One thing you were made to eat as a child you won't look at now

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Stewed tomatoes. I still can’t touch a tomato unless it is pulverized into paste/sauce. When we went to my aunt’s in South Philly she always made mashed potatoes (yum), chicken cutlets (yum), biscuits (yum), green beans (yum) and. . .stewed tomatoes. And I would always have to eat ONE spoonful. . .and I would always throw up. After a while I learned to eat the tomatoes, throw up, and then have the rest of the food instead of having the good stuff and then. . .ahem. . .‘losing’ it. I honestly tried; I used to cry my eyes out and I swore I didn’t mean to get sick, but every single time. . .

In fact, I never ate pizza until I was 18 years old and in Vermont because pizza places in Philly made their pizza sauce with crushed or stewed tomatoes and. . .well, you guessed it. In Vermont they made SMOOTH sauce. I haven’t been back to taste Philly pizza but that’s OK, I make my own anyway now.
 
Stewed prunes - I really do not like them.

But, worst of all for me was porridge. One day when I was about 4 years old I was sick in bed and the household helper we had at that time thought it would be very nice for me to eat a bowl of porridge with hot milk on it. Well, she shoveled it down by throat and I promptly gave it right back to her - all over the bed!

As a result of that experience I cannot stomach porridge, semolina, tapioca or rice pudding! Even today (I am now 65) the thought, much less the smell, of any of those yucky foods makes me gag! I do not like hot milk either. :mad:
 
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the ever hateful and hated chipped beef on toast! Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! It looked like throw up, smelled like throw up and made me throw up! I’ll never eat any more of that again in my life–not even to save my life! Ick! Ick! Ick!
 
redtech said:
As I said earlier, my parents didn’t force us to eat anything but here are some things they made that I refused to even taste based on the smell and still (30 years old) have never tried…

Saurkraut
Stuffed Peppers
Boiled cabbage
Brussel sprouts

Mom also used to make salmon patties which really stink! I used to eat them when I was little until I found bones in it. My mom said it was ok to eat them because they broke apart really easy… :dts: That’s about when I stopped believing everything my mom said. I don’t care if they DO break apart, they’re still BONES!
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Send my the Brussel Sprouts!!! I just love those too!!!
 
liver
soft boiled eggs (I really don’t eat any eggs, to this day, due to being forced to have soft boiled eggs for breakfast regularly…blecchhh!)
sauerkraut
most fish (I like snow crab, scallops, swordfish and shrimp, but my mother was utterly disgusted by all seafood, and likely allergic to it. She would toss clams into a pot to steam on Friday night, for my dad, and then flee the room…I think I inherited her revulsion)
macaroni and cheese
canned vegetables
some fresh fruits and vegetables (I have issues with texture…I can drink orange juice, but don’t like the texture of oranges, dislike pineapples)

My mom cooked pretty plain but tasty meals, and we were pretty much “meat and potatoes” folks. I never tasted Mexican or Chinese food until I was in my early twenties, as we simply never had it. I was 25 before I had a fried shrimp - the first seafood I’d ever tasted. What a sheltered culinary life I led!
 
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mercygate:
Put broccoli flowerets into water heated to a rolling boil. Six minutes. Drain and serve.

You can take it out at 4 minutes and toss in olive oil over medium heat in a skillet with loads of pressed garlic. Sprinkle with Kosher salt before serving.

Yes. Melt some butter over it and add a little salt. SO good. Alternately, you can toss it with the olive oil, salt, and pepper, and roast it at 375 for about 15 minutes. This also works with Brussels sprouts, although the roasting takes longer.
 
Della said:
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the ever hateful and hated chipped beef on toast! Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! It looked like throw up, smelled like throw up and made me throw up! I’ll never eat any more of that again in my life–not even to save my life! Ick! Ick! Ick!
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If my dad made it- and he did some of the cooking when my mother worked nights for 2 1/2 years- then I would agree with you. It was made with the salty old Amour dried beef in a jar and “soppy” cream gravy recipe from Southern Illinois, served on dried, dark toast. It dried in the skillet and looked icky. It never seemed to make it to the toast before it curdled.

But if my mother made chipped beef on toast- the dried beef was either soaked to remove the salt, or it was hamburger or Budding Beef. She made a roux that included cheese if it was around the house. She added enough milk to the roux, and did not watch TV while she made it (TV was in the next room). She served it on toast, but the toast was not charcoal, and it was buttered in every nook and cranny.
 
Willsfirecracke said:
Lima Beans, brussel sprouts and veggie burgers :dts:
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LOL! How funny. I actually like brussel sprouts…I have learned to sautee them now, instead of boil them…which causes them to be quite bitter. Lima beans I agree with too!😃
 
Della said:
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the ever hateful and hated chipped beef on toast! Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! It looked like throw up, smelled like throw up and made me throw up! I’ll never eat any more of that again in my life–not even to save my life! Ick! Ick! Ick!
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hey now…when i was a kid that was cheap eats!! What I hated was liver…ewwwwwwwww…blech…

Kathy
 
Red meat!. To this day I can’t eat steak, lamb or mutton. I loved and still love fish and chicken and can tolerate pork but beef … I was the kid that loved vegetables.
Gearoidin
 
my DH grew up in the UK and threatans the kids with fish pie ans cow brains :eek: stuffed in the stomach!!! EEWWWWWW
 
My dad had a lot of foods that he just wouldn’t eat so they never got a look in on our menu. Once he found a package of frozen brussels sprouts in the freezer. He grabbed it and went outside and threw it as far as he could. They weren’t even allowed in the house after that.

The thing that they made us eat though that I never developed a taste for was sauerbraten and kartoffelklosse (potato dumplings). It was my dad’s favourite treat. You take a perfectly good roast of beef and pickle it for 3 or 4 days, then braise it. You even save some of the pickling juice to make gravy with. The entire meal is sour, I could handle the kartoffelklosse but it was the sour gravy on them that put me off. Plus, they were very difficult to get right. Too much moisture and they turned out like golf balls, too little and they fell apart. Oh, and lima beans always accompanied this dish. Another ugh. For years, my brother and I asked if we could eat at the snack bar instead but it wasn’t till we were teenagers that we were allowed to skip this meal.

My parents also had another meal they really liked that neither my brother or myself could stand. Fried Italian sausage and green peppers on a baguette. We couldn’t even stand to be in the house when it was being cooked. :eek:
 
whatevergirl said:
LOL! How funny. I actually like brussel sprouts…I have learned to sautee them now, instead of boil them…which causes them to be quite bitter. Lima beans I agree with too!😃
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LOL… my mom made me eat them once… I managed to eat two of them, but had to do it in an unladylike manner so she just quit making them. I honestly think they smell like an outhouse and probably tastes ten times worse.

My sister loves Lima beans. So i always gave them to her when my mom wasn’t looking. 😃

But im really not that picky. I grew up in a family where we really had to pinch our pennies, so i would for the most part eat whatever I was given. But I draw the line on veggie burgers, Lima beans, and brussel sprouts.😛
 
Linda_Marie said:
The thing that they made us eat though that I never developed a taste for was sauerbraten and kartoffelklosse (potato dumplings). …Plus, they were very difficult to get right. Too much moisture and they turned out like golf balls, too little and they fell apart…my DH had to eat these as a kid. He called them German Balls.

My parents also had another meal they really liked that neither my brother or myself could stand. Fried Italian sausage and green peppers on a baguette. We couldn’t even stand to be in the house when it was being cooked. :eek:This is a Chicago dish of some tastiness. Maybe you don’t do good sausage down under. They gotta be fresh, not cured. A real treat is a “beef” on french bread (baguette) with plenty of gravy (au jus) and an Italian sausage tucked in the center, plenty of peppers, maybe a little mozzerella.
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two things my mom did not serve but others in the family did, were salmon loaf and canned peas, which I could not eat then and still cannot eat. was invited to supper on Friday to the home of the new girl in school and they served: yep, plus 2 other things I still can’t stand, lime jello with shredded cabbage and carrots in it as the salad, and banana pudding for dessert. Being a good Catholic girl with a healthy load of social guilt, I gagged it down, but paid for it with intestinal distress for 2 days

was never forced to eat it, but dad and brothers would bring home deer and once bear from hunting, and maybe it was their stories of how they bagged the game, or memories of Bambi, but I just can’t manage wild game. Dad made German dish one year, forget the name, basically pickled venison, the smell was absolutely ghastly and I smell it every time I am where this meat is being served.
 
As a kid I actually liked liver. Now I could eat it, but I’d rather not…

I love sauerkraut (I actually make my own in my 8 gallon crock in my basement every other year). I can several quart jars worth and we eat it with brats, pork ribs, etc. Yummy!

One thing that was included in many hotdishes (I’m a Minnesotan:D ) when I was a kid was OKRA. I hated okra. It reminded me of snot balls with its slimy texture. It made me gag. I would try to be so diligent in picking the pieces of Okra out, but I would invariably miss a few… gag.

Blood pudding or blood sausage (made with duck blood) (My grandma was a hearty German). Gag.
 
whatevergirl said:
LOL! How funny. I actually like brussel sprouts…I have learned to sautee them now, instead of boil them…which causes them to be quite bitter. Lima beans I agree with too!😃
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Seriously- if you haven’t tried roasting the brussels sprouts, you’re in for a treat. Clean them as you usually would and cut them in half, then toss in enough olive oil to coat and salt+pepper to taste. Then single-layer them on a baking sheet and roast 15 min. at 375 F. Shake or stir the pan then roast for another 15 min. These are so, so good- browned and a little crunchy on the outside, soft but not mushy on the inside.

I only like lima beans in soup. I always hated having to eat them plain as a side dish. Blech.
 
SeekerJen said:
Seriously- if you haven’t tried roasting the brussels sprouts, you’re in for a treat. Clean them as you usually would .
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If I did that, I would be taking them out of the package and throwing the whole thing in the trash, so you better tell me how you clean them. This food is so gross I had blocked it from my memory. Have tried them, roast, fried with bacon, steamed, drowning in garlic butter, every which way but loose and the answer is still NO.

just made a very veggie spaghetti sauce, guess what I threw in, yep, a small can of drained baby lima beans. still felt them as I chewed but not too bad, and I wanted some protein in there. I once tried pureeing beans and adding that to sauce, my family detected it instantly and my kids will not eat sauce I serve unless they see me open the Ragu, pour it in a pan, heat and serve.
 
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