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

Packed lunches with sandwiches that had been frozen. With tinned tuna (only) in.

My parents though I was fussy. I say food in the eighties was nasty.
They once fed me boil in the bag cod and parsley sauce for weeks because 'that's all I would eat'
I did go through a phase of eating Branson pickle sandwiches for breakfast though.

Obviously I can never eat Branston pickle now. Ever.
Nowt......

Stuffed sheep's hearts!

You could see ventricles and everything. . .

DS1 dissected one in Science yesterday. His face when I told him that Granny used to make us eat them!

Liver, here too yuk yuk yuk and kidneys urrhhk

At school you had to eat everything. I remember the dinner telling me to put pieces of liver in the watery mash to hide the taste. Ha that does not work! I feel sick even now, at the smell of liver or kidneys

Macaroni cheese or cauliflower cheese it made me gag so much. But love cauliflower chews now.

Liver. Boak.

Macaroni and cheese
Slices of corned beef, boiled cabbage and potatoes.

My mum was a good cook, She was in catering so I think I was lucky in that but when my mum and dad split up my dads new wife couldn't and still cannot cook meaning my dad had to learn......
Sweet and sour eyeballs.....this was tinned sweet and sour sauce with the tiny bit of left over chicken from day before with tinned button mushrooms (eyeballs)..... They still have this on a Monday

After watching some cookery programme he thought leeks in cheese sauce was amazing so we had it with every Sunday dinner and I used to be made to eat it as I heaved, it was packet cheese mix and I still cannot eat cheese

Liver and onions (liver which resembled grey leather, onions scorched and burned tasting) with tinned mushy peas and big lumps of boiled potatoes which were somehow dry and powdery on the outside and crunchy and waxy on the inside. I hated every single thing on that plate and we had it once a week. Ugh.

Irish stew at school dinners - was mutton and always fatty.

A school meal we nicknamed Cockleshell Bay: pasta shells, not in a sauce, but a thin watery gravy, with large lumps of up identifiable grey gristle. You got a ladleful of Cockleshell Bay and then got potatoes and veg with it. Really odd and unpleasant meal.

At home I used to dread baked eggs. Basically an egg cracked onto a small plate with some slices of cheese on, then cooked in the oven til the white was rubbery, the cheese welded onto the plate and there was a shiny wrinkled skin on the yolk. We had it with sliced bread and marge and brown sauce. My dad loved it.

Minced Beef & Onions with Baked Beans & Gravy oh & not forgetting the badly boiled potatoes

Ughhhh macaroni cheese too - she used to grate onion into it mix with the sauce and serve. Why??????

Brisket, served cold (boiled to death the night before). With Cauliflower and white sauce (no cheese!!). Most Sundays. Yuk.

Liver was pretty far down the list too. Though school dinner liver was beyond inedible.

OTOH, I could have eaten mince and tatties every day. Sadly I am unable to replicate my late DM's signature dish, no matter how I try.

And cod roe! It was my mother's treat to herself, and occasionally she'd let me have a spoonful. Even then it was pretty expensive, I'm surprised she could justify it.

Sweet and sour chicken made with that lurid nasty sticky sauce out of a jar. I was a good eater, not one bit fussy so I never understood why my Mum insisted on serving it up and getting cross when I didn't like it.

liver and cabbage, followed by tepid rice pudding (school)

baaarf !

"Salad" - sliced cucumber, wedges of tomato, shredded iceberg, a boiled egg, three rolls of packet ham. All laid out separately on the plate.

Vom.

Another one for corned beef hash and my poor DD has to eat it at school! Mine was always dry as a kid. BLECK.

Liver and onions, rice pudding or semolina - all in school.
I love rice pudding and liver and onions now my MIL has shown me how they should be cooked but at the time it was the lunch to make my bowels heart sink!

Shepherd pie - specifically when it was the day after we had eaten spag Bol.

Mum would mix the leftover spag Bol mince with the shepherds pie savoury mince. Was foul. Special mention of the day that she topped it with mash that was mashed with leftover evaporated milk rather than normal milk. It curdled .

Bonne Femme.

Basically, white fish in white sauce with black bits in it. Vile.

Or liver, with white cabbage, just sheets of the disgusting stuff.

Mother was always on a diet, so mashed potato was just that. Mashed potato. No butter, no milk. Very hard to swallow.

Liver and bacon and tinned marrowfat peas

Pork casserole.

My mum is not the world's greatest or most adventurous cook.

Chunks of meat that managed to be both dry & slimy, onion slices that resembled worms & soggy carrot in packet mix sauce...bleurgh!

I wouldn't eat it now if you paid me.

My DM wasn't an awful cook and we were lucky to have a meal the days we did considering our financial problems, however at school I used to inwardly son when dished up like warm tinned plum tomatoes in 'juice' I still can't stand them now.

Braised steak.

And, for dessert, semolina which used to make me heave.

Tripe (only once) like magnified raw chicken skin. Boiled fish. Rabbit once.
Sardine sandwiches with curling dry bread.