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[hisno1girl]

Was there a food that your parents made you eat (or served all the time) when you were a kid and you refuse to eat now?

My mother packed bologna sandwiches for my dad's lunch (his favorite) and if there was some leftover, that's what she made us eat.

I wouldn't touch bologna with a 10 foot pole now.

[game blouses]

When I was young, Arby's had a 20 sandwiches for $20 deal. My dad (the would-be economist) bought SIXTY roast beef sandwiches. It took the five of us like a week of eating them for lunch and dinner. No more Arby's for me.

Also my mom used to make solid attempts at beef stroganoff, and it just wasn't tasty.

[pixelpassion]

Chicken patty sandwiches and Ellio's pizza.

ETA: oops, misread the question. I can't eat brown gravy. When I was like 8, my dad made a gross dinner one night with the food being slathered in gravy. I totally refused, and he made me eat it cold for breakfast the next morning. I still gag when I think of brown gravy. 

*Barf*

[circa1978]

Sazitza, which is basically Italian sausage.

[isabel]

Nope. I still enjoy everything my mom cooked for us as a kid. I even make a lot of her recipes from time to time. She wasn't an especially amazing cook or anything, but she was good about feeding us things we liked and not forcing us to eat stuff we didn't.

[whitemerlot]

Tuna Helper

[zoidberg]

My mom used to make us eat braunschweiger and miracle whip sandwiches. I want to barf just thinking about it. I am pretty sure this is the reason I can't abide miracle whip now.

[TC]

Honey mustard and angel hair pasta. My mom used to make this one dish with angel hair pasta that I would consistently, without fail, puke up later in the evening and she kept making it/making me eat it until like the fifth time it happened. The honey mustard is slightly more tolerable, just something I was forced to eat a lot before my palate was ready.

[luckyval]

Meatloaf made with Campbell's canned veggie soup (the kind with the pasta letters in it)

It was years before I realized there was actually a proper way to make meatloaf

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Meatloaf

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[lucky513]

tuna helper

[partiallysunny]

Potatoe pancakes

[mandymay]

Beef stew. I used to love it as a kid, but I just can't do it now.

[lime]

Pretty much everything. LOL

My parents bought a lot of cheap processed food, usually high in sodium and fat, when I was a kid. In college, I started eating much healthier.

The thing I find mildly ironic is my parents eventually ended up eating the way I do.

[AmeliaBedelia]

Fish sticks.

My parents never really made it for me, but if they were out and we had a babysitter, that's what they directed the babysitter to make. EW.

[looseseal]

My mom used to get these beef and chicken pot pie/stew things from the Schwan man. I didn't think they were very good, but she would serve them about once a week. I still don't care for pot pie, but maybe a well made one would change my mind. It's been 25 years, though, and it still doesn't sound appealing.

[blueballoon]

Nope. I'm not a picky eater.

[TrickyBob]

Pancakes.

Every Sunday morning without fail when growing up.

[shell24]

Jan 27, 2014 21:02:52 GMT -5 isabel said:

Nope. I still enjoy everything my mom cooked for us as a kid. I even make a lot of her recipes from time to time. She wasn't an especially amazing cook or anything, but she was good about feeding us things we liked and not forcing us to eat stuff we didn't.

My mom was the same way.  It helps that I'm an only child and my parents were divorced.  She pretty much made what I liked LOL  

However, I "blame" her for all my food issues as an adult.  I don't eat very much variety and hate trying new things.  I really hope I don't pass that on to my kids, and therefore make a lot of meals that I myself wouldn't eat to try to get them to eat!  

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Calves liver and kidneys
Goulash
Rarebit
Salmon loaf
Cube steak
Beef chow mien
Beef stew

[meganew]

Jan 27, 2014 19:59:13 GMT -5 pixelpassion said:

Chicken patty sandwiches and Ellio's pizza.

ETA: oops, misread the question. I can't eat brown gravy. When I was like 8, my dad made a gross dinner one night with the food being slathered in gravy. I totally refused, and he made me eat it cold for breakfast the next morning. I still gag when I think of brown gravy. 

*Barf*

Damn it. Now I want brown gravy. Hmmm, I have a packet in my cabinets...

[FastHands]

Jan 27, 2014 21:06:11 GMT -5 zoidberg said:

My mom used to make us eat braunschweiger and miracle whip sandwiches. I want to barf just thinking about it. I am pretty sure this is the reason I can't abide miracle whip now.

Omg, *gag*
I feel less justified in my hatred of the Whip because my only reason to loathe it is that it's fucking gross.

[mskitkat]

Hamburger Helper and Tuna Helper. Ugh.

[penelope]

Manwich sloppy joes. I hate all sloppy joes now.

Potatoes. My dad used to eat them with every dinner. We used to have boiled potatoes with nothing on them sometimes. Just plain, boiled spuds.

[elleblue]

Jan 27, 2014 21:08:23 GMT -5 luckyval said:

Meatloaf made with Campbell's canned veggie soup (the kind with the pasta letters in it)

It was years before I realized there was actually a proper way to make meatloaf

What? I don't understand how soup could be turned into meatloaf. 

[DotAndBuzz]

Spanish Rice. Whatever the eff that is. Rice with tomato juice and peppers, or something? I don't know exactly, but my mom made it all.the.time (probably because it was cheap and easy), and it was terrible.

Johnny Marzetti - noodles, cheese, hamburger, some sort of tomato sauce, baked in a casserole. *gag*


She swears she just isn't a good cook, but she cooks SO much healthier and tastier now than she did when I was a kid, when she was using 70's and 80's church cookbook recipes. I actually asked her why she made all that crap food, and she said she isn't sure, and never really liked it herself, but she just made it anyways. Thanks mom!

[luckyval]

Jan 27, 2014 22:17:21 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Jan 27, 2014 21:08:23 GMT -5 luckyval said:

Meatloaf made with Campbell's canned veggie soup (the kind with the pasta letters in it)

It was years before I realized there was actually a proper way to make meatloaf

What? I don't understand how soup could be turned into meatloaf. 

It was ground beef and condensed soup mushed together

It's even worse than you think

[agnes]

Seafood
Liver
Steak
Brussels Sprouts (although I did try some of miso's at out GTG and still didn't like them)
Pork chops

[Deleted]

Oatmeal cream pies.

I got one every day for breakfast for TWO YEARS.

I can't even smell them now.

[Deleted]

Liver. She hates it herself but for some reason forced the whole family to eat it a couple times a month.