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

Stuffed hearts are delicious! So is liver!

I hated the "salad". My mother's version involved a slice of ham or a hard boiled egg(overboiled, so grey round the yolk and sliced with a special egg slicing gadget), some grated cheese, a couple of lettuce leaves, some cucumber and half a tomato cut in a zig zag pattern. Sometimes, just to make it extra revolting she'd add some chopped up bits of apple and raisins. Served with boiled potatoes. No dressing; but Heinz salad cream (which I still hate).

At school, I couldn't stomach fish boiled in milk, rice pudding/tapioca/semolina, banana custard or "cheese pie",which was a sort of precursor to quiche, simultansously tough and watery

A Norwegian thing called fiskegrateng. It's fish pie with mash on top, but it always involved macaroni, which I still hate. Slippery, yucky little things. Love fish and mash now though.

And another Norwegian thing called dinner sausage. Think a big tube of sausage like that mattessons smoked stuff... Fried... Urgh.

Ånd Rice pudding. For the love of God, why?!

Offal

I have been veggie since I was 17, in no small part due to school offal.

I wasn't made to eat anything I didn't like. If my parents were having a meal I didn't like, they would do me fish fingers or something. I eat nearly everything now which is why I'd never force my son to eat what he doesn't want.

At my dad and step mam's house though she used to like to cook lamb chops a lot which would be served with boiled potatoes and various boiled tasteless veg. Finished off with bisto. Doesn't sound bad compared to most on here but I absolutely detest lamb and can't be in a house where it's cooking. The smell is revolting and it makes gravy taste of grease.

Gosh. I often moan about my DM but nothing. Not one thing I didn't like and lots I loved.
She cooked lots. Especially in the yummy puds in winter.
Will tell her next time we speak. Will make her day as she is really very old now.

Tapioca or semolina with a thick dirty, wrinkly skin

You're all talking about food! I read the thread title and the first thing that came into my head was the 2 minute torture timetable tests that we had on Monday mornings in school. We had 12 random numbers along the top and ten random numbers along the bottom that we had to multiply against each other. It truly was torture and I hated it with a vengeance. I always came near the bottom of the class even though I have no problem with my maths as a child and was otherwise always in the top 3-4 students in my class. Why oh why do teachers torture like that.

Food wise; I hated boiled eggs. ugh.

Liver too - blurgh.

Also chops - what a waste of time they are!

And "Mum's good soup!" always greated with dismay "noooooo, not mum's good soup" Always made with the leftovers from Sunday's roast dinner but with added cabbage and kidney beans - mmmmmmmmm

Another one for liver. Love it now though.

Mind you, my dad made us mashed potatoes on toast once when mum was away - and the mash was more like soup all milky and runny.

Omlette. Me and my sisters still use the expression 'Omlette face' (the face we made when told it was omlettes dor dinner) now to describe our reaction to anything disappointing.

Runny boiled eggs, urgh. If they were cooked longer, I could have eaten them, but not runny. Like snot.

Liver and bacon rolls just makes me want to boak just thinking about it

Boiled bacon and cabbage. I used to smell it in the street coming home from school and would start whimpering.

I'm veggie now and a lovely vegi version which i love.

At boarding school - ham steak with the pineapple on top.

At home, not hugely keen on mashed potato.

Kippers with bread to stop the bones getting stuck in your throat.
Yellow haddock
Liver and kidney

Fullpleather that made me laugh! Give to Anthony!

Stuffed marrow
Corned beef fritters

Gran's pearl barley soup on Christmas Eve, with added giblets for the adults!! And gooseberries from our garden,again a treat from Gran. Thank God she only came twice a year (although she stayed for a month)

Brains faggots - yes, really www.barelyedible.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/faggots1.jpg

Small wonder I've been vegetarian for the whole of my adult life.

Sago Pudding - aka frogspawn

Spam on toast

Just baked beans in a bowl (we were poor)

Nearly everything my mum cooked, she even managed to make shepherds pie into a slimy mess, I was so grateful for school dinners.
She doesn't cook much nowadays, I tend to cook when I stay with her, saves loads on indigestion tablets