Eat It Up It'll Do You Good!

TheScribbler

We all remember this fearsome phrase from our childhood, whether delivered by an 'evil aunt/great aunt,' a schoolmate's parent who was the worst cook in the street, or the monitor who supervised school meals. Yes we have all suffered the trauma of having to eat things we loathed/hated/detested, some of which made us feel sick (perhaps to this very day).

So what things did you detest on your plate since you were young enough to eat for yourself, and why? Come on 'spill the beans' (pardon the pun). To kick start this thread on food loathing, I will share with you some of my own pet hates:

1. Brussels sprouts - I always hated the taste of them and even at Christmas dinner tried to palm them off on my brother

2. My aunt's carrots - they tasted like string and looked like brown twigs when she had boiled them to oblivion

3. Shell food - used to make me vomit until I realised in later years that I had an allergy to them

4. Really smelly cheeses - you know the type - those that you could smell through a bank vault three miles away but that could run across the plate at you

5. Fish pie the way my aunt used to make it - complete with the full complement of bones (nuff said)

6. Yoghurt - I could never stand the stuff - always seem to task like fruit in milky vinegar

7. Vinegar on anything (especially chips)

8. Hershey's chocolate - I am sure it is wonderful and nutritious but it just tasted like sick to me

9. Porridge made at boarding school - lumpy, salty, grey goo that had been boiling overnight. Dreadful.

10. My granny's kitchen that always smelt like overboiled potatoes laced in carbollic soap

georgem25

1. Mushy peas - many a Sunday afternoon spent staring at my plate not able to eat them. Eventually my mother stopped giving them to me so my brother would hide them in my dinner - yuk :eek: I still gag at the thought of eating them!!

2. Turnip - I can tolerate them now.

3. Parnips - I can tolerate them now.

4. Ready brek - hated it as a child.

5. Chocolate flavoured yoghurt (the only flavour my brother ate!!)

TheScribbler

I echo your view on turnips/swedes and parsnips. They assumed the same characteristic as carrots when the bejasus was boiled out of them. Yukk. Ironically I liked semolina which was much like Ready Brek, desopite getting it every sunday at school.

Silverside beef was another no...no...

ghost_ie

Mince without enough Bisto added to turn it from grey to brown - and watery to boot (my mother was NOT a good cook)
Tripe and Onions

Agricola

I liked pretty much everything that was put in front of me, that is probly why i is fat!

mudokon

Steak & Kidney pie, food should not have the aroma of p*ss. :eek:

+1 on parsnips, unless they are mashed together with carrots.

TheScribbler

Mind you when carrots have the life boiled out of them the result often smells like it

Ruu_Old

Cod liver oil.:(

dh0661

Ruu wrote: »

Cod liver oil.:(

My mam had to hide this from me, I loved it (still do) and would have drank the whole bottle.:o

Rayne

Ruu wrote: »

Cod liver oil.:(

I used to tell people my mum was trying to poison us with it. I used to take it and spit it up.... Gross!


Uncle Pat used to give us a pound if we ate our dinner because 'It'll do you good'! (You could buy SOOOO much with a pound back in the day)

- Liver
- Julia's Shepherds Pie
- Any of my granny's dinner (Just because you made it in your own kitchen does NOT mean its homemade)
Roasts... Any of them Lamb, Pork, Beef....

Fuzzy Clam

There was very little that I didn't like as a kid unless it contained onion or liver.

If mum was making Shepherds or Cottage pie, she had to make a separate small one without that evil veg just for moi. Oh, and I couldn't stomach Nutella.

I felt like an outcast at birthday parties as I hated icecream and jelly. Only liked jelly in the blocks it came in before it was diluted :-)

Tayto cheese and onion made me feel sick as a kid but love them now.

TheScribbler

Funnily enough I love liver and onions even though the rest of my family look in horror when I order it in restaurants. But what the heck, I enjoy it.

I must confess that I never went a bundle on cheese and onion crisps and I positively loathe salt and vinegar flavour.

freddyf

I tought i was the only person that tought hershey taste's like sick

bridget.laitly

TheScribbler wrote: »

8. Hershey's chocolate - I am sure it is wonderful and nutritious but it just tasted like sick to me

I grew up on the stuff, even went to the theme park every summer... had no idea how awful Hershey's was till I moved here –*I feel so betrayed!

My dad's staple dishes were either frozen pot-pies or oven-cooked hamburger patties and tots –*all doused with far too much ketchup.

*sick*

steveone

Liver, onions, mash and manky gravy every single saturday without fail. god it was hell but I had an episode of divine intervention- me da went vegetarian and banned meat from the house!!. the smell of bacon and cabbage. and I always remember being in my nanas and there must have been a banana in the press. when I opened it -jaysis the smell. it's still in my mind. remember the blue and white gingham fablon contact that they used to put on the presses... and the school books...and the melamine tables with the metal rail around the outside.. reminds me of crossroads.

Lillylilly

Ugh, liver!!

And my ma's mash potatoes were horrendous- she'd only halfass-dly mashed them so they were filled with lumps... they used to make me gag! I used to fill kitchen towel with them and dump them in the loo afterwards!

And frankfurter sausages. I hate them!

TheScribbler

My grandma boiled everything into oblivion and the veggies were dreadful torture to eat. She also used to make trifle without jelly