pie-still hate it now!

IDismyname · 05/11/2014 17:37

Anything with beetroot in it. Made all the rest of the food pink.
And vinegary.

DoAndroidsDream · 05/11/2014 17:37

I hated gammon with a pineapple slice.

Cauliflower cheese should be in a cheese sauce with a bit on top that browns.

Chandon · 05/11/2014 17:37

this thread is making me feel hungry Grin

The only food I dreaded as a child was sprouts.

kerstina · 05/11/2014 17:37

Liver yuk! Complete with vile tubules in it. Would not inflict that sort of thing on my DS no way !

smallandimperfectlyformed · 05/11/2014 17:36

ooh FurryDogMother back when I ate fish I loved that particular one and used to love it with boiled potatoes and tinned garden peas - my poor mum used to get so cross that I loved such bland food and would barely eat anything else!