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

YR sauce is thick Yorkshire Relish, a bit like HP but tastes vile.

YR sauce is just a brand of brown sauce, it was probably the best component of the meal by the sounds of things.

OP

are you Heston Blumenthal?

Every Tuesday we had swimming lessons in our local grief hole municipal baths so my mum would use the slow cooker to make a beef casserole. She would add a couple of tins of baked beans to make it go further. Served with lumpy mash and tinned peas. I hated Tuesdays.

PMSL @ Squoosh Charlie Bucket's mum used to give them Cabbage Water soup. I think Willy Wonka was on tv a bit too much in the early 80's and influenced what people thought their kids would(wouldn't!) eat!

Mashed potatoes. As my mum can't stand butter, it was basically lumpy, mashed boiled potatoes . I used to dread it, especially if served with baked beans. I actually love mash now but only if it's lovely and buttery.

Yes...even a woman born in 1910 was grossed out by boiled sheep's head! She was only tiny so it was probably during the Great Depression. She also remembered being sent to the butcher to ask for a bone for the dog but her Mum would use it to liven up their pan of "blind scouse" which is meat stew without the meat.

The butcher used to sometimes fold some actual meat in with the bone. He knew...all the kids were in there getting dog bones.

And when my mother wasn't doing fancy things with boiled pig's head she was making us eat her horrendous curry adorned with sliced banana on top if it. Apparently banana is 'very cooling'.

The 80's were a dark time.

Reading some of these, it's no wonder we were all thin back in the day. The stuff we were fed was crap.

squoosh, we used to get the curry, (loaded with sultanas) and sliced bananas on top. But my mother used to sprinkle a ton of dessicated coconut on top of the bananas to make it EXTRA cooling.

Oh yes, dry, dusty dessicated coconut is renowned for its cooling qualities!

How did we even survive to adulthood?
The food was so disgusting that a lot was regularly thrown back up, or very little was eaten forced down and the food that we did manage to eat and was slightly edible, was boiled to hell and gone, so there were never any vitaimins left in them!

Why did the mothers have to boil everything to death?

Faggots

Faggots. I hated them, especially seeing as my mother wouldn't buy the Brains Faggots, which were slightly edible, if you didn't take too long to think about what was in them, but insisted on buying faggots from a market stall that probably had all sorts of nasties in them.
At least the factory-made Brains faggots had some sort of quality control, but the ones from the market always ended up looking like a huge, grey, gristly blob on a plate that tasted horrendous.

Liver and onions. I used to cry. Tasted like metal sheeting.

My mum's mashed potatoes were basic but decent enough. She used to put a bit of butter in them. She then raved about DH's mash, and mine too, that had loads of butter and then no butter, just loads of creme fraiche.

She could never bring herself to buy creme fraiche because it was too fancypants. So I'd buy a tub, take out a scoop and then give it to her saying: 'I bought two of these by mistake. Take this one before it goes mouldy.'

I think she knew the deal but the deceit was acceptable. I like to think of her eating her mash and the cats eating a big dollop of creme fraiche.

Whenever I refused a meal I was reminded that the "starving children in Africa would kill for this meal" and my response was "I don't mind if you want to send this to them... I'm not hungry".

My school never removed fat, gristle etc from meat. Potatoes weren't completely peeled, with eyes etc left in. The greatest abomination was swede/turnip/parsnip which would be boiled to a sort of slimy slush, but also with eyes, bits of worm etc left in. At just about every lunch some small child would be sick, followed by others at their table and quite a few of the rest of us. If you couldn't eat your lunch you had to sit with this plate of cold greasy crap in front of you, terrified of missing the bus home, then released after the others, rush down the hill to the bus stop crying in fright and panic. We were aged 5 upwards by the way. How the school, which was private, had the brass neck to take money off our parents for this stuff I do not know. I still cannot eat swede etc and avoid pies etc in case they have gristle and skin in them.

My mother, with the same ingredients, would spend time on cleaning and preparing them and produce a meal which would have us lining up for seconds!

stubbornstainsI remember all those!! Jeez, tibetan roast was grim. That's a memory I'd blanked out til now! Most of our food was from rose elliot or the cranks :-.

Marrows are terrible. But bone marrow is disgusting as well and I eat all kinds of offal, including brains and intestines, but excepting tripe.

It's browny-grey and to me, flavourless but icky, because it's fatty.

I've asked for this thread to be put into classics. It's been a real (funny) trip (funny) down memory lane and it would be a shame to lose it.

Does somebody need to second it? Or what? (not sure how nominating something for classics works)

I have to defend bone marrow. when it's piping hot and spread on toast with a bit of salt it is absolutely delicious and tastes just like goose liver pate. yum

But as it cools down it's deliciousness rapidly diminishes.
cold bone marrow is disgusting

Curry with .... bananas with paprika, bits if apple with sultanas and desiccated coconut. I think it was from the Good Housekeeping book. Remember it well and think I actually quite liked it.
However, devilled kidneys were terrible.
I wander what my children will have bad memories of?

I had a similar thing to you brams. I don't remember this but when I was in the infants I told my mum that I'd been made to eat bones at school.

She was furious and rushed up there because she was THAT KIND OF MUM to ask them what the hell they were playing at.

It turned out that they were the tough ribs of the outer leaves of cabbage.

She didn't blame me at all. You should throw the outermost leaves away because they're damaged and dirty and bitter. As you get into the cabbage you tear the leaf away from the stalk until you're close to the centre when it's all tender.

They were just lazy.

Ratatoille, liver and onions at home.

Cheese flan at school.