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

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oats o simple

Tinned processed peas because my sister didn't like tinned garden peas.

Boiled potatoes, a big ugly spud just sitting there with no personality, I had no problem if it was mashed, roasted, new or chipped.

Pig Heart and onion casserole

Brawn

Stuffed marrow 😷 feel bad now but I was such a fussy eater, and my mum worked full time, cared for my gran and me and every night we had some variation on meat and veg/ salad. All homemade when she must have been so tired. But marrow does not a meal make woman!

I think you might be my sister 🤣

Butter beans

My parent were big lovers of well done meats. So shoe leather like steaks and desert dry beef joints were the usual. My mother also "marinated" everything in bottled Italian salad dressing, so the house always smelled like awful burnt meat and vinegar. 🤢

And bacon and cabbage boiling all day on the cooktop...double boak ..

homemade rice pudding or semolina
Liver
Smash
Potato waffles or potato smileys

Chicken chasseur
Plain boiled new potatoes
Often served together 🤢

Baked beans anywhere near boiled potatoes. The juice thinly contaminated the poratoes. Yuk.

Liver
Plain rice pudding
Blancmange

Boiled cow tongue
Stuffed hearts
Boiled trotters
Tripe

Boiled (or later microwaved) marrow. I didn't mind stuffed marrow so much, but the tasteless, watery horror of marrow went on for months and months and months.
Kale. I quite like kale now, but as they grew their own it again went on for flipping months and was just boiled
Purple sprouting that managed to be both watery/mushy and tough/woody at the same time. Fortunatly the season for this didn't last too long

My parents ate (very) locally, seasonally, organically and low processed before it was a thing. As a child I did not appreciate the weaponised bread, runny yogurt, low sugar baking, and foraged goods (there really are only so many mushrooms or blackberries you can eat). Later I realised the ingredients and ethos were great, but my mums cooking and lack of time made the food largely terrible

I hated gammon steak, chops and scotch pies.

Mince that had line random little tubes in it🤮

Kidneys. With white bits on them. Tasted of wee🤮

Bony white fish.

Milk.
I now realise that this was unpasteurised milk, which, to me, tastes cowshed-y.
Then followed years of pasteurised, which I could get down all right.
Then, during lockdown, we bought unpasteurised milk from a local farm… there it was again, the taste of the cows. 🤮

Mashed potato. It was tasteless and watery, and such a mountain of it, with the texture of mousse, you'd be forgiven for thinking it had been made from a powder. I'd be made to sit for hours until I'd finished. I don't touch the stuff now.

At school I was in trouble for refusing to eat things and my parents were called in to discuss. The main thing was some thin slices of beef in gravy (roast beef I think) and a beef stew with beetroot. Foul. The meat was disgusting.

Another vote for stuffed marrow with grey mince.

Also cod roe - my heart would sink when that was announced for dinner. Fried slices with that horrible membrane holding it together.

Smoked fish poached in milk was the worst though. I could choke down the other two but couldn't stomach this one at all.

Liver. Kidneys.

Pigs feet
Tripe
Ox heart

🤮

So much offal! I think I had it easy with the worst being mashed potatoes and beef.

Not my parents, but school. Sos pie. Does anybody remember it? It used to make me heave but school forced us to eat everything on our plate 🤢

I see all of the above and add boiled eggs, porridge, and cold custard! Vom. Vom. Vom!

My mum was a terrific cook. We had very little money when I was growing up so it was often 101 ways with mince but she cooked it really well and she knew how to use salt and other seasonings to make things more interesting. The one thing that I hated however was the corned beef and tomato sauce sandwiches in a packed lunch. I don’t actually mind corned beef at all (quite enjoy a corned beef hash) and I like tomato sauce but both of those together in a sandwich was disgusting. I didn’t (and still don’t) eat butter/margarine/low fat spread so I think she added the sauce as she thought otherwise the sandwich would be too dry. Honestly I would rather have just had a dry sandwich.

But really, if that is all I have to complain about then that is very little. My nana’s cooking on the other hand was a whole different thing. No vegetable ever left that woman’s kitchen alive and the only thing I liked that she ‘cooked’ was cucumber in vinegar. What was really astonishing is that in the post war years she had a job as a cook.Someone actually paid her to serve them grey, inedible mush!

Broadbeans 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Liver and peas I cant stand either lol

Tongue - not great, has a very yielding texture. not completely awful though.

Tripe - compleeeeetely awwwwwwful

(this was in the 1980s)