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

[redtech]

oh my father cooked both ways slash and sans slash (**then you get the fun dome **

fried bologna was the meat staple at my house for a lot of years… with eggs (like bacon or sausage lol) on sandwiches as you described (cept with mayo), and with a veggie.

now I can hardly imagine frying the modern plasticized bologna

Ah, the fun dome! We always put four small slashes in ours. Actually, I still eat that occasionally. It was first introduced to me by my dad when my mom was recovering from Gall Bladder surgery. He wasn’t much on cooking but he did very well that night.

 

[rayne89]

Was never made to eat anything. My dad tried to make me taste things are few times but I usually out lasted him. I was a very creative child and would just sit at the table and make up stories in my head for hours. The few times I did actually taste something I didn’t want to taste I declared it disgusting even if I liked it. No way was I giving them the satisfaction of being right after I felt I was forced into it. There were things I actually liked that I didn’t eat for years because I was made to try to them. Yes I was stubborn child.

My parents did make weird things that I never actually ate -cow tongue, pigs feet, still haven’t felt the need to try them.

There are things my mom made that I didn’t like because how she made them. There seems to be two settings on my mom’s gas range off and full blast. When we’re over my parents house while my mom cooks I am forever turning the flame down. Brocolli was one I didn’t like until I was dating my hubby. He ate brocolli raw with ranch dressing for dip -found out that was yummy. And I found out that most people don’t cook brocolli until it’s a floppy pile of mush.

My mom even says she likes her vegetables still a bit firm but she never actually cooks them that way. One time while cooking at my parents house I had to make a run to the store for something we forgot. I asked to please make sure the brocolli didn’t get over cooked while I was gone. I should have known better. She said “I turned it off” when I got home (I’m guessing when she heard my car in the driveway) but she also left them sitting in the boiling hot water and didn’t drain them so we had a pile of mushy brocolli yet again.

In my mom’s defense she makes a delicious chicken and rice dish that all my friends loved and remember to this day. It’s also my hubby’s favorite.

 

[iluvmybabies]

Now I wasn’t ever forced to eat this but my life would not be the same without it…My grandfather owned this 100 acre farm, awesome, got to enjoy the best home made foods ever!! Everything my grandmother made was made from scratch, cookies, cakes, pies, crackers, cheese, sour cream, and my favorite HOT RIGHT OFF THE COW milk!!!
I will never forget how wonderful it was to go over to my grandmother’s house and eat all of her delicious home made pastries, and dairy products, all made by her…and she passed down to my mother the exact same ability and as long as my mother lived in my grandparent’s farm and then in another farm my father had to work in, she was hooking us up with all the homemade goodies we could ask for!! YUMMY!!!

 

[Biblioassistant]

I’m the world’s most picky eater. My mother attempted to force me to eat and I refused. Sigh. I wish I wasn’t so picky.

Mostly I hate eggs. Especially hardboiled eggs. And deviled eggs. They make my stomach curdle.

 

[bluerose]

Tim McGraw “immortalized” a “fried baloney sandwich/with mayo and tomato” in one of his songs… the one that talked about how things were “back when a screw was just a screw, the wind was all that blew, and when you said ‘I’m down with that’, well, it meant you had the flu.”

I remembered something else that I was never FORCED to eat, but the smell of it cooking pretty much forced me from my house. Nopalitos (cactus paddles, parboiled, sliced and cooked with red chile sauce.) Traditional Mexican dish. When I came home from school and the smell stopped me dead out at the front gate, I knew it meant my aunt from Chihuahua was in town and that I’d be having just tortillas and beans for dinner that night (which was not a bad thing, just wish I hadn’t had to smell those nopalitos during dinner!)

 

[Alexandra]

I agree with the head cheese. My mom used to like that. Then in my teens we went on Weight Watchers and they wanted you to eat liver once a week. Gag. Those are two things I still can not eat. However as a child I couldn’t eat runny eggs or tomatoes. I wasn’t made to eat things I didn’t like, which was fine, but I stayed at my friends house one time and they had tomatoes and I said I didn’t eat them and I was told in their house you had everything that was on the table. I told them it would make me sick,(it was a texture thing) but would they listen? I ate that stupid tomato, then lost it back on to the plate and got sent to bed with no supper. Funnily enough I love tomatoes and especially BLTs. As for eggs I got started by eating them covered in ketchup until finally I took the ketchup away. Now I love runny eggs with buttered toast and fried mushrooms. Oh, and tripe! The smell of that cooking was enough to make me sick. Who in their right mind eats cow’s stomach???

 

[cthulhubryan]

Okay, I digress. lol I actually like raw cauliflower and broccoli. Why is it so horribly disgusting when it’s cooked though?

Sorry broccoli supporters. lol

Amen! Same with spinach. A good spinach salad is awesome but boil it and it becomes toxic waste.

 

[Alexandra]

Cooked spinach and okra are just slimey. ewwwwww. Thankfully mom didn’t like them so didn’t have to face them very often.

 

[cthulhubryan]

eeewwww, boiled okra. I’d forgotten about that. Now fried okra is okay.

 

[CarolAnnSFO]

I was never a very finicky eater, so I didn’t have this problem very often, but one thing I had to eat as a kid, and won’t touch now, is hamburgers made in the oven or on the stovetop. I like hamburgers cooked on a grill (a real grill, not a gas grill), and fast food hamburgers are OK, but the only way I can get an indoors-cooked burger down is to load it up with cheese and condiments, or mix lots of barbecue sauce or Italian meatball seasonings in with the meat.

Of course, I was kind of funny as a kid – I always liked vegetables better than meat. Even now, if I’m eating stew or a casserole, I’ll eat all the meat first, to get rid of it, and then enjoy the vegetables and sauce. Chinese stir fries are about the only kind of “mixed” dish where I like the meat as much as the veggies.

Final proof that I had strange tastes as a kid? My favorite childhood sandwich: blue cheese! (since I was a child, I had to have the blue cheese on soft, squishy Wonder Bread! ) I still love blue cheese.

When I was a kid, we got used to eating all kinds of unusual, “grown-up” foods – there was no such thing then as separate meals for fussy children. None of this one-meal-for-the-adults-and-chicken-tenders-or-mac-and-cheese-for-the-kids. Once you had enough teeth to chew food, if you didn’t eat what was served to everyone else, you had to wait for the next meal.

 

[whatevergirl]

Surely you like hash browns :

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The ONLY thing that we were made to eat that i didn’t like was couscous!. I just can’t stand the stuff:

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That picture on its own makes me heave a little

All it is is little watery soggy wet balls. I can’t understand why anyone would prefer it to rice

OH MY GOSH, GROSS! (not the hashbrowns, that insane second pic you posted!) :knight2:

Hashbrowns are yummy.

Too yummy. Why does everything that tastes so yummy, most likely end up not being good for you? Dontcha hate that, Magic?

 

[whatevergirl]

Amen! Same with spinach. A good spinach salad is awesome but boil it and it becomes toxic waste.

LOL–You know what is good though, is sauteeing spinach with some butter and garlic…(buy the raw spinach in the produce section)

I guess pretty much anything sauteed tastes better in the end.

 

[Jennifer_G]

My parents never forced us to eat anything. (I always thought I was so lucky compared to my friends.)

Mine always forced me.

I think #1 on the list is stewed tomatoes. Not only did I not like the taste, it came back up 5 seconds after it went down.

 

[Gwyn]

bitter gourd (karela)

I eat everything else…
Love liver, broccoli, brussel sprouts, even cow tongue, goat meat, goat feet.

Things I have never tried and will not try are tripe or snake.

Have tried chicken feet but do not care for it.

Do not force DS to eat anything but ask that he try whatever I have cooked.

 

[bluerose]

Oh, and tripe! The smell of that cooking was enough to make me sick. Who in their right mind eats cow’s stomach???

Me!!! I just LOVE me some menudo!!!

Funny thing is, as a kid, I couldn’t stand the stuff (probably the smell, I’ll give you that… still don’t like it, but I tolerate it for the end product!) I used to eat the hominy. Now, I’d rather have the tripe than the hominy. Go figure.

(BTW, I never claimed to be in my right mind, so…)

 

[juno24]

Spam and most soups. After my parents divorced my mom had to go to work to support us, and she couldn’t afford much on what she made. So there were many nights when we had either Spam, or soup made from Soup Starter. We’d have roasted chicken one night, and the left overs would go into the soup.
Spam nights were mostly when my mom had to go out and would be late for dinner. She’d leave instructions for me to make dinner and leave her some. On those nights our dog Pepper got an extra special treat in her dinner bowl. LOL! Of course, there was always a serving left for my mom. My sisters, brother and I would eat PBJ sandwiches.
To this day, I will not eat Spam (although my mother still likes it).

Once my mom made chicken noodle Soup Starter and forgot to put the chicken in. That was even nastier than usual, since the chicken was what made it edible! LOL! At that time, Soup Starter consisted of tiny diced freeze-dried vegetables, noodles or rice, and soup powder. It came in a cardboard can (like Stove Top stuffing does now). You added the meat and water. So without the chicken, it was essentially mushy noodles in watery broth. There really weren’t enough vegetables to make it a vegetable soup.
To this day, I will not willingly eat most broth-based soups. I do like stews and “chunky” style soups (although I LOVE Campbell’s Italian wedding soup), but the only way I will eat a broth based soup is to drain off most of the broth.

 

[Alexandra]

Me!!! I just LOVE me some menudo!!!

Funny thing is, as a kid, I couldn’t stand the stuff (probably the smell, I’ll give you that… still don’t like it, but I tolerate it for the end product!) I used to eat the hominy. Now, I’d rather have the tripe than the hominy. Go figure.

(BTW, I never claimed to be in my right mind, so…)

Sorry, my aversion to it made me be rude, I’m sorry.

 

[CarolinNC]

Grapes, raisins, prunes,and squash become projectile barf immediately upon being eaten.

Bread or rice pudding, yuck!!!

Milk (chocolate milk is ok, sparingly)

But I like most other things including brussels sprouts, spinach, liver, pigs feet (trotters as my Grandmother used to call them) etc.

 

[bluerose]

Sorry, my aversion to it made me be rude, I’m sorry.

'sawright!

 

[LilyM]

Some of the processed meat products - especially canned, like spam or other canned ham, blood pudding or brawn (and now that I know what head cheese is it’d probably make the list too). Most of the more normal sausages are OK though

Love liver, if it’s done right (the way my Dad does it - I’ve never been game to cook it myself in case I ruin it), kidney (especially a good steak and kidney pie or casserole) and tripe, if it’s stir fried in thin strips Asian style.

Other offal (which I haven’t tried and never want to) might get me - tongue, brains, trotters or chicken feet

Boiled spinach I have to agree, ate way too much of that growing up, athough it’s bearable if boiled and mashed together with spuds and extra-virgin olive oil poured over the top. Cauliflower and broccoli and that veg family (including cabbage) have a bit of a sulphurous smell when cooked. That doesn’t stop me liking them but I can see why especially kids, who have more sensitive noses than adults, mightn’t.

Glace cherries. What a sad sad waste of a beautiful fruit that is so divine fresh, frozen or canned. Especially GREEN glace cherries - a total abomination against nature.

Likewise candied fruit peel - except in marmalade, and even then only exceptionally good quality marmalade where the peel is properly prepared so that ALL the bitter white pith is removed.