What was the worst food that your mom made you eat?

[Anonymous]

Peas. My dad told me if I ate my peas, they would put hair on my chest (I was 3).
Well, times haven't changed. I still hate peas. I'm 58 now and I'm still watching for the hair.

[Anonymous]

Cube steak (a tough, chewy cut of meat that curled up when you cooked it). Nasty! Usually with this we would also have canned green beans. Yuck. The only saving grace of this meal was slices of Wonder Bread with margarine. This was in the 1970s. My parents eat well now so I guess it was just the times and trying to feed three children on a low budget.

On the other hand, best lunch back in the day: tomato soup (Campbell's, of course), grilled cheese made with Velveeta, and Fritos. With chocolate milk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom made us eat Liver and onions I was a little kid. I absolutely hated that.

So what was your worst food from your childhood?

Same here. Sometimes I threaten my kids with it but would never ever make it.

[Anonymous]

Meat and milk. I hated it from day one and my mom force fed it. I turned vegetarian at age 14 (once I was old enough to take a stand) and haven't looked back! For me it is only partially about the ethics of eating, I just absolutely HATE meat and always have. Worse, my mom was the worst cook! She'd make steak, and it would be so well done that it took days to chew. I wasn't allowed to drink anything but whole milk and I hated it. So I'd get this huge bolus of meat in my mouth, and chew and chew and chew until I started gagging, then try to choke it down with milk. And, fwiw, I have a condition that causes extremely high iron levels and I am lactose intolerant. So thanks for that, mother.

*As you may guess, what I was forced to eat is the least of the problems I have with my mother!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meat and milk. I hated it from day one and my mom force fed it. I turned vegetarian at age 14 (once I was old enough to take a stand) and haven't looked back! For me it is only partially about the ethics of eating, I just absolutely HATE meat and always have. Worse, my mom was the worst cook! She'd make steak, and it would be so well done that it took days to chew. I wasn't allowed to drink anything but whole milk and I hated it. So I'd get this huge bolus of meat in my mouth, and chew and chew and chew until I started gagging, then try to choke it down with milk. And, fwiw, I have a condition that causes extremely high iron levels and I am lactose intolerant. So thanks for that, mother.

*As you may guess, what I was forced to eat is the least of the problems I have with my mother!

OMG. She made you eat meat and milk? What a monster.

[Anonymous]

Onions!. I hate them and she put them in EVERYTHING. She would force me to sit at the table and tell me I'm not getting up until I eat my food. It was a battle of wills for a long time. She'd sit there, I'd sit there and we just stare at each other for hours. Most times I won when she got tired of sitting. Other times, I'll close my eyes, pinch my nose and swallow it, then I'd gag and throw up. Ah good times.

One would think my throwing up would convey the message to my Mom that I just can't stand onions, but noooo, to her, I was a spoiled brat who did it for attention, and she -wasn't going to let me get one over on her-. Issues anyone?

[Anonymous]

My mother never cooked (typical dinner was hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls and chocolate chip cookie dough).

But my GRANDmother forced us to eat stewed prunes every morning, because they helped make you regular. She also routinely asked about our "BMs".

Miss you Grandma!

[Anonymous]

Liver and onions once a week
Pickled Pigs Feet
Spagom--a horrid mixture of cheap ground beef, spaghetti, canned tomatoes and tons of green pepper. I gag just thinking about it.

[Anonymous]

beets

[Anonymous]

Beets, canned "chinese food," and frozen chicken a la king; i have always hated most sauces, especially white ones like in the chicken a la king. i still shudder to think about it. i had to sit at the kitchen table until I ate "enough" dinner, even if i hated it. my older brother loves to tell stories about me sitting there alone (with him spying from the other room, ready to rat me out) with a mouth full of food I refused to swallow. I wonder where my kid's stubbornness comes from?

[Anonymous]

Ahh...chicken a la king. That was some nasty stuff.

[Anonymous]

I like liver and onions. My mother hated them so she never made it. As an adult, I make it once a month.

[Anonymous]

Her French Toast sucked. Instead of cooking it longer, she'd serve it with the egg batter not fully cooked. I'd gag the entire time I was eating it. To this day, I can't eat French Toast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ahh...chicken a la king. That was some nasty stuff.

We had that often when I was a kid and I liked it. My mom served it over rice. It was such a popular dish at one time.

[Anonymous]

A watery vegetable and probably cube steak (LOL) casserole, baked in the oven in one of those big 60's pink Pyrex bowls.....nauseating.....maybe it was the look of the V-8 juice dried and splattered on the pink. Ugh............................