I preface this with the fact that I think because I had to eat everything served to me as a child and we had no money so mom stretched the budget and mom is still a very good cook.... chicken liver spaghetti sauce. I still cannot abide chicken liver unless it is smooshed pate. Ratatouille...which I now love, but that slime...YUCK!

casseroles with canned green beans. yuk!

another vote for fried chicken livers EVERY week and those giant slabs of calf liver -eewwwww. i want to gag if i smell liver cooking now, but we had no problem eating it as kids.

Yes, another here with a liver-and-onions mom. Oh god, and 1970s frozen fish sticks. Just the thought makes me waNt to hurl. She was a terrible cook, but I'll give her this -- she kept our family of 4 well fed with basic, nutritious meals on a very, very low budget.

livermush
pinto beans, cornbread, and milk mixed together in a bowl

Fried oysters when I was about 8. I wouldn't touch them and she made me sit at the table until I ate them. It got to be after 11pm and I finally got so mad I fed them to the dog, who immediately threw up.

My mom was really into organic and natural foods. I'm thankful for this now as I think it's helped me make good choices as an adult, but "natural" foods in the 1970's were seriously gross. I think the worst were the tomato chip cookies, but the whole wheat pancakes that were so hard we could toss them like a shot put (sp?) off the balcony were a close second. OMG - and salt-less, low-oil peanut butter... blech.

Venison. Liver.

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?

Pumpkin soup. It's not so much that I disliked Pumpkin Soup, it's just that we seemed to eat it every day in November as my mother got her mother's worth out of the Jack-o-lanterns. It By Thanksgiving we were like "pumpkin soup AGAIN?"

my mom was a terrible cook. I think the worst was very over cooked frozen green beans or salad with miracle whip on it instead of salad dressing.

I feel very lucky that I wasn't subjected to liver and brains!

My parents would make us eat what we didn't finish at dinner cold for breakfast (often this meant foods we didn't like cold for breakfast, as if that would help). For me that meant cold quiche, cold stir fry, and cold baked beans. Yuck.

I can't remember my mom ever making me eat anything that was really gross. She did order liver and onions at restaurants though. DH's mom used to cook L&O and make him eat it, it was one of his dad's favorites.

1970s casserole with white potatoes, American cheese, bologne, and the classic cream of mushroom soup. Yuck!

Beef brains. The smell alone made me nauseous. The taste wasn't much better.

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?