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

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oats o simple

Tinned potatoes, tinned carrots, tinned green beans, tinned everything 🤮

Another for mince (the way it was cooked at home, just fried with nothing to make it more palatable).

Smoked haddock or yellow fish. I like it now. My mum liked tripe cooked in milk, I tried it and hated it. She gave me a tongue sandwich once but I refused to eat it and don’t know what it tastes like.

Tinned ham with that cat food-esqe jelly. Also tinned corned beef. Yuk!

Mince again! I still gag on my mum's version even though there's nothing awful about the way she cooks it. I have no problem eating minced beef in pies, lasagne etc.

Roll mop herrings.

My mumwas such a awful cook it's hard to choose. She hated cooking so everything was the cheapest possible ingredients with no imagination or real effort. Spaghetti bolognaise was unseasoned boiled mince and onions poured over pasta. Greasy and vile. I used to ask for just the spaghetti and grate myself some cheese instead.

'Savoury' mince in gravy with mashed swede. (No herbs, no spices.) Just bland. I hated it.

We had no money and it was cheap. (Especially as we lived rurally and all the farmers grew swede and would just sell them using honesty boxes at the side of the road.) But I haven't touched a swede since....

Glad I'm not the only mince hater in the room. It was mostly gristle..

Looks like Mum's mince needs to get in the bin .😂

Oh pumpkin. kent pumpkins. My mother would mnash them with butter cream and nutmeg and I would boak.

Flipping love pumpkin now.

Also cold crumbed lambs brains and iceberg lettuce sandwiches.

There is no way I am touching that EVER again. She finally stopped forcing me when i vomited one back up in front of our neighbours who were over.

Liver and bacon, but Gammon steaks were the worst. Pure salty, tough awfulness 😬

Stuffed marrow- stuffed with oily, grey, squeaky, grisly mince

Was your Mother called Deirdre Barlow ?😆

Liver & sausage casserole- it was actually very tasty once I picked out the disgusting liver.

Any sort of meat. Liver, stewing steak. Lamb. Urgh. Malt loaf.

What is it with Malt loaf? I loved it.

i recently saw some in Tesco for the first time in centuries, it came home with me….😍

Boil in the bag cod with thickened tomato soup as a sauce.
Garlic sausage but it was a giant horror sausage of weird colour and consistency.
'American' beef burgers from Bejam that had gristle and odd white bits in with half frozen bluecurrant cheesecake for pudding that had a sour layer of purple mush on top.

A couple of years ago my entire family pissed me off so I went to Aldi and bought them watercress and spinach salad with a fat free dressing for their dinner. My mother was an excellent cook so maybe my father and I had annoyed her in some way?

So many that at the time I hated like liver, stew and dumplings, suet pudding.

all of which as an adult, and cooked properly, are utterly delicious.

Meat. 🤮
I refused and they reluctantly accepted that.

Also rhubarb.

@Allthegoodnamesarechosen , I love malt loaf, too. You only need a small slice to be full.
@GnomeDePlume , oh god, I just had a flashback - I don't know if I was more scared of the boiled bacon or the terrifying pressure cooker ! And the smell lingered for months.
Having said that, we ate anything and I love liver, I eat it regularly.

Stuffed marrow, just revolting 🤮

Marrowfat peas and butter beans are awful. In fact most of the stuff mentioned here is dreadful. When I ate meat as an adult I liked liver and onions but it had to be cooked very differently.

Meat 🤮 Turned veggie at 5 and never looked back.

Full on a small slice of malt loaf?

Thats so mumsnet. 🤣

@SongsForHappyDays , I meant after my pudding, chips, peas and gravy type meal. 😄