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.

liver and bacon casserole with cabbage and sloppy mashed potatoes. [barf]

You know what my mum was a great cook so there was almost nothing that I thought this about. The only dish I really didn't want to eat was minestra (lovingly home-made chicken broth with vegetables and pasta and parmesan cheese).
That was beacuse me dad loved it and we had it so often I just go sick of it.

Also I really don't like any soups much - can't see the point of them really. I really cannot stomach tinned soups of any sort whatsoever and only just tolerate home-made ones if I'm really hungry.

Oh God when I was about 6 we had to go and stay with "friends" whilst my parents went away. They were really strict and insisted all food was eaten at every meal. One lunchtime they served up frozen mixed veg - had to eat and at the end of the meal promptly threw up everywhere!! Never touched the stuff since!

auntieem - What frozen mixed veg still frozen!?

But proper liver (i.e. calves liver cooked the way the Italians do it) is really tasty. I even forced my DH to concede this (he was as vehement about it as most people on this thread).

The stuff we had as kids, the grey tubey stuff, was sheep's or pig's liver, inexpertly prepared and cooked a l'anglaise (i.e. boiled for hours.... just like the mackerel )

I spend a fair amount of time persuading people of the deliciousness of calves liver, mashed potatoes and marsala gravy... slurp...

Exactly Pendulum. I never knew why people disliked liver so much (only ever having eaten my mum's calves liver) until I tasted pigs liver (yuk!!)

something called swiss steak from the hamlyn all colour cook book. tomato-based and vile.

Turkey giblet stew (after christmas!). Yuk!

My mum had a seventies wholefood phase and once served up "turnip leaf loaf", yes made with the leaves of the turnip, not even the root, my Dad nearly divorced her. On the potted haugh question; Potted haugh is only shin of beef cooked really long with a bit of spice (I believe shin of beef is quite a trendy ingredient now), the meat goes really soft and the connective tissue turns into jelly(like when you make really good home-made stock). It is the kind of thing the French would celebrate as a regional delicacy and is nothing to do with pigs' heads. Mind you I hate any meat with jelly ie. the edge of spam or corned beef. My mum also used to serve cold curried baked beans as part of a salad ...yeuch!

meat and champ [bleurgh]

Pork chops. Bor-ing.

Anything my mother cooked. She tried so hard, giving us healthy 'hippy' food when my friend's parents seemed to give them such nice food. We had home-made bread instead of white sliced, dahl and chapatis instead of chips and beans, date slice and home-made flapjacks instead of mars bars, and fruit jiuces instead of fizzy pop. Oh my God, I've turned into my mother. This will be my daughters' post in a few years time.

some sort of stinky yellow fish on a monday, dad hated it so had hearts instead ew.

Mine was when I went to my best friends house and her mother told us she was cooking a roast. I knew instantly there would be broad beans on the plate. I was always led to believe that is was very very rude not to eat what was on your plate. I can still feel those broad beans in my mouth now 33 yrs later!

My mums disgusting chicken casserole made with disgusting knorr stock cubes or her disgusting bolognese made with disgusting bolognese, no veg just over cooked pasta, loads of mince and sauce. Although she was a lazy bitch, so not surprising.