What was your worst meal as a child?

[ALMummy]

You know the one where you got to the table and your heart sank into your boots because you were starving and had been looking forward to your dinner only to find........

Sweet and sour chicken made with a lurid sauce from a packet or jar - I despised it.

my worst thing was JUNKET

fortunately rare now as rennet so hard to come by bleurgh

i love liver with mashed potatoes and onion gravy

I like junket !!

ew and tapioca pudding, looked like fecking frog spawn!

and liver - with bacon,yum - or even nicer chicken liver on a warm salad

lol, youre not far off there kerrymum

tinned meatballs

I remember one particular occasion sitting down to dinner hungrily, asking what is was and being told "stew" - great - and then she took the lid off the tureen, this cloud of filthy stinking steam belched out and then all the little mud-grey disgusting meatballs bobbed to the top like little turds

I was so horrified, I burst into tears

I used to help my mother make brawn from boiled pig's heads and trotters.

It was yum

The bought stuff was nasty pink rubbish though

And we used to cook and press ox tongue for Xmas

Oh god, my mother's Roast Lunch. She is a really very good Indian cook, but oh god her ability to render roast meat absolute leather [shudder]

But really, virtually anything served up at school every day made my heart sink. We had the most spectacularly revolting meals, cooked in another school and shipped in, in aluminium bins. Far far worse than the stuff the Inferiorettes get - I shudder at the very memory of them, congealing on those cold thick plates.

mmmm I like liver and onions too with mash

Rice pudding - both at home and at school. Even now the smell makes me heave.

mine is liver too!

Actually,the haugh would be ok.
All you lot wiping sick off yer chops,do yuo eat sausages and crap like that?
Well if so,whaddya think is in them?
I'll tell ya, ears and arseholes.

Fact

Oh God, I've just remembered something vile for Sunday afternoon tea

Tinned fruit salad with syrup (barf) which was eaten with Ideal Milk (barf) and bread and butter [barfola!]

Why with bread and butter?

And plead as I did she would never leave me off the syrup. Why did I have to have the syrup? I'm heaving just thinking about it.

Mind you , on a good week she used to do apple tart for Sunday Tea and that was astonishingly good.

TONGUE

The only part of a pig that you can't eat is its squeak !!

I eat Posho Sausages from Posho Farms, Moondog

I am quite fond of liver, especially chicken livers, although my fellow inmates of the Inferiority Complex affect to despise it. DP gave me a long and pseudo-credible explanation about the hepatitis he caught back in Bangladesh, but I pointed out he eats - and buys - pate rather frequently so that one Won't Wash.

my worst pudding was homemade rhubarb fool - it was so sour and stringy and we had to eat it all

Shepherds pie bleurrgghh! Have never made it for my dc.

My mother's stepmother used to put avocados in fruit salad. (In Banglalore, where avocados are somewhat more prolific.)

(This may explain why as an adult I am embarrassed to admit I bloody loathe avocados.)

sprouts... hated them.. my grandmother used to boil the hell out of them then I was supposed to eat them.. never happend my mother would eat them off my plate so I wouldn't get into trouble.

and beet greens, once had them and it crunched... beet greens arent suppoed to crunch it was a bug I heaved... never ate them again...still gives me the creeps now it was a huge freeking beetle. bluerg

I'm all for ears and arseholes as long as folk are honest about provenance.

Dh is enjoying Dhaka very much btw although says heat and traffic and povery overwhelming.