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

Sardines/pilchards in tomato sauce. Bleeugh. I am eating backbone for no-one. Other than that I pretty much ate everything put in front of me.

Liver and onions.

That's weird suet bacon pudding thing.

Boak

Anything my step-mother made! She is an appalling cook to this day. But I think the lowest of the low was probably sausages in white sauce with boiled marrow. Bleugh!

Stew followed by rice pudding

Liver

Mintyy I didn't remember having that meal at school but as I read your post I could smell and taste spam fritters and tinned tomatoes... the taste of gip. flashback!

Did anyone else's mother use to stand over you til you ate it? She would feed me too. she is still obsessed and iff dd doesn't eat her dinner she always comments "but she'll be ill"

Oh and if we're talking about school dinners too I give you:

Liver and onions (aka leather and onions)
Savoury pie (liver, tomatoes and mashed potato - vom vom vom)
Braised heart (they actually gave this to primary-aged DC!)

Boiled ham, boiled potatoes and boiled cabbage when visiting family in Ireland. It was night after night (or so it seemed)

To be fair, if I properly didn't like it I would be able to have an alternative so the fact I found it tolerable meant I couldn't complain!

Tinned red salmon - yuck, yuck, yuck! And then tinned tangerine segments with evaporated milk for pudding. A lot of tinned stuff in our house - think my DM thought it was "safer" than fresh stuff.

At home, roast lamb and mint sauce - I hate lamb, hate the fat even more, and detest the smell. Plus the vinegary mint . Dad loved it and as we produced our own meat, there was a lot of lamb to eat.
I also hated the offal meals, but at least my brother allied with me on those, and it wasn't viewed as such a wonderful treat.

At school, the grey liver, followed by pink sauce.

Everything I hated I love now

Courgettes
Lentil and bacon soup
Mushrooms
Liver

It gives me great sympathy for my mum and none for my DS as I'm pretty sure that, like me, he'll grow to love all the things he currently acts as if are poisoned!

"Home made curry" - Lord knows what she put in it but it tasted overwhelmingly of Sharwoods curry powder. To this day I can't smell curry powder without wanting to retch. Oh, and there were always liberal handfuls of sultanas thrown in, just for good measure.

Lunches were always interesting - took packed lunches in and 99.99% of the time the sandwich would be two slices of bread and (not naice) ham. No tomato, or cucumber - occasionally coleslaw which would make me gag. I used to hide as much as I could and discreetly chuck it in the bin.

It's weird, because mum is really a brilliant cook. Don't understand it at all

Cod poached in milk with boiled potatoes and cauliflower.

Alibaba, do we have the same DM?!

Mine used to serve it up when I was ill. I didn't get ill too often

Mintyy, we used to get that at our primary school too. I never, ever ate that reconstituted potato

School dinner fish. In bright orange 'breadcrumbs'. Usually with a few bones left in. Served with lumpy mashed potatoes and peas which were nothing like the ones we got at home in colour or texture.

And with a side order of "Think of the starving children in Africa" when I couldn't manage more than a few mouthfuls.

Stew with floury potatoes.

I still cant look at wet savoury food.

All of them! I was a picky eater and my mum wasn't a good cook not a good combo!

We were always having tinned fruit salad and cream or evaporated milk at school - you used to get about 6 tiny 1cm cubes of fruit - no wonder I spent my childhood hungry

Mixed grill.

Big lumps of dried fried meat which hurt to swallow.

Orange mash. Mashed potatoes with carrot and swede. The smell turns my stomach and even now I can't eat swede.

Cod in parsley sauce.

Stew and dumplings. The stew was ok but dumplings are just gross. Basically just lumps of floury fat

Boil in the bag fish in parsley sauce.

I'm a vegetarian now :)

Sardines on toast complete with those crunchy back bones
Liver
Anything with mushrooms or peppers in

School dinner liver, rice pudding or cornflake cake, I hated all of them.
At home, tinned garden peas, or anything with rice or pasta, it was always overcooked and there was too much of it.
To this day I gave no idea why this was served to me, surely doing frozen peas which were always in the house, or leaving off the rice/pasta woulddbe no trouble.

Tatie hash made from all the things I hated ie root veg and left over lamb. The rest of my family loved it especially my Dad.

My Mum always did mince and mash (in winter) or new pots (in summer). On Tuesdays I loved it, the down side was it was always tapioca for pudding which I hated.

And school mashed potato that tasted like sea water--ew ew ew