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

BalloonSlayer - my mum used to make stuffed-heart casserole, and yes, it was a very educational meal

Grey peas and bacon.....even the memory makes me gag!

Stuffed hearts. Bleeeeeuuurrrggghh.

Shepards pie. It was mince, a tin of baked beans with some brown sauce mixed in covered in mashed potato. Bloody vile. I still can't eat mash. It's a banned food in our house much to my DP's displeasure!

I have remembered another - my mum always used to make bubble and squeak, on a Monday, to go with cold meat from the Sunday joint, using the cold, leftover veg from Sunday lunch. Most of the time it was OK, and sometimes it was delicious - but if we'd had sprouts, she'd put those in it - fried, day-old sprouts - urghhhhhh!

Plain boiled potatoes (not new potatoes) with salad - lettuce, tomato & cucumber - and tinned pilchards.

No butter, no mayo, no squeeze of lemon, no black pepper - nothing to make it more bearable.

Stew. My parents make terrible stew. It's all watery and horrible.

Stewed sausages. Bloody awful.

Liver and onions. Mum used to force me to eat it because "liver is full of iron and is very good for you" never mind that it tastes revolting.
Cod and parsley sauce with boiled potatoes and broad beans.
Tinned ham sandwiches. The ham was covered with a layer of jelly and I have memories of it sliding out of the tin and plopping onto a plate. Mum always used to take tinned ham and tinned chicken with us when we went on holiday to north Wales. I am sure both naice ham and whole chickens were probably easily available in the local shops

Gooseberry fool, homemade with gooseberries from the garden.The sight of it would turn my stomach. A bowl of green,runny snot for pudding?

Braising steak stew (or chewing meat stew) lumps of leather like beef in a weak gravy with soft carrot, parsnip and Swede. I have to admit that I now love a nice beef stew but that's likely due to the copious amounts of wine I slosh in!

Reheated roast dinner leftovers. Gravy that had turned gelatinous in the fridge and reheated over cold meat.

I'm a human dustbin so have always eaten most things, plus I'm a bit of a wrong'un in that I love semolina and tapioca.

I fucking HATE mushy peas though. And I'm also not a fan of hot tinned tomatoes - at school they were served alongside cheese and potato pie and even the thought of it all makes me gag - the tomatoes would get mixed up with the cheesy potato mix and it would all congeal and ugh ugh ugh.

I love cheese and I love fresh tomatoes (and tinned when used in sauces), but this was an abomination.

I also love corned beef hash, mince n tatties etc - but my mum is a good cook and never managed to mangle these. In fact I can't think of a single inedible meal that she's made.

Boiled potatoes (not new ones), boiled cabbage with either bacon ribs or "yellow" fish.

Liver
Chops (or any meat and 2 veg type meal in fact)
Stew with dumplings (boyfriend at the time's Mum used to make this - dumplings=pure stodgy , tasteless, nastiness)
Sweet and sour (out of a packet or jar)
Curry using leftover meat (out of a packet or jar with sultanas added)

Funnily enough I'm veggie and have been virtually from when I left home.

Tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce - sends shivers down my spine.

Liver and onions in gravy with mash.

Curried boiled eggs

Tinned pilchards.

This dish www.food.com/recipe/hungarian-paprika-potatoes-paprikas-krumpli-97075

My dps are Hungarian. My DM would make it, and she used to make it mushed up when I was a baby.

And "paste" sandwiches. Does anyone still feed their kids "paste"?

My lot love them! I bought some once as our fridge was on its way out and I thought it would be handy to have if it gave up the ghost altogether. They really raved about it and actually ask for paste sandwiches now!

I love pilchards on toast but the trick is to open up each one and remove the spine, I feel nauseous thinking about eating them. An ex boyfriends dad used to wait until his wife had finished de boning tinned salmon and would stand and eat the bones, on their own. I was actually sick after I saw him do that, vom city!

I have thought of another one, belly pork. Now properly cooked it can be delish, especially if it is done slowly so the meat is tender. My mother used to put it in the oven for about an hour so it was totally over cooked and tough as old boots, with really chewy stringy fat. I cannot stand fat on meat now because of that and the gristly mince.

Fish pie

mutton + cabbage stew
the smell
the taste
the glibbery fat
stringy meat

Anything with mince in. Still can't eat it now

Moussaka. I love it now though.

Mince.

We always knew if we were getting it because when we asked what was for tea we were told to 'wait and see'. It was like a code

We were also told that 'Anthony down the road loves mince'. Well, give it to him then

The smell of boiling mince is something I will never forget. Worse than cabbage, fish, skunks, anything!

I get that it was cheap and we were on a tight budget, but spag bol tastes far better so why not make that?!

Those bricks of cod frozen in a sauce (parsley or cheese), served with boiled potatoes. Known to us as "cod in bags". It was such a bland meal.

Worst was casserole - fried chops, tinned veg and massively watered down tin of soup cooked to death. (Soup never did thicken up / meat soften up / flavours "develop".)
She always used to dish up your food too and the portions were enormous. Then stood over us until we'd finished. Then we had to eat whatever the pudding was before we were allowed to leave the table. Ghastly! Lost lots of weight when I left home.