What did you HATE to eat when you were a kid?

Q007 · Jan 8, 2014

BillB said:
When I was growing up many, many, many years ago, it was usual to boil all vegetables until they became a mush. Green veggies – cabbage, spring greens, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower were never cooked for less than 30 minutes. The result was that the house was filled with the most vile sulphurous stink. Everybody seemed to think that cabbage was so essential to life that I’m surprised they didn’t even serve it for breakfast. They tasted just like they smelt, revolting, and I absolutely refused to put it into my mouth. This used to infuriate my mother until one day she stood over me and forced me to eat some. I began to heave theatrically and then rushed off to the loo and pretended to be throwing up violently. My mother never again served me green vegetables. Result: Bill 1 Mum 0. I tried Brussels sprouts a couple of years ago, but this time only boiled for a short time, as the TV chefs recommend – they still tasted disgusting.

Anyone know why they call them Brussels sprouts, because they're not grown there and they never heard of them. Or, did they come from there but they don't want to admit to it. We probably had a hand in there and when people tasted how fowl they were and the stinky farts smell killed the budgie everyone took them back to the green grocer and they blagged it by saying " ah well, they came from Brussels, nothing to do with us, so go there if you want your money back" people used to use them as a laxative I hear? We never had anything that sophisticated in our house, Mam used to sit us on our potties and tell us ghost stories.

noblehead · Jan 8, 2014

cally said:
Beetroot and I still hate it now. Strangely I did make a chocolate cake in which beetroot was a key ingredient and it was delicious!
I don't eat things like that any more though

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oh I love beetroot in a salad or with cheese in a sandwich

phoenix · Jan 8, 2014

Tripe.
When I wouldn't eat it for lunch at nursery school, it was brought back for tea!

We're all different though, tripe is a delicacy here and served for breakfast on fete days. Every French person seems to love Andouillettes , very smelly, sausages which usually contain tripe . I hate them nearly much as that other favourite dish Tete de Veau ( meat from the calves head which has a very thick, flabby skin/fat layer).

Andy12345 · Jan 8, 2014

tripe?

Q007 · Jan 8, 2014

phoenix said:
Tripe.
When I wouldn't eat it for lunch at nursery school, it was brought back for tea!

We're all different though, tripe is a delicacy here and served for breakfast on fete days. Every French person seems to love Andouillettes , very smelly, sausages which usually contain tripe . I hate them nearly much as that other favourite dish Tete de Veau ( meat from the calves head which has a very thick, flabby skin/fat layer).

Tripe? isn't that what politicians eat for dinner?

Thommothebear · Jan 8, 2014

Tripes OK, but not the way us brits cook it, the spanish have good way with it though.

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paul-1976 · Jan 8, 2014

Q007 said:
Tripe? isn't that what politicians eat for dinner?

They sure spout a lot of it in their Pre-election manifestos eh? lol

smartlady · Jan 8, 2014

Whenever we went to Great Yarmouth for the day, my dad & I always had tripe & chips off the market. Red hot chips & cold tripe! I loved it lol. Somehow it doesn't have the same appeal now lol

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cally · Jan 9, 2014

Sorry but what is tripe?

noblehead · Jan 9, 2014

No I couldn't eat tripe, my wife's grandfather loved it with loads of salt & vinegar, the very look of it turns my stomach!

smartlady · Jan 9, 2014

Stomach lining, usually from cows!! What was I thinking of? lol

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cally · Jan 9, 2014

carty · Jan 9, 2014

My father used to eat it regularly but to me all you could taste was vinegar It was very popular in Lancashire there was a tripe stall on Blackburn market and there was always a queue on a saturday morning It is not there now I wonder if anyone eats tripe any more
CAROL

paul-1976 · Jan 9, 2014

carty said:
My father used to eat it regularly but to me all you could taste was vinegar It was very popular in Lancashire there was a tripe stall on Blackburn market and there was always a queue on a saturday morning It is not there now I wonder if anyone eats tripe any more
CAROL

My father-in-law always loved it too when he was alive-it used to make me want to gag!

NicolaB70 · Jan 9, 2014

In my local butchers they have out in display in the chiller units trays of pigs trotters, chicken feet, tripe, ox tails and occasionally a cows tongue. All of it is just disgusting to look at, let alone eat any of it. Surprisingly though, the butcher says they sell a lot to African carribean and Far Eastern customers.

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Mongoose39uk · Jan 9, 2014

Tried tripe, I have eaten worse things. Just a bit bland really.

catherinecherub · Jan 9, 2014

Stuffed hearts.
Brawn. This was homemade involving a pig's head and root vegetables The liquor was poured off after cooking and it set like a jelly. (Are you listening Andy) It was then sliced. Yuk.

catherinecherub · Jan 9, 2014

Q007 said:
Tripe? isn't that what politicians eat for dinner?

They eat it for every meal.

phoenix · Jan 9, 2014

catherinecherub said:
Stuffed hearts.

I'd forgotten them. We used to have them regularly for school dinners. (and they were horrible)
I looked on them in an entirely different way after we dissected hearts in Biology

Andy12345 · Jan 9, 2014

catherinecherub said:
Stuffed hearts.
Brawn. This was homemade involving a pig's head and root vegetables The liquor was poured off after cooking and it set like a jelly. (Are you listening Andy) It was then sliced. Yuk.

not listening

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