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 parents used to lightly fry stewing steak then boil it for 20 mins in pasta sauce and serve on top of over cooked pasta. The memory of the chewy beef makes me feel ill

Kidney Stew - it was seriously yuk.

My mum's spaghetti and mince. Grey rubbery mince bouncing greasily round on spaghetti, no sauce or seasoning to make it remotely palatable. I used to get told off for pouring half a bottle of ketchup over it to get it down.

Bernard Matthew Turkey Burgers (overcooked) were the worst in a long series of culinary crimes.
My young children now love rabbit and liver so I assume it’s in the cooking as much as the taste.

Id pretty much eat anything, my grandmother was French so she'd often cook things like snails or poached calves brains on toast.
The only things I couldnt stomach were powdered custard and frogspawn, that lumpy rice pudding we had at school and tomato ketchup. The smell of it makes me vomit.

Another one here for liver!
Mum would cook it until it was dry and rubbery, and would always insist on serving it with broad beans that were like bullets 😃

Hard boiled eggs eaten sheltering from the rain in a bus shelter on a day-trip to Redcar. Except I don’t like eggs so I had nothing.

I’m not surprised these replies are mostly meat / offal / fish

Any packed lunch. To this day I can’t eat a packed lunch.

I loved f aggots and peas! Worst meal was stew and dumplings. I still gag at the smell of stew now, bad times!

My mum was a dreadful cook so most of them! "Spag bol" was a particular horror as the sauce was just mince boiled with onion and a bay leaf (hence the quote marks around solpag bol!).

Tripe and onions cooked in milk. Really disgusting.

Not jelly with bread and butter - but my grandparents served fruit salad (tinned) with bread and butter, and this was something DH had growing up too. We were born in the 1960s too.

My most disliked meal was neck of lamb stew which mum did regularly for lunch on Saturday as she could put it on to cook and then get on with the housework (and yes I did have to help whilst my brother didn’t). My food disappointment was when I would get home in the evening, smell onions cooking and think ‘yay burgers!’, but it was liver.

Another one was my parents' really bad mashed potatoes. They never mashed them properly so they were just crumbly potato lumps. Didn't add any butter or milk or anything.

At one point I decided I had had enough, got the potato masher and the pan, and actually mashed the potatoes properly. My dad then complained at dinner because he thought it was instant mash 😆

Rabbit stew
steak and kidney pie
potted meat
semolina
spam

Sounds almost like my mum's effort, described below - was your mum born during WW2?

You are my sister and I claim the last boiled potato 🤣

My grandmother used to eat pigs trotters. So glad my parents didn’t cook these.

That's an easy one... Stuffed heart! Blurgh. No wonder I became a vegetarian.

Grilled liver????????
That sounds like an absolute abomination. Was there no sauce or anything?

Definitely liver shudder 🤣 also grilled dry pork chops! For years I didn't think I liked pork until I had it cooked properly!

Anything from school dinners except the Xmas dinner which was just about bearable.

Some highlights include lumpy pink custard, semolina with a tiny sprinkle of grated chocolate, mystery meat, macaroni cheese from a tin, instant mash. The only things I could eat were grated cheese, grated carrot and syrup or jam sponge. The days with semolina or half an apple for pudding nearly made me despair!

1938 vintage

The first two sound delicious! Two of my favourite comfort foods. The last two I agree are fully inexcusable! X

Curry made with Sultanas in it. It was A THING for a while. Gross 🤢