Meya
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posted on November 1, 2000 06:09:24 AM new
The Meatloaf thread got me thinking. What food from your childhood can still bring on nightmares for you? Even the mention of the meal causes you to want to run screaming from the room?
I have one thing in particular...Those fake chopped beef "Cube Steaks". You know the ones, they look sort of like hamburgers but are shaped like a pork chop or small steak.
My mom use to buy those, and either cook them in the oven covered with some strange gravy, or Dad would throw them on the grill and cook them until there was no moisture left in them at all. I just couldn't stand the taste and the texture. Whenever I see them in the store I sort of shiver to myself.
Hominy Grits bug me too, but only if I think about my dad putting ketchup on them.
Ketchup
Catsup
Which is it?
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Linda_K
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posted on November 1, 2000 06:50:53 AM new
Mornin' Meya 
Well, I posted in the meatloaf thread that just the thought of liver and onions still, to this day, turns my stomach. Probably should clarify that that's beef liver. For some strange reason, I like chicken livers, especially when made into a pate (sp?).
But after reading your post, I will add another to that list. Creamed chipped beef on toast. Always looked (and tasted) like someone had just gotten sick on my dinner plate. YUK YUK!! The thought gives me goose bumps. Did I say YUK?????
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jenado
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posted on November 1, 2000 07:23:09 AM new
hahaha re the chipped beef on toast, now you got me craving some!! (could it be the 30th week of pregancy syndrome?) Isn't that GROSS!!! We used to call it SOS (**** on a shingle).
Have not, will not, never never never eat asparagus. It stinks so bad I can't get it within 2 feet of my mouth (does that make my arms sound too long??)
2 year old tried guacamole for the first and last time the other night at dinner. Turned red, eyes watered, gagged, gagged, swallowed, said NO MOMMY, NONONO!!
Won't try that again anytime soon.
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barrybarris
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posted on November 1, 2000 07:34:08 AM new
Bad Food;
Zucchini
Spinach
Peeps
Good Food;
Pepperoni
Cheeseburgers
Sausage and Peppers
Barry (I also like pickled green tomatoes) Barris
Edited to add Chocolate Cake is good...
[ edited by barrybarris on Nov 1, 2000 07:50 AM ]
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Linda_K
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posted on November 1, 2000 08:26:32 AM new
Jenado - Congratulations on your up-coming special event. You'll probably have your hands full with a two year old and a newborn.
Pregnant women have been known to crave strange things....and nothing could be stranger than creamed chip beef on toast. hehe YUK!
Mornin' Barry(good to see ya)Barris.
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hopefulli
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posted on November 1, 2000 08:48:46 AM new
Beef tongue and noodles. This was my dad's favorite but everyone else would just cough it into a napkin and then excuse themselves to the bathroom. Not only did it taste horrible, but just looking at that huge bumpy tongue would make me gag.
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ktsclutter
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posted on November 1, 2000 09:01:18 AM new
Absolutely everything my mother cooked had corn in it. To this day the sight of some casserole concoction with corn mixed in makes me want to hurl! She was also ever so adept at designing her dishes to fit the season. Try green mashed potatoes with red gravy. Or pink potatoe salad. ARF! Every dish came with a biscuit, though, so I lived through it all.
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snowyegret
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posted on November 1, 2000 09:07:11 AM new
Meat.
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tegan
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posted on November 1, 2000 09:40:57 AM new
okra.... yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 1, 2000 10:03:15 AM new
Canned spinach cooked in vinegar(my sister's favorite veg when she was a kid).
Mooshy brussel sprouts. Seeing those squishy, smelly little green balls rolling around my plate would bring tears to my eyes(because I knew I HAD to eat them).
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VeryModern
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posted on November 1, 2000 10:11:33 AM new
Same here.
Beef tongue.
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boysmommy3
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posted on November 1, 2000 10:27:03 AM new
I'm not a food person so there are lots of foods I won't touch. But the one that brings an automatic gag reflex and has since I was little is squash - keep it far away from me!!
And tequila!! Had a bad party night in my twenties on it and now cannot stand the smell - makes me sick!!
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mimigigi
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posted on November 1, 2000 10:31:44 AM new
That sliced bolony with the red wrapper that you peeled off~the pale pink/beige color was so gross.
And white Wonder bread~tasted like caulk. I was raised in the midwest, obviously.
Watching my baby brother eat and spit up food all over himself~this is the primary reason I vowed to never have children.
Yuk.
I am now totally reliving the trauma. yuk
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busybiddy
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posted on November 1, 2000 10:42:01 AM new
I love food and eat almost anything; weird mushrooms, goat meat, snails....not much makes me squeamish.
However, I WILL NOT EAT elbow macaroni. I don't know why, but it doesn't taste like other pasta. Not like spaghetti, fettucini, penne, shells, nothing else. I hate macaroni salad if made with elbows and won't even touch elbow mac and cheese.
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njrazd
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posted on November 1, 2000 10:48:50 AM new
Breaded Noodles...I'm not sure how my Mother made this carbohydrate delight, but I can still picture them in the frying pan and it turns my stomach.
Maybe more Halloween candy will make me feel better.
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That's Flunky Gerbiltush to you!
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on November 1, 2000 10:49:07 AM new
tasted like caulk
Gets my vote for Simile of the Year.
Italian sausage. My father loved it but the smell - pork, grease and fennel - smelled like rotting meat to me, and still does.
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KatyD
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posted on November 1, 2000 10:59:40 AM new
Lima beans. The green kind. They literally make me puke. I remember my stepmother making me sit at the dinner table until I ate them, and being the only one left. I would put them in my napkin until she finally got wise to that. The last time she made me eat them I threw up in my plate and my dad finally put his foot down to her and told her I didn't have to eat them anymore because they made me puke.
I don't force my kids to eat anything they don't like. And there's not alot that they don't like. If they try it and don't like it, what's the point? There's plenty of other healthy foods that they will eat.
KatyD
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 1, 2000 01:32:16 PM new
Njrazd: Did that culinary delight have chunks of bread in with the noodles?
Yes, folks, my mother's idea of "breaded noodles" was to cut up chunks of buttered bread and toss it in the skillet with the noodles and fry the whole mess.
One could almost hear our arteries screaming for mercy...
Julia Child had nothing to fear from my mother, that's for sure.
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mybiddness
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posted on November 1, 2000 01:58:00 PM new
Beef tongue is definitely out for me. Brussel sprouts and lima beans - barf!
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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hardoutfit
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posted on November 1, 2000 02:11:45 PM new
Liver and onions
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njrazd
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posted on November 1, 2000 02:15:29 PM new
Shadowcat...no, my Mother used to buy the containers of Italian flavored bread crumbs. She didn't make her own. Geesh...the only thing worse than my Mom's were your Mom's. I couldn't even imagine the chunks of bread!
Better have another mini-snickers bar! hehe
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That's Flunky Gerbiltush to you!
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 1, 2000 02:30:21 PM new
Oh, I could tell people real horror stories about my mother's cooking prowess...
Once she made lasagne and the tom-who has a HEALTHY appetite-took one bite and almost puked on the table. Yet he shoveled it down and even asked for seconds because my mother was so proud of her first pan of lasagne.
Bless his heart, he earned major brownie points(amongst other things ) with me for that sacrifice.
What had she done? How about using a generic spaghetti sauce, fake Mozarella, and Velveeta in addition to the regular ingredients one finds in lasagne.
I was in jr. high home ec before I discovered cakes didn't HAVE to be made from boxes and that pies didn't automatically come from the freezer section of the grocery store...but those are different stories.
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xardon
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posted on November 1, 2000 02:51:13 PM new
My mom was, to put it politely, frugal when preparing food. She developed a curious talent for stretching things. If a recipe or box directions called for one cup of water she'd add two or three. Same thing when adding milk. Only when I was older did I know the true consistency and flavor of ordinary things like jello (hers didn't jiggle), pudding, orange juice, ketchup (the only true spelling, BTW), and spaghetti sauce.
Meatloaf was another thing. I think she added a full loaf of bread to a pound of ground chuck. Her jelly sandwiches were a wonder. She'd apply only enough to tint the bread and she'd often invert the heel to make it appear it was a real slice. I was embarassed to bring them to school. No bag went unrecycled, either, but that's another story.
To answer your question, Meya, it all does.
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busybiddy
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posted on November 1, 2000 03:26:32 PM new
Omigod xardon, your mother sounds exactly like my mother-in-law!
LOL She calls herself frugal, I call her cheap!
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tarisa
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posted on November 1, 2000 03:37:42 PM new
Rice pudding with raisins in it... *shudder*
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mauimoods
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posted on November 1, 2000 03:41:45 PM new
Slimey eggs with runny snotty stuff
Spinach
Okra
Asparagus
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 1, 2000 03:50:57 PM new
Hot cereal of any kind.
Spam salad sandwiches. God, I hated those.
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Muriel
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posted on November 1, 2000 03:59:16 PM new
Chicken pot pies.
Spinach.
BEETS!
Johny Marzetti.
UGH! 
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toke
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posted on November 1, 2000 04:09:44 PM new
Brussels sprouts. Blech.
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yellowstone
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posted on November 1, 2000 06:16:23 PM new
Everything my mom made was great, there were just a few things that I just plain did not like and it wasn't because of the way my mom made them it was just because I couldn't stand them, i.e. beef liver and/or eggplant, yuk.
One of my grandmothers used to make a dish that she called (and I kid you not on this one) koonigsburg clops. What they were was a type of meatball boiled in mushroom soup. When ever I think about them it brings back very bad memories as they were absolutely the grossest things that I was ever made to eat, not to mention the wierd name of them. She could have called them something a little more palitable, meatball soup would have sufficed.
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