What is your nightmare meal ? Light-hearted, please.

[TheTecknician]

For me, liver (or any offal) and mushy peas. In fact, mushy peas would ruin any food for me. Eww.

Liver and offall here too, plus kidney, heart, tounge, and tail.

Fennel makes me weep and I absolutely hate anything aniseedy.
Slimy, liquidy whole tinned whole tomatoes.
Definitely soggy toast - outrageous ruination of bread!
Semolina, rice pudding, tapioca, oysters, undercooked egg whites - you get the idea... basically anything that looks like a bodily discretion🙁
I once had to go for a meal in France with lots of people. They knew I was a vegetarian so specially prepared a starter of snails followed by a main of this unidentifiable roulade thing with veg. It was ground up pig snout (not real meat apparently)😭

Starter - Goats cheese
Main - Butternut squash risotto or spaghetti carbonara
Dessert - crème brûlée or trifle

Vegetables/ sides - garden peas, parsnips, sweet potatoes, creamed anything

Brunch - eggs Benedict

Afternoon tea - egg mayo sandwiches, cream cakes

It’s all about eggs and cream for me

We used to have it constantly as kids. I hated it so much, especially when my brothers were fighting over the 'skin' and flopping and wanging it around the table. It always looked like something from a medical waste bin in an operating theatre 😩

Sushi, pork belly/chops any type of dumpling, bao buns or offal (chicken livers are ok)

rice pudding and any pudding with gelatine in (like panna cotta) the disgusting stuff finds it’s way in to many puddings

breakfast porridge or a plate that has black/white pudding on and/or tinned tomatoes (though I love tinned tomatoes for cooking sauces)

When I was a kid, my grandma used to have tripe, but I didn't get a taste, as I was never there when she had it. So when mum used to drag me round to the butchers, I spent weeks, begging her to get me some tripe, because I 'knew' what it would taste like and that I'd like it. And every week, she told me I wouldn't! Until she gave in and got me a small piece... Yeahhhh, turns out she was right all along!!! Utterly gross! 🤮🤮🤮

I'm really the least fussy eater I know. I was brought up with very traditional food including lots of offal (home made brawn and faggots for example) and loads of home grown veg from our garden - sprouts, kale, runner beans you name it! Love my veg. We also had chickens for eggs and goats for milk so I knew nothing but "real food" from infancy.

The only thing I can't eat is lamb in any form. For some reason it actually makes me sick. Is it possible to be allergic to lamb? God knows, but here I am.

I'm also not keen on anything savoury in a creamy sauce, like creamy pasta dishes but will eat it if there's no alternative.

MrsTerryPratchett · Yesterday 20:32

Mine is what I received (very kindly) in Central Asia.

That sounds like kourdak, which they do in Kazakhstan. I once had Uzbek horse lung with onions, which I actually enjoyed.

The preparation is to put the lung into a pan of water, with the trachea hanging over the side, it's ready to cook once it stops leaking snot...

Savoury jelly: eg. Anything in aspic, the jelly from a pork pie, the white side of a plaice, jellied eels.

Anything involving fatty meat

Okra and liver/all offal. Okra is like biting into a slightly hairy pustule of wallpaper paste. Worse texture ever. And bananas. Wish I liked them

Good gravy, PP's feast of all the innards does sound rough. I gave my dog dried lungs once as a treat, and they smell terrible - worse than any other organ. Why is that?

Raw oysters, any very fatty meat if I can’t cut the fat off. fennel. And afterwards, goat’s cheese and any puddings slathered with cream. 🤮

Oh fennel, yes. My sister went through a phase of putting it in everything.

Goat Cheese starter Nightmare main would feature mutton/offal/goat bonus nightmare if it included coriander. I am not a fan of many cheese so a cheese board would not appeal to me but would probably nibble on a cracker

Innards and mushrooms

Lamb. Absolutely vile.

My Nan used to boil hankies in a special pan and the smell would hit you when you walked through the door...I'm imagining a similar pong!😫

I'm a veggie now but anything with offal - the smell just turns my stomach. Days when we had liver for school dinners were just horrendous for me.

Also the smell unsmoked bacon before it's cooked was enough to put me off eating it.

I can't go into butchers shops either due to the smell of raw meat.

I love ratatouille but never put aubergines in as they are too squeaky!

I haven't noticed that aubergines are squeaky. I'm bound to, next time I have some and will be on edge for the rest of my life.

Thanks!

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it needs to be cooked longer then!

Anything with goats cheese. A workmate cooked me pasta with goats cheese once and I wanted to vom the whole meal! Put me right off the idea of going vegetarian as goats cheese tart used to be the only veggie dish on a restaurant menu! Now the options are far more varied so I'd probably be ok.

Also, my DH cooks one particular dish on a regular basis that I have tolerated (as just happy to be cooked for, and it's quite healthy) but never really enjoyed it. Recently it seems to have evolved into outright hatred of this meal. I don't know if the recipe has changed or what. I have told him about it (gently) and he's at a bit of a loss as he cooks 3 staple dishes and just like me, lacks the time or inclination to learn a new one.

Gristle on steak; just yuk. Bowl of olives: the food of the devil. Any meat with fat on.

Hey, thats my favourite meal!

Anything with fish or other seafood
Liver
Curry of any kind
Beans on toast

A lot more too, I'm a very fussy eater