What meal made your heart sink as a child

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For me i think it was mince and potatoes. The mince was from a tin ffs!! With tinned peas and carrots.

My mum used to make me eat this and i would gag and cry! Oh and fucking ready brek as i would get pneumonia if i didn't eat it - boak

Tongue
Liver

My DB loves both so my mum cooked it regularly. The house stank for days and my DSis and I were gagging.

And - but not quite so bad -

Sprouts
Raisins

My heart sank when yet another cake was baked with raisins, as I hated them. I wasn't allowed to pick them out, so it was no cake for me.

Tripe, eurgh!!!
Kidneys
Bernard Mathews Turkey Roast, had loads of chewy bits in it.
Pudding used to be Angel Delight which was much welcomed after the horrors of the main. My mum stopped buying it after she spilt a bowl of strawberry angel delight on the kitchen work top and it dyed it bright pink, she never managed to get the stain out. After that she panicked that if it could do that to a worktop what was it doing to our insides. Sadly for us pudding then changed to rice pudding with a spoonful of jam on top.

Meatloaf

My mum's 'green curry'. It was basically a variation of your mince, potatoes, carrots and peas dish with the addition of some ginger/garlic, coriander leaves, sultanas and Keen's curry powder. It was shockingly bad. I remember once all three of us were throwing up after one meal of it. Obviously something must have been wrong with the meat but at the time, and for a long time afterwards, I thought it was because it tasted so disgusting. Mum would make it every couple of years after she had forgotten about the reaction the last time she had made it.

Belly pork slices, done in a big round casserole tin with Campbell's vegetable soup and Lord knows what else in there
My mam used to make it every coupleof weeks and I hated, loathed, and detested it. Even the thought of it makes me heave a bit, and I am now 44
I still hate belly pork to this day :(

Pheasant with broad beans

Baked beans

Any cereal with warm milk

All three meals are enough to make me cry still

why did parsley sauce and broad beans always get served on the same plate? Usually with over cooked cod poached in milk? (FYI smoked fish poached in milk, non smoked poached in water!)

2 things that are both utterly gopping on the same plate, 2 wrongs dont make a right!

Vegetable milk soup

Thats a WWII recipe, it was designed to get the most goodness into a family on the ration. Sounds revolting but when needs must.....

Shepherds pie, liver and bacon, Lancashire hotpot and for school dinners...Manchester tart....bleurghhhhh. Strangely now I love all of these dinners, with the exception of Manchester tart.

Sago, Semolina, ReadyBrek, Warm Milk, Angel Delight, Tripe.

I disliked the Angel Delight because a neighbour gave me some as a treat and next day I had the Flu. I blamed it on the angel delight for years.

Apart from those things Id eat anything, even school dinners, and I was really lucky that my mum and granny were good cooks who could serve up really tasty dinners and tea.

I even liked the poached fish, we called it fish'in'milk, I think it was an Irish thing and we'd have it on a Friday because we had to eat fish on a Friday.

We'd go to my granny for our dinner once we were at Secondary School and we knew what day of the week it was by what we'd have for our dinner. My grandad had a lifetime of it but we still loved her meals and we'd say they were tasty cos she stirred in love.

my godfather was a hunter.
he and my godmother would host these snobbish dinner parties where all the adults were oohing and aahing over meals made out of wild boar or pheasants or deer or rabbits while
my sister and I hated the inedible chewy meats, gagged and sometimes ended up being sick.
I'm sorry but they were truly horrible.
all this 30 years ago in Communist Hungary, all those game meats were a really big deal.
our parents were furious that we weren't grateful for "such a treat".
but at the next occasion we sulked again and wished for eggy bread.

yuck yuck yuck to all wild meat, even the memory of them..bleurgh

I'm guessing we're mostly mid-seventies to early-eighties born as so many of these meals sound familiar!

Boil in the bag fish with boiled potatoes & peas was also a regular in our house.

Liver & onions, not so much but still grim. My first boyfriend cooked liver the night I went round to meet his parents - it was the only time I ate it without complaining. Thankfully his lovely mum had made dessert!

I also have less than fond memories of mince in it's various guises. I'm nearly 40 now and I will only eat it if I've bought & cooked it myself. Don't even let DH do it and he's a chef!

Agree it was a curse of being born in the seventies/eighties, the truly horrible meals.

Sprouts my parents never believed that they tasted bitter to me and my sister and we were forced to eat them - even now I gag if I smell them and can't eat them. We also got them served for tea if we refused them at Sunday lunch. DSis once gagged so much she nearly vommed so that stopped after that. I became a vegetarian as a teenager to avoid some of my Mum's meals.

Mum's liver and bacon, tough as old boots which my Dad loved. Also her meat pie - tough gristly meat with watery gravy and pastry which was so hard you couldn't cut it.

DD is never forced to eat food she doesn't like.

Faggots in gravy . I dread to think what was in them. Bought frozen from a dodgy economy frozen food store then allowed to defrost before being cooked (we didn't have a freezer to keep them in).

Anything with Mums over boiled tasteless rank cauliflower. I didn't eat cauliflower again till exDPs DM made Italian cauliflower fritters - they are amazing.

yes to 'wild meat' chewy meat and lead fragments. eurgh

Seeing sprouts on an otherwise beautiful Sunday dinner.
Anything with mashed potatoes. I still don't eat mashed potatoes now.

My mums Sunday dinners, just awful and the veg was boiled for about three weeks. I remember one stand off over a roast beef dinner once where it was brought out on the Monday and Tuesday until I ate it. I didn't. And her steaks, she'd hammer then with a meat tenderiser and fry them until they were tough little grey things. Just awful. It was only when I left home I realised steak wasn't meant to be grey.

I turned veggie at 14 just to avoid her cooking. Left home and ate meat again.

Tripe and onions.I remember when my ma done this for dinner.I thoughtshe said trifle and sat down with gusto.Tripe is not teh same.

I honestly don't remember much of what my mother cooked, good or bad! I do remember her kind of giving up by the time I was 13 or 14 and I just made myself microwavable veggie burgers or macaroni and cheese from a box.

When I was little my dad was occasionally left in charge of dinner and he made tinned soup and grilled cheese sandwiches every time. I hated the split pea but that was because of how it looked...it was actually quite tasty.

As a teenager at school I used to pay a dollar for a "salad" which was a bowl full of chopped iceberg lettuce and nothing else except whatever dressing you picked. It was vile but I chose it so I must not have hated it too much.

this thread should be in the "Weight loss" section.

read through when peckish. you'll feel so sick you'll have a glass of water and if brave maybe an apple...

Bogey the recipe could have been created by the Queen herself to serve other kings, it was still disgusting. And the kindergarten teachers would always force you to finish all of it. I still can't eat cooked cabbage to this day. Or stand the smell of hot milk. And it was in the 90's that we were served that shit. Bleaurghhhhhhhhhhh

I used to really enjoy school dinners, with the exception of one dish we christened "pedigree chum". I suppose it was intended as some kind of stew, but really tasted and smelled exactly like dog food. Vile.