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.

shepherds/cottage pie made from the leftover lamb/beef roast ground up in a grinder, it was disgusting. I also hated fricasse made from leftover roast chicken/turkey and ham in white sauce

Oh, we had one of those too!

Olive Oil BP

My mother once browned the Gravy with Veno's cough syrup (also kept in the kitchen cabinet)

My Mum's homemade yoghurt and cottage cheese which both tasted of vinegar (not sure how?).

Oh, and she went through a vegan phase and did cauliflower 'cheese' which was cauliflower in plain tofu. Yuck, yuck, yuck.

Oh yes, and cakes with no eggs and no sugar.

And there was the phase where "plain food" was the best thing to eat so no herbs or spices or sugar or salt in anything.

And I wondered why I had food issues in my twenties...

OH...Urgent therapy needed.
I am 47 years old and just found out what 'sweetmeats' were. We got them as a treat once a month on a Sunday. With boiled cabbage.

Moondog - am veggie

lol
Fair enough then Hinkers
(But is it worse than eating their leg?)

Me too since I was 16. A STRICT vegetarian sometimes dipping into the Ocean of Vegan.

Pork chops, baked until the consistency of silver birch bark, and served with too-thick gravy, flaky boiled potatoes, carrots and swede mash.

In fact, I didn't know what many meats tasted like until I left home, because I had only ever sampled them burnt.

Oh yes... boarding school food. Especially fried egg and chips - dinner was at 7 and they'd be frying the eggs from teatime at 4pm.

not WORSE, no, but it never fails to astound me the vile things humans think up to do with animals

At the cult commune where I spent the first 6 yrs of my life it was boiled bulghar with brown rice and soy sauce. It smelt like those wheat bags people put in the mocrowave, yuk.

As an older child, it was any food floavoured with coriander. My mum loved using the stuff and I hated it. Love it now though!

Packet mix lemon meringue pie. I remember there being a pip that you dissolve in water on top of the stove. I loved doing the stirring bit for mum, but the finished result was gag.

liver and onions

i turned veggie quick to get out of this one!

Mashe dpotatoes and fish fingers and peas.

It was always sloppy and mushy.

Strange as we rarely had any kind of convenience food, usually all hoem made and very nice.
But the above emal was just all mushy and yuck.

My grandmother once mixed up the bowls on Xmas Day and gave me cat food instead of Xmas pudding. I only got it to my lips before I realised but bleurrrrrrghhhhh....

My mum was / is a really good cook. AND she never made me eat meat if I didn't want to, which was pretty progressive and understanding of her in retrospect.

BUT...

She did sometimes mash swede into the mashed potato.

Why, woman? For the love of god, why?

Anything that involved salad cream and when we were at school you had to have it and had to eat it.

Tapioca (aka frogspawn) pudding.

At school I hated beetroot and they always used to put it next to mashed potato so you potato would go purple.
They also used to serve up a dish of mince with a cheese scone floating in it.

Makes me shudder to think about it

Broccoli, I mash swede into mash now for DS , I use it as a topping for chicken pie and always thought it tasted really good! DS hasn't complained yet

kedgeree

Euuughh

nothing really, mum was/is an excellent cook, as was my grandma , and my aunties or friends where we ate a lot

my dad not much of a cook. he likes buying food though.. always good when he did the shopping as it was all premium brands and stuff like M&S ready made porridge in cartons

although it took me years to realise that the tongue we had with home made fat chips and tizer at grandma;s on a sunday was, actually, you know, like, a real cow tongue

i love liver, mum made it quite a lot with mushrooms and gravy and thick lovely challah bread to dip in it

just asked DS what he does not like, and he said when i make dinners with vegetarian meat !

they were fooled momentarily..

OverMyDeadBody - WHY??? WHY would you do that to an innocent child?

Because I am eeevil!

I draw the line at turnip though, no one should ever have to eat that stuff!

Anything with perpetual shagging spinach, boiled to buggery.
We ate it morning noon & night for 6 mths when the veg patch was producing nothing else (in my head at least)