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

Liver and bacon.

Spam fritters.

Boak.

I quite like liver Very easy to over cook though, and then it's leathery

I love the gravy that comes with liver and bacon but the liver? No thanks

Ugh yes mince, potatoes and carrots.

Roast dinners. Yuk. Still not a fan now

School dinner - liver, boiled potato, cabbage and peas. Not a drop of gravy. Put me off liver for life.

Most of our school meals were lovely at primary but the thought of that one still makes me gag 30 years later

Porridge. Even the smell of it makes me retch now.

School pink blancmange, everything with that thick custard on it-pink, yellow or 'chocolate' (brown flavour).

My Dad used to make our packed lunches for school - there were 2 choices. Hardboiled egg mixed with blueband margarine (why I have no idea) or pek ham. They used to go straight in the bin at lunchtime. There were no crisps, chocolate biscuits, fruit or yoghurt either, so I missed lunch every single day for years.
Hated a lot of the dinners as well (mainly because of the meat, though there wasn't much of it) but nothing particular stands out apart from campbells meatballs.
I'm virtually a vegetarian, apart from eating fish once a week.

Mum discovered homepride tins mid 80s chicken in white wine sauce beef in redwin3 sauce curry some appley caserole all bowfing I used to dread them , I cant stand and wine sauces now my stomach turns

Liver the way my mother used to cook it, absolutely disgusting, did it a year ago on the BBQ for my sister as done like that it has a much nicer taste and texture, she was gobsmacked that it could taste that good

I've two

Tripe and spuds. Absolute BLEURGGHHH. The mere mention of that pale, wobbly, odd shaped, disgustingly textured pile of I-don't-even-want-to-think-about-it , makes me heave.

The other is homemade pea soup. Ugh. I had to smother it in vinegar to make it edible.

Hmmm, there's a few. I'm a very unfussy eater still but there where certainly a few things that I'd have rather not had to have eaten as a child.

Both my parents had (still do) a habit of making sure meat is cooked (polite way of saying on the verge of being burnt), pork chops were so dry you could feel all the water being removed from your body by osmosis with every exhausting chew. Even Brains foggots were getting onto be dry.

school dinners were awful, one dinner was called 'kitekat pie' (not offically) served with boiled spuds (with that mysterious skin), there was a desert call 'concrete' and ut came with green custard.

To this day I'm not entirely sure what any of it actually was. There was lard in the pastry of the pie though, that much was obvious!!!

Boiled Ox tongue. Even thinly sliced it was just gristle and the smell of it cooking was unbelievably vile, enough to make you ill. The anticipation of the awful dinner to come once the smell started always made me sick.

Roasted half a pigs head with the eye still in looking reproachfully up at me from the plate as I tried (and failed) to eat it. Still had the teeth and half the snout too.

My mother had a thing about the virtue of eating parts of an animal that were usually regarded as only fit for pet food. Not through financial necessity, but because she enjoyed it.

Liver, kidneys and a (very small) piece of bacon was another one, but the liver and kidneys were served almost whole so that you could still see the internal structure of the organs when trying to cut it in to small enough pieces to choke down.

Oh, it was all truly disgusting and I would never serve anything that to my children, let alone insist that they ate it.

Tongue in a piquant sauce in a restaraunt in Paris, I was heaving and could not eat it. "Salad cream" and stewed plums at school dinners. Not together I may add.

Pretty much any of my mothers cooking. Chicken casserole which was lumps of chicken joints that hadn't been browned but tossed into a Pyrex dish with water, a chopped onion and a chopped carrot. Seasoning was a bay leaf. Also a fish pie that was a white sauce with random fish pieces thrown in and topped with watery mash. Ironically she'd been to catering college

Steak and kidney pie..."Just pick out the kidney and leave it..." Yes, Mum, but the entire pie tasted of kidney...

Oh yes. Stewed plums was often an alternative to prunes at my school. Vinegary, watery, both too mushy and crunchy at the same time. Vile.

Uni halls had a habit of serving food that hadn't been dished out for other meals, in different guises, for as long as was deemed safe by no one with any sense. This led to the famous 'Egg Custard Week', where unsweetened slices of cold 2 inch thick cooked egg were served up time and time again. Nobody had pudding that week.

I have no idea how they weren't hauled over the food safety coals for that one.

Another liver and onions (and sometimes bacon) here.
Never, ever again.

It's been said up thread. Cauliflower cheese. Seriously. There is a reason you never see it on menus nowadays. It's not a meal! It's an unpleasant side dish. It would be unpleasant without the cheese and its even less pleasant with. Especially when the sauce cools and develops a thick skin.

In no particular order: liver, rhubarb, spam, lumpy mashed potato and lumpy custard.

And yes, I know what egg custard is (aka proper custard, or creme anglaise if you're on Masterchef) and I still have no idea what the uni halls catering staff thought they were making.

I know I wasn't a child, but it definitely made an impression on me.

The free tinned EEC meat we got because we got because we were skint. It was so horrible.

Corn flakes. I remember sitting the the kitchen table gagging with every mouthful.

I cannot think of one meal my mother cooked that was nice. She ruined the simplest of dishes. I think she just couldn't be bothered.
She used to make this hard pink fish dust with Inedible edges. Took me a long time to realise it was salmon that she had baked till it was unrecognisable.
Spag Bol was flavourless and pasta was gloop.
Her idea of an English breakfast was everything on the plate raw and then microwaved. Microwaved sausage bacon and egg swimming on your plate is not very appetising.