Canned tuna!! Yuck

Anonymous wrote:Green been jello. You read that right. Made with milk so it was this opaque, pea soup color. My mom said it was popular in the midwest (where she's from), but I never believed her.

This reminds me of my "worst food". We had a family friend who ALWAYS made the dessert for parties...cottage cheese jello mold with canned fruit cocktail. To this day, I cannot eat cottage cheese. And my mother always made me eat a slice of this to be polite and to thank this woman for making this disgusting thing.

Roadkill beats out grape juice with raw egg.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Gag me with a spoon.

hominy, lima beans, "white dinner" (boiled chicken breast, boiled white rice and boiled cauliflower)

Counting my blessings that we dodged the roadkill. But still!

My mom didn't grow up here and learned to cook "American" food from my paternal grandmother, who seems to have had a love affair with campbells creamed soups.

Oyster stew (= milk + canned oysters)
Turkey casserole (= turkey + campbells cream of ... soup + canned green beans)
Tuna casserole (= cans of tuna fish + campbells cream of mushroom soup + enough mayo to make it quiver)
Beef stroganoff (= ground beef + campbells cream of... soup & glops of flour to try to thicken it)

All of the above look about the same when vomited as they did when served.

Roadkill. I grew up in California, and my mom was an aging hippie. She was mostly vegetarian but hated to see animals "go to waste" so she'd scoop up fresh roadkill like raccoons, possum and deer and turn them into weeks/months of meals. It was not good tasting, and it completely grossed me and my brother out. Any "mystery meat" or soup was suspect. Thank gawd that she stopped at game-type meats and never ventured into roadkill cats/dogs. She swore she had a special system for testing the age of the carcass - but I think she just took a whiff and looked for flies. I became a committed vegetarian at 12 and haven't looked back.

Not my mom but MiL. Beef from a can she got at the dollar store. I still gag thinking about it.

I used to love it when my mom would go away for a few nights and my dad had to "cook" for us. It meant Burger King for dinner!

Did anyone have a dad who cooked crap meals?

My dad made us "Chinese" that consisted of tons and tons of waterchestnuts, sesame seeds, and other crap doused in soy sauce and made in a wok. Very authentic! Not!

He also made us an infamous meal of "oatmeal" burgers. Some recipe he found that had him add oatmeal to the hamburgers. He still gets teased about it.

My mom made us green beans with nearly every meal, I still can't stomach them. We had some very creative and inventive solutions for getting rid of food. The best was that we were not made to eat our dinner roll (as she thought of that as a treat) so we'd hollow it out, and stuff it with food we didn't want, then we could throw it out!

My mother is a very picky eater so she never made us eat anything that we didn't want to eat. She is a decent cook but she never really cooked anything out of the ordinary so we never had to eat anything too bizarre because she wouldn't have eaten it/prepared it herself. There are so many 'normal' foods that I never ate until I hit college because it was never offered to me or because I figured I wouldn't like it.

For example, she likes some cheeses but hates swiss cheese. So we are at a restaurant and I ordered a grilled cheese for DS, who loves grilled cheese and could care less what kind of cheese is on it. After I order, she asks the waiter what kind of cheese is on the sandwich and he tells her three different cheeses, one of which is swiss. She says "just leave the swiss off". Because SHE doesn't like it. It wasn't like they were sharing the sandwich--she just figured since she doesn't like swiss cheese, he wouldn't either. I told the waiter to ignore her.

Tongue!

Not really food, but my mother would make me eat honey with onions and lemon if I was sick. GAG!!!!

We had to eat a lot of things, weren't forced to, but there was nothing else. Such as liver and onions (Why did so many parents serve this??) and plain oatmeal... for days.

Fish. I don't eat any today. Especially scallops.

Brussel sprouts. I downed some milk after I ate them and then threw up all over the table. I still have a gagging reflex whenever I see them now.