What's the worst tasting food you had to eat as a child?

United States
October 3, 2008 9:10pm CST
When I was a kid, my mom insisted on cooking Brussels sprouts every week. Brussels sprouts taste really bad! At least the way she cooked them. I hated those things, but she wouldn't take no for an answer. Once she cooked liver and that's what we had for dinner. Didn't like liver much either. Not even breaded fried liver! What's the worst tasting food you had to eat as a child?
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• Egypt
4 Oct 08
it was Guava juice! i have to say that i was crying loudly when i drink it.. i am uptill now can't stand to smeel it or ate it but i can drink it as juice
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• United States
4 Oct 08
I heard about one woman who gave that stuff to her baby! Poor baby!
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@AmbiePam (92719)
• United States
4 Oct 08
Probably hominy. I hate, hate, hate that stuff. She occasionally introduced new foods, and if two out of the three of us liked it (me, my sister, my dad), she'd make it again. I don't know why she made hominy. Well yeah, I guess I do. She and my dad liked it. But she did make my sister and I eat it. Yuck!
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• United States
4 Oct 08
Hominey? Are those grits? We have grits. Those are so common in the South!
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@AmbiePam (92719)
• United States
4 Oct 08
Hominy may be common in the south, but I prefer good old Southern fried chicken to that stuff!
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• United States
4 Oct 08
My daughter loves fried chicken too. She could live off that stuff.
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• United States
4 Oct 08
spam.we ate it alot (dad was navy)so much so in fact,i hate it now. it tastes weird,and was greasy nastiness.granted it could have just been the way my mom made it,but..*yuck*..awful.
• United States
4 Oct 08
I don't like Spam very much either. But when our power went off for 100 hours after Ike, Spam was one of the things we had to eat that didn't have to be cooked. Since it had probably been 15 years since my hubby and I ate any, it wasn't so bad.
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@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
4 Oct 08
Whew! This is a loaded question. LOL! My mom actually makes Brussel Sprouts taste good. She butters and salts them and they are one of my favorite things that she makes. But, I have eaten them made by others and, I can totally understand why most people don't like them. They are really disgusting if not made right. I don't like Asparagus, Liver, goose, lamb, duck, veal, elk, deer or any other meats that aren't a part of a normal menu. I like chicken, pork and beef. Once when my mom made Liver, as it was cooking, I could tell that it was liver even though I had never had it before. I asked her if it was liver...the smell was like boiled dirty underwear or something. LOL! Anyway, my Mom tried to lie to me and tell me it was beef. But, I knew. So, I put one bite of it in my mouth at dinner, bit into it and threw it up immediately. It was one of the worst things I ever put in my mouth. My mom is a really good cook. She is very talented and almost everything she makes is wonderful but, there is nothing you can do to liver, no way to flavor it, that will take away the butt taste in it. LOL! I have never had it since then and never will.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
30 Jan 16
Must try that Brussels Sprouts tip...
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
4 Oct 08
You'll probably be surprised. For me it was potatoes of any kind. Yuck. Especially mashed. I could not stand them and they would get cold which made them double yucky and finally my mother and father would insist that I could not leave the table without eating those stone cold blobs of white stuff. I'd choke them down and almost throw up. My how I hated them. My next hated thing was peas, but my dad wouldn't make me eat those. He called them "puff balls of nothing." I did discover that I liked them raw right out of the peapod. But not cooked in any way. Oddly enough, I loved liver and onions, buttermilk, Brussels sprouts, spinach. :-) Weird kid, I guess.
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@angela38 (122)
• United States
4 Oct 08
I think the thingb I hated the most as a kids was homney. I still can not stand the taste or smell of it when it is on the stove cooking.
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@koolkate (241)
• Bahrain
4 Oct 08
I think it was egg as a breakfast, it was when I was in 3rd or 4rth grade.And before going to school mom used to fry egg for my dad and me.I was really unable to eat it.I found it so heavy for eating in the morning.Then I one day I quit it.But now I think it is good.
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• United States
4 Oct 08
I went through a period when I couldn't eat eggs either. My mom made them every weekend for my dad and they were always done "over easy". Since that's how he wanted his, that's what we all got.
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• Canada
4 Oct 08
My mother once made me eat liver and Brussels Sprouts in the SAME meal!! i grew to love liver and onions with lots of gravy and mashed potatoes, but I still can't stand brussels sprouts. Those things are absolutely nasty. They love them but I hate them.
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• United States
4 Oct 08
Nasty! That's a good word for Brussel sprouts!
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@max1950 (2306)
• United States
4 Oct 08
brussel sprout"s are by far are the worse,then broccoli for me.peole say try it this way or that way but they still taste the same covered in garlic,cheese,bread crumbs,etc, nope still don't like them after 58 years
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@gemini_rose (16264)
4 Oct 08
Mostly everything that my parents ever gave me. I think that nearly every mealtime was a trial for me! I think some of the worst that I can remember are the fish in sauce meals, oh they were so disgusting. If I knew I was having it I would have a big cup of water and I would put a mouthful in and swallow it whole with water so I did not taste it. How I did not choke I do not know. I also think it explains my problems with food as I grew older, see everyone goes on about how important it is to eat healthy, but from experience I know if it is forced on a child they will grow up and hate it. I did, and once I left home I never ate healthily, I ate what I wanted too and I now have no end of food problems. I make sure that my kids have a healthy balance yet what they eat they enjoy, not like me!! Oh and the other was liver and kidney, and no way in this world will I eat that either!!
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• United States
4 Oct 08
Bless your heart. Parents do need to try to balance the good stuff with SOME treats. :-) Personally I loved liver and kidneys.
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
4 Oct 08
The worst thing I had to eat as a kid was bread and butter. I love bread, but I despise butter. I still do not eat butter I don't eat margerine either, that's worse than butter
• United States
4 Oct 08
Cold butter is never good. For some reason, my mom would spread cold butter or margarine over bread or rolls and serve that with dinner. Yuck!
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
4 Oct 08
cold or warm, it's all butter/margarine to me
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
4 Oct 08
Butter is okay if it is cooked with the foods
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• India
4 Oct 08
I hated Brinjals and bitter Gaurd when I was a child. I just could not stand them. When my younger brotehr was getting married,his mother-in-law had made brinjals and I did not realise that it was brinjal. I ate it and enjoyed its taste. After I had finished it,I was told that it was brinjal. I realised that brinjals are not as bad as i thought soIstarted eating it once in a while. Now I eat these two vegetables with pleasure and relish them.
• Australia
4 Oct 08
i absolutley hated brussel sprouts and brocolie, there was just something about them. But lucky for me, mum never used to use them in her cooking because she didnt used to like them as a kid eather, but we still ate a lot of vegitable and mum always found a way to make them yummy for us. But anyways, i really dont like them and i was very lucky not to have to eat them because i was eating other vegitable instead so i wasnt missing out on any nutritiens. Happy MyLotting!
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• United States
4 Oct 08
I'd have to respond by saying Liver and onions were the worst foods (together) that I've ever tasted. I hate the way liver smells and tastes. I feel like vommitting everytime I'm even in the same building as it. I has liver senses
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@Avi_Gan (191)
• Philippines
4 Oct 08
I hated it when we had colds as a child. My mom would pound a couple of bitter gourd known locally as ampalaya and make us drink the juice. It was so evil tasting that we cough out our phlegm...
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@shell94 (990)
• Canada
4 Oct 08
I absolutely detested liver as a child, brussel sprouts were a close second. I was made to eat it because "its good for you" was what I was always told. I don't make my daughter eat these things if she does not like them. I think that she may change her tune about them over the years if they are not forced upon her. I do however ask her to try them and see what she thinks.
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@duranv (516)
• Honduras
4 Oct 08
I'd say the worst thing I have ever tasted is liver, I was never even able to swallow a little piece, I also hated a lot of other food but liver is my number one on that list.
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• United States
4 Oct 08
If I had to eat liver now, I'd smother it in sour cream and salsa. And, then eat it with chips. That might take away from the taste.
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@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
4 Oct 08
OH, my list is long long long. I hated grits, had to eat them though, they made me gag. Did not like beets, split pea soup, pig feet, cabbage, liver, learned to like liver after I got older, but now I do not eat it anymore. Oatmeal, was another hater, green peas ugh, and kind of beans did not like them. Sweet potatoes, was another one I could not stomach. Like I said, my list can go on and on
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• United States
4 Oct 08
The worst thing my parents have ever made me eat was goat. The way they made it, it was just horrible! I didn't like bell peppers much either though...
4 Oct 08
Mine was split pea soup and that was nasty lol. and i still will not eat till this day.
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• Singapore
4 Oct 08
I hate peas! Lol
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• United States
4 Oct 08
bleh! lima beans for me!! I still hate them, and won't even cook them LOL! I never liked liver either and I wish I did I could use the IRON in it but I guess I had to cook/fry enough of it when I was a kid growing up for my family...another nasty one is my Dad loved this when we dressed aka ( slautered our hogs) he loved fried hogs brains and scrambled eggs together.... EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!! to this day I wouldn't touch that meal with a ten foot pole!! BLEH!!! no thank you!
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