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?

Heart was my least favourite semi-regular meal.

We only had it once, but the stand out worst meal was hare.

My mother used to pass off rabbit as chicken too. We knew she was lying because she always made rabbit into a pie and we never had chicken pie unless we had had roast chicken on Sunday.

There was one memorable occasion when she tried to pass it off as veal. That was even less successful because we all refused to eat it on principle.

We often had baked apples too, but I loved them: the middles were full of raisins and golden syrup (and our custard wasn’t thin and watery). I still make one occasionally.

My parents were in the family butcher trade. We ate many parts of animals - hearts, liver, kidneys, lights (lung), oxtail, tongue, pigs trotters. I think my worst meal was pease pudding and faggots that was horrible

Boiled mince and peas or creamed cod roe with creamed potatoes and creamed marrow both meals I have never ever wished to try again.

Oh gof yes. I hate currants/sultanas and my
mum used to make curry on a Monday after roast beef on Sunday, this was the 70’s so it was curry powder and sultanas 🤮🤮🤮

Jelly and ice cream or rice pudding, it's a texture thing. I LOVE food, I don't eat offal, black pudding etc

Potted hough🤢
Kidney soup🤮

I was extremely fussy while growing up. I eat nothing but fruit, salad, raw veg, dry bread, toast with spread, cheese and I'd have a slice of meat (with my raw veg) on a Sunday to keep my parents happy. Everything other than those foods was bad. I wasn't even into flavoured drinks, sweets etc.

Only good thing is was all healthy.

Fish! Any fish but particularly smoked haddock. I will never forget an actual worm appearing out of a piece (teeny thing possibly pushed out by steam?) and being forced to eat the whole thing after said worm was removed...convinced I had ingested every sea worm in the ocean, i was so sick.
See also homemade mushroom soup. Grey boiled mushrooms chucked in a food processor with onions that went in uncooked and milk. Boak 🤢

Anything the dinner ladies chucked at us at school. Only warm, never hot, no matter what the "food" was it was always tasteless!

Stew and dumplings

I loved my granny’s fish’n’milk and 50 years after I last had it I still can’t replicate the taste of hers so I just add spinach to the pan for the last couple of minutes and enjoy that instead.

Spam fritters or liver

Stew. I hated meat but wasn't allowed to be vegetarian. Stew beef was grim. I remember gagging and retching trying to force it down. Slimy chicken too. Not sure how it got that way, it was dark meat from a roast chicken but had a kind of gloopy layer on it. Yuck. I stopped eating meat when I went to uni.

I grew up poor in the years a couple of decades after the end of the war. So meals were always the same; roast on Sunday, cold meat from the roast minced up into shepherds pie on Monday, fritters on Tuesday, small roast on Wednesday, liver on Thursday, fish on Friday, fry up on Saturday. On the plus side, you always knew what to expect. On the down side, you always knew what to expect and I still can't eat fritters of any kind (it was usually Spam).

Anything involving meat tbh. When I was in primary school I wanted to stop eating meat, my mum was very put out and upset so she told me to sort my own meals out and basically cut me off in that sense.

So from 10 onwards I would sort my own meals out and by like, say 14/15 would have to buy my own food as well. Then when I was 18 I moved out as I was basically a fully functional adult anyway!

@hardhatson @DrCoconut

that is dreadfullly sad