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

[Dikhaut]

Chocolate eclairs.
I always liked raspberry filled powdered doughnuts. One night dad brought home chocolate eclairs. Mom was ecstatic! Sister was ecstatic! Dad was so proud! I was duobtful.
I took one tentative nibble and spit it out. It was gross! Rancid! Sour! Icky!
My parents thought I was being a spoiled brat. They ate theirs and finally mom picked up mine and took a big chomp.
She spit it out! Rancid! Sour! Icky! So I got a bad eclair, and ever since, I have had an aversion to chocolate eclairs.

I worked in a bakery during high school. I baked lots of eclairs and did a fair amount of quality control sampling. I remember a process for keeping track of when each batch of custard was made so it could be discarded if it got too old. I don’t remember exactly how long it was good for, but it wasn’t any longer than a couple of days or so. After the eclair shells were baked and cooled the custard went into a thing with a pump handle like a well pump. It had a pointy nozzle that went into the center of the eclair. You’d pump the handle with one hand, pulling the eclair off the nozzle slowly with the other to distribute the custard through its center. Everyone hated cleaning out the pump afterwards. The owner always checked to make sure it was cleaned properly.


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[rbgarr]

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

Hot dogs in white-bread buns covered with mashed potato, topped with French's yellow mustard under hot, melted Velveeta cheese. A recipe on the Velveeta box.

Gag.

[LeeG]

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

Hot dogs in white-bread buns covered with mashed potato, topped with French's yellow mustard under hot, melted Velveeta cheese. A recipe on the Velveeta box.

Gag.

never saw that, gag worthy now but then if you replaced the mustard with mushroom gravy that was cooked with a cup of wine I would have gobbled it upeven if it had velveeta. A couple weeks ago I gave the 18 mo twins a little blue cheese. On opened his mouth wide to let it fall out and the other had a little waterfall of saliva to help foam it out. Not a winner.

[Kimlward]

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

Tuna casserole. One summers evening we had a bbq and while seated outside Mom brought out a big bowl of tuna casserole and loaded my plate. I just couldn’t eat it so as the meal progressed I spooned it gradually into a large planter filled with geraniums next to me. Supper over we cleaned up the area and I saw mom discover the evidence of my subterfuge. Mom looked so sad and I was crushed. I tearfully apologized. She hugged me and said that’s ok but you need to tell me what you like so I can make it next time. And I did and she did.

[rbgarr]

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

Tuna casserole.

My wife had never cooked or babysat, etc., when we married. Her first attempt at a meal included a tuna casserole. It came out of the oven as a hard brick. We laughed about it.

In the fifty years since she's raised three great kids mostly on her own while I traveled on business, developed sewing skills and made clothes for us all, bought most of our furniture pieces at auction and refinished them beautifully. And so much more. I lucked out with her.

[LeeG]

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

zuccini, I forgot.. The mouth feel, flavor and gag.

[RFNK]

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

Kidneys. Liver. Brains. Tongue. Sago. Rabbit. Pea and ham soup. Casserole. Grey soup - I have no idea what was in it.

[Peerie Maa]

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

Kidneys. Liver. Brains. Tongue. Sago. Rabbit. Pea and ham soup. Casserole. Grey soup - I have no idea what was in it.

I'll agree with sago, as I did not and still don't like milk puddings, you can add rice, semolina and tapioca to the list with sago.
Brains are OK as an ingredient in brawn, rabbit is so similar to chicken that it is not an issue. Back in the '30s unscrupulous butchers would use rabbit thighs to bulk out the breast of a scrawny chook. Pressed tongue was a Boxing Day staple, the parents pressed our own.

[elf]

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

Don't get hospitalized if you don't like milk based puddings. Egg custard is one of the most nutritious things you can be fed as you come off the line and on to real food.

[willin woodworks]

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

Lima beans. To this day I wretch at the thought...

2-3 pound bluefish filleted with the blood line removed, rubbed with olive oil and some Old Bay, slap it on a screaming hot grill....poor mans swordfish indeed.
Call me a poor man all day long

[Peerie Maa]

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

Lima beans. To this day I wretch at the thought...

2-3 pound bluefish filleted with the blood line removed, rubbed with olive oil and some Old Bay, slap it on a screaming hot grill....poor mans swordfish indeed.
Call me a poor man all day long

Would those be butter beans? Love them.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

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

Napoleon's soldiers were terrified of the women who scavenged the corpses after a battle, feared them more than the enemy armies. They were reputed to be ruthless and heartless.

I never liked brussels sprouts. Tried them again recently, fresh ones on the branch, didn't like them any better.

Try them parboiled and then wok fried with sweet chestnuts, and shards of fried bacon.

“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.” (Kipling, of course .)

My late father enjoyed his time in WW2 in the Royal and the United States Navies (he was seconded to the USN for a while “because my mother was American so I spoke the language”) and said “The most frightening people I met in the War were the Israeli girl truck drivers in the Eighth Army’s supply train!” (I suspect he tried his luck).

[willin woodworks]

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

Would those be butter beans? Love them.

Lima beans are the green less ripe version of butter beans.
Both are disgusting to me

[Peerie Maa]

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

Lima beans are the green less ripe version of butter beans.
Both are disgusting to me

Well, there you go. We wait until they are ripe.
How about broad beans?


I'm told that they are also called fava beans.

[CWSmith]

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

I never liked brussels sprouts. Tried them again recently, fresh ones on the branch, didn't like them any better.

Cut them into fourths along the base so they hold together. Fry them in a pan with butter and oil, adding precooked bacon, red pepper flakes, and at the end brown sugar. Cook them until they are charred. They are sweet with a little crunch and the bacon makes everything better.