What meal made your heart sink as a child

Who mentioned potted hough? My Grannie used to put it on a toastie with brown sauce - mmmm #ambrosia

Spam fritters. Just thinking of them could make me puke right now

Broad beans boiled until grey then covered in white sauce and put in the oven until sauce solidified. I am gagging at the memory. Usually served with boiled (for a long time) potatoes and if really unlucky liver. Plain overlooked liver. Bleeugh.

Tinned Ratatouille.

I am not a fussy eater

In the early 80s our family qualified for handouts from the EU food mountain of dog food tinned beef stew, salty fat butter and over processed, bright orange cheese.

I'm convinced it was a form of bizzare punishment for being the only single parent family in the village; when combined with my 70s early childhood of having to wait with the other poor people "till those who paid for their lunch" were served first at school dinners . . .

Tripe and onions, cooked in milk.

Oh and the dog's treat of a boiled sheep's head, now that smell even topped the tripe

Any sort of fish, as my Dad used to 'gut' them in the kitchen. Even to this day, walking past a fresh fish van makes me feel ill.

At school in the late 90s/early 2000s the dinnerladies knew none of us would eat pie/pudding with kidney so they would display it on the board just as "Steak Pie". As if we wouldn't notice it was in there and be mutinous. Every plate had a pile of leftover kidney bits at the end of the meal... yuck.

What my mother called Boston baked beans. Vile boiled belly pork in barbecue type sauce with mixed beans.

Incidentally the first time I was served steak and kidney pudding I declared it cat food and refused to eat it. The second time I tried it... gorgeous and wolfed it down. Yummy.

At school, chicken nuggets with rice and sweet and sour sauce. There was never enough sweet and sour sauce to make the rice moist enough to eat... and the sweet and sour sauce was luminous orange and far too sweet.

Anthing my mother cooked. She hated cooking and she hated being a parent and made her fury clear through the inedible meals she served.

OTOH, she never served anything that wasn't out of a tin or a packet, so at least we were spared the horror of 'homemade'.

We used to get chunks of liver at primary school in a disgusting gravy-type sauce, with lumpy mashed potato. I can still remember the texture, it was like chewing an old boot.

No wonder I went veggie at 10.

I see mine is a popular choice!

I haven't seen anything on this thread that I wouldn't eat

I'm really not fussy, but now I worry that my DD is going to have horrid memories of the food I serve her.

I try my best, but I admit that sometimes it's a bit of an odd mix of whatever's in the fridge. It's not awful, per se but it's not gourmet....

cockroach rice pudding at school. I hope, really hope it was a big date instead of a cockroach. But they were in the school at that time :s

I can't eat it to this day.

Cake with icing
Liver and kidneys
Blancmange and trifle
Brussel sprouts

any stew out of the pressure cooker, as others have said. Greasy, odd taste with everything the same.

Apart from that my parents were quite soft for the times and didn't make us eat anything we didn't like.

Friend's mum always used to cook vile mince - plain mince and onion with some fresh tomatoes mixed in and all stewed down together - so in tomatoey water (yuk) with stringy bits of tomato skin all through it.

DPs mum cooked a roast for us last weekend. She always cooks the meat until it is rock hard and grey, without a hint of pink or moisture. The beautiful leg of lamb was transformed into dry grey leather, that turned into powder when you managed to saw a knife through it. I kept putting bits on DPs plate when she wasn't looking. There's a lady who hasn't moved on from the 70s. And she very much disapproves of my failure to eat sprouts.

Primary school dinners from 20 years ago. Smash from ice cream scoop. Liver and Onions. Baked beans, which I cant fucking stand.

My mum swears blind that I got food poisoning from a school dinner, toad in the hole I think.

My DD's school dinners are really nice, she'll eat them and shes a fussy eater.

School dinners were the work of Satan. Everything was swimming in an inch of grease and served with a ladle of baked beans.

I have never been able to stand baked beans at the best of times, still can't bear them now.

The works canteen reminds me of school a bit - any food that isn't eaten on the 'hot' counter makes its way to the 'salad bar' for the rest of the week. Egg salads are particularly ripe by Friday. :(

Shop bought quiche lorraine with (overdone) boiled potatoes, peas & sweetcorn.
It was bland and dry, and the opposite of comfort food.

DM usually a very good cook, but she has her blind spots...

Fish, steamed on a plate until soggy & overcooked cauliflower, boiled potatoes and parsley sauce. Everything white. If were lucky we got tinned peas. Yum.. .

Roast heart and - gags - sweetbreads!

The worst school dinner was steamed Lorne sausage with lumpy mash amen veg.

I got made to sit and eat it until I threw up

Any sort of chop.

Cooked in a casseole dish in the oven with water poured over it, for hours.

The water became " gravy" with nothing added.

Yuk yuk yuk

A vile dish served at my school called cavemans crunch. It was essentially mince, baked beans and cornflakes mixed together.
My friends school served a dish she called afterbirth pie!!!! heaves
I also hated tapioca!