What was your worst childhood meal?

[TheChosenTwo]

Humour me while I’m waiting for everyone to wake up!
Dc asked us yesterday what our worst meals were when we were growing up, the one where the answer to ‘what’s for dinner?’ made your heart sink!
Mine was fish pie, dc1 was lamb hotpot, mil said liver and onions and db was spaghetti bolognaise. Anyone else bored and want to add?

My DM bought some tripe as she had fond memories of it. All four of us refused to eat it and I remember how cross she was as money was short and she had to cook us something else!

Cottage pie 🤢 Still won’t eat it today. Grim.

Sausages. My first memory of a sausage was biting into one and there being a big pink wiggly piece of grissle 😫 never ate another one again and still gag when I think about it 😅

Macaroni cheese or cauliflower cheese...but I think it's because they were served as stand alone meals rather than side dishes.

Gammon steaks… they squeaked in your mouth 🤢. And pork chops after my brother held it up and said ‘look this one’s got a toenail’ (the fat on the side 😂)

My parents were the eat it or nothing sort.

But... they dud listen to us. They never cooked Liver or Kippers while I was home.

Liver here too. We also had f aggots which were basically offal meatballs for the uninitiated. I was not keen.

We all refused to eat rabbit pie, even my dad. My mum had to give it to a neighbour!

Mince. It was cooked for hours in watery gravy and was grey. The carrots were mushy and the onions were slimey but still tasted really strong. It took years to realise how to cook it properly so it could be tasty.

Corn beef or spam fritters mash and beans. Mum was a good cook but every now and then this would appear my brothers loved it still have it occasionally but I hated it. Had to eat it though or go hungry

desert - my nans stewed rhubarb, food if the devil stringy and slimy she would add a tin of strawberries to it to make it special. She would get so cross when I fished those out and left the rest.

did anyone else have a dish of jelly and bread and butter I loved that at my best friend’s house.

i was born in the 60’s if anyone is wondering 😂

My dad loved faggots. Just the brand name 'brains faggots' made me feel ill.

We also ate a lot of offal which I now won't eat.

Tinned salmon sandwiches. Bit into one and the soft bone hadn’t been squashed properly. Boak.

Spaghetti bolognaise. 3x a week because my father loved it.

I still think they are, DH insists on have a chop or something with them but I think there’s enough protein and carbs there already.

dont get me started on cauliflower cheese on a roast that’s a big no thanks

Cheese on toast. I couldn’t bear the stringy texture of grilled cheese. I had to keep reminding my parents this.

Pan fried liver one of my mother's favourite dishes so we had it a lot. She would cook the liver until it was so tough (odd actually as my mother was a good cook) then served with boiled potatoes and gravy. Yuck..

For years I was told I was fussy by her as I didnt like liver. Turns out I like liver just not cooked to shoe sole toughness. Even now age 50 I do not eat panfried liver.

Urgh, tripe 🥴 never had it myself but one of those foods that I can just decide I won’t like and save myself the bother of eating it myself!
I love cottage pie made with leftover roast beef, one of my all time favourites but we don’t have it often as dc3 hates mash.
@Dolly199xoxo the pork chops with a toenail made me laugh! I don’t like port chops either, think like most of my food aversions it’s probably to do with the textures.

Unfortunately my mum was an awful cook so there was no dinner I looked forward to! The one I liked the least was probably what she called stew. Which was actually just watery vegetable stock with rock hard vegetables in it and a couple of gristly bits of beef. She used to use water to cook roast dinner rather than any kind of fat. We ate a lot of plain boiled potatoes, no butter or seasoning. Porridge was made with water. It was all very bland.

I used to stay with my maternal grandparents every summer and my Nan was an amazing cook! I lived for those meals. Sadly her daughter hadn’t learnt anything from her.

@Comedycook mac and cheese and cauli cheese are both side dishes in my book too, they need veg on and maybe some meat so I can avoid both of them as much as possible. I don’t really like a cheese sauce tbh, too sloppy and wet things and dry things touching.
Dh has made cauliflower cheese for today, we have roast beef and it’s a good side for that but I don’t eat it.

Liver and onion.
Pork chops.
Braising steak.

My DPs didn't have a lot of money so always got the cheapest cuts of meat and DM cooked them until they were impossible to chew! I used to love Mindays and Fridays though, they were omelette days. Even DM couldn't mess those up!

They both smell like vomit to me!!!

Liver revolting stuff, especially when it had tubes inside. It used to get wrapped in tissue and shoved up my sleeve

Calves liver.

Not much else because my mother was a fantastic cook, also because she had no truck with serving up anything obviously horrible. She was a dab hand with offal in fact so I enjoyed chicken livers and kidneys but we didn’t have heart or ox tongue or tripe or sweetbreads.

So many people saying liver! Another thing I’ve never eaten and not in a hurry to try. My friend ordered liver and bacon in a pub once and it didn’t smell great.

Steamed fish in milk for lunch on Thursdays. always went back to school feeling sick. When I left home I gave up eating fish all together. Still feel nauseous just thinking about it.