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

tripe and onions in white sauce. you could smell it cooking way down the street. My father loved it.

Semilina and jam :(

Steak and kidney pie
I was made to eat one and I threw up in it
Yuk

Liver and Bacon. All time hate is lettuce or any edible green leaves - disgusting and makes me gag even looking at them.

Tinned meatballs. Anything leftover and re-heated or food that should be hot, but was cold like a cold potato.

Mum would make a concoction. You never knew how it would taste, or what would be in it. It was a cross between a Casserole and stew, usually had leftover roast shredded, vegetables, and I expect as an adult was quite palatable! But as a kid I would pick and she'd grumble at me - why do I bother etc.

boiled fish, I'm not sure why my mum made it, I can only assume it was some sort of early 80's parenting advice that said it was healthy but It was horrible. When we protested we were allowed to put grated cheese on it to make it more palatable. So you then had boiled cheesy fish.

Spag Bol. My mother didn't drain the fat off the mince, so it would form greasy orange lumps around the perimeter of the plate.

Fish fingers. Grey fish encased in synthetic orange breadcrumbs.

Cabbage with steamed earwigs... straight from the garden 🤢.

Beef, any meal containing beef in fact. I used to be taken to have Sunday dinner with my grandparents as they had lamb every week where as we always had beef which I wouldn't eat.

Dry, tasteless, shop-bought Quiche Lorraine with overcooked boiled potatoes, peas and sweetcorn. My DM is a very good cook generally, but sometimes she clearly just couldn't be arsed

Pork chops wrapped in tinfoil with LEMON JUICE and cooked (roasted?) in the oven until they were dry and tough. The fat was rank always soft, never crispy or anything and I refused to eat it. She was so good at cooking spaghetti bolognaise, cottage pie and mince etc so I don't know what she was thinking.

'She' was my mum by the way! I've not eaten pork chops since and I never will, or roast beef! Another dry and tough meat. I'm a vegetarian now though so I'll never experience bad meat again!

Savoury rice with barbeque sauce out of a package and boiled chicken. Gag
Corned beef hash.
Favourite "meal" was super noodles

Absolutely hated corned beef hash. My mum used to cook up loads of veg in a pan with an oxo cube then thicken it with corn flour then she would chop a tin of corned beef into chunks & add it to the veg to warm. She would then put it in an oven dish top it with mash & grated cheese then cook it in the oven. It was vile. She also made stew with mince which was just nasty. Her fry ups were not good either always had thick sausages & bacon, over cooked eggs and baked beans & tinned tomatoes with added Worcester sauce, it was just wrong. Also hated tinned burgers, sprouts & cauliflower. She did amazing roast dinners though.

My darling mother's take on pork in white wine. Following the various ingredient substitutions it became a pork, chicken soup and cheese casserole.

Anything involving cauliflower as my mum was of the 'you'll sit there till its gone' persuasion and I really really don't like cauliflower, it makes me gag.

Other than cauliflower, probably my most dreaded meal was skirt and onions with mashed potato and cabbage.

Haha great idea for a thread!
A lot of yours sound quite nice to me
At least it's solid food, my mum used to do soups that were so depressing to sip on especially as you'd never quite know what was supposedly inside it

OxfordshireLass, that reminds me of my mum's "moussaka". She didn't like lamb so used beef mince, and didn't like aubergines so used sliced potatoes, and then bulked it out with baked beans. It was/is lovely but it's no moussaka! More of a hotpot really.

Anything Chinese. Not cooked by mum. Every Saturday we were 'treated' to a Chinese. I should say this is back in the 70's so was mostly sweet and sour crap. I got to hating Chinese food and Saturdays! I have been to China and loved the food but it was just the very anglicized sweet and sour muck we had that I hated. Still not fond of Chinese though. I love thai!

Hated stew with beef chunks. Mum had to make it with mince instead (thoug hI actually hated all meat - that was the lesser evil).

Chicken pie

Anything with mince

Pork chops

I'm veggie now!

Every single meal was meat, boiled potato, and whatever veg was available in the garden. Gravy was only for Sundays, sauces were unheard of, so just a dry plate of food. I dreaded meal times. Liver however was a bit of a treat as that came with the gravy it was cooked in. It was swallowable! The very worst though was sausages, as in the thick heavily spiced ones from the butcher. I used to get scared when I saw those as back in the 70s you had to clear your plate. It was not acceptable to dislike anything as 'there were starving children in the world'.

I became anorexic at 12. Had had a lot to do with 12 years of force feeding me dry plates of meat. Funnily enough the anorexia miraculously vanished when I left home at 16 and could choose my own food.

I was sent to boarding school at the age of 9. They gave us bread dipped in bacon dripping for breakfast- while the teachers had the bacon

Pigs liver with tubes followed by rice pudding would still make me cry

Gammon and chips with pineapple rings.

Cod in parsley sauce.

Everything else was delicious.

Boil in a bag cod in parsley sauce, tinned potatoes and green beans - not one palatable item on the plate - yuck!