What meal did your family serve when you were a kid

[True Dough]

and you still can't stand it to this day?

For me, it's mussels and clams. Pretty much any shell fish. Yuck!

[Warpy]

1. Liver. Can't cook it, can't choke it down

I can choke most everything else down even if it gets chewed with long teeth and isn't down permanently.

[jpak]

19. The Worst Day of my Young Life

They had liver and onions for lunch at school - we didn't eat it.

When we got home for super that night?

You guessed it - liver and onions.

I think I starved to death that day.

I like liver now - but back then it was fecal.

[True Dough]

49. Liver

is getting a whole lot of disdain in this thread!

[Warpy]

51. Yeah, I noticed!

It might have been considered food at some time but these days it's loaded with all the heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, and other crap the poor animal was exposed to in its lifetime.

I'm delighted that health professionals are no longer pushing it. It is quite simply inedible, especially the way a lot of mothers turned it into shoe leather.

[crazycatlady]

72. my mother never served it

However, near the end of my elderly cat's life, I bought chicken livers (sold in a plastic container), and then boiled and pureed them. Shit smelled NASTY but it got a skinny elderly cat to eat.

[Warpy]

74. You should have kept them raw

Cooking destroys taurine, an amino acid essential to cats.

My cats were hilarious, they'd crouch in front of the dishes and growl at them for a full half hour before they realized chicken liver was edible.

[crazycatlady]

81. the cat was 17

At that point in the game it was get Tabby to eat anything.

I think I tried them raw once (in the food processor) and he turned his head. However, he lapped up the water they were cooked in too.

[Siwsan]

64. Same here. I had to cut it into very small pieces and encase it in mashed potatoes

with LOTS of butter, to mask the taste and the texture. To me, it was like chewing granular rubber.

[demigoddess]

110. liver and onions

I would be forced to try it. I would chew it, chew it and not be able to swallow. I would then spit it up in the toilet and have to try again with another bite. Ugh.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. There was some sort of eggplant dish I found inedible.

And a Spanish Rice that was very heavy on garlic, which I couldn't abide back then.

This is over 50 years ago. To this day I don't like eggplant, but I'm generally fine with garlic.

I must add that my family is Irish, all four grandparents came from Ireland. So there was not much of a cooking tradition, although my maternal grandmother could make wonderful apple pie and Irish soda bread. My mother, God love her, didn't like to cook and wasn't very good at it. I started cooking by the time I was 5 or 6 out of sheer necessity.

[yardwork]

86. Eggplant parmigiana. I still hate it. Slimey and tough.

[lapfog_1]

3. Ham hocks and navy beans

Chipped beef on toast
Fried spam

[jberryhill]

31. Oh man... are your folks still cooking? And can I come over?

[Wolf Frankula]

42. Copy that for Ham hocks and navy beans

or great northern beans. I still cannot eat that slop today. My grandmother was a great cook, but my mom didn't inherit any of her ability.

Wolf

[blue neen]

96. Ugh! Lima Bean Soup with Ham.

Wallpaper paste!

[PufPuf23]

157. I like lima beans and ham hocks and make it in crock pot.

My Mom used to make it and was really better than I can make because they were home grown and dried lima beans.

Here is the secret whether by crock pot or regular pot: don't over cook. When the lima beans reach the desired consistency, quit cooking them long before they turn to mush / bean sludge. Take them off the heat and warm up what is going to be eaten rather than cook a long time. I eat what I want, out some in a small sauce pan for the next day, and put the rest in plastic containers in the freezer. Also make small batches that are somewhat watery in consistency. The lima beans should not be cooked past the point that they cease to be distinct beans. Not over cooking in general is a good approach to dried beans of any kind.

Water
Ham hock (cook until breaks down and bones and yuck removed before adding other ingredients)
dried lima beans (I only use 1/2 to 1/3 lb bag for a batch)
onion
garlic
black pepper
If I have them, I will add red or green bell pepper or habanero pepper.

[CountAllVotes]

104. None of the women in the family knew how to cook

So, Dear Old Dad did the cooking!

Worst meal ever were those horrific ham hocks and navy beans! Mother attempted to cook those now and then. OMG!

[TlalocW]

4. They were called...

Porcupine Balls. Basically meatloaf meatballs rolled in rice. I have a way different meatloaf than my mom's - probably wouldn't be considered meatloaf by most as it's ground turkey and beef, and I throw in a lot of chopped vegetables to the point that it looks like a fruitcake, and then I use salsa in the mixture instead of ketchup and then salsa again on the top.

I made it into porcupine balls once and didn't care for the rice addition.

TlalocW

[pansypoo53219]

76. yeah. those suck.

[Laffy Kat]

5. Stuffed peppers.

I would eat the stuffed part and leave the pepper and my mom would get mad at me. I still don't like peppers even though I'll tolerate them on pizza from time to time.

[Warpy]

6. I like ripe peppers, whether red, yellow or orange

Sweet green peppers just have a nasty, unripe taste to me so I don't use them.

I will, however, eat green chile until it comes out of my ears, the hotter the better.

[pangaia]

82. Did you say GREEN CHILIS? Why, yes you did.

Here ya go.

green chilis AND green Sichuan pepper(corns)

Had this at CHENGDU TASTE in Alhambra, CA

http://themalaproject.com/green-sichuan-pepper-fish-qing-hua-jiao-yu/

[samnsara]

53. same here..

[pansypoo53219]

77. i made those once. what a waste of time.

[CountAllVotes]

115. Same story here - empty uneaten bell peppers

Waste of time I thought but then there was Missy the cat! She loved cooked bell peppers and she'd eat the entire thing if it was left behind! She lived to the ripe old age of 17 years btw!

[Dave Starsky]

148. That was mine, as well.

Over the years, my tastes changed, and now I don't mind green bell peppers in certain contexts. But even the thought of those stuffed peppers still makes me want to gag.

Seems like a lot of us had problems with those things. Why would a mom think that any kid would want to eat that?

[shanti]

160. that's one of mine too

we HAD to finish our meal though, even if we had to sit there for an hour after everyone else was done. dad's belt over the top of the chair was a reminder

i will eat cooked bell pepper now, but only thinly sliced and on pizza. raw bell peppers are fine though, love them in a salad.

[Doreen]

7. Liver, cornbread, and meatloaf.

In my older years I have had cornbread once that I liked and meatloaf twice that I liked. Other than that I do not like them.

[Laffy Kat]

8. I'm with ya on two of those three.

But cornbread--especially made with buttermilk--yummers.

[True Dough]

9. I never had cornbread as a kid

But as an adult (sometimes even a mature one), I love it!

[Laffy Kat]

12. There's so many ways to make CB and I like all of 'em. nt

[samnsara]

55. esp with creamed corn, shredded cheese and hot pepper flakes..

mixed in... its called Corny Bread.... YUMMMMMMMY

[CTyankee]

112. was your cornbread sweet? If so, you didn't live in the south where it is considered

very strange indeed to sweeten cornbread.

[Laffy Kat]

155. Not sweet at all.

Sweet cornbread was corn muffins.

[CountAllVotes]

114. Meatloaf

My didn't know how to cook mother made her "special" meatloaf. It was crackers and hamburger mixed together with one egg I

Another vomitous try to be dinner thing it was.

The liver scene was worse. She'd try to slip that on you telling you it was pork. Uh huh ... !!

[Doreen]

121. My mothers meatloaf was dry dry dry and oh NO

flavor. Remember "Mommy Dearest" and the steak scene? Well, put a father instead and liver and that happened to me. Imagine finding cold liver in front of you the next morning.

[kimbutgar]

10. My mother loved green bell peppers, when she cooked with them I gagged on, the smell and taste gross

To this day I get grossed out by anything with bell peppers.

But I loved her breaded liver and onions which my husband forbid me from cooking.

[Laffy Kat]

11. It's too bad we don't like green peppers because they are very nutritious.

I can't handle organ meats at all; I'm afraid I'm with your hubby.

[jberryhill]

18. "I'm afraid I'm with your hubby"

This is hardly the place. TMI

[Laffy Kat]

139. Oops. LOL

[csziggy]

23. My husband dislikes liver and onions

So I make them for myself sometimes when he is away.

Mom made the best beef liver and caramelized onions - I have not mastered beef liver so I'll buy some chicken livers, lightly flour them, cook some bacon (if I don't have some bacon grease stashed away), cook the onions until they are sweet and brown, then saute the livers. YUM!

[madaboutharry]

13. Liver and onions.

So completely disgusting.

[Freddie]

14. Leftover chicken and gravy

On Pepperidge Farm pastry shells. I'd probably like it today (unfortunately there's no carb I won't eat) but hated it as a kid. It was the inevitable Monday night dinner following the Sunday roast chicken.
Grandma forced Mom to eat liver, therefore Mom never cooked it. Thanks Grandma!

[woodsprite]

20. Family story...

My mother was sick in bed and brother was on antibiotics so my dad was in charge of giving him his meds. He wouldn't swallow pills, so my dad put them in the "butterscotch pudding" cooling on the stove, then couldn't understand why he fussed. It wasn't pudding. Dad had given him his meds in a tablespoon of cold chicken gravy.

[woodsprite]

15. Liver and onions!

And sometimes breakfast of cornmeal mush.

[CanSocDem]

16. Hey,"liver" ain't bad...

...if you don't overcook it. Leave some pink in the middle. Tastes like filet mignon!


.

[left-of-center2012]

17. Exactly

Found a recipe that works well.

Soak in milk for 20 minutes (don't know why)
Pat dry, and flour both sides.
Fry in butter for 3 minutes per side.

The center is pink and the liver practically melts in your mouth.

Goes well with sauted onions.

People who say liver is like shoe leather don't know how to cook it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

36. Instead of flour, I bet crushed Corn Flakes would be great! nt

However, the liver'n'onions I remember was like shoe leather, but didn't taste as good as leather.

[left-of-center2012]

43. Maybe ...

If you want a crunchy exterior.

[woodsprite]

21. My mom or gmom must not have known how to cook it then,

Because it was always really dry and resembled shoe leather.

[CanSocDem]

22. Sorry to be the one...

...that breaks it to ya, but my mom didn't know how to cook it either. It's a well-kept secret. I had to be convinced later in life.

And I haven't even mentioned the nutritional value of liver.


.

[left-of-center2012]

44. I learned when I grew up ...

My mom wasn't a good cook.

[BeyondGeography]

59. Correct; I was a 60s overcooked liver victim

then I ordered the sautéed chicken livers at La Caridad, a Cuban-Chinese place on the Upper West Side in NY when I worked nearby in the 80s (miraculously, since so many affordable restaurants like that have vanished, the place is still there). All I can say is if you still don't like liver after that, it might be mental. Sinfully good.

[CanSocDem]

62. Speaking of "chicken livers"...

...another great delicacy, the first time I had those was at a Japanese restaurant where they cook it in front of you. I ate all sorts of weird stuff in that setting, that I wouldn't have touched if cooked by my mother.

Clearly, a dislike of "liver" IS mental. I personally don't like the feel or look of raw liver but I can get past that because of the taste.


.

[happy feet]

24. Liver, navy pea bean soup, Lima beans

In the days when we couldn't leave table until we cleaned our plates. Still don't like.

[Iggo]

39. Shit, poison, and dirt.

[csziggy]

25. I pretty much loved everything my Mom cooked

But she was a brilliant cook. There might have been a few bad meals over the years but they were ones no one ate and not a special dislike of mine.

[smirkymonkey]

154. Same here, my mom was a really good cook and I liked almost everything.

The only things I hated were having to drink milk w/ meals and I wouldn't touch any fat on the meat we were served so I would cut the center out of pork chops and steaks on bones so I wouldn't have to eat any of the fat. My dad would be a good sport sometimes and drink my milk and finish off the meat I didn't eat.

We always had a big garden and I loved all the garden vegetables though.

[csziggy]

156. We mostly drank water

Though in the spring we would drink RC Cola. They had a promotion that for X number of bottle caps you could get into the local theater for matinees over the summer. My sisters and I would work to have bags of their bottle caps by hte time school got out.

One year my birthday party was taking a bunch of my friends to the matinee, all paid for with bottle caps. Awesome on one level, embarrassing on another!

[Guilded Lilly]

26. I'd have to stand in line with the liver and onion haters.

[Sophiegirl]

27. Boiled okra

I love it deep fried, but the slimy nature of boiled okra makes me gag just thinking about it.

[yellowdogintexas]

167. snakes in a bowl, all right. nt

[syringis]

28. Spinach !!!

I truly hate spinach.

I don't know why. I love almost every vegetable but spinach.

There is an exception : raw, young leaves in a salad. But not too often, about once or 2 times in the year.

[pansypoo53219]

78. iused to like spinach. then my grandma had me try her spinach souflet & i hate eggs.

GAG! only raw spinach. baby spinach. no cooked greens ever.

[syringis]

94. I don't hate eggs but not very fond of...

A spinach souffle???

It was probably a punishment...you must have been very bad that day !

[pansypoo53219]

123. no. she just loved that crap. just try THIS. FAIL!

[montana_hazeleyes]

84. I was trying to think of something and this post reminded me.

I like spinach in its normal form, but one time, in the 1950s my mom made "creamed spinach".
All of us kids (five) took one bite and went EEEEWWWWW!. It was horrid. LOL

We talked about that for years and years.

[syringis]

93. Creamy spinach...

Yuk !

Here (Belgium), most of the time, it is the way spinach are prepared.

To me, it looks like a green vomit...

I also hate all kind of raw fish or meat.

It reminds me something funny : steak tartare is called "américain préparé" here. Which literally means : prepared American...

Don't worry, Americans are safe in Belgium. We don't chase lost tourists thru our towns to mince and eat them dressed with mayonnaise, capers,...

I have no idea from where come from the name.

[montana_hazeleyes]

98. Love your funny story!

[CTyankee]

111. I was amazed when I visited Brussels and saw everybody walking down the street eating

your waffles out of a little plastic bag with powdered sugar on them. Is it out of pure habit that they do this? New Yorkers do this to some extent, but you guys must REALLY love your waffles. People in this country eat round waffles for breakfast.

[syringis]

117. Waffles are very popular indeed :-)

It is one of the most iconic pastry of Belgian bakery.

There is more than 600 recipes. In a country that is so small that you can put it in corner of one of your big States and forget it for ever.

I don't eat waffles for breakfast but yes, some do.

My favourite one is the Brussel's waffle. It is a big one with large holes, very light (no sugar, no milk, not much butter), a little crunchy. It must be eaten hot, as soon as it come out of the waffle maker.

You can put sugar on or fruits or what you like. I love it with fresh strawberries and a little chantilly.

It is an old photo but it gives you an idea (I'm an awful photograph)

My big passion is cooking and baking.



Waffle makers have different molds depending of which kind of waffles you make. There are other molds, not only those on the pic.

Waffles are taken very seriously here

[CTyankee]

118. my god, those look yummy. Now I'm craving them....

[syringis]

119. I can translate the recipe if you want

It is a very simple recipe.

I just have to convert from metric system to yours. For safety, I'll put the metric measures too...

[CTyankee]

120. Sorry, I gave up cooking (except basics) a while back...

getting too old, too much arthritis to stand for long, etc...

But you are a sweetheart for offering the recipe.

I'll bet your recipe would be wildly popular in DU's Cooking and Baking section! Be sure to add that picture!

[syringis]

122. I have a lot of recipes with pics

I will haunt the cooking section for sure

Pies are another Belgian speciality. Here is one with fruits and a sable pastry base with a thin layer of custard under the fruits.



And a appetizer I do love in summer. A melon salad with shrimps :



I'll stop here, I'm definitly of topic...

[pansypoo53219]

124. sushi is BAIT!

[syringis]

125. you love sushi?

I can't eat raw meat or raw fish. No way...

[pansypoo53219]

127. VERY ANTI SUSHI. not food. its for catching fish to COOK.

[Denis 11]

129. I love creamed spinach

Didn't care for liver as a child, but 40 years later I may give it another chance.

[TexasBushwhacker]

108. Always loved spinach, just not canned

I prefer fresh in salads or frozen when used as a side dish. Just a little butter with a squeeze of lemon is great, but I had Saag Paneer at an Indian restaurant the other day and it was delish.

[syringis]

128. I still try once a year but...

...I'm about to definitly give up.

Really tried but cooked spinach...

I'll give a try to your recipe, maybe...

[Miles Archer]

29. Oh hell, THANK YOU for making me REMEMBER this one.

The pain, the pain.

My mother made this stovetop casserole thing once a week. The stuff I actually liked made it onto the couple times a month menu, but this one...THIS ONE...was guaranteed once a week, like clockwork.

She browned pork chops in a frying pan. She added potato wedges, canned string beans, and a can of tomatoes.

The pork chops were always dry, like shoe leather, and without any flavor at all. The tomatoes held onto 100% of their acidity. The potato wedges ended up halfway cooked and tasted waxy. The string beans had a strong, overpowering "canned" metal taste, which imparted itself to everything else in the dish.

And I was raised in the days when you did not comment on the food your mom put in front of you, unless it was something like "yum."

ANY time I see ANY of the four ingredients of this casserole, I am immediately transported back to that dinner table.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

30. Meal? Right...

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulfuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'

(Stolen from Monty Python; "The 4 Yorkshiremen.&quot

[Iggo]

38. Reminds me of something I read recently.

I think it was one of those Immigrant Parents thingies.

Immigrant Parent: How old are you?

Child of Immigrant Parent: 15.

Immigrant Parent: When I was your age I was 16.

(How do you argue with that? )

[MLAA]

71. Hilarious! First time I've heard that one.

[Madam Mossfern]

32. I didn't detest anything

I even like liver and onions. My mom wasn't a fantastic cook, but not horrible either.
What did irk me is that she insisted that we have bread at every meal...the white pasty kind.

On weekends we were treated to bagels and bakery rye or pumpernickel.

[Major Nikon]

33. Salmon loaf

My mom made a sort of meat loaf with canned salmon. She was a horrible cook and most everything she made was inedible. Fortunately my dad did most of the cooking. We didn't have to eat anything that was served, but we were forbidden from complaining about it and we didn't get anything else.

[crazycatlady]

34. Chicken cooked in Cream of crap soup

It was specifically cream of mushroom and cream of celery. I loathe mushrooms and celery.

My mom had a cookbook called "365 ways to cook chicken" and the only time she ever used that book was to cook that dish.

Also the only veggies we were served were raw carrots and raw cucumbers. Carrots I LOVE cooked (I don't like crunchy things) and to this day the smell of cucumbers makes me gag.

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. Johnnycake casserole

Ground beef and peas topped with cornbread. I just hated it but would choke it down when mom made it. But then she was going to make it on my birthday and I just lost it. I told her I hated it and then she burst into tears. It was awful.

But then she made lasagna.

[Iggo]

37. Liver.

Hate the taste of it.
Hate the smell of it.
Hate the sight of it.

[yallerdawg]

40. Canned peas.

My mother insisted I couldn't leave the table until they were gone off my plate. It took hours when she wasn't watching me like a hawk to line them up under my plate or flick them around the room until they were "gone." When I had to eat them, I gagged and retched.

A couple decades later, I tried out my learned parental skills on my daughter.

What kid won't eat "grilled cheese w/ Campbell's tomato soup - with crackers?" Seriously!

I begged, cajoled, negotiated, and finally got her to try a spoonful. She immediately barfed all over the kitchen table in the most appalling and shocking way! I never did THAT again, believe me!

Years later, I don't eat peas and my daughter don't eat tomato soup. Some food things just are.

[meow2u3]

41. One meal that still makes me puke after all these years

Liver and onions; canned yams; and canned spinach. I was served this when I was at a residential treatment center at age 11 and it still makes me retch even thinking about it!

[shenmue]

45. Eggs

Never been an egg person.

[Flaleftist]

46. I can't think of a single thing.

I am not a picky eater.

[Generic Brad]

48. Canned asparagus

It was mushy and limp. They tried to pass it off as green beans.

But I knew, man. I knew.

[forgotmylogin]

58. They tried that with me too!

I finally learned later in life, I like fresh asparagus, gently sauteed, not canned.

Same with spinach. I'll eat a whole salad of raw baby spinach greens, but the stuff from the can is pretty much what comes out when you unclog your gutters or a drain pipe.

And bell peppers - crispy raw, or lightly stir-fried, not cooked down to a slime.

[becca da bakkah]

50. My Mother Wasn't a BAD Cook....

....she had a few dishes she did well. Her fried chicken was really great. But she didn't really enjoy cooking, like my sister and I do. She just wanted to get it done and out of the kitchen. So she resorted to canned vegetables as a side dish. I think I was an adult before I tasted a fresh vegetable, other than tomatoes on sandwiches, or onions. I didn't know what broccoli, cauliflower, or asparagus was, until I got married.

Worse thing I ever tasted, to this day it makes me shudder, was canned butter beans. Gray glop in a tan gravy. Disgusting! Another was canned creamed corn. Mom would serve fish sticks with potato chips, and call it..."fish & chips!"

Whenever one of us would gag at her cooking, she'd tell us, "well, you don't know what's good!" Yeah? And neither do you, apparently!? Shame, too, because her mom, my maternal grandmother, was a fantastic cook.

[samnsara]

52. pickled pigs feet! I can still taste them...but i liked them then.

[applegrove]

54. Liver and onions. I liked the bacon but have not been near liver since.

[C_U_L8R]

56. Swanson's TV Dinners

No, wait. We loved TV dinners !!

It's liver we hated.

[Mr.Bill]

65. The TV dinners were good because each person could have what they wanted.

But the novelty wore off quick. Both of my parents were pretty good cooks, and those early Swanson TV dinners were not very good in comparison.

[Freddie]

83. Loved Swanson TV dinners!

The fried chicken...back when they were still in aluminum trays and the mashed potatoes would get a little brown on the bottom...mmmm. One of the best things mom made.

[forgotmylogin]

57. Skroodles and Stewed Tomatoes

Mom's famous can of stewed tomato lumps mixed with a brand of rotini pasta.

I hate tomatoes. I finally convinced her to remember to set some plain pasta aside for me beforehand to eat on its own.

Oh, and cooked cabbage. Bleah. I still prefer to be off the premises if people cook cabbage or sauerkraut. My dad told me stories about how his family would fight for the last piece because it was "so good". I'm sure I would have starved.

[The empressof all]

60. Kishka....

OMG the stench....Just the thought makes me gag a little...

She usually served it with fried eggs, tomatoes and toast. Sometimes it was for Sunday Breakfast but she would occasionally do it for dinner.....Ugh

[CTyankee]

61. chicken fried steak.

yes, I grew up in Texas (Big D). In fact, I'm a 3rd generation Texan...

[Dave Starsky]

149. Yankee!

How dare you!

[ailsagirl]

63. I liked most everything

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... except certain vegetables (Brussels sprouts, broccoli, green beans)

and Neapolitan ice cream

[Tree-Hugger]

66. Shepherd's Pie. Sloppy Joes

I can't stand either of them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

67. Liver and onions, and Brussels sprouts.

Couldn't stand that stuff then; can't stand it now.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

68. My mother was a prodigious cook of "comfort food" and...

... I'm not really impressed with it. Most of the restaurants that serve it, like Cracker Barrel, don't make it nearly as tasty as my late-mother anyway.

Mom didn't make too much stuff that I hated. It was mostly food that I was willing to eat.

She'd serve sauerkraut for New Year's and maybe a couple other times each year. That's about the only "family food" that I still don't like.

I couldn't eat bacon for many years because I was "burnt out" from eating it during childhood breakfasts.

Side story:
Tony Hall, former US Congressman (D), visited our house when I was a kid in the 70's. It might've been during his first-ever US Congressional race. That was back when politicians were more likely to seek votes door-to-door. His eyes bulged out when he saw all the food on our table! The dinner table was loaded with food because it was like Thanksgiving all-year-round at our house. Mom begged him to sit down and join us, but he hesitantly resisted after licking his lips. He felt a greater need to knock on more doors. (By the way, my mother was poor during the Great Depression and she often went to bed hungry. I think that's why she put so much emphasis on food when she was older. Food was her main priority as a parent.)

[crazycatlady]

73. politicians still seek votes door to door

(I've accompanied many on doors as well as cut their lists).

[k8conant]

69. Strawberries and raisins...

Ugh--to the god-awful taste and smell of strawberries (and raspberries) and the horrible make-me-want-to-vomit taste of raisins.

Please pass the liver and onions! Yum.

[Paladin]

70. Salmon croquettes, made with cheap canned salmon. Yuck. (nt)

[pansypoo53219]

75. frozen broccoli. we developed awesome aim hitting the garbage.

i took over cooking around 12. latch key kid. so, better off. except one thing my brother + i agree on. mom tried a recipe from the daily paper. crockpot thing w/ pork + apples. mom had her mom's skills. bland. no flair. we still get flash backs + pork + apples w/ NEVER be mixed together again.

[Turbineguy]

79. Beets.

Peeled, sliced, boiled.

If my Wife and I would have had a pre-nup, that would have been in there.

[pangaia]

80. Lima beans

Oh,, white bread..

[Frustratedlady]

85. Turnips!

Once a year, Mom would fix mashed turnips thinking we wouldn't catch on that they weren't mashed potatoes. I loved mashed potatoes, but when I got a whiff of something that was NOT potatoes, I knew she'd tried to pass off turnips. She didn't make us eat the turnips, but got a chuckle that she'd fooled us again.

Mom was a great cook and there weren't many dishes I didn't like, but I do have to agree with the liver and onions. Gag! I also passed on cooked spinach and those darned turnips.

[spooky3]

87. Tuna casserole n/t

[kairos12]

88. Captain Crunch.

[True Dough]

95. That was a family tradition?

Everyone gathered around the table, crunching on that rock-hard cereal in deafening fashion?




Seriously, that cereal always tore up the inside of my mouth.

[Dave Starsky]

150. Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch is the Food of the Gods.

Regular Cap'n Crunch is like eating delicious sugar-sweetened razor blades.

[LyndaG]

90. Lentil Soup

My fathers favorite comfort food, along with pasta Faglioli.

[murielm99]

113. I hate lentil soup, too! And tuna casserole!

But I really despise tuna casserole. My mother started making it when my dad's work went on strike. She was convinced that we needed to eat that stuff in order to save money. It was cooked noodles, a can of tuna, a can of cream of mushroom soup all thrown into the oven and baked until it was dry as dust. Sometimes she would throw in a can of peas or put corn flakes on the top.

I can't eat tuna casserole for anything. I like tuna sandwiches, though.

[Texasgal]

91. Salmon Patties

Canned salmon mixed with bread crumbs and eggs, shaped into patties and fried. Bleh! Cannot eat Salmon to this day!

[Freddie]

109. Salmon story

My church has a ladies tea every year and people make cute little finger sandwiches. So I took one thinking it was tuna. It was salmon. Then I bit into something hard and thought maybe the little toothpick holding the sandwich together somehow got inside of it. It was a BONE the size of a toothpick. There goes the appetite.

[NeoGreen]

92. Aspic...

...for large summer family gatherings my grandmother would make it with plain tomato soup and fill the center of the gelatinous ring with cottage cheese, cover it in saran wrap and then place it under the back window of her 64 Biscayne and drive to my aunts.

By the time it reached the picnic table, it was indescribable.

I retched the first time I was forced to try it...I'm retching a little bit now.

I wish I would have been offered liver and onions.

[NNadir]

97. Meat.

[CanSocDem]

99. In the spirit of eating what's put before you...

... this is a great movie about 'comfort food'.

[Binkie The Clown]

101. Liver and onions. My dad loved it. I couldn't gag it down. nt

[rzemanfl]

132. +1 n/t.

[tymorial]

102. How dare you insult steamers and mussels!

Now that I've got out of the way...

My dad makes macaroni and cheese from scratch with spam.

[True Dough]

106. Thanks for helping to prove my point!

"Steamers" are what should come out several hours AFTER a meal!

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

103. Liver lover here .... didnt care for Mom's version of an "omelet" though which was

beaten egg cooked to the consistency and toughness of foam rubber - about an inch or two thick - with cut up weiners in it and velveta grated on top. Taste + texture = yuck.

Liked her Liver Lyonnaise though - with potatoes, onions, cream of celery soup etc.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

105. 1. Beef tongue. 2. Liver. 3. Frozen Spinich.

[True Dough]

107. I've never eaten the tongue of anything

Can't imagine I ever will. Brains or eyeballs either. Definitely no-nos!

[CountAllVotes]

116. +1,000 !!

... n/t !!!

[hunter]

165. Yes, beef tongue. It was cheaper then 30%+ fat ground beef then.

My parents always acted like tongue was a treat because it was beef!

Our freezer was always full of ocean fish my dad caught, and later fish us kids had caught fishing with him. My dad and a couple of my brothers have a million ways to serve fish. I like fish, especially the stronger fish like mackerel. Olive oil and fish are perfect.

My dad thought fried chicken livers were a treat, he still does, but he didn't inflict them on the rest of us.

I like many of the things people are complaining about in this thread, including Lima bean soups. (My wife hates Lima beans.)

Okay, I thought of another horrible thing besides tongue...

We used to go to to San Diego in the summer to visit family. The adults would cook fish and drink and tell increasingly grandiose stories and it was noisy and cheerful and we kids would fall asleep to that. In the morning, as a "treat," we'd go for breakfast at this hole-in-the wall place that, I swear, served scrambled eggs made from powder, canned beans, awful white bread toast, and bacon that didn't taste right. It was just as I imagine Army or Navy food was like during World War II or Korea. The attraction of the place, I discerned later, was they served a hell of a Bloody Mary that may have been vodka and Tabasco sauce with a dash of tomato juice, so maybe the adults couldn't actually taste the food, their mouths on fire. But no, I do not want to eat breakfasts like that ever again.

[Snackshack]

126. Beef...

Tongue stew...

Lasagna.

I still like the lasagna not the stew so much.

[Shrike47]

130. I was a very picky eater (still am) and I hated fried eggs (still do). Mom loved them.

[iamateacher]

131. "Eggnog"

Raw eggs beaten in milk with sugar and nutmeg. Also soft boiled eggs. To this day I will not eat plain eggs.
My husband says canned asparagus.

[northoftheborder]

133. breakfast oatmeal

Yuck forever!

[aka-chmeee]

134. That's a tough one!

I can't remember anything that I didn't like (and that could be that there wasn't anything I was allowed to dislike). Mom never served them but haven't been able to generate any enthusiasm for Brussels Sprouts in my adult life.

[True Dough]

135. Nice sig! n/t

[aka-chmeee]

136. TNX. My first effort at making a .gif nt

[VigilantG]

137. Potato Cabbage Soup

My mom is Polish, so at least my favorites were pierogis and cabbage rolls!

But the soup was just awful! I always got grounded for not eating it and trying to hide it in my napkin.

[lindysalsagal]

138. TUNA NOODLE CASSEROLE.

Trauma.

[mockmonkey]

140. Liver also

I hate Liver. We used to use it to catch crayfish but we didn't eat them we just caught them.

My Mom liked to make Rice-a-Roni with Chicken Gizzards and I could eat that then but I never would do it now. I also hated when she made Sauerkraut. I don't get the appeal of it.

[mikeargo]

141. Moussaka

This little Greek boy just couldn't gag it down. Still can't.

[diva77]

142. Although I love artichokes, I always seemed to get the one with a worm in it when I was a kid

--as soon as I arrived at the worm, I would be so grossed out I'd have to leave the table...


...haven't seen a worm in one in years though - thanks to all those pesticides!!

[True Dough]

144. Yay pesticides!

^ I'm green because of them!

[diva77]

145. Green? Better have your liver examined. LOL!!

[Glamrock]

143. Cabbage and noodles

[MissB]

146. Mom was a pretty good cook.

We didn't have a heck of a lot of processed food- she made most meals from scratch. When she divorced dad, meals were still from scratch but I remember eating a lot more potatoes. The dog had prime rib (leftovers from her job at a high end restaurant.)

Her idea of canned food involved pressure canning.

I mostly cook from scratch too, but I also embrace a few quick meals from Trader Joe's.

[DiverDave]

147. Sweet potatoes

I used to have to sit and stare at those disgusting things for hours.
Fell asleep a couple of times.
Never did have to finish one, mom gave up trying to get me to eat them.
Still dont eat them today...yuck.

[pat_k]

151. Another victim of childhood liver abuse

[Ohiya]

152. Another vote for...

...meatloaf

[raging moderate]

153. Kraft Dinner.

My little brother and I were sometimes the people who found the additional penny needed before we could run to the store and get it.
We did usually have a small amount of canned green beans and lettuce and tomato with it.

I know that real macaroni is NOT cheaper, because we sometimes had real macaroni when we had the money for it.

[PufPuf23]

158. Beef tongue and beef liver.

My Mom would cook beef tongue then slice cold and put in a sandwich. My Dad loved them. What was worse was that we had out own cows, sometimes as many as 25, usually less and sometimes only one or two that would pasture with horses. He had about 30 acres of alfalfa as almost a hobby at one time. So not only did Mom try to foist this nasty tongue but sometimes you knew the tongue by first name. Didn't bother me with steaks.

My grandmother liked liver (from those cows) and, when she cooked, she would cook liver and onions because she thought we did not eat enough liver for good health. The thought of the smell still makes me gag and she passed on in 1979.

I like many of the things folks dislike in this thread: bell peppers, lima and navy beans, spinach, okra, spinach. I think it might be because of using fresh ingredients and how prepared.

My parents were very old-fashion and rural so we had gardens, animals, canned, dried, froze, hunted, and fished, gathered wild berries and mushrooms, smoked salmon and venison or beef jerky.

We usually had good fresh food and what was preserved was not commercial.

Mom didn't do casseroles in general; some exceptions were occasional macaroni and cheese, lasagna, lasagne made with eggplant rather than pasta (yum), and what she called tamale pie (hamburger, chili, olives etc. with a corn meal upper crust). Sometimes this was a problem in other's homes or with school "food".

I also do not deer liver or venison or elk sausage. Bear is sickening. There is a local "treat" of barbeque (lamphrey) eel - greasy and to me vomit inducing. Not much of a fan of sturgeon. Like fresh salmon and other fish broiled or grilled and never in anything like a "loaf". Whenever I do cook salmon, I cook extra and have in green salads the next day. I do like most sushi but good restaurant not the prepared and sold in packs at the grocery.

I do not eat canned food except: (1) some tuna and about that very selective, the past decade this means Costco white albacore, (2) enchilada sauce for making enchiladas, (3) canned green chilis, (4) black olives, and (5) Dennison's canned chili (echo of childhood).

When a kid, had a Dinty Moore beef stew fetish and ate Vienna sausages and Mom would fry Spam with eggs or make into sandwich. Also she would make canned corn beef sandwiches I liked (sourdough, canned corn beef, mayo, mustard, tomato). But would never touch that stuff now and haven't for nearly 40 years.

Grew up picking wild mushrooms and did not like all varieties or ways prepared. Loved the tanoak (matusake) and morels. Particularly disliked the coral mushrooms Mom would put in salad to be picked out. Didn't like the pickled wild mushrooms either. I still do pick matusakes and morels.

[fleur-de-lisa]

159. Beet and Egg Salad

Canned beets, boiled eggs, mayonnaise . . . nasty stuff, though I must admit when it was all mixed together it was a very pretty shade of magenta. But nasty!

[shanti]

161. Liver #1

Dad didn't like onions, so mom cooked it with bacon. the smell and texture...still was disgusting, even with bacon. i haven't had any liver since i moved out of the house at 18, and i'm 61.

also, when mom cooked fried oysters, i got to opt out thankfully, yuk!

[Tikki]

162. Both the Mr. and I have a short time period in our youth (the 50's)where our Mothers..

we're away from home, from the region.

His Dad would throw together oatmeal, raisins and tuna in a casserole
dish and bake till luke-warm.

My Father made chicken pieces in a baking dish...cooked to a nice bloody gleam.

We both survived, but are both better cooks then any of our parents, for sure.

The Tikkis

[jarhead69]

163. Bologna

Back in the 50's my dad went on strike after a couple months the strike was running low.The family was eating bologna, potatoes, and pinto beans. The smell of frying bologna still makes me sick.

[True Dough]

164. It was just the opposite with my pops

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He didn't make us eat it, but he would fry some up for himself because he loved it, especially sliced thinly and for the edges to be crisp. I didn't mind it. A small piece now and again was all right. It if became a staple for us, I could see where you're coming from.

By the way, welcome to the DU!

[BainsBane]

166. Egg fu young

With soy gravy