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What meal did your family serve you when you were a kid,

that you absolutely hated, and you've never eaten since you've grown up?

Posted - July 22, 2022

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  • 3841
    Beef stew.  
      July 22, 2022 3:16 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    Matzo ball soup. Also, salted cod stew. What was she thinking? We called them cod balls.
      July 22, 2022 3:58 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    Someone made a dish called 'cod balls' on a season of Top Chef and I think they got rave reviews! Your mom was just ahead of her time! 

    :)
      July 23, 2022 1:15 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    I gotta look that up and get back with my sister.
      July 23, 2022 1:32 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    I can help find it. I'm almost sure about which season and maybe even episode. I've got it on Hulu. I'll let you know!
      July 23, 2022 1:34 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    Thanks.
      July 24, 2022 6:05 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    Okay, it might have been flounder balls and salt cod patties. 

    They make a lot of fish on Top Chef. I don't actually remember everything. 
      July 26, 2022 7:19 PM MDT
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  • 34452
    My Dad and I have almost the exact same tastes in food. So there was nothing I was ever forced to eat. 
      July 22, 2022 4:53 PM MDT
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  • 1952
    Spaghetti 
      July 23, 2022 7:43 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    So many things I've never eaten even once since being forced. Others I've been able to have an open mind about and now enjoy (Brussell sprouts, for example). 

    Terrible thing, forcing kids to eat things they have tried at least once and detest or even gag on. 

    Unless, of course, the goal is to create lifelong extremely picky eaters, people who have problems with food, and/or fear trying new foods long into adulthood. If that's what the parent is hoping for, by all means, carry on! 


      July 23, 2022 1:14 PM MDT
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  • 53526

     

    Okra
    Squash
    Turnips
    Beets
    Chitterlings
    Powdered milk
    Puffed wheat cereal
    Sauerkraut from a can
    Spinach from a can
    Vienna sausages 
      
      I’m sure there were many others against which I’ve formed a mental block, and therefore cannot easily recall them.
    ~




      July 23, 2022 4:08 PM MDT
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  • My mother was an excellent cook. I never hated anything.
      July 23, 2022 5:37 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Lima beans
      July 23, 2022 7:47 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    Remember succotash? To this day I still can't eat Lima beans.
      July 24, 2022 6:08 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    Indeed 
      July 24, 2022 7:20 AM MDT
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  • 4624
    None.
    Mum was a good cook when she was sober.
    When drunk she was unconscious so we went without.
      July 24, 2022 12:17 AM MDT
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  • 44654
      July 24, 2022 6:08 AM MDT
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  • 5451
    It’s oatmeal.  I hated it when I was a kid.  Even the word oatmeal sounds gross to me.  We should just call it porridge which sounds less gross.  I especially never want to eat it because of a really gross story my husband loves to tell about a time his grandma made a big bowl of oatmeal and fed it to the dog.  Eww.
      July 24, 2022 9:17 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Call it porridge if you like, but how does a different name make the same food more palatable?
      July 25, 2022 3:22 AM MDT
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  • 16838
    A nurse tried to serve porridge to my better half when she was in hospital, and my wife threatened to throw it at her. She's gluten intolerant for starters.
      July 26, 2022 7:40 PM MDT
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  • 10664
    Goulash
    Beets
    Meatloaf
    Peas and carrots
      July 25, 2022 4:47 PM MDT
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  • 16838
    Green beans. In adulthood, when cooking any recipe that calls for green beans i always substitute peas.
      July 26, 2022 7:37 PM MDT
    1