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All of us probably have a specific dish our parents would prepare when we were growing up that still can make our stomach churn. You would come home from school, open the door, and get hit with an aroma that would instantly kill any semblance of hunger.
So one netizen asked the internet what dishes were ruined for them by their parents' terrible cooking decisions. From a distaste for seasoning to cooking all meat beyond recognition, people detailed the food choices they had to relearn later in life. So get comfortable, grab a snack, and get to scrolling. Be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your own experiences below. We also got in touch with satelliteboi who made the initial post to learn more.
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#1
All food. It wasn't until I was a young adult that I discovered that food could be good. My mother would buy a nice premium cut of beef -- tenderloin -- and fry it in a frying pan for a good 30 minutes and then add ample water and boil it until it was well and truly inedible. I grew up thinking eating was a chore.
WindySwede 2 years ago
I usully say here that sexual education is important. But domestic science(?) is also important! When I had that, it was mainly preparing food, but should involve everyday economics with tax and how intrest work. :)
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Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I'll bet it still tasted better than the octopus my mom threw in a pot of boiling unsalted water for far too long, or the cow's tongue she cooked the same way!
Elizabeth West 2 years ago
My mother and grandmother fried pork chops to a tough crisp due to concerns over trichinosis in pork. I can't stand pork chops now. I can't even eat the thick and juicy kind in the restaurants because my brain says they can't possibly be trichinosis-free if they're not shoe leather.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Hey atleast you had water added to yours. My mom would just utterly annihilate without mercy. Perhaps that's why I enjoy jerky
Jane Cortez 2 years ago
My mother made everything from scratch, fruits and vegetables were fresh from the garden. She made rich, complex and gourmet meals. To this day I cannot eat pre-made ‘Mac and cheese,’ hers was rich with pungent cheddar, thick, heavy cheesy goodness. Lasagna, she used so much meat, ricotta and spinach in between the noodles. I have never tasted anything that rivalled it, even my own attempts. There are so many dishes, soups, desserts that are sullied by her perfection. She made her pies from scratch, cakes, cookies and bread from scratch. Too because we always had fresh fruits and vegetables I am very picky about freshness. A family member of mg husbands would use YELLOWED green onions, softened cucumbers, wizened peppers…. I very quickly learned to avoid eating there….
Frederick Schulkind 2 years ago
Complaining that the food was too good doesn't belong here
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
For a long time I thought I hated scallops. It turns out that I actually love them! But as a kid my mother used to cook them until they tasted like chewy lumps of rubber.
I’mSoEmotional 2 years ago
My mother was a terrible cook, unless it was for a special meal. She would substitute things she was out of with things that looked the same. She’d cook hamburgers until they were crusty dark brown balls and I never knew that sweet corn could taste great because she’d always buy the cheapest canned stuff instead of fresh. I know fresh costs more, but what’s the expense of throwing food that won’t be eaten away? It was only when I met my MIL and ate her food, that I discovered that home cooked meals could taste good and I began learning to cook myself.
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#2
Tuna sandwiches and boiled chicken. My younger sister was a very picky eater and for a long time relied on those as protein staples. The stench of boiled chicken was a constant in our home. As soon as the sulfur odor had faded from one chicken, it was time to boil another. This went on for about 5 years. One day when I was 14, after a solid 3 months of tuna sandwiches for lunch (and often dinner), I burst into tears and pleaded to eat something, *anything* else! My mom knew I was an adventurous eater that liked just about everything, but to make things easier, she fed me my sister's extremely limited diet.
Nearly 30 years later I can't bring myself to eat canned tuna or boiled chicken. Blech.
ORSOrama 2 years ago
Boiled. Chicken. My parents were so much into boiled chicken. Just thinking about that smell in the house for hours makes my stomach squeeze.
Nelson 2 years ago
Chicken stew is delicious. Never had plain boiled chicken
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VioletHunter 2 years ago
Anyone who wants to turn it into a delicious soup or make chicken stock.
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John Carr 2 years ago
My gran used to boil a whole chicken for soup.....obviously with veg and seasoning. What I wouldn't give to have a bowl of it right now! She was an amazing cook - worked as a cook/housekeeper most of her adult life in London post-war. she knew how to budget or stretch supplies due to the rationing and could make a 3 course meal out of nothing.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
the only time it's ok to boil chicken is when it's the carcass and you're making stock for chicken noodle soup. (also canned tuna is just... catfood, it's just catfood. Raw tuna on the other hand... )
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
We are cats. We love canned tuna! Our bowls are bereft of food, and we are famished. Yes, Precious, famished we are!
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Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
Boiled chicken smells awful. Cooked it for my dogs for years, discovered a raw diet food I started giving them several months ago right before my mom got sick. They LOVE it and I don’t have to spend hours in the kitchen cooking for them now. Win win
ZombieGirl 2 years ago
Boiled chicken smells amazing! I don’t just boil it in water though…I throw in celery stalks, whole onions chopped in quarters, herbs, etc. you got to season your food every step of the way!! (Except it’s better to salt last most of the time to cut down on the amount needed)
#3
Mushrooms. I grew up in a country where everyone picked mushrooms from the woods. Then people would soak them in salty water, then boil for 40+ mins and then use it in cooking, like frying or in stuffing. They literally had no taste and the texture was awful. So I came home one day (I was 30 years old at that time) and we picked some amazing fresh porcinis and I just lightly fried them with garlic, pork belly and thyme. Everyone’s mind was blown lol
VioletHunter 2 years ago (edited)
We pick wild mushrooms too and frying in butter and with onions is the normal way to go. I wonder whether the excessive boiling started due to a fear of having picked a poisonous one. Though I doubt that would actually help.
Miradona 2 years ago
Yes, that was the idea. I grew up in the same circumstances, but we only boil them slightly, for a few seconds. And only the spongy ones, with a lot of flavour. But my family ditched that practice quickly.
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Kristiina Männiste 2 years ago
Some mushroom- like most members from the lactarius genus are edible only after boiling. The trick is to boil them enough to make them edible - but still preserve the taste. Another trick is mixing freshly edible mushrooms and the boiled bitter ones and add a little salt, sugar, vinegar, cinnamon and allspice to earthy, savory and slightly sweet pickled mushroom mix.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago (edited)
My husband doesn't like mushrooms (or olives, the freak) so I will just buy some fresh mushrooms and caramelize them with onions & a little garlic to make an omelet for myself, with some nice sourdough toast. He always looks SO jealous, but won't even taste it. (It's a texture thing for him). More for me, babe.
Turnip and a Frog 2 years ago
Pick them, especially boletus mushrooms, fry some chopped onion and garlic with some pieces of bacon, add the mushrooms, salt pepper, bay leaf, allspice (sour cream, if you so wish) and make exquisite sauce to go with noodles or potatoes or potato pancakes. On the next day, take the leftover mushrooms (the version without the cream, though), put them on the frying pan and make scrambled eggs on it - it’s a unique dish that I absolutely love in the autumn mushroom season.
Max Fox 2 years ago
What country is this? Every Eastern European country either pickles them, fries them with onions, or dries them and later makes soupe with them. You soak them in cold saltwater to kill all the other animals that love eating the mushrooms, but them you dry them and cook them. Who boils them?
AspieGirl88 2 years ago
For ages, I’ve absolutely hated mushrooms (especially the kind you have with a fried breakfast), but I’ve just recently gotten the taste for cream of mushroom soup & can tolerate the flavour/tiny pieces in other types of food. I guess that happens a lot as you age … but I still wouldn’t touch fried mushrooms! LOL. I swear, I can’t help thinking of slugs if I see them on a plate! 😂
Chris Sprucefield 2 years ago (edited)
Aw... gawd... that is NOT a way to do it! Here is one other way: Thin slice, do a quick fry-up in a bit of butter, a small bit of black pepper, a bit of white pepper, and a little of soy sauce (it makes mushrooms taste even more mushrooms!!) Pour out about half the liquid, get a 50/50 mix if cream and milk, heat up, while stirring in a bit more white pepper to taste, and thicken up with a bit of cornflour premixed in a bit of milk. (you can even stick in a little of white wine in there if you want for taste) It's a nice creamy pasta sauce that tastes of mushrooms! Serve on a pasta. If you want meat, add some small cubes of your choice to it...
MagicalUnicorn 2 years ago
as lithuanian i can relate, took youtube to teach me how to do mushrooms right
Bored Panda got in touch with satelliteboi who initiated the discussion online. Firstly, we were curious about why he posed this question to the internet. “Okay, I made the post because I had recently told the story to a few friends separately and they had found it pretty funny, especially my POC friends who give me trouble for having “white people” tolerance (and I take that in stride, no harm meant or done by those comments).”
“I was wondering if anyone else had had a similar situation with their family or what else might’ve been ruined by the way someone was fed growing up,” they shared with Bored Panda. Before the internet, it seemed like bad cooking ran in generations, but now we all have the luxury to improve and learn.
#4
Lasagna. My oldest sister had a brain tumor when she was 9-10. I was 4-5. We were very fortunate to have friends and family rally around us. But what is the practical choice when you bring a family a premade dinner? Lasagna or some type of hot dish. As a teenager i couldn’t figure out why I didn’t like lasagna. Everyone else seemed to like lasagna. I recall numerous times at a friends house for dinner forcing myself to eat lasagna or trying to push it around on my plate to be respectful. My middle sister one day told me she didn’t like it either. Because we ate it like 2 times a week for over a year. There’s probably some psychological factor of it representing the stress and confusion of that time as well.
John Carr 2 years ago
I was like that with fresh salmon when I was a kid. My dad used to work on trawlers catching salmon (until the government rightly banned it due to overfishing) and if any salmon was damaged it could not be sold so the crew got to take them home. Used to have salmon 3 or 4 times a week for lunch and dinner. I got sooooo sick of it.
Joseph Dear 2 years ago
I'm sure it is 100% the association between lasagna and your sister having cancer. Two times a week isn't terribly often for any kind of food. But if all you ever associate it with is what was probably the worst time of your life, it's gonna be terrible.
Sara W 2 years ago
I hated lasagna growing up. As an adult I realized the person whose lasagna who killed all lasagna was one made cottage cheese. Soo gross. Ricotta. Ricotta goes into lasagna...not cottage. I love all the pasta tho! Fried pork chops and lima beans are my childhood horror foods.
Happy Okapi 2 years ago
I only ever eat lasagna at my uncle's house just before we go to get on a ferry to my other family's house. The ferry always makes me violently sick, so now I can't eat lasagna anymore.
Rob Cupples 2 years ago (edited)
I hated lasagna as a kid because you would go to someone’s house or a church potluck and they didn’t know how to make it. They would put c**p like cottage cheese in it and pass the same recipe around. It wasn’t until I was nearly 30 and had it in an Italian restaurant realized that I liked it. Even to this day if someone wants to bring me lasagna I just picture the chore of scraping it off into the garbage can.
Stacy Bender 2 years ago
psychological factors (plus weird food allergies ) keep me from spaghettis and noodles in general. But on rare occasions I can eat them with no issue. (Must be undercooked.)
#5
My mom was a horrible cook, so almost everything. Thank the powers that be for the Food Network and youtube for showing me that food is supposed to be seasoned.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I don't remember making this post 😂 Before I was old enough to actually cook I just made lots of canned soup as a kid. Mom said "if you don't like what I make then you can cook for yourself " and so I made soup
Monday 2 years ago
Might be personal preference rather than bad cooking. I HATE seasoning my food. I'll do it if I'm cooking for someone else but if I'm just cooking for me it's going to be bland and I'm going to love it.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
That sounds like a great diet plan.
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Tina Girard 2 years ago
Is this one of my sisters? Sad thing is, my grandma was an AWESOME cook but, yeah, THAT gene skipped a generation.
KittyMommy 2 years ago
Everyone in my family raves how good a cook my grandmother was. I hated her food. Overcooked meat until it was dry and hard, never drained grease off of anything, veggies were always canned, very few spices, just very, very bland and disappointing
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Gary Geracci 1 year ago
I can relate, My mom, sad to say, in her younger years couldn't cook worth a darn. She would literally burn the pot!
liz MacClain 2 years ago
My mom still literally screams about "to much seasoning" for ANYTHING. Her idea of BBQ sauce is tomato sauce with a little lemon in it
Jeremy Bolanos 2 years ago
I had a friend growing up whose mother thought that if salt were in the house, it would make the food too salty. Imagine eating a dry overcooked pork chop sans seasoning. I once asked for ketchup to at least add some flavor, and you'd think I'd invented fire. After that, they put ketchup on everything. It was extremes with his mom.
#6
It’s kinda funny, but I’d have to say pizza!!! My great grandmother was pure Sicilian and would make the absolute best pizza every time I visited her. She made everything but the cheese from scratch! Even the sauce came straight from tomato’s grown in her garden. I have yet to find anyone who can make a pizza as good as hers was.
Coralinea 2 years ago
She ruined all future pizza, so it's a thing even harder to undo.
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Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
I was going to say this was about horrible food but I guess op is saying ALL pizza Is horrible because it’s not great grandmas
Auntriarch 2 years ago
Completely understand. Pizza from the Green Lantern in Milan, I will never eat pizza again
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
I understand the OP. I wouldn't be eating American pizza either, if I had grown up eating real pizza.
Mad McQueen 2 years ago
See me. I grow my own tomatoes and make a few pots of sauce I freeze in portions. Pizza? Fresh sauce. Pasta dishes? Fresh sauce. I have found a store that makes dough tho so I've stopped doing that chore. Yeah I grab a pie from a place once in a while. But to me it's fast food like a burger. I also get my meat from the butcher fresh so my burgers are like steaks on a bun. Lol. Take the time to make someone things a little special an cut out the processing places and you can eat like you're wealthy for very little.
Caroline Kimber 2 years ago
Well, it could have been better if she had a cow in her garden to make the cheese from scratch from....
María Hermida 2 years ago
Buffala 🐃. That's the proper milk for traditional mozzarella
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Leanne Hailes 2 years ago
Tomatoes in my own garden are FULL of absolutely amazing flavor. Tomatoes in my grocery store have zero flavour; zero taste.
That’s why we asked satelliteboi to share a little about their own cooking journey, particularly about how they learned to make dishes with actual seasoning and flavor. “I learned to cook by watching a lot of YouTube and by cooking dinner with friends. I’m usually more reserved when seasoning my own food because I’m scared to ruin it with too much.”
#7
I was raised in a cult that believed each family should keep a years’ supply of food on hand. As such, most of our meals were from cans.
The worst was the canned carrots. They were salty, had a strange smell, and had the consistency of baby food. We had them three times a week, and I was not allowed to leave the table until I finished everything on my plate. There were times I didn’t get to bed until midnight because I was trying to chose those carrots down.
To this day, I can not stand cooked carrots. I can do maybe roasted if I am in the right mood, but it has to still be mostly crunchy.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
First time I had dinner with the in-laws, I found that they serve all vegetables RAW (except potatoes). First time I cooked for them, they were disgusted by the idea of cooked veg but thoroughly enjoyed it. The misses was over the moon.
Ozzie Ogawa 2 years ago
Some veggies are better raw, some are better be cooked. Carrot should be cooked to remove some funkyness, but not too long that it lost the crunch and sweetness.
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Seth 2 years ago
Keeping a year's supply of food on hand isn't totally ridiculous, but canned carrots are a terrible choice for survival food. Barely any calories, with the only benefit being a small amount of vitamin A. Just store dried mango slices instead; also has vitamin A, a moderate amount of calories, and actually tastes good.
Russell Rieckenberg 2 years ago
So why didn't they keep a year's supply of canned goods, but eat fresh produce today?
Zephyr 2 years ago
In my opinion carrots should only be put in beef stew else I don't see why you should eat just cooked carrots
3 AM 2 years ago
It sounded like the Mormon family I knew. They kept the year's supply of canned and non-perishable foods on metal racks in their garage, in case of natural disaster, job loss, or to help another less fortunate Mormon family.
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Brian Droste 2 years ago
I don't like cooked carrots either, I like them raw though. To me certain vegetables need to be cooked and certain vegetables need to be eaten raw.
3 AM 2 years ago
I don't think I would like to eat corn raw, but then again, is it a vegetable, or a grain?
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Beans. My mother’s beans were always hard. Worst was rice and beans.
First time I had soft beans, I was shocked.
Maxi 2 years ago
Well, that's what we eat everyday in Brazil and we love it😁 it's really nutritious.
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Lise Brouillette 2 years ago
Probably because she'd had them for a million years. People don't realise that beans do keep, but too old beans cook hard. They may be edible, but they're not palatable.
Debbie Parkinson 2 years ago
My mom boiled them and that was it. No seasoning. Nothing. I’d douse them in ketchup so I could actually eat them. Not eating them wasnt a choice. Either you ate what was in front of you or nothing. Looking back I should’ve squirreled away food in my room and ate nothing.
Jeremy Bolanos 2 years ago
My mom used to make beans for one night, then we had refried beans for the rest of the week. I can't with beans.
Dianellian 2 years ago (edited)
Buying cans of Aldi organic beans changed my mind about beans. I don’t understand why the normal ones are so yuck.
#9
My Asian mum is an amazing cook. However, when it comes to western food, she has interesting takes. Bolognese is more like a mincemeat curry served with pasta and she would actually eat her portion with rice instead. Her shepherds pie was littered with raw chillies. The worst was her scrambled eggs. She would add sugar and cook it till it resembled pellets.
Now, I know sweet scrambled eggs or omelettes exist but this was neither of those. I was so used to sugary scrambled eggs that I was incredibly insulted at the soft salted version offered to me by a friends mum. I ate it of course and made no complaints but I secretly thought she was a bad cook. I later came to realise that this version was far superior!
Marco Richter 2 years ago
this would almost qualify as Wurstgulasch. Also bolognese isn't usually made with minced meat but with pot roast that has been cooked for hours plus suffritto.
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Brian Droste 2 years ago
I seem and heard people put ketchup on eggs. That is gross to me.
Load More Replies... Libstak 2 years ago
My mum is an excellent cook, she is praised far and wide...but not for her bolognese, she can't get her head around the sauce needing to be thick and chunky. She makes a very soupy stew, every time. Makes me scratch my head so much because she does every other thing perfect.
AK to LV 2 years ago
My mom is a great cook. She could murder a roast though even with using a meat thermometer.
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JayWantsACat 2 years ago (edited)
My Asian mom was also an amazing cook. Her Japanese cooking was SUPERB. Her gyoza was so good that she always had to make a ton extra because my friends would always want some and she was a giving angel. But, like OP's, my mom could not cook scrambled eggs. They were always super dry and were broken down into small bits. Her other Western cooking was more than solid, though, especially for someone who didn't grow up eating,, let alone cooking, it. I knew the eggs were bad but I grew up on them so I wasn't particularly bothered by them. Obviously, I knew eggs could be better because of restaurants and even fast food. But when I started cooking for myself is when I really realized what I had been missing out on. I make some mean a*s eggs. She passed before I could cook them for her. She was what inspired me to learn to cook. I think should would have been proud.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Bolognese with rice is acceptable IMO. Obviously not as good, but acceptable.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I used to make that for thee kids I nannied for all the time and they loved it. Not that different to chilli con carne if you think about it.
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just a lazy witch 2 years ago
Oh lord, my mom is like that too. I hate sharing recipes with her, because alkost every time she has to make some "upgrades" and sometimes the dish ends up as something absolutely different. Don't get me wrong, she is great cook, I love her food, but I just don't like sharing recipes with her, because I just don't get why she even wants them, when she doesn't follow them.
Brenda Wallace 2 years ago
My Mom would change a recipe to conform to what she thinks you should be eating. I injured my jaw and was told not to eat anything that needed chewing. Dr suggested mashed potatoes and gravy. Mom gave me her recipe for egg nog. I’d had it it was very good. Went home made it took a gulp and blech NO sugar. Asked her why. She said I was too heavy didn’t need the sugar. She left the oats out of apple crumble.
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
the only omelette I eat is the Japanese style, which is quite sweet. I'm not a person that generally likes eggs otherwise. xD
“Little by little I started adding more once I’d seen people around me using their spices liberally, but I still usually stick to my basics, salt, pepper (a little), onion powder, and garlic powder,” they shared. Many of the stories in this post follow a similar pattern, of slow, hesitant experimentation until the fear of a spice rack is finally broken.
#10
Darling mother loves dill. Will put it on or in anything she can. My siblings and I won’t touch the stuff…ever…
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
"I can tell you're making bread. I see the dill dough.😣"
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over it already 2 years ago
I love dill pickles but can't stand it as a cooking spice.
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
dill is great when its with the right things. but not too much.
just a lazy witch 2 years ago
That was my first thought too! My stepdad is polish and he hates dill with deep passion (because they put it on (almost) everything) :D my mom on the other hand loves dill, It's her favourite herb, so she has a blast everytime we visit his family in Poland :D
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Rachel Smith 2 years ago
I grew up with my mom using nothing but salt and pepper. Which isnt bad but there are so many better ways to season things. I love dill, but it only has certain uses like egg salad, cucumber sandwiches.
Abel 2 years ago
I am spaniard and i had to google what dill is. It is eneldo in spanish. WHAT THE HELL is eneldo? Is something used by witches? Druids? Weird people?
Raphapablap 2 years ago
Not often used in Spanish cooking but used quite a bit in Greek food. I'm not a major fan but my partner is Greek so I endure it. I tend to see hierbabuena in supermarkets but never see it used in dishes. Anything you can recommend?
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#11
Carrot and raisin salad. There was an incident.
Jayne 2 years ago
Shredded carrots and apples are delicious (with a spritz of lemon if you're feeling fancy). The raisins make me side-eye this.
Josh 2 years ago
Carrots and raisins seems like they should only go together as part of a carrot cake, and in no other situation.
Elisabet Larsen 2 years ago
I hate hate hate it. In Denmark we call it råkost. Some comes shredded apple in it instead. But nope. Still hate it.
#12
Beef here. My dad over cooked steaks to the point that knives couldn't cut it and eating it was a chore. I moved to Korea almost two decades ago and Korean beef (similar to Wagyu) opened my eyes to this new world of meat.
tom 2 years ago
I think this is a generational thing. Cook the living daylights out of it so it doesn't make you sick. Accompanied with boiled vegetables that were grey in colour ...(no it's not a typo)
Tim Fawcett 2 years ago
In the UK I think alot goes back to the 15 years of rationing due to WW2 - the focus was on quantity not quality and veggies were left to grow as large as possible rather than being harvested when at their best. Of course they were tough and stringy and had to be boiled lie hel to get them eatable. So the generation that grew up in this time learned this was how you cooked vegatable - and they then passed this law onto the boomers they spawned.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
My Dad was the opposite. He liked his steak RARE & as a little kid, I refused to eat it. He forced me to chew a bite & I vomited all over the table. It was more the texture than anything, but I never had to eat raw f*cking beef again.
Edward Monks 2 years ago
same with me and lamb and pork, used to dislike them to into my late 20s, as my gran always used to nuke them to the point of being hard or chewy
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
I was taught by Sicilians.The beef was so tender you could almost cut it with a fork!
Susan Teter 2 years ago
My mom was raised to cook all meat well done to avoid trichinosis...a food born illness predominantly in hogs due to them being fed slop. This parlayed into all meat hamburgers became hockey pucks and steaks were basically shoe leather. My dad, who prided himself on feeding and raising cattle for meat would tell her she could ruin a great steak. She blamed my dad for the steaks being too tough. It took 25 years to get her to taste a medium rare steak...she never cooked a well done steak again.
L Coffeen 2 years ago
I'm someone who likes my steaks rare, and my father's side of the family always cooked it so much that the only think that made it edible was to put ketchup on it. I also lived in Oklahoma for a couple years as a teen, and getting my steak the way I liked outside of a restaurant was impossible. Seriously why kill it twice?
We were also curious about how satelliteboi handles spice now that they have some experience. “My spice tolerance is not great. I still get uncomfortable with too much black pepper in my food, but I’m trying to push myself and try spicy things. I’ll munch on spicy chips, but only a few at a time, with a cup of water close by.”
#13
Beef stroganoff- I blame Hamburger Helper, specifically.
Grew up with a mom who made this often (cheap, easy to make.) Now, the smell of it makes my stomach turn.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
I'm betting yours isn't made with hamburger helper though.
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--- 2 years ago
I think the photo shows another dish. Also, where do they live where beef is cheap? I should move there
Seth 2 years ago
Beef is quite cheap in the USA, but beef shouldn't be cheap. Cow ranching is DEVASTATING to the environment compared to pigs or chickens.
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Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
Properly made, Beef Stroganoff is fabulous. Those off-the-shelf instant things can be worse than jail food.
Mike D 2 years ago
"I don't know why they call it hamburger helper, I think it does fine all by itself" Cousin Eddie, National Lampoon
Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
Do you have Mince Mate? As far as I know it's basically the same as Hamburger Helper. I never understand how people say it's cheap though because where I live Mince Mate is expensive af.
Load More Replies... Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Authentic beef stroganoff is wonderful. No ground beef involved. Check Natasha's Kitchen website for her recipe. You will fall in love.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Yeah, my mom used to make a terrible version of that as well. I've never eaten it as an adult because it's been ruined by her terrible cooking.
Montanavanna 2 years ago
Mee too! My husband likes hamburger helper so I make it for him but I won't eat it due to eating it so much in my youth.
#14
I was a picky eater growing up, but in retrospect, I've always wondered if the food was just bad.
I moved to London when I was 20 and it was the first time I could try foods from parts of the world I didn't grow up in. Turns out I love Indian. Turns out I love a lot of food that isn't bland.
My family might have done me a favor though, because now I try new things well into adulthood and I'm still discovering tastes I love.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
My dad is the absolute worst for refusing to try new things, to the point that if we suggested a restaurant that he didn't "like the sound of" he'd storm off in a huff every damn time we were out for a day. He was happy with a sandwhich or pasty from a bakers, or some chips. I always wanted to try something new. He's still a bit like this, but getting better. He calls me a food snob though.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I was fully aware as a child that my mom was an awful cook and that food tastes better than how my mom made it. Because of that I always wanted to try everything when it wasn't my mom's cooking. I would greedily have seconds and thirds away from home; everywhere else I ate seemed like gourmet food.
◦•●◉ 𝒮𝒽𝓎 𝒟𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑜𝓃 (𝓈𝒽𝑒/𝒽𝑒𝓇) ◉● 2 years ago
I don’t know if to upvote or downvote. I shall do nothing then
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Apple Pie. When I was a kid, and we visit McDonald's sometimes for breakfast. I saw Apple pie on the menu and asked if I can try that. My Mom said cooked apples will not taste nice. In fact, fruits are supposed to be eaten raw and not cooked.
When I started working, I had the freedom to eat whatever I like. I ordered apple pie and I loved it instantly.
Oktogal 2 years ago
My grandparents would get McDonald’s apple pies for me and my brother when we were younger. I recently tried one again, so much nostalgia!
Julie Zugz 2 years ago
I hate when people make up rules like that. Fruit shouldn't be cooked?! Says who?
Tamiko 2 years ago
Says those who have never munched on a raw cooking apple.
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Skip Marooch 2 years ago
Either the Mom was lying to save money (which I doubt) or she was unfortunately born in a bloodline that didn't pass down or even never experienced delicious fruit pie and cake recipes from grandma. That's kinda sad.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
A friend in prison would make apple pie. We'd cut the apples into small pieces, and put them in our jugs with hot water (a spigot at 100°/212°), and change the water every half hour for about five hours. Then she'd add stuff to it that made it taste like apple pie.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
I have good apple pie and apple pie that was so so. A good apple is good. I remember growing up my mom every once in awhile would make apple crumb. Really like that. Haven't had apple crumb in a very long time. Think about that from time to time and would love to have some.
Load More Replies... Seth 2 years ago
If your kid wants to try a new food that's safe for them to eat, discouraging that open-mindedness is one of the stupidest reactions a parent could make.
Brooke Weber 2 years ago
I can never understand why parents are force their weird eating habits or food ideas on their kids
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Gary Geracci 1 year ago
Apple Pie, Homemade and smelling up the kitchen, Served with a dollop of Ice cream, (old fashioned Vanilla) or Cheese , MMMMM MMMMM GOOD!
But in general, they were happy about the discussion the initial post prompted. “I’m overall glad how well the post was received. It helped me know I’m not alone in having food reservations based on how I was raised and fed growing up. I also got a lot of tips for increasing my spice tolerance and I'm grateful to the community for that.” If you want to improve your own cooking game, Bored Panda has got you covered, check out our article on kitchen hacks, or explore some culinary fails.
#16
Ketchup.
I couldn't eat ketchup unless it was already on my fast food cheeseburger, and I definitely couldn't use it to dip anything in, until I was like 30. When I was growing up my brother put it on everything, and the smell of it started making me sick, because not only would he drown everything in it, but if he was dipping something in it, he would scoop it so that all of his fingers would drag through the ketchup, and then he'd put his whole hand in his mouth to get extra ketchup. It made me sick. I can enjoy ketchup on some things now though.
Loft Life 2 years ago (edited)
Maybe the brother had a mental disability? Unlike OP, I still hate ketchup to this day but it’s for the same reason. Except it was my uncle (only 5 years older than me, raised by my grandmom who had my uncle very late in life) and he had Down syndrome. It’s the smell not the taste that gets me.
Load More Replies... Sarel Seerower 2 years ago
Did your parents make it or is the heading of the article just wack
Fat Harry 2 years ago
If you look at the url, part of it is people-share-food-their-family-ruined. I think at some point someone has changed the title to specifically refer to parents and in the process has made most of the posts irrelevant.
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Raphapablap 2 years ago
I have to wash plates that have ketchup on immediately after as I hate the smell of it, especially the "old" ketchup smell.
Russell Rieckenberg 2 years ago
Anything ketchup can do, hot sauce or salsa can do better. I never, never, never put ketchup on anything, but don't ask to omit it on restaurant food.
#17
There was a brief period of time, not even a year. after my grandmother died that my grandfather was cooking for my brothers and I. Before I took over at 14 out of necessity. He never cooked before. He was very classic old world, went to work and came home to (bad) food she cooked. The most he could cook was warming up a tortilla on the burner and a slice of bologna the same way.
I don't know how or who told him about it but he discovered Mrs. Dash seasoning after someone also told him that salt in anything was going to kill you. And it became the main ingredient of everything. Potatoes, eggs, heated up pasta sauce, on Spam, on white rice. Everything. No salt. Maybe a little pepper. To this day almost 30 years later. I cannot even look at Mrs. Dash in the spice aisle without feeling honestly nauseated. God I still remember the smell of it. There was 5-6 jars of it at all times in my cupboard. He went through a jar or more a week. This was like PTSD for me. I still see it in my mind. Dreading anything he made because it would only taste like that stuff.
Josh 2 years ago
I was about to debate that Mrs Dash is a perfectly fine seasoning blend, until I read they were going through a jar a week. Good lord, no wonder OP is off it for life.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Ugh. My mom never used salt and always used Mrs Dash. I hate that stuff now and refuse to ever use it. At one time she got into using Salt-Sense which was like a salt substitute and it was so awful
Karma Black 2 years ago
I love Mrs. Dash, but holy smokes. That's not even closer to a reasonable amount.
Rachel Smith 2 years ago
Salt is only bad for you if you have a medical condition that makes it bad. Like high blood pressure or a heart condition
Brenda Wallace 2 years ago
If you don’t eat any table salt you better find another source of iodine. It’s not in any food grown in Europe or North America. Without a tiny amount (only gotten from food grown in soil (including meat) with it you won’t be healthy. It’s why it’s added to boxes of table salt. Fancy salts don’t have it unless the packaging says so. Then it’s been added. No the iodine you put on cuts won’t work.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Right? I think it's so sad when people are afraid of seasoning their food. A really great show on Netflix is "Salt Fat Acid Heat" based on the cookbook by Samin Nosrat. I actually started putting more (and better) salt in the dishes I cook. It honestly does make a difference.
Amy Pottorff 2 years ago
That's how I am with pretty much any McCormick's seasoning blend..... after a while you realize they all have the same base smell and flavor and they're just gross.
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
I feel this so hard! My stepfather prided himself on never using salt in his cooking. He used Mrs Dash on EVERYTHING. My mother and I would sneak into the kitchen and properly season the food when he wasn’t looking
#18
Looking back the reason I hated vegetables is because they were always straight from a can and into the microwave with no seasoning.
Neeaschild 2 years ago
I also thought I hated Vegetables no I like em just not drowned in Cream. Oh also took 10 Years to be able to eat Onions if I hide them because they were in everything Vegetables, fried Potatoes, Eggs (sunny side up and scrambled).
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
Yeah, Miniature Spherical Torture Devices, high on the list of Do Not Eat if Canned! (M.S.T.D.- Brussels Sprouts) Fresh out of the garden and less than half an inch in diameter ,sweet as a berry thick in butter, YUM!
#19
Like a lot of people: vegetables. My dad liked his vegetables cooked to mush, even more so as he has gotten older and his teeth have gotten worse, so my mum placated him and overcooked vegetables. She also never used any seasoning, not even salt and pepper. Turns out that vegetables are great when cooked properly and seasoned just right.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
I always liked vegetables growing up and could not for the longest time figure out why I could never get them to taste as good as my moms. Turns out I wasn’t willing to use the approximately 6 pounds of butter per serving that she used. Obviously a little exaggerated, but I really did have to force myself to like them as an adult because I was not willing to use that much butter.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago (edited)
Have you tried using some milk and salt as a substitute? Mashed potatoes taste better with a bit of cream and salt mixed in and is a good substitute for butter
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Dave Van Beurden 2 years ago
some people think vegetables are only cooked if you can smear them over the wall
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Most vegetables are incredibly elevated in taste by the simple act of roasting them, especially root veg. Toss with a little olive oil, throw in some cloves of garlic, quarters of onion, salt & pepper, maybe a few slices of lemon and - MAGIC.
Terri Martin 2 years ago
Idk if id call it "placating" to serve food that the allowed him to chew it. That's not to say the others in the home (with the ability to chew ) couldn't have been served something different in order to placate them though.
TheSnark 2 years ago
I think a lot of us were raised with badly cooked veggies. I remember thinking there were more vitamins in the water than the vegetables anymore.
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
By the time you’ve cooked seven kinds of hell out of them, there probably are more vitamins in the water than the vegetables
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Donna Gettings Apperson 2 years ago
I always liked soft cooked vegetables, even canned vegetables. I just like vegetables. Anyway, I had only had canned asparagus until a few years ago; I had fresh ones that had been quick sauteed and seasoned with salt. Where has that been all my life? I've not had canned ones since. They are so easy to make and the whole eating/tasting experience is completely different.
Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
Never boil veggies; steam only. Corn on the cob? Boil for 30 seconds.
#20
Bologna. We had it constantly. That's all they would ever buy. Sandwiches. Fried on egg sandwiches. Cut up and mixed with eggs. I can't even stand to smell it.
Jenn Smith 2 years ago
Everyone here in SC seems to love it. But neither my kids nor I can even stand the smell of it when family or friends fry up a bologna sandwich😅
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Nicky Shrimps 2 years ago
9/10 comments have never actually eaten bologna, but bologna lunch meat. Big difference.
Amy Pottorff 2 years ago
I hated bologna for basically the same reason.... until I grew up and realized that Oscar Mayer / store brand was not real. bologna. German bologna is fantastic!
BitchinintheBurgh' 2 years ago
I grew up eating bologna because we were poor. I still love it! I have tried many versions. Jumbo (as it is called in Pittsburgh) is still my favorite with Lebanon bologna as a close second.
Beverly Lodge 2 years ago
We had only peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches for years growing up. I'll never eat one again until it's zombie times.
Brandi Delph 2 years ago
With OP on this. Baloney was a staple growing up. Cold baloney sandwiches, hot fried baloney. Haven't touched the stuff since I moved out of my parents home 25+ years ago
Drea Jennings 2 years ago (edited)
My folks used to buy bologna by the roll, cut it in thick slabs and fry it. GAG!! We knew money was tight when the roll would show up in the fridge. Bologna EVERYTHING! Sandwiches, fried, cut in little chunks and added to whatever my mom made. I'm 60 yo now and I just recently had a picnic with my 8yo grandson who planned the picnic, chose the menu, made the food and waited on me like a waiter in a 5star restaurant. The main course? Bologna sandwiches and macaroni salad. I knew I had to eat it and by the time I was half done I realized that in EXTREME moderation I was okay with bologna. I hadn't touched it my entire adult life until then. Maybe it was the lovely picnic, maybe my infinite love of my grandson or maybe I finally got over my abject revulsion. That sandwich was damned tasty! Sometimes I ask my grandson to make lunch for us and he loves that I love his sandwiches.
#21
My mom ruined a couple of meals for me, but in a different way. Her meat loaf and goulash were some of my favorites. Even with her recipes, I can't recreate the flavors. So they're ruined in that hers were so good that none others can live up to it.
Stygtand 2 years ago
I have that with a type of coconut cake that my grandmother made. She died 10 years ago and ive never eaten it since. Just cant do it even if it looks and smells delicious.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Don't mourn a food over a lost family member. Make it and use it to trigger happy memories of them and all the fun and love they had for you. You will enjoy that food even more knowing that you are making it to honour her memory
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Amy Smith 2 years ago (edited)
I feel you... the only fruit cake I could ever stand was my Grandads. He did tell me so many times how he made it and the one thing I can remember is that instead of milk he used cold tea in it but he did also put other stuff in there that wasn't on the recipe. I have his recipe card that he had annotated, but somehow, no matter how diligently I followed the recipe I could never quite recreate it. I think it's more about missing him than the recipe why it doesn't taste quite right.
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
I crave my mothers goulash and it's not even the best one I've ate in my life. My cousin makes the hands down best goulash I've ever tasted
#22
My dad is a decent cook, but one of his quirks is that he doesn't like to waste food. Which is fine, except for how he does it.
We had a wedding reception catered by a local Italian restaurant. The next day he made French toast...
...with the garlic bread.
Rachel Smith 2 years ago
Maybe if you make it a savory French toast. But basic food science....and taste....would tell you garlic doesn't go with the ingredients of French toast which include brown sugar, cinnamon and maple syrup
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tom 2 years ago
If he is just dipping the garlic bread into beaten egg and frying it...rock on!
Rachel Smith 2 years ago
I'm guessing he didn't do that considering the tone of op's post
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Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
I grew up with savoury French toast, never sweet French toast. And i thing garlic bread French toast sounds amazing
Deanna Torres 2 years ago
French toast is not meant to be sweet, so this sounds awesome. I put garlic in my French toast.
#23
My mom has 5 recipes in her whole cooking repertoire and my entire childhood was either eating these on repeat or fast food. And my parents would get hooked on a fast food joint and we would eat there once a week till they got tired and moved on to another.
I HATE lemon pepper chicken like nothing else in this world.
And the thought of going to a primo burger groses me out.
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Sometimes as parents we get discouraged by the constant negativity about ANYTHING new on the dinner table! Spending the time, money and effort just to watch it go to waste gets to be too much.
KariAdoresHerKats 2 years ago
I love lemon and lemon flavored things but i never understood lemon chicken or lemon on fish 🤢
Brenda Wallace 2 years ago
Lemon on fish supposedly covers up the fishy smell/flavor. Me I just hate anything bitter. But I’m a certified super taster. I taste MORE of whatever is there, so tone everything I eat. For awhile ketchup was too spicy. Ya know well made fries taste really good naked?!
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carin onstott 2 years ago
As a kid, my parents went through a lemon pepper chicken phase. Blah!
Amy Pottorff 2 years ago
My mom used to put lemon pepper seasoning on everything,..... I love lemon pepper, but I have to create the flavors with real lemons and not that fake lemon flavor seasoning
#24
Twizzlers. My dad loved Twizzlers, and so did I. Then he died unexpectedly.
He wouldn’t listen to me about getting vaccinated or masking, he got COVID (though was “just” sick at home for a week), and then 2 months later he suddenly died.
Anyway, now I can’t eat Twizzlers without being sad.
FloC 2 years ago
I like the "low fat" argument on the package. Like, this c**p is full of sugar, artificial flavours and colouring, but wait, it is low fat !!!
Lu 2 years ago
Don’t forget it’s King Size to make up for how healthy it is!
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Cyber Returns 2 years ago
OP shouldn't get sad about eating them. It's a fond memory of their dad, so when they eat them, they should remember the good times and the love he had for OP. The Twizzlers should be their personal celebration of their dad
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Some day maybe, but definitely not right away, too painful....
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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
I’m the same with what was my mom’s favorite meal. Sausages, mashed potatoes and stewed tomatoes. Mashed potatoes mixed with some of the juice from the tomatoes is actually pretty good. Liked my sausages well done. Nope. Not anymore. It would make me too sad.
Pandasizing World Peace 2 years ago
So sorry for your loss but why the connection between your father dying and the fact that he was sick with COVID two months earlier? Lots of unvaccinated people get sick with COVID and just naturally get over it, like people do from a cold or the flu.
Trish 2 years ago (edited)
Take your time to process through your grief. It is a process, and can cause issues people would never think about. During my last grief season, I couldn't change the DVD I had been watching when it all went wrong. But, I had to have that DVD playing on repeat or I would feel empty. For months, that DVD was playing whenever I was home.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
The tire treads trailer trucks leave on the road look like Twizzlers but actually taste much better.
Citrine Topaz 2 years ago
Sounds like candy companies missed out on tire tread flavor, lol!
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#25
Cliche for the time period but Pork. Dry, dry, dry Pork. They overcooked all the meats so I could have overcome this. Except for the constant Parasite stories and the stories that if you get sick once every time after if you’re even near it will make you sick again. I eat the crispiest bacon and sausages.
Josh 2 years ago
I feel like pork chops are hard to get right. The period of time between not done enough and dry as a bone seems shorter to me than other meats.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
It is probably because there is too little fat on them. Try using a neck chop.
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BC 2 years ago
I may be wrong, but methinks a few of these ‘overcooking’ stories are because of the Depression and WWII, especially in Australia and the UK where there was rationing. Traditional meals that used to be tasty had to be boiled to death and rarely had seasoning.
Arrien 2 years ago
I hate to say this, but it happened a lot in the US as well...=( First time I cooked a turkey for family, my mother kept trying to tell me it wasn't done......The meat was sliding off the bones, but to her it wasn't cooked, meaning it wasn't dry as a bone.
Load More Replies... Rachel Smith 2 years ago
Im guessing they didn't know about meat cooking temperatures? Cuz pork only needs to get to 145f for it to be safe
Donkey boi 2 years ago
I like my bacon, barely cooked, I like my pork roast fatty and moist, but... I like my pork chops as dry as possible, not burnt, just dry as plasterboard.
Stacy Bender 2 years ago
Someone in the extended family had a farm, and Ma would buy a half pig off them every year. There was only two of us in the house by then. (Father died and siblings moved across the country.) Not my favorite. (Unless it's crispy pork rind. Artery clogging, but worth it.)
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
Has any one ever tasted a home cooked 1950s pork chop.? Dry, hard and tasteless.I learned better in the Navy!
#26
Oh no!
I was almost ruined for spice (still can't handle more than mild-leaning-medium salsa) similarly. My mom used to make, for instance, chicken soups/stews/etc with 6+ cups of water... and *one* bullion cube. Maybe a little salt & some pre-ground black pepper so old it could vote. Luckily that little bit was apparently enough to save me from total spice intolerance.
Also almost ruined was salmon- throughout my childhood baked 45 minutes at 350, with slices of oranges on it the entire time (so they get burned and turn bitter af, a flavor they impart to the salmon itself) Pork chops, steak, and plenty of other meats got a similar "40-45 minutes at 350" treatment but the salmon was especially bad.
Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
I cleaned some spices like this out of someone's cupboard once. I called it as being from the Carter administration, US president from 1977 to 1981.
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Abner_Mality 2 years ago
My SIL always cooks salmon for family dinners, and always like that... 350F for 30-45 minutes, just ruined and horrible!
Glenn Schroeder 2 years ago
The only salmon I knew anything about growing up was salmon croquettes, but made with canned mackerel because it was less expensive. It was quite a revelation to me the first time I had a salmon steak.
Amy Smith 2 years ago (edited)
I was put off pork chops and roast pork as a kid because of how dry my mum would cook it. Turkey as well, (Xmas in the UK complaints about dry turkey are common)... no-one in our family could stand turkey as it was always so dry. It was when I started cooking that I learnt that if cooked to non Sahara levels of dryness I actually really enjoyed it. Pork chops were always like cardboard and I still am not a fan.
Leanne Hailes 2 years ago
Any fish cooked even just 30 extra seconds more then it needs may as well go straight to the garbage can 😖
Ashley Crossman 2 years ago
I think it's a parent thing better burnt then dead from salmonella. I'll make a stake very rare for myself but always well done for my kids this is the way.
Poppy 2 years ago
My mum used to be a good cook, but what she chose to cook was traditional English favourites which didn't really have much in the way of spiciness. What she cooked was flavourful but compared to cuisines overseas, uninteresting. I can't cope with a very spicy curry for example. The curry she used to make had barely a teaspoon of spices in, so milder than mild.
#27
Chicken breasts.
Always bought the largest ones. They almost always had a “woody” texture because the proteins grew too fast and didn’t have time to develop properly. I always mentioned that three small ones cost the same as two large ones but was always shrugged off.
They were also unseasoned and usually dry.
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Woody breast is just so nasty to bite into. It's almost crunchy, like gristle. I don't buy chicken breast anymore; thighs & drumsticks are cheaper, tastier, juicier, and much less likely to have a gross texture.
tom 2 years ago
boil 2L of water, no salt, turn off heat, put in thawed room temp chicken breasts for 50 minutes. remove, eat. with rice and whatever spicy or not sauce you like,..it's tender. easy meal for the picky eaters in my family
Jenn Smith 2 years ago
Idk why you got down voted. Chicken perlot is a delicacy around here. SC in US. But it does include plenty of seasoning, vegetables, and sometimes yummy bits of sausage! Delicious!
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Me 2 years ago
Coat in cornstarch and spices, add a bit of oil to a pan and fry until crrrispy. Serve with rice. Delicious 😋
KittyMommy 2 years ago
Almost the same method to velvet meat. Do the coating and then either fry in oil or put in boiling water for a few minutes .It's what makes takeout Chinese meats so tender
Load More Replies... Gary Geracci 1 year ago
I can't stand chicken breasts even today. Dry foul, things! gimme a good thigh and leg!
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
When you look at boneless chicken breasts in the market, check them for any dark coloration that's sort of pinkish orange. That's the woody texture. Avoid them.
#28
My grandmother ruined ribs for me. My mother says they were “country pork style” ribs though I honestly have no idea. All I know is they were almost all pure fat and then she would steam/boil-ish them in bbq sauce so none of the fat would render or get crispy or anything so when they were ‘done’ it just felt like slime in your mouth 🤮
To this day I can’t look at any kind of ribs without my stomach turning… and I LOVE bbq as a general rule. I’ve tried to eat them again but just seeing them brings back such strong memories of any time we were at my grandparents for more than a few days (like Thanksgiving or Christmas) ribs would be made as one of the meals and I’d either have to eat them or eat nothing so even with what are clearly properly cooked ribs I just still can’t get past ‘all that’
Of course, my sons favorite food is ribs 🤷🏻♀️🤣
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
My god! I see so many ruined appetites on here that I am tempted to invite everyone over to one of our barbecue feasts and show them how good the food they ended up hating should taste like! I have so many recipes and so does my Bev and people who have tried our cooking all say it's addictive and come back for more
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
Honestly I don't blame them. I have an aversion to fat in meat. If I accidentally get some in my mouth I gag instantly. It's been like this since I was little. The feeling of the fat wiggling around my teeth🤮
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
Yup. I know there’s flavor in fat, as my family keeps telling me, but the texture is just a hard no.
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Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Country style ribs need to be barbecued for the best flavor or cooked in a way to render the fat out of the meat
#29
Not food but ingredient, rosemary. They put way too much every chance they got, I was in my 30s before I was able to try it again
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Try making a dark, rich brown gravy from beef dripping. Skim the fat off and add finely chopped rosemary and thyme and about 2 tablespoons of the fat back. Add some beef stock to it and a tablespoon of plain flour to thicken it up
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
No, no, no! You brown the flour in about 2 TBLS of fat FIRST. Once it starts to brown you can add the herbs. Mix well and THEN add stock, slowly - whisking all the while.
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EmbersAreOut 2 years ago
Same! One time i got sick after eating in a restaurant, and one of the main things that i ate was rosemary flatbread. Still cannot even smell rosemary without feeling ill. for some reason tho, rosemary on lamb is an exception.
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
We can't even have rosemary at my house because my dad is allergic. The one time I had something with rosemary in it, I didn't care for the taste much.
#30
Pork chops. Every version of pork chops was dry as the desert, heat blasted til it was gray in the middle.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
My aunt used to turn everything grey when she cooked. Mashed potatoes, Meat, Carrots. I once joked that she could make a salad turn grey because all her cook books had monochrome photos
D20 Games 2 years ago (edited)
Brown sugar spice rub for pork chops. For 2 chops, double for 4 - bone or boneless Use a fork to poke the meat thoughly 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 tsp black pepper 1/2 tsp seasoning salt 1/4 tsp onion powder Mix all spices together, rub on all sides, wrap in Saran wrap and place in refrigerator for 1 hour Remove from Saran wrap and bake in oven at 375 for 20 min, flip and repeat for 20 min. You may need to adjust time based on your oven. Let them rest for 10 min and serve. They always come out tender and juicy My friends and family rave about this, asking me to make them repeatedly.
Pandasizing World Peace 2 years ago
The only way to eat those dry pork chops was to coat every side of each bite with salt.
#31
Carrots. When I was about 8 or 9, I got a really bad case of conjunctivitis. On top of the medical treatment and eye drops, my mom was dead set on drowning me in carrot juice because of the popular belief that eating carrots is good for your eyes. So she took that to the next level, buying kilos of carrots weekly and juicing them every morning. I would sit in the morning at the kitchen table, tears streaming down my face, gagging, with my mom begging me to finish up the glass of juice. No other fruit mixed in could help mask that horrible taste. I couldn't stand carrots in any food for years. Not boiled, roasted, finely grated, nothing. Once I started cooking myself, I slowly was able to incorporate them back into my diet and actually enjoy them roasted or even grated in salads. But snacking on raw carrots is just a big NO for me, and the smell of carrot juice still makes me gag to this day.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
The theory of carrots being good for your eyes comes from the UK propaganda during WWII saying carrots helped you see in the dark when, in reality, it was because the Luftwaffe often struck under the cover of darkness. In order to make it more difficult for the German planes to hit targets, the British government issued citywide blackouts. The Royal Air Force were able to repel the German fighters in part because of the development of a new, secret radar technology
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
Yes! I loved this fact when I first read it- It’s a rare thing when war propaganda finds a second life in the average person’s kitchen.
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Amy Smith 2 years ago (edited)
I feel you... I was in the hospital with Pneumonia as teenager maybe 13 or 14. It was really bad and I did once come very close to passing with it. Long story short, the drip I had in failed (no idea why or why they didn't put it in another place - I was really out of it). When I could start eating solid foods again after the antibiotics calmed the coughing fits down, they told me I had a Potassium deficiency and they advised me to eat as many bananas as possible. I loved bananas at the time, always had (not even the vile antibiotic syrup that tasted vaguely like banana milkshake - a BAD milkshake was enough to put me off them) I had them on toast all the time, had them as snacks at school. Nothing puts you off something like being on 24 hour oxygen, having that mask taken off your face every 2 hours or so to have a nebuliser and then have a banana shoved in your mouth before the mask was put back on. That was a fun time. Couldn't look at a banana again until last year. I'm in my 30s.
GoGoPDX 2 years ago (edited)
Why did they not give IV potassium, (coincidentally called a "banana bag" due to the yellow color of the potassium in the IV bag)? if you were that sick, you would have , or should have had multiple IVs, and possibly a Pic or Central Line. For whatever reason you didn't, there are many oral supplements, or you could have eaten avocados, kiwis, spinach, sweet potato, white potatoes, beets, any kind of beans, butternut or acorn squash, watermelon, lentils, coconut water, raisins, swiss chard, plain yogurt (not Greek though), died apricots, dates, pomegranate, brussel sprouts, bok choy, broccoli, and even carrots, or tomatoes sauces (on pasta of course)? All of those foods have a lot more potassium than bananas, and any physician who would order a high potassium diet for you, and the dietary specialists, who would put together your food while hospitalized would know this, especially in the late 90s to early 2000s when you would have been in the hospital. Sorry to say this, but The hospital you were in and the physicians, nurses, and other staff sounds pretty damn incompetent.
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Luna W. 2 years ago
Carrots are rich in nutrients that promote your health. They contain antioxidants, which may help protect your cells from damage and prevent conditions like cancer and heart disease. Vitamin A, which is plentiful in carrots, is crucial to ongoing eye health. Some studies have linked low levels of vitamin A with a greater risk of night blindness. However, I still don't like eating them raw and prefer them slightly cooked. I love fresh carrot juice, though.
Mama Penguin 2 years ago
My mom used to make carrot juice every day when I was a kid. She mixed it with apples and oranges, though. She woke us up for school with a glass of carrot juice in hand. I still remember the smell and taste to this day.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Especially sad that carrots (apart from giving you vitamins) don't actually help you see in the dark.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
I think if you eat enough carrots your skin will turn a orange tinge, but not sure about this. And your skin will be come tough. But you would have to eat a lot of carrots, Like daily.
Glenn Schroeder 2 years ago
That reminds me of when I was a small child and had a boil under my arm. My parents heard somewhere that eating prunes was a good remedy, so they fed them to me at every opportunity. I didn't like them. I might like them now, but I'll probably never find out, since it's been about 50 years since I had any.
Annita Stephanou 2 years ago
I love carrot juice, but yeah, not when it's forced down my throat.
#32
Bananas. My father is anything except a decent cook, and one day when I was a kid he decided to try and make a "superfood smoothie" for shits and giggles. It consisted of bananas, unwashed kale, raw spinach, walnuts, chia seeds, raw oats, and ice. He just about killed the poor blender and it tasted distinctly of swamp. Still can't have bananas without becoming nauseated.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
I tried making chick pea flour to make healthier cakes. I blew up the blender because I didn't know I had to soak them for 24 hours and slow roast them until dry before grinding them into flour. I'm not allowed to try new ideas in the kitchen without supervision or running the idea by Bev first. I also killed a juicer trying to make apple cider... and a Kenwood multichef... in fact I have killed a lot of kitchen appliances with my food experiments
Clown fish 2 years ago (edited)
Lol I really want to meet Bev she sounds like she has got you towing the line
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Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Kale does NOT belong in a smoothie! Any smoothie! Ever! It turns the smoothie a nasty shade of snot green no matter what else goes into it
BrookeBT 2 years ago
It's not just the slipping hazard that they pose, I was forced to eat banana's as a kid. Every year for my birthday my grandma always made me a nice looking cake - a banana cake - despite me pleading for her not to. I can't smell banana's now. I can't even touch them. The thought of them makes me gag. I worked at a farmers market that sold banana's and I told my boss, "I will keep all the shelves stocked to 110% for you but I am not touching any of those damn bananas." He thought I was I crazy. After two years of working there and being around the bananas, and never wanting to touch them, you know what the moral of the story is? I never did.
Sharon Vaughn 2 years ago
I'm not a fan of bananas either, but b/c my (ex) husband insisted we go out in our boat when I was 8 months pregnant and I started feeling seasick for the first time eve. To "east the nausea" he gave me a banana. Almost immediately after finishing it, I vomited over the side. To this day, they make me nauseous.
Stargazer Lily 2 years ago
We had a swamp behind our house growing up and I remember what it smelled like. Now I hear frogs and crickets! 🐸🦗
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Similar happened to me with mango. My mum knew I didn't like mango, but she gave me a smoothie with it in it without telling me. After only one sip I could tell it had mango and I ended up vomiting. Now I can't even smell it without feeling sick.
Funhog 2 years ago (edited)
I feel strongly about respecting anyone's Banned Foods List -- it doesn't matter their reason for actively avoiding a food. If a food is on someone's List, I wouldn't dream of serving it because I don't know better than someone else regarding what they choose to ingest or avoid. ¶ Personally, I avoid mangoes because I have a sensitivity to urishiol, the oil that is found in poison ivy, poison oak, and sumac; mango skin and the fruit along the skin contains some urishiol.
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visacrum 2 years ago
I did it to myself with bananas, my family owns none of the fault. Bananas are a potassium powerhouse. So for a while, it was at least a banana a day. I still eat them, need that potassium, but I'm at the point where I will buy 3 for the week, and one of them doesn't get eaten. Even then, I have to force myself to eat that second one (different day than banana 1, multi-banana days no longer exist), promise myself I'm not going to food-waste the 3rd, and then...ugh.
#33
I made my parents some zucchini and used some black pepper and my Dad wanted to know what the black things were. He didn’t like it.
Brocken Blue 2 years ago (edited)
😂 this is my mother. She constantly ask waiters in restaurants if food is going to be spicy, and I have to explain that she means do they cook with black pepper
DJR 2 years ago
Perceiving black pepper as spicy seems to be a genetic thing. I see it a lot on lists like this.
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🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 2 years ago
Ya know what? I hate black pepper too. It's ok to hate black pepper. I like actual peppers. I don't like bland food. But black peppers are absolutely revolting to me. Use salt and other spices to your hearts content but do not it black pepper in my meal or I will gag
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
Funnily enough, i used to make a zucchini salsa for pasta and it tasted spicy even without me adding spices to it. Maybe something when the ingredients mix and cook/fry with the zucchini the gives off that spice?
Ashley Crossman 2 years ago
I think people forget spices where expensive and not widely use 2 generations ago in daily cooking. We are so lucky to live in a time of good food shared recipes and easily affordable spices from around the world.
Mary Ballard-Johansson 2 years ago
My loving husband wondered what the green stuff was in the spaghetti sauce. It took me a while to figure out he meant the oregano. He's Swedish.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago (edited)
Have you tried with white pepper? I use that for dishes where I don't want the pepper to be seen, such as potatomash.
Skimommy 2 years ago
I'm so the opposite, I don't consider jalapenos to be hot anymore, they just taste really good. Maybe jalapenos aren't as hot as they used to be. I've started using Serrano peppers, similar taste but 5 times hotter on the scoville scale so we can get a little heat in the queso.
#34
My parents had odd obsessions with food. Canned asparagus, cold. I’d offer to buy fresh asparagus and steam them. Unnecessary, I was told. The incident of the 100 corns they froze and we ate for 3 1/2 years. Took me *decades* to get over that. Broccoli when I was older. It’s one of my favorite vegetables - but, not just steamed and served, salt less and butter free. Cauliflower is exceedingly good - but not just boiled and served with some melted orange cheese goo. When I would make dinner for them I’d be careful to add such scandalous things as thyme, marjoram and maybe bay to sauces.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
Only when it is the season where they are available as fresh
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Alexandra Davis 2 years ago
Butter on broccoli?! I mean I hate butter but I get it added to some veg like sweetcorn and peas, but broccoli? Broccoli just needs to be steamed and served slightly el dente!
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
I have to completely disagree. I will not put butter on most vegetables but steamed broccoli is a different story
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Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
Fresh asparagus laid out on a cokkie sheet, basted with a butter, olive oil and garlic mix. (can add a squeeze of lemon too!) and roast them! Unbelievably good!
Brian Droste 2 years ago
Yes Cauliflower I like raw. It reminds me of cabbage when I first tried it.
I just work here 2 years ago
Ugg, can't stand cauliflower and oddly, as an adult, I dislike corn suddenly..
#35
My mom ruined spaghetti, lasagna, hamburger helper and oatmeal for me. Constantly made dishes and had to eat as leftovers for like a week. Or having only oatmeal for breakfast every day I’m burnt out on it and never crave it.
Another Amy 2 years ago
I hear you, but it sounds like Mom may have been doing her best at the time.
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
My mom did a LOT of hamburger helper meals and spaghetti b/c she worked full time, had three kids and husband to cook for (dad worked later hours so it didn't work out so he could cook) and had a budget. Plus, it's exhausting trying to come up with a new dish every single evening! Sometimes it's easier to have a few instant things to pull out of the pantry and still give everyone a hot meal.
Load More Replies... Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
My kid hates any pasta dish because at one point we hardly had money for food and I just made cheap pasta dishes all the time.
Rob(erta) Roy 2 years ago
I hate instant oatmeal, because I eat it when I don't feel great, so then when I eat it, it reminds me of being sick
visacrum 2 years ago
I also grew up in a poor household. Oatmeal is probably better than the generic sugary cereals we got (but, to your point, when I started eating oatmeal, well, there's just so long you can do that in a row before it's english muffin or bagel time). My only qualms with childhood spaghetti was the use of jarred sauce. I make my own sauce, and having it for dinner 2 weeks straight? I am THERE for it! As for hamburger helper...I came to hamburger helper late in life (20's, out of the house) and omg cheeseburger mac with sour cream for life! But unless the boxes were WAYYYYYYY bigger before I found hamburger helper, or unless she was making like 4 boxes at a whack, that is not a week of meals (unless we're talking 'side of coleslaw' size of dinner). If we had hamburger helper when I was a kid (2 parents, 3 boys), that wouldn't really even be a 1-night meal (double boxer, minimum). Either way, sounds unfair to put that on mum, sounds like a finance thing.
Sharon Vaughn 2 years ago
As an adult, I started eating oatmeal daily to reduce cholesterol. I flavor it with honey and wheat germ for a sweet and nutty taste. No mile, no sugar. That and a cup of dark roast coffee gets my day started.
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
sometimes I stir van, fresh fruit or nuts, of course, or some jam/preserves. I also eat it every day, and really need to break it up once in a while with more than just I also eat it every day, and really need to break it up once in a while with more than just Honey or brown sugar
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Juliana Blewett 2 years ago
My grandmother used to make oatmeal for every breakfast, except it was actually gruel. It was more like soup than oatmeal. I hated it until I learned to make it myself.
Wendy Anderson 2 years ago
I grew up in orphanages and the usual breakfast was porridge. By the time it got to me it was cold and in one piece. I would gag trying to eat it, could not leave the table until it was eaten, so spent a lot of time sitting there. My kids were not allowed porridge in the house and the smell still makes me gag!
Adrianne 2 years ago
Spaghetti is something my ma ruined for me too. She ALWAYS made her sauce incredibly watery and bland.
dino_Z71 2 years ago
My wife likes it like that. I make sauce that you can stand a spoon up in. With lots of 1" meatballs. She says it's too thick...
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BarBeeGirl 2 years ago
I can never eat leftovers Thanks to my mom. She grew up in the depression so never threw out anything. One time she served me beans & wieners for lunch. I noticed the hotdogs had gone bad & call it out to her. She said "oh for Christ sake Susan. They're just a little green" Never been able to eat hotdogs since
#36
Chicken breast and pork. Grew up thinking it was always stringy and tough to chew. Never knew they were always overcooking it so badly, and not properly seasoning it to boot. I cook breasts to 155 and let them sit there for a few mins. I also dry-brine them. But I also rarely eat breast because thighs are better!
#37
My entire family loves spicy food. My mom is a chef, I know my food was seasoned. She said she craved spicy food when she was pregnant with me. I'm the same way where black pepper is spicy for me. However I loooooove wasabi and strong horseradish.
My mom ruined steak for me. A lot of people think I'm weird because I don't like steak. My mom owns bars and restaurants so the last thing she wanted to do when she got home was cook. Steaks were her go-to quick meal. We ate a lot of steak. I got so sick of steak as a kid.
Snoopy the Great 2 years ago
Amen! I don't like steak either! I might get a lot of hate but it's just so bland...
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
Bland?!? No hate here honestly, just a question. Did no one salt the steak before cooking it in your house?
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Another Amy 2 years ago
Ugh, I can still hear my abusive father claiming that his steak was the best in the world. Meanwhile I'm a little kid sitting at the table staring at a slab of under seasoned, overcooked meat and wondering how in the hell I'm going to get through it. Bleah
Michael Largey 2 years ago
My mom tried to get us to eat steak by calling it "chewing gum meat". She succeeded admirably.
#38
Meatloaf Not because it was bad, but because my mom's version was so good/different it ruined my ability to enjoy it at restaurants. When I started cooking it for my wife when we were dating, it ruined it for her too. Bonus story: My wife's answer is 100% bratwurst. Her parents would just boil them in plain water and she hated it growing up and got sick to her stomach just thinking about them. At one of my family events I asked her to try a grilled one (before I knew the backstory). When she did her face lit up, and she then info-dumped the whole story and how she never thought these things could taste good. Over the next few minutes she slowly starts to realize all the foods she hates are foods her parents cooked by boiling in water. One by one we make them by using non boiling methods and turns out she liked them. Her parents are amazing cooks, but they have a few family tradition recipes that need to die.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Boiling does tend to remove the flavour if you don't season the water
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
There are better ways to discipline unruly kids you know
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My taste for meatloaf is confined to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
#39
Split Pea Soup.
I don't know what about it, whether the recipe was bad or my mom made it badly, but I always hated it when it was made. To me, it was bad tasting mush; using ketchup as a condiment didn't really help it either.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Split peas soup might as well be spit pee soup, as far as I'm concerned.
Spittnimage 2 years ago
My mom would tell us to put ketchup in soup beans when we complained we didnt like them.
Sky Render 2 years ago
I accidentally ruined split pea soup for my wife because I made a batch with expired split peas once. Oops! I got a single bout of diarrhea from it, she got so sick she almost went to the emergency room...
Glenn Schroeder 2 years ago
I grew up on it, and enjoyed it. When I got married my wife had never heard of it, and thought it sounded terrible, but after I cooked it for her once she started making it on a regular basis.
#40
Scalloped potatoes and ham. My parents made it when I was still in a high chair and made me eat it even though I didn't want to, and then vomited all over the table. I can do cheese + potato + pork in certain combinations but in that specific presentation, I'm 35 years old and still no.
Thankfully scalloped potatoes are like, not a common dish these days and very easy to avoid.
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
I love scalloped potatoes and ham! Then use the leftover hambone to make split pea soup. Yum.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I've never had scalloped potatoes better than my Mom's.
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#41
Peanut butter sandwiches. I had them all the time for my school lunches, and now I can't stand peanut butter in anything. I can eat peanuts fine, just not as a spread.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago (edited)
I worked with a woman who ate pb for lunch every day. Every single day. She had more kids than Mother Hubbard (10) and one or more of them had kids they schlepped home to let her provide for. Her husband was a lump, I don't think he held down a real wage earning job in all the years I knew her. All that poor woman could afford for lunch was pb. I certainly understand the burnout folks would experience. Edit: a word.
Jenn Smith 2 years ago
PB sandwiches can be elevated by adding mashed up or sliced bananas. Even some Marshmallow creme, if you feel fancy.
French panda says ur worth it 2 years ago
Same! I still will barely eat PBJ. I had it every day until fourth grade. At this point, I barely eat unless necessary. Peanut butter and banana is so much better.
#42
My dad is Japanese and wouldn’t let me try sushi until I had it in Japan. When I finally did, it was the freshest sushi in the world (you literally pick the fish out of the tank and they kill it for you). I’ve never been able to get sushi even half as good or as cheap in the US, so I just don’t eat it here at all.
Lu 2 years ago
Pacific Northwest has good sushi. I live in Vancouver BC - and some people (not my claim) say it’s just as good in Japan. Arguable because of different fish type but it’s fresh and affordable here.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I had delicious sushi in Vancouver. Even more impressive was that the whole restaurant was gluten free!
Load More Replies... Binny Tutera 2 years ago
First time I ate raw fish was in Hawaii. The hotel had a buffet table on the beach and I wanted to try it, but I was skeptical. The chef urged me to try some- the fisherman who delivered it was still there having an iced tea before continuing on his deliveries. I have NEVER had such fresh and delicious raw fish.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
I want to know which restaurant in Japan did the OP eat at. MY nephew wants to visit Japan after college, he's in 10th grade now. I save all the good posts I find about Japan for him.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I never had sushi in Japan but we have some pretty good sushi in New York.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
My Bev loooooves sushi, but lately the quality has been dropping over here in the UK. I want to surprise her by taking classes to make it fresh for her, but the classes are hard to find
Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
Try YouTube. That's how my ex husband learned to do it, and he made a decent job of it.
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TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
The vegetarian sushi here is great. For fish I like unagi (eel) best. If it's a fresh water fish they have to cook it. I don't like the texture of sashimi, so those are my go tos
Montanavanna 2 years ago
I am sure I would like sushi because I am a food person. Worked in every facet of industry and studied food in university. I have only had grocery store sushi or from an ok restaurant..meh.
#43
Fish. Grew up fishing and would eat fish fresh from the ocean most days in summer. Now, I don't go out fishing and any fish bought tastes horrible.
EmbersAreOut 2 years ago
I have the s\same thought. Almost any seafood place close to thee ocean serevs thee BEST seafood.
Load More Replies... Cyber Returns 2 years ago
I used to go fishing with my father-in-law and brother-in-law. Then I would clean, dress and prepare the catch and cook it.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
I lived on an island in Maine when I was younger. It was a lobster trapper's island and we were the only ones who didn't. I learned to drive a boat around lobster buoys. I cannot eat lobster anymore. It's okay, but chicken or something is just as appealing to me. Don't waste the money. When I moved away from Maine for 20 years I told people I was kicked out of the state for not liking lobster. Maine potatoes and blueberries however...
#44
i'll go in the opposite direction as most commenters it seems. gumbo. years ago, my parents took me to commander's palace to celebrate my high school graduation. got the chicken and andouille gumbo. something my mom made near weekly during the colder months. she slowly taught me how to do it from the age of ~13. 1st just stirring the simmering pot. onto stirring the roux, controlling the heat, till i was basically doing it all my own while she yelled at me. the commander's gumbo was just so incredibly underwhelming. my only gripe with my mom's was that i thought it could be spicier. when i moved out on my own for good after college, i tried to merge her and isaac toups' recipe. i tried 5 or 6 times, all included lengthy phone calls asking for help. i just could not get it to come out like she did. it was probably objectively fine, but it didn't taste anything like mom's, and thus, i've given up trying to make gumbo. same with my red beans.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
I miss my grandmothers gumbo so much! She’d make it every summer when we visited but used all kinds of seafood. Crab legs, shrimp and halibut. I’ve never had any that was as good as hers.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
I always start mine with a seafood boil the day before. A million times better than starting with any store bought broth. I've often thought about those automatic pot stirrers for the roux, but when I do make it I have to use a large stockpot due tot he demand.
Jessica Hobby 2 years ago
My mom says "nothing tastes as good if you have to make it yourself*.
What do you think ?
Alexandra Davis 2 years ago
Wow, I feel even more blessed today to have wonderful parents. They could cook and cooked us nutritious and tasty meals growing up. Even when I went veggie at 11 they (and I too as they also taught me to cook) would make the equivalent of their meat meal, veggie for me eg veggie spaghetti bolognese along with their meat one etc. Even were great bakers and we always had amazing home baked cakes and sweet treats. The only thing that I couldn't eat for a very very long time was quavers (or similar cheesy crisps) as my sister would eat at least a packet a day and got very travel sick and cheesy crisp sick had an awfully pungent smell. By the time she had grown out of this, I was vegan and so cheesy vegan crisps were impossible to find. When they finally became a thing it took a few years to pluck up the courage, but I did/ do like them.
Great And Holy Pangolin 2 years ago (edited)
Mash potatoes, my family mashed them with the skin still on, raw, then put them in a saucepan for a while. It comes out lumpy and grainy with little strips of skin here and there. It feels like it’s been pre-eaten, or it’s some kind of wet chicken food, if you can even buy that.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
My mom was just a horrible cook; she tried but it was just terrible. My mom was from New York and her parents were Irish and English; Dad was Uruguayan. Now after they got married My mom would try to fuse Spanish and Irish/English dishes. Her worst offense was what she called Meatpie (similar to cottage pie). However, she tried to put a Spanish spin on it which was just an awful combination of flavors. She would take ground beef and add an onion and maybe some garlic powder and then add raisins and jarred green Spanish olives; this abomination was topped with mashed potatoes made from instant flakes. Now olives and raisins can work in ground beef when seasoned and cooked right (empanadas) but what she did just tasted horrible. I'm pretty sure she poured the olive juice in the mixture too. I'm almost 40 and I still can't bring myself to try cottage pie or Shepard pie because of my mom's meatpie. I can still remember the taste; that sweet raisin olive taste 🤢
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Olives? Oy! I love olives as much as the next person and better than many, but holy cow. And raisins, SMH. That poor woman stretched herself thin! Glad to see you survived it. 😂😂
Load More Replies... Lez Be Honest 2 years ago
Beans...I absolutely cannot stomach them. When I was about 6 my step dad made me eat them and I threw up... I am now in my 40s and still can't even stand the smell of them.
Brainmas 2 years ago
I make the most simple meatloaf based on my mom's. It wasn't something we had a lot, and I don't make it very often. It took me a while to make it at all based on the meatloaf I had regularly in my other house, which consisted of corn flakes instead of bread crumbs, a brick of frozen spinach, and not enough egg (if any) to hold it together. I finally figured out if I dumped mustard on it, I couldn't taste the rest.
Cathy 2 years ago
I ruined carrot cake for myself :') I have such a good recipe, I can never buy it anywhere and eat it: it is always a disappointment in comparison to my home made cake.
Morgen Stern 2 years ago
Would you share the recipe, please? I love carrot cake!
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Petra Schaap 2 years ago (edited)
My mom is a good cook but theres two things i'll never forgive her. For some reason she likes leek as vegetable. So we would have potatoes, a burger, and LEEK. Just LEEK. It took years before i ever touched a leek again, and i only use it in stir fry, vegetable curry or soup, along with many other. Second; she would always use canned mushrooms. The texture is vile and horrible. Little bits of squeezy brown things. It took a very long time before i found out mushrooms can be nice, but i still rarely eat them. also: for the Dutch people: brood van de Aldi belegd met kokosbrood, de vorige dag klaar gemaakt, dus een kleffe bende als ontbijt. Kokosbrood; NOOIT MEER.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I have a sudden craving for my mum's amazing lasagna. I should ask her to cook it for my birthday!
Alexandra Davis 2 years ago
Wow, I feel even more blessed today to have wonderful parents. They could cook and cooked us nutritious and tasty meals growing up. Even when I went veggie at 11 they (and I too as they also taught me to cook) would make the equivalent of their meat meal, veggie for me eg veggie spaghetti bolognese along with their meat one etc. Even were great bakers and we always had amazing home baked cakes and sweet treats. The only thing that I couldn't eat for a very very long time was quavers (or similar cheesy crisps) as my sister would eat at least a packet a day and got very travel sick and cheesy crisp sick had an awfully pungent smell. By the time she had grown out of this, I was vegan and so cheesy vegan crisps were impossible to find. When they finally became a thing it took a few years to pluck up the courage, but I did/ do like them.
Great And Holy Pangolin 2 years ago (edited)
Mash potatoes, my family mashed them with the skin still on, raw, then put them in a saucepan for a while. It comes out lumpy and grainy with little strips of skin here and there. It feels like it’s been pre-eaten, or it’s some kind of wet chicken food, if you can even buy that.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
My mom was just a horrible cook; she tried but it was just terrible. My mom was from New York and her parents were Irish and English; Dad was Uruguayan. Now after they got married My mom would try to fuse Spanish and Irish/English dishes. Her worst offense was what she called Meatpie (similar to cottage pie). However, she tried to put a Spanish spin on it which was just an awful combination of flavors. She would take ground beef and add an onion and maybe some garlic powder and then add raisins and jarred green Spanish olives; this abomination was topped with mashed potatoes made from instant flakes. Now olives and raisins can work in ground beef when seasoned and cooked right (empanadas) but what she did just tasted horrible. I'm pretty sure she poured the olive juice in the mixture too. I'm almost 40 and I still can't bring myself to try cottage pie or Shepard pie because of my mom's meatpie. I can still remember the taste; that sweet raisin olive taste 🤢
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Olives? Oy! I love olives as much as the next person and better than many, but holy cow. And raisins, SMH. That poor woman stretched herself thin! Glad to see you survived it. 😂😂
Load More Replies... Lez Be Honest 2 years ago
Beans...I absolutely cannot stomach them. When I was about 6 my step dad made me eat them and I threw up... I am now in my 40s and still can't even stand the smell of them.
Brainmas 2 years ago
I make the most simple meatloaf based on my mom's. It wasn't something we had a lot, and I don't make it very often. It took me a while to make it at all based on the meatloaf I had regularly in my other house, which consisted of corn flakes instead of bread crumbs, a brick of frozen spinach, and not enough egg (if any) to hold it together. I finally figured out if I dumped mustard on it, I couldn't taste the rest.
Cathy 2 years ago
I ruined carrot cake for myself :') I have such a good recipe, I can never buy it anywhere and eat it: it is always a disappointment in comparison to my home made cake.
Morgen Stern 2 years ago
Would you share the recipe, please? I love carrot cake!
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 2 years ago (edited)
My mom is a good cook but theres two things i'll never forgive her. For some reason she likes leek as vegetable. So we would have potatoes, a burger, and LEEK. Just LEEK. It took years before i ever touched a leek again, and i only use it in stir fry, vegetable curry or soup, along with many other. Second; she would always use canned mushrooms. The texture is vile and horrible. Little bits of squeezy brown things. It took a very long time before i found out mushrooms can be nice, but i still rarely eat them. also: for the Dutch people: brood van de Aldi belegd met kokosbrood, de vorige dag klaar gemaakt, dus een kleffe bende als ontbijt. Kokosbrood; NOOIT MEER.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I have a sudden craving for my mum's amazing lasagna. I should ask her to cook it for my birthday!
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