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?

Completely agree.

Just to go against the grain, meals I love are: hearts, rice pudding.

Definitely agree with the school milk ,I can't drink milk to this day becsuse of the horrible stuff they made us drink🤮🤮

I've never had hearts, but the school crumble, custard and milk puddings saved us from starvation, as the main courses were so rank . I'm sure a different cook was responsible for the puddings than the rest.

You didn't go to school in the 1970s did you?

In defence of school dinners, I used to love the offering at my 1980s comprehensive school. There was a ravioli they did that was absolutely delicious - it was similar to the tinned ravioli you can buy but the raviolis were smaller and the sauce wasn't as thick. They also did a mean hotdog and burgers in gravy.

The queue was long, and the canteen was huge, grim, dark room painted in grey with orange and black 70s abstract patterned formica 'accents' but the food was amazing. They also sold cans of Panda Shandy to wash it down with!

School dinners were rank.
Except for the square of cake with a dollop of pink custard on too. That was ok.
Tapioca was the absolute worst. You had to swallow that bastard at least 3 times to keep it down. It was a toss up which was worse. Eating it or the slap you'd get off the dinner lady for refusing to eat it.

I posted up thread ..like a blob of jam in the middle was going to make tapioca anymore edible🤮🤮

Boil in the bag cod in parsley sauce. I would sit gagging at the table but wasn't allowed to move until it was eaten.

There was one time my parents tried to pass off rabbit by telling me it was chicken. I never forgave them for that one.

A dessert we had with monotonous and depressing regularity was baked apples with dried fruit in the middle, and the thinnest watery custard you could imagine.

Indeed. We were watched over by dinner ladies and weren’t allowed to leave food. You’d be told to finish it. For years as an adult I couldn’t eat mashed potato after the ersatz stuff served with an ice cream scoop we were forced to eat at junior school. The smell of it made me feel sick.

now I look back and think what were adults thinking as I’m sure many parents wouldn’t have eaten the stuff that we were fed.

It was the 1970s and I could only leave them after I had been spectaculatly sick after I was made to eat liver at 5yrs old. Not just by a dinner lady but a senior, male teacher - my mum then wrote a letter, saying I wasn't to be made to eat anything I didn't want to.

Eurgj my mum made this and I refused to even touch it. The problem was my Dad and brother would eat anything so I was seen as picky. My mum being an absolutely shit cook didn’t help.

‘Ham salad’ using that weird reconstituted ham made into faces. Disconcerting and not very nice.

just the general barely cooked-ness English mum made compared to Jamaican dad

Cheese sandwich on that doughy white bread, like Sunblest or Mother’s Pride, with lots of butter. Rarely eat butter because of that experience and won’t eat that type of bread at all. Was made to finish it even though I was heaving.

My mum was not one to pander to childish food whims and she knew I didn’t like braising steak but she wasn’t going to be cooking 2 different meals so when it was braising steak day, it was braising steak day. This was until she heard me telling my dolls that if they were naughty they’d have to eat “brave steak”. Apparently she felt dreadful and from then on cooked me something else.
When I was about 8 she had cooked “ brave steak” for her and my dad and I asked what it was. She told me it was a new recipe called savoury mince. I tasted it, it was lovely. 😀

Mine is Liver and Bacon, rank!
My husband said spaghetti bolognaise, because it’s the worst meal in the world when the people around the dinner table, like his mum and dad.
My son said Casserole, War
time food apparently.

School dinners with beetroot!

Surely that's just stock, though?! I would use that as a base for actual soup.

“Salad” 70’s style.

It consisted of a boiled egg, a few new potatoes, a slice of packet ham and some limp lettuce and tomato. Strangely enough I love salad now, but mine is a whole lot more interesting!

I started school in 1978, and my school dinners were mainly delicious ,for some reason we all had to eat them ,but they were home made and freshly cooked daily ,being the 70,s and early 80 s they were what I would describe as typically " British " food but very tasty and ample portions
The puddings were also lush ,such as cornflake and jam tart ,Manchester Tart ,Chocolate pudding with mint custard, and another pudding with pink custard were some of my faves.

I was lucky, my friend's mum was the dinner lady. When the nuns weren't looking, my lunch went into the pig swill.

Worst meal at home was lambs' brains, a close second would be liver. Having a mother who lived through occupation during WWII, we had to eat what we were given and be thankful for it. I spent a lot of time not being allowed down from the table as a child.

Steak and kidney pie, always rather light on the steak.

Tinned mince with tinned potatoes 🤮