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

thank goodness "rimmed fish" was a typo. I thought it was some awful thing from the seventh circle of 1970s culinary hell. My mind has been boggling about what on earth it could mean!

Liver and onions! I was a human dustbin otherwise and would eat anything else that was put in front of me. Luckily my DM cottoned on to this and from about 10 onwards I was spared the ordeal and given something else instead. Thank god nobody I know serves this anymore and my lovely DH hates it too.

It's not luncheon meat, it's Spam and I loved it in sandwiches or fried, with or without batter.

My stringy cat and I will survive a nuclear/zombie apocalypse on tinned food. We will ride over your bodies in a chariot drawn by thousands of enslaved cockroaches.

Mwhahaahahaha

Bees GOD. Boiled potatoes. How grim they were. Three big lumps of white spud on the plate, beside a chop or something....so unappetizing!

I never just boil potatoes now....apart from little new potatoes...who just boils a big, white, floury spud!?

ahhhhhh Bumpsadaisie you are lovely the 1980's was a decade of culinary challenge indeed.

Mums mashed potato. (boak)

It was that hard, you could slice it.

And that was with gravy on

Sandwich Spread sandwiches. Sick in a Sandwich [ency]

Boiled bacon and pease pudding. Foul.

Chilli con carne

I once vomited after a big plate of this ( we all had a bug) and ever since I can't stand it. I remember heaving as I sat there being made to finish it as ' there are starving children in Africa'

Smoked yellow haddock EVERY week so it seemed
followed by tinned peaches (tinned fruit cocktail if you wanted to be fancy, swimming in a pool of Ideal Milk. Or tinned cream if you were lucky.
Tins ruled back then.

Boiled ham boiled potatoes and white sauce :/ nothing more bland and the white sauce didn't taste of anything blllluuuuggghhh!!!

Fried egg or tinned tomatoes, they always made me heave. I don't make DS eat anything he doesn't like and he always has a say in meals.

I never just boil potatoes now....apart from little new potatoes...who just boils a big, white, floury spud!?

That is exactly how I feel about potatoes from my childhood. Who could possibly enjoy a horrible, dry, fluffy chunk of potato all on its own. And they so often came with tinned meat and no gravy. Even if there was gravy (usually when you git mince and tatties) you didn't want it to touch your potato as it actually made it worse. The fluffy bits of potato combined with crappy gravy produce something that sets like concrete in your mouth and is almost impossible to swallow.

When we did have mash it was terrible. Same nasty potatoes mashed up with no butter or even milk to improve things. I thought I hated mash (even more than I hated potatoes) until i was an adult and was served proper, nice, creamy mash. No lumps and flavour; it was a revelation.

For me it's a piece of ham with cauliflower cheese. I don't like cauliflower

Casseroled pink lambs' kidneys & lumpy mash, which I was regularly presented with in digs.

Homemade sponges, made with margarine. The middle would also be 2 inches thick with mainly margarine - with maybe a little bit of icing sugar to bind it.
To this day I can't stand cakes with butter margarine icing in the middle.

Stew, I never liked meat but was not allowed to give it up. When i was about 14 I once managed to feed mine to the cat after my mum went out and said I'd better have eaten up by the time she got back. She knows now :)

Cornflakes with warm milk
Boil in a bag spaghetti Bolognese
Heinz ravioli
Mulagatawny soup
Liver
Angel delight
Rice pudding

I liked Angel Delight. It was some that mothers couldn't ruin despite their best efforts

I don't get you.

I liked cornflakes in cold milk or in hot milk.

I really liked Shreddies or Shreaded Wheat in hot milk.

I will survive because I'm not only prepared to eat shit, I enjoy it.

Electric

that is awful.

same thing here, but class teacher in charge at lunch time.
first I was forced to eat horrible, oversalted, pureed vegetarian soup, then I projectile vomited it all over everything and everyone in a 3 m radius.
you've never seen green rain like that. then I collapsed on the floor shaking. I felt really ill.

all I could think while on the floor, shivering, that I don't ever want this to happen again so (aged 6) I thought I'd hold my breath a bit to properly scare them so they will never ever force me again.
I'm pleased to say it worked.

A lot of you just don't realise how lucky you are / were. Yes, I had tripe but it was in a soup type of bowl with milk and sugar - no vegetables. My school break sandwich was one slice of bread (cut in half) spread with margarine and with glucose as the filling. I didn't know that my parents didn't have much but I was aware of rationing and put it down to that.

I now love liver with onions (can't have liver without onions), fried kidneys - ooh yum!

As for pilchards, I used to like them occasionally. My MIL discovered this and, every time we went there for tea, what would she give me? Pilchard and sliced tomato sandwiches with a hardboiled egg. I gave up buying tinned pilchards --and started to buy tinned sardines because they were too ....erm .... rich in flavour.

I still like semolina, tapioca, rice pudding and my dear aunt's bacon pudding to dream of. I'm so glad that I can make it the way she did.

How do you make bacon pudding then Happy? I need it!

I like boiled potatoes With olive oil or butter and seasoned salt.

Stew that my DM made with bisto instead of using stock so that as it cooked it just got thicker and thicker. It was literally meat in bisto