What meal made your heart sink as a child

[lemisscared]

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

Another vote for liver. Vile! Mom wouldn't let my brother or I leave the table until we'd cleared our plates so we'd wait until she'd gone out of the room then hide the offensive offal in her collection of Japanese teapots. It's probably still there now.

Bright yellow smoked haddock braised in milk with mash & peas - yuck

Mum's "curry" which was leftover chopped up roast meat in a sort of gravy with lots of yellow mild curry powder & sultanas. Really sweet & weird.

And another one for liver... I loved mashed potato with onions and gravy but it inevitably came with liver.
I turned vegetarian aged 3 and refused to eat meat. I was a stubborn child and got away with it. Still vegetarian 40 years later

Another liver-hating now-vegetarian here .

I don't think there is a single meal I grew up with that I would cook or eat now, though to be fair I think it was the school food which tipped me over the edge into vegetarianism, rather than my mother's cooking. Just the idea of rice pudding makes me feel sick.

Lamb...
It was fatty, greasy, smelled awful and I had to eat all of it.
I have never cooked or eaten it since I moved out of my parents house.

Liver.
Corned beef hash.
Finney haddock.

My Mum's pizza.
Particularly the one with tuna and banana. Vile. Took me years to realise that I did actually like pizza!

Beef casserole and dumplings. Hated every part of it, chewy beef and stodgy dumplings. Cooked properly, i'd love it now!

fried liver
scrambled egg
semolina
apple tart with cloves

What is DM?

Corned beef hash with rice pudding for pudding, I've always had an issue with textures of food.

Instant mash, the only time I had that was at school with the ice cream scoop portion.

Jeez this thread has brought me out in a cold sweat..

Ice cream scoops of nasty-mash (too salty, lumpy, greyish)..

Dried up liver and horrid brownish tinned peas..

Battered fish - bright orange batter that was greasy and yet not crispy either, and .. well I think I have blanked out the memory of the fish but it must have been awful as I can't even smell fish now without gipping..

School dinners, all of the above - evil.

DM used to do spam egg and chips - the chips were nice, the egg would be snotty on top and the spam... uuuuuuugh. Flabby, jelly like texture with the gelatinous bits... BOAK..

The one that brings back the worst gippy memories though - packed lunch sandwhiches - mighty white bread, thickly spread with real butter (really thick as it was always cold in our house) and then half an inch of Dairylea (which also contains butter)... the combination was just too grim, even though it doesn't sound that bad!

Oh and dumplings... in anything.. underdone hefty lumps of lard and flour.. swimming in a nasty stew, grey lumps of meat in a watery gravy with globules of grease on the top and nasty mushy bits of carrot and celery.

The real surprise is that my food issues are not WORSE tbh.

Sprouts boiled for half an hour.

Saturday night pota toes

Every Saturday we has sausage and mash. The potatoes made me bolk
Ugh!!!

I briefly went to Girl Guides and there was a game that involved running in turn from one end of the room to the other, eating a spoonful of cold Smash, then running back to your team. The team that finished their Smash first won. The combination of Smash, running, and peer pressure was just awful.

Then I had a summer job making sandwiches in a very prestigious and (at the time) men only club. They liked tongue sandwiches. The tongue came from catering tins, it was literally the whole cow's tongue curled round and round in the tin, in a kind of jelly. We used to make the sandwiches with a little sliced tongue hanging out like this ;oP

Liver
Kidneys
All manner of offal
Pork chops and apple sauce
Crystallised ginger

Oh no, what have i said? Tongue sandwiches was not code for something even more revolting!

Spam fritters with rice - just utterly vile.

We weren't well off but we had fantastic holidays camping in Europe. My DM skimped on the food front though - can't say I blame her as we were 7 in total. My very favourite, which I would still happily eat today, was M&S chunky chicken in a white sauce.

Unfortunately spam fritters won out around once or twice a week. I wanted to cry. In fact, just thinking about it makes me want to cry right now.

Anything with red meat made me gag and almost puke...my heart sank every time we were served bangers 'n' mash, spag bol or ham sandwiches.

I perfected the art of hiding sausages under mashed potato, in my pocket or knocking them off the table for the dog without being spotted.

I could also fold up all the ham in a sandwich into one tiny corner (which I left or pocketed to throw in the bin later) without anyone noticing.

Stuffed marrow was particularly revolting, and also liver wrapped in bacon. I hated it and was told it was soya and not from an animal, which was fine until my DB found a 'tube' and then the truth came out.

tripe and vinegar or kidneys on toast ( nearly typed kidneys on toad. That would be really bad !)

Anything with lentils.
Kedgeree .

Stuffed hearts.

Sweetcorn soup 😷

Stuffed marrow or anything with parsley sauce

mr brains faggots...... what was my mother thinking!