Worst childhood dish memories

[Mama Fergie]

I love potato scones. 

Very popular in Scotland where I grew up.

[Amy :-)]

SPAM - even seeing the tin in the supermarket makes me feel violently ill.

Gert will be disappointed CP

I'm still thinking about mine...

[cookie1]

I don't mind spam although I find it very salty.

My worst childhood memories would have to be boiled mutton, (Dad loved it), tripe, (Mum was the only one who ate it) and brawn. I hated all the jelly stuff all over the brawn. It was home made but yuck. I do not like liver or kidney either. At boarding school we were told we had to eat everything, I explained that the liver would come straight back up, but the stupid woman made me eat it. Boy did I gloat as it came straight back up.

I never ate the sheep's tongue or brains that I had hacked out of the sheep's head either. I always promised Mum I would but it's ok raw, but cooked looked ghastly.

[Amanda]

Ooh, I forgot about brawn - that was sooooo gross.
And kidneys, too - they just taste of wee to me.   

[Mama Fergie]

My mum still loves spam and it was another of my yuk memories. 

And any type of offal

[cookie1]

I must agree offal is truly awful.

[Mama Fergie]

It sure is Cookie  It looks and feels slimy

[cottchick]

My lovely mother is a great cook but for some reason makes a TERRIBLE casserole. It's grey and chewy and tasteless. Thank goodness she isn't on this forum, she'd be so hurt!! If I ever get sick she pops in with a casserole and there have been times I have sent my husband down to the shop for dinner and binned the casserole. I just try not to ever get sick.

I feel so bad about that!!! So "first world".

Ps I make a fabulous casserole

[obbie]

rice pudding, we used to throw it out..

[Amy :-)]

rice pudding, we used to throw it out..

OMG Robyn, that was one of the things that I used to LOVE Hot rice pudding with a big lump of vanilla ice cream in the middle....
This was TMX rice pudding though

I have a horrible memory of dumplings with mint jelly that still makes me cringe And I still can't bear the thought of either.

[Emme]

Mutton birds only once and never again.

Marie

[Mama Fergie]

Is that a kiwi dish Marie?

[Cuilidh]

Mama Fergie - they are known as Guga in Scotland, does that help?

[Emme]

Is that a kiwi dish Marie?

Their proper name  is Shearwater, they nest in coastal rookeries on the Bass Strait Islands and smaller rookeries on the north coast of Tasmania.  They are a sea bird, feeding on fish and squid I think.  I was quite ill after eating only a small portion and could taste it for days after.  Never again.
I don't see them around these days like they used to be.
Marie

[keiramax]

Silverbeet boiled and slapped onto the plate that just looked like a big cow pat.  It was always cold and gritty.

Love silverbeet now and use it many dishes, just not dolloped onto the plate and I always wash, wash and re wash.