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What meal made your heart sink as a child

742 replies

lemisscared · 05/11/2014 17:29

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

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TaliZorahVasNormandy · 12/02/2015 11:52

Primary school dinners from 20 years ago. Smash from ice cream scoop. Liver and Onions. Baked beans, which I cant fucking stand.

My mum swears blind that I got food poisoning from a school dinner, toad in the hole I think.

My DD's school dinners are really nice, she'll eat them and shes a fussy eater.

loveareadingthanks · 17/03/2015 11:52

any stew out of the pressure cooker, as others have said. Greasy, odd taste with everything the same.

Apart from that my parents were quite soft for the times and didn't make us eat anything we didn't like.

Friend's mum always used to cook vile mince - plain mince and onion with some fresh tomatoes mixed in and all stewed down together - so in tomatoey water (yuk) with stringy bits of tomato skin all through it.

DPs mum cooked a roast for us last weekend. She always cooks the meat until it is rock hard and grey, without a hint of pink or moisture. The beautiful leg of lamb was transformed into dry grey leather, that turned into powder when you managed to saw a knife through it. I kept putting bits on DPs plate when she wasn't looking. There's a lady who hasn't moved on from the 70s. And she very much disapproves of my failure to eat sprouts.

ARoomWithoutAView · 17/03/2015 19:10

Cake with icing
Liver and kidneys
Blancmange and trifle
Brussel sprouts

MeerkaRIPSirTerry · 18/03/2015 09:48

cockroach rice pudding at school. I hope, really hope it was a big date instead of a cockroach. But they were in the school at that time :s

I can't eat it to this day.

sparing · 19/03/2015 13:33

I haven't seen anything on this thread that I wouldn't eat Blush

I'm really not fussy, but now I worry that my DD is going to have horrid memories of the food I serve her.

I try my best, but I admit that sometimes it's a bit of an odd mix of whatever's in the fridge. It's not awful, per se but it's not gourmet....

chipshop · 20/03/2015 16:44

We used to get chunks of liver at primary school in a disgusting gravy-type sauce, with lumpy mashed potato. I can still remember the texture, it was like chewing an old boot.

No wonder I went veggie at 10.

I see mine is a popular choice!

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Crocodopolis · 10/04/2015 11:32

Anthing my mother cooked. She hated cooking and she hated being a parent and made her fury clear through the inedible meals she served.

OTOH, she never served anything that wasn't out of a tin or a packet, so at least we were spared the horror of 'homemade'.

AerialGymnastics · 12/04/2015 09:10

What my mother called Boston baked beans. Vile boiled belly pork in barbecue type sauce with mixed beans.

Incidentally the first time I was served steak and kidney pudding I declared it cat food and refused to eat it. The second time I tried it... gorgeous and wolfed it down. Yummy.

At school, chicken nuggets with rice and sweet and sour sauce. There was never enough sweet and sour sauce to make the rice moist enough to eat... and the sweet and sour sauce was luminous orange and far too sweet.

lithewire · 16/04/2015 22:04

At school in the late 90s/early 2000s the dinnerladies knew none of us would eat pie/pudding with kidney so they would display it on the board just as "Steak Pie". As if we wouldn't notice it was in there and be mutinous. Every plate had a pile of leftover kidney bits at the end of the meal... yuck.

MakeMeJumpIntoTheAir · 16/04/2015 22:23

Tripe and onions, cooked in milk.

Oh and the dog's treat of a boiled sheep's head, now that smell even topped the tripe

Any sort of fish, as my Dad used to 'gut' them in the kitchen. Even to this day, walking past a fresh fish van makes me feel ill.

LadyBrochTuroch · 16/04/2015 22:49

In the early 80s our family qualified for handouts from the EU food mountain of dog food tinned beef stew, salty fat butter and over processed, bright orange cheese.

I'm convinced it was a form of bizzare punishment for being the only single parent family in the village; when combined with my 70s early childhood of having to wait with the other poor people "till those who paid for their lunch" were served first at school dinners . . .

LadyBrochTuroch · 16/04/2015 22:50

I am not a fussy eater Grin

catzpyjamas · 16/04/2015 22:52

Tinned Ratatouille.

Noneedtoworry · 17/04/2015 00:01

Broad beans boiled until grey then covered in white sauce and put in the oven until sauce solidified. I am gagging at the memory. Usually served with boiled (for a long time) potatoes and if really unlucky liver. Plain overlooked liver. Bleeugh.

GatoradeMeBitch · 17/04/2015 00:42

Spam fritters. Just thinking of them could make me puke right now Sad

LadyBrochTuroch · 17/04/2015 22:13

Who mentioned potted hough? My Grannie used to put it on a toastie with brown sauce - mmmm #ambrosia

SunshineAndShadows · 17/04/2015 22:30

I was pretty easy going as a kid - LOVED school dinners: spam fritters, liver and onions, industrial mashed potato served with an ice cream scoop, rubber jelly with fake cream on top - all yum ??
Also, mum's corned beef hash or pressure cooker stew and dumplings were staples. It was exciting when I had a friend round for tea and we cracked open the fish fingers!
I hated tinned red salmon, boil in the bag fish, and tomatoes baked on top of any form of pie. Also tinned new potatoes >boak<
Tinned marrow fat peas and cheap sausages - ick!!
Sometes we'd pretty much have a tinned meal Sad

LuckyLuckyMe · 18/04/2015 20:04

My mother stayed in the 50's til she died. All subsequent decades past her by. It used to annoy me but reading this thread I'm actually very happy she didn't change her menu since 1956 Grin

We had a set menu on set days of the week with hard, dry steak, tasteless hard boiled potatoes and tinned peas rinsed and boiled in plain water til insipid twice a week every week for 5 decades and if we were really "lucky" skirts and kidneys on Saturday.

OTOH I love liver and onions. I think it may be because she ate it 3 times a week while pregnant with me.

alittleegglayonaleaf · 25/05/2015 19:16

Corned beef hash, can't believe someone else upthread was also subjected to this. Can still remember the smell

Misslgl88 · 30/05/2015 12:57

Stovies, my great granny (bless her soul shes gone now but I did love her dearly) I hate them with a passions. Lamb or pork chops with massive chunks of random veg and watery grave

MarshaBrady · 30/05/2015 13:01

At boarding school - ham steak with pineapple on top with mashed potatoes.

happy2bhomely · 30/05/2015 13:37

Some of these are revolting, but I've noticed some of my favourite things on this thread.

Rice pudding, lovely.
School cheese flan with the juice from the beetroot soaked into the pastry.
Cauliflower cheese-delicious. I often make a dish of it and eat it with a spoon!
Cod in butter sauce-I've not had it in years, I might get some!

I have never and will never eat offal. Boak.

We used to be served crispy pancakes with beans and chips. Or chicken burgers with super noodles! My mum denies it, but we had it regularly. I've known DH since he was 15. He lived on microchips. MIL denies that too!

CloserToFiftyThanTwenty · 30/05/2015 13:39

Liver or kidneys - still not a fan of offal

Cold roast meat with re- heated gravy - thank god for Bisto granules now!

rhoneducote · 31/05/2015 18:10

glass of milk
mashed potato

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