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

None marrow is so trendy these days. Every hot new restaurant is chock full of bone marrow.

My mums vegetable soup and her vegetable spag bol.
My mums friends fish pie I feared dinner round there!
School dinners were quite nice actually.
I hated my lunchbox which had health food shop rough granary bread with peanut butter. Carrot and cucumber sticks and an orange and an apple.

Great thread.

My mum learnt to cook chicken l'orange in the 70s and has never looked back. Chicken a l'orange every Thursday for my whole childhood. Now chicken a l'orange every time me and DH and DCs go to visit. We were just weaning her off it when DM went to stay with my aunt and cooked it for her. Stupid aunty loved it so now my DM's back to being convinced that chicken a l'orange is the best thing ever

She also calls it orange chicken which I find unreasonably infuriating.

Oh Cariads I'd forgotten about Cod Liver Oil. One spoonful every morning after breakfast. Once it got mixed up with a mouthful of porridge. Does anyone remember Gregory's Powder if you felt ill?

The only thing I really hated was crispy pancakes - I just couldnt stand them but they always seems to be bought since "kids love them".

Oh yes, a spoon of cod liver oil on a winter's morning. We all had to line up. Yuck.

And this was the 80's, I'm sure capsules were widely available!

I've never tasted a Findus crispy pancake. I feel deprived.

ginny They are gorgeous, treat yourself

Shepherds pie
Stew although like it now
Mince pie and mash. My mum was not the greatest cook.

'Gorgeous' is quite a bold claim!

My mum's 70s/80s version of spaghetti bolognese, bless her. (She makes a great one now.)

I think she just browned some mince, bunged some too large bits of onion in, cooked it for about 3 minutes and then piled it on top of the pasta. The pasta was probably overcooked but it was the sauce that was vile. No tomatoes, herbs, etc of any description featured. It was just hard under-cooked greasy mince and onions with under-drained watery pasta.

Weirdly she made nice mince and potatoes.

Was never very fond of the salty gammon/tinned pineapple/frozen sweetcorn dinner either.

I hate those places squoosh

I went to St John twice years ago. Never again, and I like all kinds of offal.

The first time I ordered pig chitterlings, which is deep fried intestine. My choice, but it was absolutely disgusting. Greasy and cold, chewy rather than crispy. I think it might have been all right if it was hot, but it wasn't. I didn't complain, but I should have at the outrageous price for something that was badly cooked and would have been the sweepings of the abbatoir floor.

The other thing was a veal shank which came with a dinky spoon for the bone marrow. I ate the meat but left the marrow because I don't like it, and also, at that point as Zing says, it wasn't hot any more.

The waiter mocked me for leaving it. We did tip him because we're nice, but we never went back.

It was also freezing and white - like eating in a dentist surgery with the aircon turned up. I think that was because it was so long ago it was before the indoor smoking ban and because of the 'hearty' nature of the food it attracted cigar smokers.

It baffles me why this fucking place is still open.

Sandwiches made with Heinz sandwich spread and thin white(cheap) bread.
It looked like someone had heaved hence we called them "Sick sandwiches"

ginny I loved Findus beef and onion Crispy Pancakes. I am afraid to go back there because, like Tizer, it might not work these days.

Fish paste sarnies were called " Cat food sandwiches" - it gave my mum the rage !

My mother had this great cookbook called Feed Me I'm Yours

My mum had that too I had forgotten but your description brought it right back, I can picture it now vividly.

Reading through some posts about pressure cookers reminded me if the time I made myself vomit with my own cooked food from school
Spaghetti bolognese in the pressure cooker during home economics. I could never get the hang of the cooker for a start, my local shop was so out of date he had never heard of oregano so couldn't provide me with the full ingredients (I had to improvise. I've blocked out what I substituted) and I faffed around so much I didn't cook it properly.
I passed Home Ec and have never poisoned anyone since, promise!

Oh yes pressure cookers may food have such a uniform [sick smiley] taste. I'd actually forgotten all about pressure cookers - blocked them out for my own sanity I think.

bleurch to pressure cookers.
my mum's had trays in it for the various things.
all ended up tasting the same and the bottom bits always burnt

Reading through some posts about pressure cookers reminded me if the time I made myself vomit with my own cooked food from school blushgrin

My mum had a pressure cooker (early 80's) that was constantly cooking some dish vile concoction or other.
One day, my friend and I (who were bunkin off school [ashamed], well my friend really she did it, had the bright idea to take the top weight off the pressure cooker, to see whatwould happen .
There was this horrendous high pitched scream of steam, then part of the lid flew up and punched a hole right through the ceiling.

I often wonder what would have happened if she (friend) hadn't moved out of the way first!
The joys of being a latch key kid.

Mum had a pressure cooker with a very dodgy valve (or some important part) that could only be touched with the tip of the handle of the sweeping brush, with mum holding the business end of the broom at the other side of the kitchen for safety. We were forbidden to even so much as think about cooking something with the pressure cooker. Not that we would have anyway as everything that went in came out tasting like hot, wet cardboard.

Liver, covered in really slimy onions, with mash and cabbage. Hate liver. Slimy onions make me gag.

My mum would cook this just to test me, I'm convinced of it.

Liver and onions too.

the liver would take about an hour to chew

Limited I love your creme freche deceit!

Fish pie, chops, liver and kidneys. Disgusting.
Tapioca for pudding - gloopy, tasteless and made me think of frogspawn.
Other than that mum was a good cook!