What's the nastiest food you remember from your childhood?

[Julia1996]

I was just wondering what is the nastiest food from your childhood that you remember. For me it's something my dad would make. My mom hated to cook and she wouldn't.  She would pop a frozen lean cuisine in the microwave for herself and everyone else was on their own. So when my brother and I were growing up my dad made dinner for us. He tried but he totally can't cook. We ate lots of pizza and hamburgers, but one thing he would make was really nasty.  He would take Mac and cheese, and it was the totally gross kind with the packet of cheese powder, dump in a can of cream of mushroom soup and dump in a couple of cans of tuna.  How gross is that!

And something even more horrifying showed up at thanksgiving. My grandma would make this totally disgusting thing she called a molded salad. It was cans of mixed vegetables in green Jell-O.  I can't even imagine how she ever thought that up. I have no idea how it tasted because the site of it made me want to totally yarf.

So what are some gross foods from your childhood?

[Cindy]

Tripe and Onions boiled in milk.

How about that for a delicacy!!

[Julia1996]

Tripe and Onions boiled in milk.

How about that for a delicacy!!

What's tripe??

[Deborah]

Creamed spinach.  It tasted like my mother scraped the grass off the bottom of the lawnmower and then boiled it.


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[Cindy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe

I hope you aren't eating when you open the link!

[Julia1996]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe

I hope you aren't eating when you open the link!

OMG! Nasty doesn't come close to describing that. And I thought vegetables in Jell-O was gross!

[Cindy]

Things have changed over the years as explained by Monty Python

[Gertrude]

Mom would make liver and onions. The smell would make me gag and I don't gag easily.


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[Deborah]

Mom would make liver and onions. The smell would make me gag and I don't gag easily.

LOL.  I love liver and onions and make it for myself nearly every week.  I do use a fair amount of BBQ sauce though.

[Chloe]

Mac and cheese, and it was the totally gross kind with the packet of cheese powder, dump in a can of cream of mushroom soup and dump in a couple of cans of tuna.

Ohhh that sounds tasty!! Have to try!! Maybe we should rename this thread??

Mom was a great 'boot camp' cook, both parents ex-military. Had lot'sa "creamed chip beef on toast".

Nastiest I've tasted was stuff put on my thumb to keep me from sucking it.
Was 5 before finally quitting.

What kinda tuna???

[Dena]

Molded salad was popular for a while and I ate it. Tripe isn't bad when it's in Menudo. Boiled tongue is very good when sliced and used in a sandwich as it almost melts in your mouth however the one thing I had a problem with when I was young was broccoli. It had a bitter taste and it was only after I was older that the bitter taste faded away. Part of the problem is I am a super taster and I can find a single caraway seed in a loaf of bread.

[DawnOday]

Asparagus, I get the same flavor by snorting snot.

[DawnOday]

Mom would make liver and onions. The smell would make me gag and I don't gag easily.


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Grandma would make it every Friday and I would leave for the weekend. Grandma was a great cook just not on Fridays.

[DawnOday]

What's tripe??

Cow stomach.    Something else that really sucks and maybe my Australian friends can explain their passion for Vegemite. Can't leave off limburger cheese.

[Dee Marshall]

Not from my childhood. There was nothing I wouldn't eat back then. One of my favorite meals was liver & onions with mashed potatoes and brussel sprouts. My birthday dinner was usually baked (Michigan) whitefish. However when I was an adult I was introduced to salmon croquettes. Just the smell of them cooking could make me gag.

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[Julia1996]

Cow stomach.    Something else that really sucks and maybe my Australian friends can explain their passion for Vegemite. Can't leave off limburger cheese.

Oh yes, Vegemite. My Aussie boyfriend loves it. I think it tastes like salty crude oil.

[Julia1996]

Asparagus, I get the same flavor by snorting snot.

Okra looks like snot. It's beyond gross.

[Deborah]

Okra looks like snot. It's beyond gross.

LOL
Another one of my favorites being disparaged on the forum!


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[Devlyn]

We had liver and onions all the time, and kidney stew. I liked them both. It wasn't until I joined the Army and  tried okra that I started a "dont want that" list. Sea urchins are on the list, so is cow tongue. Other than that I'll eat anything that doesn't move away fast enough. 

Hugs, Devlyn

[steph2.0]

Another one of my favorites being disparaged on the forum!

Oh, I've always liked disparagus!

What I didn't like was sauerkraut over mashed potatoes, liver and onions, or bottom-of-the-barrel, ralph-inducing... scrapple!

Blort

Stephanie