What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

[SaltyD from BC]

Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

Mincemeat tarts. Just don't get it

[Hugh MacD]

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was not really a fan liver and onions

The onions were OK, but the liver?????? Not enough ketchup on the planet to make it palatable.

[Tom from Rubicon]

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So many people I know suffer food revulsion based on texture. "Classic Gooshy".
Paul and I seem to have some common ground regarding fried liver. Vile stuff my parents loved.
LeeG makes a point I cannot refute. From 1979 on. Ralph McKee introduced me to a Sub sandwich before I knew such a thing was. We worked for the same manufacturer. A group of guys would pool their money to purchase makings for sandwiches and the fillings for lunch. One of which had to be liverwurst. I became a reluctant believer.
Liverwurst as a seasoning in a multi meat and cheese filled sandwich has a great taste.
(Dear departed Ralph McKee was our maintenance man and also at the Chicago Tribune)

Tom

[Tom from Rubicon]

Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

My Aunt Rose, raised poor could stretch anything and make it good. Pickled Watermelon rind was a luxury.

[mizzenman]

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Fish balls

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

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Crustaceans. Eating a giant insect is gross.

[epoxyboy]

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That's mine also. To this very day. Carmelized onions in other settings... great. Not with liver. Never liver.

#me too.
Liver, and its best mate kidney, are the short list of gag inducing childhood foods that I refuse to intentionally try as an adult. Every now and then a piece of kidney is encountered in a pie or casserole, and it is unfailingly revolting. It's not the texture, it's the flavor.

Pete

[skuthorp]

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O quite like kidney, especially in steak and kidney pie.
I am not a fan of preserved meats and sausage at all. My dad loved black pudding and bread and dripping……. his family was large and not well off……… got the taste early.

[Robbie 2]

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Rice pudding, tapioca and blancmange, hated the feel of them in my mouth

Exactly....me too.

However I love Steak and Kidney or Liver and Bacon.

[birlinn]

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Tripe .
Sloppy white stuff- yuk!
Tea.
Still gag on a cuppa.

[doorstop]

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Tripe, Beetroot and Brussels sprouts... urk!

[birlinn]

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Strange that some of my favourites are on someone else's hate lists!
My favourite veggies are beetroot and asparagus.
Favourite soup is Cullen Skink- smoked haddock in milk.
Tastes certainly differ.....

[Peerie Maa]

Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

Rice pudding, tapioca and blancmange, hated the feel of them in my mouth

Just so, + trifle, the mouth feel triggered a gag reflex

Oh god! Thnx Bernie! You reminded me of canned yellow wax beans, that my grandmother thought had to be on every plate. Disgusting! And they squeaked! when you bit them.... It was like eating gross slimy little mouse things! UUUUUUGHHHH!

If you want disgusting in a can, spaghetti in tomato sauce.

[Peerie Maa]

Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

Rice pudding, tapioca and blancmange, hated the feel of them in my mouth

Strange that some of my favourites are on someone else's hate lists!
My favourite veggies are beetroot and asparagus.
Favourite soup is Cullen Skink- smoked haddock in milk.
Tastes certainly differ.....

We should start a thread, "Good food that our colonial cousins won't eat".

It would seem that they waste all the good, tasty offal.

How about brawn?

[WX]

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We were threatened with bread and dripping sometimes, but it never happened. Though I had friends who had eaten it.
I used to like Junket.
Not a fan of steak and kidneys.