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Mama Fergie

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Worst childhood dish memories
« on: September 26, 2012, 06:15:34 am »
Does anyone have a dish from childhood that they disliked so much that they still can't bear to eat it?
My mum used to occasionally cook tripe and the thought of the smell of it cooking still makes me feel ill.  :-[
Fortunately she would cook me a steak on those occasions as I seriously felt sick and couldn't  stay in the same room while they were eating it.
Not on many peoples menus these days thankfully!!!

Didn't eat liver either and still can't 

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2012, 06:17:31 am »
Definately sloppy fish dish that just tasted like sour warm milk... :P
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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2012, 06:24:12 am »
Looking in the big pot and seeing ox tongue cooking  :-X
Being served brains and being told it was " big marrow from lamb chops"  :o
Also lambs fry - still can't stand the smell of it cooking!
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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2012, 06:27:22 am »
 tripe
i don't need a recipe i'm italian

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2012, 06:30:49 am »
spag bol

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2012, 06:31:58 am »
« Last Edit: September 26, 2012, 06:35:06 am by fundj »
i don't need a recipe i'm italian

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2012, 06:34:38 am »
Was it the way your mum cooked it Yvette or do you still dislike it?

I really enjoy it 

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2012, 06:34:49 am »
Great idea for a thread  :)
My Dad (who is normally a fabulous cook) made the worst osso buco, thankfully only once- he is still living it down!
It took me many years to get the courage to make it again... I invited my family over for dinner and didn't tell them what I was making until they'd all tried it (and liked it), only then I told them it was the dreaded osso buco and they were pleasantly surprised!
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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2012, 06:39:35 am »
MF it wasn't my mum it was family friends it was a greeenish colour and the smell of chuck chunder parmesan cheese, I make it for my family but I don't eat it  :P :P :P

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2012, 06:41:34 am »
Those memories can last a lifetime!!!!  Not good  :o

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2012, 06:43:16 am »
i couldnt stay in the same room when ppl would cook mushrooms until i was 29 years old
i don't need a recipe i'm italian

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2012, 06:47:19 am »
I don't like mushrooms either Uni or capsicum  :P :P

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2012, 06:55:02 am »
Celery soup - mum made and still makes some lovely soups but celery wasn't one of them.

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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2012, 07:05:53 am »
SPAM - even seeing the tin in the supermarket makes me feel violently ill.
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Re: Worst childhood dish memories
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2012, 07:16:19 am »
We were poor (so only ate cheap meats) & lived with my grandmother who was a dreadful cook - simply appalling.

I hated her tripe cooked in a white sauce, brains cooked in a white sauce or the lambs fry she used to cook until it had the consistency of shoe leather - ghastly, all of them.

On the other hand, she made some delicious potato scones that no-one thought to get the recipe for before she died.  I wouldn't mind eating those again.
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