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

Cold cuts of roast lamb with boiled potatoes and cabbage. Sorry Mum, I do love you!

'Yellow' fish
Grilled fish with orange 'breadcrumbs' sprinkled on
Paxo stuffing urghh
Tinned salmon with bones served with iceberg lettuce cucumber and tomatoes
Tinned fruit salad and carnation milk
Leather hard liver
Braised heart
Instant mash ( blue urghh the smell of it )
Cold lamb
Overcooked meat of all kinds
Swede
Gooseberries

Yuck. I love food now and I think this is why. Anyone read 'toast' by Nigel slater?

dm is not the best cook (nor did she have much money) and used to do jacket spud, beans and cheese EVERY NIGHT when we got home from school, we'd get in at 4ish after a long walk home and there it would be.. ready to eat. It was literally every night for the 5 years I was at secondary.

liver
scrambled egg
ribs

not all at the same time thankfully.

Ratatouille! (We camped in France a lot, I guess there's not much you can make on a calor gas stove)
I even wrote a school essay on how much I hated it
Funny thing is I quite like it now!

Tuna pizza. It was disgusting. Who on earth puts tuna mayonnaise on soemthing and then cooks it.

Fish pie - bony white tasteless fish in a tinned tomato and spiky herb sauce with mashed potatoes on top. Vile!
I still can't stand those tinned tomatoes you get with mixed herbs. Bleugh

My mum is an odd cook tho and adds bisto to everything even veg soups. And she substitutes ingredients: oh I was making apple crumble but I ran out of flour so I used semolina(!). Or I was making chicken curry and ran out of curry powder so I've put some bisto in instead....arrghh!

We joke about it now that we don't have to eat with her very often. She gave me broad bean soup last time that she had made with bloody bisto. It was really thick and brown!!! And she wondered why dd (2) didn't want it....!

Oh and overcooked pork chops that were all dry and tough with a jar of Apple sauce.

Campbell's meatballs from a tin with tinned potatoes whilst caravanning.

Chicken chasseur which was basically a sachet of powder mixed with water and stuck in a casserole dish with raw onions and chicken. God it was awful.

Semolina from a packet and flavoured with either orange or strawberry.

Tinned macaroni cheese.

Lamb chops
Fish fingers and rice...yes rice....wtf?!
But worst of all.....kedgeree.....the smell of kippers cooking still makes me gag

Pizza from Pizza Hut.

My Mum worked there and practically everyday we had leftover pizza. Not only was I massively fat, but to add insult to injury I didn't have Play Doh. Oh no, I got given leftover pizza dough to play with on the basis you can bake it and it lasts forever a day or two and then it goes a bit smelly

And pork chops

We never had mince and potatoes. In fact we never had mince. We had bolognese (yum), cottage pie (yum) and other things like that, but never straight mince. I feel deprived.

The only thing that horrified me was seaweed pudding. Mum would threaten to make it every so often, and it became a family joke. She never did make it.

Liver and bacon stewed in a frying pan with piss weak gravy.

Having read this brilliant thread I thought I couldn't add anything as yellow haddock and marrow have already been mentioned. My mum wouldn't even stuff the marrow, just cut it up and boil it. Urrrrrgh.
Then I remembered our home made pizza.
What can be wrong with that? You may well ask. Everything, that's what!
For a start she didn't make a bread base. It was pastry. A big thing disc of stodge.
My mum was critical of bought pizza as the toppings were never generous enough for her taste. On the very rare occasions sh bought a pizza she'd add a shed load of extra tomato and cheese, rendering it almost impossible to eat.
On the home made version we'd get a thick layer of flavourless soggy tomato mush and then way way too much cheddar cheese. We never had anything more exciting than pepper or mushroom on the top. It would be all served up in a victoria sponge sandwich tin.
It was a soggy, stodgy mess. It always made my heart sink as I knew that after about a quarter of it I'd be stuffed full, but there was no leaving the table until I'd eaten it all. I'd be sitting there for hours sometimes.
You had to use a knife and fork, it was just too soggy and stuck to the pan to use your hands.
We went out for pizza once. I can remember my mum getting cross and saying 'Oh, so you do like pizza! Why do you never eat it so well ar home?'
Um......

Thick, not thing.

Jamaican pea soup :'( kidney beans boiled with lamb, potatoes, yam, dumplings and other veggies.

Thinking back as an adult, I think it would be quite nice to have it again but once I was old enough to make my own decisions I used to have the lamb, potatoes and dumplings taken out of the soup and eat them alone.

Cod in butter sauce as well, that used to make me shudder. Sunday dinner I usually found boring just cos it was so expected.

Now, as an adult living 1hr+ from home, any Mum-cooked meal is highly appreciated!

Dolmio spag bol. Week in week out. With added basically raw mushrooms. Thanks mum!

Most school dinners, but particularly liver.

Slimy overcooked fish with white sauce with big chunks of onion. Boak

Beef olives - work of the devil I say!!

Liver and onion gravy. My dearly departed nsns speciality, and there was no question of prefrred taste back then In the medieval days. . You just had to eat what was put in front of you, or do without.
Ironically its one of my favorite meals now.

Yellow fish (like it now), prunes (mum still likes them, I can't stand the things), sprouts (like them now), pea and ham soup (still dont like it).

Ready Brek

Semolina

Tapioca

Custard

Tripe

Cod Liver oil and Malt Extract

Not rtft (cos well 26 pages!)

Mince n potatoes (sacrilege not to like this in Scotland!)

But meat and fish (veggie now) and most meals from the 70's!

Mince n potatoes

Nations were built on Tatties and Mince!

I even used to love the stuff in a tin, its was Grants Mince and Peas, and if I was off school sick my neighbour was allowed to give it to me as a treat - my mum was a very guilty working mum.