What meal did you dislike and were made to eat as a child and still dislike?

Shero said:
I love offal which is no surprise spending so much of my young life in Lyon. I suspect people who dislike liver and onions may not have had it done in an enjoyable way. I like also kidneys and onions yum!
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As a child i didn't like beef liver, and have & no doubt it was because that was just about the only thing my mother could not properly prepare. It was like chewing leather to get it small and soft enough to safely swallow. Too much work for what little flavor.

As a young adult a roommate of mine and i talked about that and she showed me how to cook it slow. (Mom always fried itwith oil and onions, i loved how the onions tasted) with a bit of apple cider in the pan not just oil, low to medium heat not frying. I've liked it ever since, though i still prefer breaded and fried chicken livers.
 
There was no thinking about it from me..it was Stewed cube beef... I absolutely detested it, I hated the smell of it, the look of it the horrible taste of it... and I'd gag trying to eat it.. but I'd be made to sit at the table long after everyone else was gone, expected to eat it.. and when I didn't my father would force me to eat it cold with solidified fat on top for breakfast.. before school, or get a hiding.. I almost always got the beating.

To this day the sight or smell of stewed beef makes me Gag... :sick:
 
What we had in a white sauce was dried beef and it came in a little glass jar (that's how we managed to have a matched set of juice glasses.) We had it served over toast and it was called "Creamed chipped beef on toast."
I loved it.

My mother was an excellent cook and could make anything tasty. It's my misfortune that I like almost all food.

Liver is my exception. We didn't have onions with it. That actually sounds like a good idea to hide the taste.
 
We would have breakfast for dinner once in awhile. My mom would make sunny side up eggs, fried potatoes and bacon.
I hated eggs back then especially the yolks.
She would plop 2 on my plate and I would carefully eat the whites trying not to contaminate them with the yolks.
If I was lucky they would stay intact and I would suck the 2 of them right up off the plate and swallow them whole when she wasn't looking. No utensils needed.
I can't remember ever breaking the yolks.
 
feywon said:
As a child i didn't like beef liver, and have & no doubt it was because that was just about the only thing my mother could not properly prepare. It was like chewing leather to get it small and soft enough to safely swallow. Too much work for what little flavor.

As a young adult a roommate of mine and i talked about that and she showed me how to cook it slow. (Mom always fried itwith oil and onions, i loved how the onions tasted) with a bit of apple cider in the pan not just oil, low to medium heat not frying. I've liked it ever since, though i still prefer breaded and fried chicken livers.
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Yes feynon, liver should not be overcooked. A good way is not to cook it in chunks,but to thinly slice it and gently saute in butter. I am not too keen on the apple cider idea though, because anything with a tang in it, toughens the liver :)
 
I also like beef liver. With onions and/or bacon. Gotta have some ketchup on the side though šŸ˜‹
You're right @Shero about the cooking. Gotta be cooked properly or it gets tough.
Liver really doesn't have much of a taste to me. It's more a texture thing and I think that's why many don't care for it. It's very rich in nutrients!
 
My friennd's way came out very tender tho thoroughly cooked. Haven't made it ages but as i recall it was barely a tea or tablespoon of the cider vinegar to a large frying pan.
 

What meal did you dislike and were made to eat as a child and still dislike?​


win231 said:
I wasn't exactly forced to eat anything, but my father always suggested eating liver, saying it was very healthy.
Yeah, what could be healthier than eating a filter for toxins?
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Looks like beef liver (or any liver) is the big winner here.
Add me to that list.
We had liver and onions pretty often.
I ate it, but I hated it.
Still do
Not really into organs
Wonder why spleens or pancreases weren't on the menu....

A friend had this mentally deficient calf
Always had his tongue hanging out to one side with a steady stream of slobber dripping from it

Got invited to dinner
The entrƩe was cow's tongue
 
When I was a little kid my mother would sometimes make hot cereal for our breakfast. Two vile concoctions called Malt-o-Meal and Cream of Wheat were particularly disgusting. We had the "sit there until you eat it" rule because there were children starving in Japan. I never figured out how my eating or not eating that stuff affected children in Japan, though, and it remains a mystery to this day.
 
Butterfly said:
When I was a little kid my mother would sometimes make hot cereal for our breakfast. Two vile concoctions called Malt-o-Meal and Cream of Wheat were particularly disgusting. We had the "sit there until you eat it" rule because there were children starving in Japan. I never figured out how my eating or not eating that stuff affected children in Japan, though, and it remains a mystery to this day.
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... it wasn't Japan in our house /school.. it was starving children in Biafra....
 
Hated liver & onions they served at school. I barfed them right up at the table. When in the service we had a cook that could ruin everything. I use to like fish. After trying to eat it in the mess hall & barfing all over the place. No more fish. There are a lot of others also.
 

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