What meal made your heart sink as a child

Dolmio spag bol. Week in week out. With added basically raw mushrooms. Thanks mum!

Jamaican pea soup :'( kidney beans boiled with lamb, potatoes, yam, dumplings and other veggies.

Thinking back as an adult, I think it would be quite nice to have it again but once I was old enough to make my own decisions I used to have the lamb, potatoes and dumplings taken out of the soup and eat them alone.

Cod in butter sauce as well, that used to make me shudder. Sunday dinner I usually found boring just cos it was so expected.

Now, as an adult living 1hr+ from home, any Mum-cooked meal is highly appreciated!

Thick, not thing.

Having read this brilliant thread I thought I couldn't add anything as yellow haddock and marrow have already been mentioned. My mum wouldn't even stuff the marrow, just cut it up and boil it. Urrrrrgh.
Then I remembered our home made pizza.
What can be wrong with that? You may well ask. Everything, that's what!
For a start she didn't make a bread base. It was pastry. A big thing disc of stodge.
My mum was critical of bought pizza as the toppings were never generous enough for her taste. On the very rare occasions sh bought a pizza she'd add a shed load of extra tomato and cheese, rendering it almost impossible to eat.
On the home made version we'd get a thick layer of flavourless soggy tomato mush and then way way too much cheddar cheese. We never had anything more exciting than pepper or mushroom on the top. It would be all served up in a victoria sponge sandwich tin.
It was a soggy, stodgy mess. It always made my heart sink as I knew that after about a quarter of it I'd be stuffed full, but there was no leaving the table until I'd eaten it all. I'd be sitting there for hours sometimes.
You had to use a knife and fork, it was just too soggy and stuck to the pan to use your hands.
We went out for pizza once. I can remember my mum getting cross and saying 'Oh, so you do like pizza! Why do you never eat it so well ar home?'
Um......

Liver and bacon stewed in a frying pan with piss weak gravy.

We never had mince and potatoes. In fact we never had mince. We had bolognese (yum), cottage pie (yum) and other things like that, but never straight mince. I feel deprived.

The only thing that horrified me was seaweed pudding. Mum would threaten to make it every so often, and it became a family joke. She never did make it.

And pork chops

Pizza from Pizza Hut.

My Mum worked there and practically everyday we had leftover pizza. Not only was I massively fat, but to add insult to injury I didn't have Play Doh. Oh no, I got given leftover pizza dough to play with on the basis you can bake it and it lasts forever a day or two and then it goes a bit smelly

Lamb chops
Fish fingers and rice...yes rice....wtf?!
But worst of all.....kedgeree.....the smell of kippers cooking still makes me gag

Semolina from a packet and flavoured with either orange or strawberry.

Tinned macaroni cheese.

Oh and overcooked pork chops that were all dry and tough with a jar of Apple sauce.

Campbell's meatballs from a tin with tinned potatoes whilst caravanning.

Chicken chasseur which was basically a sachet of powder mixed with water and stuck in a casserole dish with raw onions and chicken. God it was awful.

Tuna pizza. It was disgusting. Who on earth puts tuna mayonnaise on soemthing and then cooks it.

Fish pie - bony white tasteless fish in a tinned tomato and spiky herb sauce with mashed potatoes on top. Vile!
I still can't stand those tinned tomatoes you get with mixed herbs. Bleugh

My mum is an odd cook tho and adds bisto to everything even veg soups. And she substitutes ingredients: oh I was making apple crumble but I ran out of flour so I used semolina(!). Or I was making chicken curry and ran out of curry powder so I've put some bisto in instead....arrghh!

We joke about it now that we don't have to eat with her very often. She gave me broad bean soup last time that she had made with bloody bisto. It was really thick and brown!!! And she wondered why dd (2) didn't want it....!

Ratatouille! (We camped in France a lot, I guess there's not much you can make on a calor gas stove)
I even wrote a school essay on how much I hated it
Funny thing is I quite like it now!

liver
scrambled egg
ribs

not all at the same time thankfully.

dm is not the best cook (nor did she have much money) and used to do jacket spud, beans and cheese EVERY NIGHT when we got home from school, we'd get in at 4ish after a long walk home and there it would be.. ready to eat. It was literally every night for the 5 years I was at secondary.

'Yellow' fish
Grilled fish with orange 'breadcrumbs' sprinkled on
Paxo stuffing urghh
Tinned salmon with bones served with iceberg lettuce cucumber and tomatoes
Tinned fruit salad and carnation milk
Leather hard liver
Braised heart
Instant mash ( blue urghh the smell of it )
Cold lamb
Overcooked meat of all kinds
Swede
Gooseberries

Yuck. I love food now and I think this is why. Anyone read 'toast' by Nigel slater?

Cold cuts of roast lamb with boiled potatoes and cabbage. Sorry Mum, I do love you!

glass of milk
mashed potato

Liver or kidneys - still not a fan of offal

Cold roast meat with re- heated gravy - thank god for Bisto granules now!

Some of these are revolting, but I've noticed some of my favourite things on this thread.

Rice pudding, lovely.
School cheese flan with the juice from the beetroot soaked into the pastry.
Cauliflower cheese-delicious. I often make a dish of it and eat it with a spoon!
Cod in butter sauce-I've not had it in years, I might get some!

I have never and will never eat offal. Boak.

We used to be served crispy pancakes with beans and chips. Or chicken burgers with super noodles! My mum denies it, but we had it regularly. I've known DH since he was 15. He lived on microchips. MIL denies that too!

At boarding school - ham steak with pineapple on top with mashed potatoes.

Stovies, my great granny (bless her soul shes gone now but I did love her dearly) I hate them with a passions. Lamb or pork chops with massive chunks of random veg and watery grave

Corned beef hash, can't believe someone else upthread was also subjected to this. Can still remember the smell

My mother stayed in the 50's til she died. All subsequent decades past her by. It used to annoy me but reading this thread I'm actually very happy she didn't change her menu since 1956

We had a set menu on set days of the week with hard, dry steak, tasteless hard boiled potatoes and tinned peas rinsed and boiled in plain water til insipid twice a week every week for 5 decades and if we were really "lucky" skirts and kidneys on Saturday.

OTOH I love liver and onions. I think it may be because she ate it 3 times a week while pregnant with me.

I was pretty easy going as a kid - LOVED school dinners: spam fritters, liver and onions, industrial mashed potato served with an ice cream scoop, rubber jelly with fake cream on top - all yum ??
Also, mum's corned beef hash or pressure cooker stew and dumplings were staples. It was exciting when I had a friend round for tea and we cracked open the fish fingers!
I hated tinned red salmon, boil in the bag fish, and tomatoes baked on top of any form of pie. Also tinned new potatoes >boak<
Tinned marrow fat peas and cheap sausages - ick!!
Sometes we'd pretty much have a tinned meal