What were the least favorite things your parents would have you eat growing up?

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oats o simple

Coddle. Yuk!

Peeled boiled potatoes. Just potatoes at their worst.

If I was lucky though my Dad used to leftovers them to his fried breakfast and let me have some,

Any fish that has bones

Mince ( boiled & oxo cube) plain boiled potatoes and fuckin' butter beans out of a tin 🤮.

Oh god butter beans. Boiled onions. Yum. Not.

it was called tuna rice. White rice. Tinned Tuna. Green peppers. Onion. Served warm. 🤢

Despite the worst treatment it cold have possibly got from my mother - rendering it tough, rubber-bandy, and with some white flobberly bits, I actually like liver slow cooked with onion and bacon these days. I reserve my hatred for cauliflower, we seemed to have it every week, rising overcooked dripping from the pan like a disintegrating brain. Despite being all the rage, I also did not like "toast toppers" (looked like cat sick) and @CamelliaAndPrunus I am with you on malt loaf. There was a continual packet of this on the bread bin. I am not sure now whether it was the same packet or was eaten by someone regularly and replaced, but I do know that neither me or my sister would go near it.

Pork chops, Vesta dried curry, boiled potatoes, boiled white cabbage, tinned pilchards

The most horrible thing was milk - I loathe it. Even worse, was warmed up which would make me gag and my mother would make me boil it for her. I grew up vegetarian. Looking back, my parents were excellent cooks but I was just a picky bugger! I really hated any legumes. Completely off topic, I learnt to cook meat (ex husband was a pure carnivore) when first married and poor as a church mouse. I actually enjoyed making substantial, tasty food like stuffed lamb hearts plus steak and kidney pudding. Re latter, I didn't have a pressure cooker but would slow cook cheap braising steak and would ensure the kidney was prepped correctly (believe me, it can smell pissy if not), cut small and basically added as a savoury - almost like umami flavouring. Also made my own suet pastry - sometimes from the suet from the kidneys! However, butchers would give you suet free. Also made stuffed Trotters / Crubeens - smell amazing - acquired texture / taste! Lots of stews with dumplings etc. Looking back, I can't think how I managed to shop, prep, cook a lot of the stuff we ate. However, now energy costs would probably negate previous cheap cut menu savings!

Grisly grey meat.

vegetables, always a joy on a Sunday when they had been “par boiled” at 8am, left to sit in their cooling water and then re warmed after church at lunchtime. Last time I had Sunday lunch with my mum she got the peas out of the freezer at 8.30 to try this trick…

Curried eggplant and beans (I hated the texture, it was just slop) but it was ok as I picked out the beans

Tripe & as a close second Rennet (its some sort of curdled milk pudding I think)
Both totally foul.

My mum used to mash bastard swede into the mashed potato 😩

Honestly reading this thread at kids in past (including me )had some dire dinners .
Kids these days don't know they're born .

Liver & onions
Any root vegetables in stew. My mother isn't really a big vegetable person - her approach is to boil them until they're dead. The root vegetables in particular would come out watery & awful.

Faggots!
or bolegnase but the onions would still be practically raw and v crunchy 🤢

Dry liver

Herrings coated in rolled oats and fried. Nothing else with it. Not only the taste but all those bones to pick out. it never occurred to me to refuse to eat it…

Liver
Pea soup made with dried split peas
Boiled cabbage
Cod with boiled potatoes and parsley sauce
Butter beans still make me gag

Liver and bacon.
Stuffed marrow.
White boiled potatoes (boiled for about a thousand years)
My mums beef is so over cooked it's like shredded duck. I didn't even realise I liked beef until the first time my ExH cooked it and it wasn't like jerky

Some of the things people have put though, I absolutely love! Tinned ravioli! Faggots! Bloody love them

Another one for liver. Jesus it was horrible despite my mother being an excellent cook.

School lunches were really horrific. That grey mincemeat that was full of great lumps of gristle, and incredibly weird salty instant mash that tasted of dandruff. I was extremely law abiding at school but I used to stuff my school dinners into my apron pockets because they had a 'clean plate' rule. Have grown up into an extremely picky eater as a result and yes, much prefer vegetarian food as a rule although I do eat meat sometimes

My mum was a fab cook but she did rely a bit TOO MUCH on minced beef tinned tuna and she loved lamb so we had a lot of that.

I avoid all that now.

Boiled bacon with added salt in the water. Served with fallen boiled potatoes. Salty and horrible!

Years later we went to her's for dinner and she had made soup using the salty brine and chestnuts - it was truly awful!

Every time DH suggests boiled bacon for dinner my heart sinks. Which isn't fair because he cooks it beautifully in apple juice and cider. I just can't escape the feeling when he says the words 'boiled bacon'.

Another vegetarian here! Mince was just the worst. So plain and grey-brown and tasteless. I also hated roast dinner (invariably chicken) when everyone else seemed to love it. DM was a good cook really but I think now that a lot of what she made could have been improved just with a more generous hand with the salt.

I'm also relating so much to PP talking about plain boiled potatoes. I have visceral memories of choking back a fair few of those. Also cauliflower. I don't tend to like foods that are too white, I think they're tasteless!