Food which makes your heart sink

[GnomeDePlume]

Do you have a meal/food which when suggested just makes your heart sink?

For me it is boiled bacon. It just sounds so dreary. Whenever DH suggests it for dinner I am instantly thrown back to childhood and salty boiled bacon cooked in brine served up with boiled to death sliced carrots and fallen boiled potatoes.

DH actually cooks it really well, he rinses the joint thoroughly and cooks it with apples and sometimes cider as well. He serves it with crushed roast potatoes and peas or beans.

But the words 'boiled bacon' take me back to childhood and the dreary, salty meal.

Does anyone else have similar instant responses to certain foods?

I know this is a first world problem and I am lucky to have choices and a DH who cooks most meals.

Lentil soup
Lentil salad
Any kind of nuts in salad
Liver in spag bol

Spam
tongue
corned beef

Why would someone look at spag bol and think 'what this needs is liver'. Liver never crops up as the secret ingredient which pulls a dish together.

Quiche. Bloody quiche! Especially with feta.

Three bean “casserole” - go away!

Chicken in cream and white wine cooked by my MIL - big chunks of overcooked chicken breast in an under seasoned thin sauce. No added salt.

Pennè Arabbiata - no thanks.

Meat. 🤮

Sawing through a huge dry chicken breast fillet - would much rather have thighs/legs or even wings.

Cream of anything soups = slurry

Supermarket sandwiches

Light hearted but anything I cannot have (coeliac here 😂)! Particularly fresh baguettes in the supermarket (the smell gets me every time still...), donuts, deep pan super thick pizza, the list goes on....in all seriousness I don't think too much about it but what I would give at times!

@GnomeDePlume absolutely! Cooked from scratch really doesn't always mean nice tasting.

They ate those bloody awful potatoes every night for sixty years!

It’s possible to make it very well - a slightly flavoured cheese, cauliflower cooked quickly enough to make it a bit crispy not limp, a dash of cream and not too much flour. Keep it mildly interesting and it turns into a nice comfort dish rather than just boring stodge.

To me brandy butter is a waste of brandy and a waste of butter. I like both just not amalgamated together with sugar.

My MIL's rock hard vegan Christmas cake with extra thick icing.

Chickpeas - especially in a stew

Fennel - I’ve claimed an allergy, Carrie from SATC style previously to avoid it

as a vegetarian I love a good risotto!

and as a vegetarian I am deeply upset by beetroot being a default option

oh and pubs that only have a meat burger or vegan burger. I want proper cheese and mayo.

Stovies with corned beef. I like stovies with sausages though.

@PinkyDinkyDoodle doesn't it have lemon juice in it? Kebab shop style red cabbage for anyone who is wondering.... 😁

Soup. Don't mind the taste but I just find it so unsubstantial.

Totally agree. Never bother to have it. Never order it if out. Once the breads run out it's nothing more than a bowl of disappointment

So pleased I'm not alone in:

• pork chops
• liver/kidneys
• pizza
• piles of any food on a plate...just can't stomach it

@BlazingWorld - never seen the appeal of a pasta bake either.

A Huge Dish of Disappointment

Take well cooked pasta, add sauce. Cram into dish and then overcook in the oven with cheese on top. Dried up pasta on top, mushy pasta below. Yuk.

Fish that has been previously frozen

Just so blah

Mushroom quiche, mushroom risotto. In fact anything with mushrooms in it. There seems to be an assumption in restaurants that all vegetarians and vegans love mushrooms <vomit>

https://flawlessfood.co.uk/shredded-red-cabbage-turkish-kebab-salad/

I haven't made this yet, but plan to. The recipe sounds as it it should work. I think I read a discussion about this very subject here a few weeks or months ago, and the key point was preparing it well before it needs to be eaten.

Pulled pork with sweet potato fries. My idea of hell, slippery meat and sugary chips. Nasty.

Burgers piled high with sauces, melting cheese, sweet brioche bleughh too much going on - don’t even like the photos on the millions of posters in every bus stop

There was powdered cheese sauce with that fish and mash...

Erm...when the dogs got at the turkey she still fed it to her guests, including me. Without giving us the option to refuse.

It was all a long, long time ago.

Veggie here

Fake meat burgers. In fact fake meat anything
Risotto
Pub curries