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?

Gawd that sounds diabolical! My dad was obsessed with hideously overcooked rump steak. But thankfully overcooked spaghetti wasn't a feature at home. In school though that was another matter! I still hate spaghetti to this day.

Yeah that was rank. It was like wallpaper paste. Sick has too sophisticated a flavour profile to compare it to! 🤣

Yes, my mum was born in the early 1940s. I have a theory that people of that vintage grew up with very limited, bland food due to wartime and post-wartime rationing being in place for their whole childhood, so they didn't learn to cook tasty food at home as a matter of course.

I do know people of that vintage who were good cooks, but they were the sort of people who were interested in cooking and probably embraced learning new recipes when rationing lifted. My mum liked baking and was great at cakes, scones etc. but she had no interest in or talent for cooking meals.

Mince and onions. Now I love it!

Beef. My mother cooked it for so long that it went from the size of a football to the size of a tennis ball. It’s squeaked when you cut it. You could have soled your shoes with it. Rank.

Sunday afternoon tea. Salad, which I hated then and still do 60+ years later. I'd eat the cold ham (minus the fat) and the hard boiled eggs but that was it.

School dinner salad. Shredded cabbage and whatever, including beetroot, served with pasty pink round luncheon meat and a scoop of mashed potatoes. 60 years later I can still vividly remember the smell of the dining hall on salad day and feel nauseous. Otherwise our school food was fantastic. I still detest beetroot.

Mutton stew (made with a “nice fatty piece” ugh) with pearl barley (slithery pebbles). My grandparents (born 1906) thought this was a real treat. As a result, I eat no sheep…

Has anyone said oysters? They were only served once, by a posh relative. Yuk.

Liver and bacon with boiled potatoes. Rank.

My dad used to run over pheasants in country lanes, leave them to hang until stinking in the integral garage and then cook 'em up for the family. 🤢

My mum was a good cook so most of her meals were good ,
Apart from Liver which I think she cooked with sausages, I like sausages but they were done in the same pan so tasted of liver 🤮
Her spaghetti bolognaise was a bit band ,it was just mince ,onions ,tomatoes and mixed herbs ,but im a 70,s baby so " Foreign" cooking was all very new to her🤣

About fifty years ago when an auntie and uncle were staying with us while Mum and Dad were away. They made some vile stew-like concoction one evening. I don't remember what or who it was made from but it was bright orange, bitter and very runny. It wasn't tomato soup. Eww.

Rice 'Delight'
Context: My Dad was a stay at home Dad when my Mum went back to nursing. It was the 80's. Whole family is vegetarian.

Recipe:
Short grain brown rice (cooked)
Frozen peas
Diced carrot
Pinch of every herb and spice from the Schartz spice rack
Edam cheese
Method: combine in dish, top with Edam, bake until the rice has almost returned to its pre-cooked state.

It was far from delightful.

Nursery .boiled cabbage
". " Butter beans.
At home
Boiled to death mince
Grilled findus burnt pancakes ..hated them anyway.
The 2.5 HR cooked chicken.
Ditto with silverside,you could chew and wouldn't change shape.

That sounds similar to.my student dish of
Pasta surprise. The surprise wa whatever was in the cupboard 🤣

I used to make 'surprise toasties' in my Breville sandwich toaster in my student days, when I had run out of cheese or my cheese had been stolen from the communal fridge. The surprise was that there was nothing in them 😀

I remember this!
I think it was in the 70,s when curry was a new dish to a lot of people?

😂🤣

Cheese cooked in milk. ( A Northern thing I think)
Vomit on a plate.
Too runny /tricky to palm off on the dog.
Couldn't even bribe my brother with all my weeks pocket money to eat it for me.

Yes like a yellow korma type curry. I remember that!

Same it was so tough we couldn’t cut it with a knife so would bite pieces off

Boiled onion with white sauce. A whole white onion. Smothered in a white suace that tasted of Death.

Baked celeriac

Liver
Scotch pies
crème caramel
As it was the 70s, plates had to be emptied and if we didn’t eat it then we got it served up again - cold (and again) until it was finished