The worst thing ever served by my mother was liver and onions. We had a showdown one night at supper over liver and onions. It was the one and only time she told me I had to sit there until I ate it. I told her I would be sitting there for a very long time. To this day, the smell of it makes me gag. I can remember the texture of the one bite I took...pasty and gross. She eventually gave in and let me leave the kitchen.
My kids have never been served liver, and will never be served liver from me. You're welcome, kids.
As a newbie, you folks are cracking me up! Isn't it funny how these awful meals are embedded in our brains?
My folks, who are fabulous cooks now had some real winners when we were kids. There were 4 of us.
My mom and dad both loved s%$# on a shingle (creamed hamburger on toast) and creamed tuna on toast. My question was, why do WE always have that when you are going out? Whenever mom would tell us that was for dinner we would ask "where are you going?" Still don't eat anything on toast!
They also loved the liver cooked to death - still cant eat either.
One last winner was called Chicken Supreme - oh my god, it was cut up chicken with green beans, some kind of cream of soup, and I think water chestnuts. I never could make it thru that meal and my mom swears to this day that I threw the recipe away cause she cant find it anymore.
I was lucky , I liked everything my mom made. But my gramma makes beans once a week, and I can't stand the smell of pinto beans cooking. When I was pregnant it was really bad, I would gag all day. They taste wonderful though.....go figure.
My mother made chicken soup - probably twice a month. She bought the chicken from a nearby chicken farmer so she'd come home with the entire chicken, including the FEET! It was gross enough seeing them cooking in pot but eating those gushy mushy things were the worst thing in the world! I cringe now to think about it. One time she forgot to cut off the nails and I started crying because I was so afraid she was going to make me eat that too. I didn't have to but I still had an entire foot all to myself. Ugh. Shudder.
My mother made chicken soup - probably twice a month. She bought the chicken from a nearby chicken farmer so she'd come home with the entire chicken, including the FEET! It was gross enough seeing them cooking in pot but eating those gushy mushy things were the worst thing in the world! I cringe now to think about it. One time she forgot to cut off the nails and I started crying because I was so afraid she was going to make me eat that too. I didn't have to but I still had an entire foot all to myself. Ugh. Shudder.
OMG! I would've died. I was gagging reading your story. I don't like chicken with bones in it. My DH always laughes at me. I bit in to a bone when I was younger and I've never been able to deal with chicken bones since. If I'm making something like chicken soup, my DH has to help me. I know it's silly, but I CAN'T do it.
Nickshalfpint: You mean you don't want my mother's chicken soup recipe? I was willing to share! I make chicken soup nowadays but it does NOT have anything gross in it...no hearts, gizzards, livers, necks and especially feet. And I skim the fat off. My daughters are most appreciative.
For me it was Split Pea Soup (a new england thing?) Gross....slimy green thick nastiness with chunks of god knows what...just bubbling away on the stovetop. Ugh..not sure if it was the way it looked, or smelled but the combination of the two has scarred me for life. (dry heaving now...)!
I remember once when I was three or four my grandmother was visiting and had made split sea soup. I would not touch it. It looked so nasty. She told me that if I didnât eat it then I would ware it. Guess what she did? She dumped the bowel of soup on my head. My mom was pissed when I told her about it.
I can top all your disgusting dishes with this Norwegian delicacy my grandmother made: you take a quart of pig's blood (had to be PIG's blood), mix in enough flour until it's a dough, wrap the dough around a nice, big piece of suet (that's FAT) and boil. It ends up looking like a grey-brown sponge. I graciously let me aunt eat my share (she loved the stuff!).
I'm declaring the winner of "Worst Food Ever" with this entry right here! 'Coz if anyone tries to top this one, I"m going to throw up, I swear I will! 
She used to make stuffed peppers, green bell peppers with rice, tomatoes and hamburger stuffed inside. I hated bell peppers (still do) so I never ate that. I would pick at the filling, but it tasted like peppers, so. . .
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My mom did this to me as well. To this day anything with green bell peppers in it makes me gag just to smell it. Just the memory makes me wanna barf!
I'm sorry, but I have tears in my eyes - Sandralee903, are you serious? That is the funniest picture I have in my head. I can just see you sitting at the dinner table with a chicken foot sticking up in your face. I would have died!
I still gross out at the thought of pickled pigs feet. My step mother used to tell us if we wanted something to snack on - she would be happy to share her snack with us. I can still see her sucking and slurping all over that nasty looking/smelling pig hoof. GROSS!!!
Well i'm from the Caribbean and we have something called a 1 2 3
Growing up my dad loved this concoction of macaroni, corned beef and potato cooked together. It was GROSS oh my goodness i hated it!!
Both sides of my family are of Norwegian heritage, and my dad told me that the reason they eat such disgusting food is that they were poor, and they couldn't bring themselves to throw anything out. But really...fish head soup? His worst memory was watching his grandmother eat rancid fish head soup, because it would be wasteful to throw it away.
That said, he loved Christmas bread and head cheese. The Christmas bread I could see, but not head cheese! You boil a pig's head, and what falls off you make into a luncheon-type meat. Pour vinegar on it, and eat it with the Christmas bread as a side. Yuck!
My dad was watching my daughter last week and I came home to see them sharing a huge hunk of HEAD CHEESE!
I didn't even know what it was until my dad told me it was "mostly cheeks". Aaaaah!!!
And why am I still reading this thread? I am 11 weeks pregnant and right now my stomach is spinning in horror. I'm nauseous right down to my toes.
HEAD CHEESE! YUK!!! My dad loved it. I couldnt stand to look at it.It just looked like a nasty hunk of jell looking CRAP!!! makes me shudder thinking about it !
Don't know how old your mom is, but some of the weird foods (like the onion snack) could be from the days when there was less than nothing and an onion was a delicacy, or if she's not that old, maybe she learned it from her parents/grandparents.
My Father-in-law, who will turn 80 this weekend, tells the story of how his grandmother LUV'D chicken necks! It was her favorite piece of the bird!
To understand that, you have to know that when his grandmother was little, it was common practice for the adults to eat dinner first ..... the kids (and the women?) were not permitted to eat until the men were done eating and had moved away from the table. My FIL remembers being SO hungry and being SO upset because "those old coots!" were just sitting around the dining room table smoking the stogies and talking ... while the kids were waiting in the kitchen so they could get any leftover food. The neck of the chicken was one of the pieces left so it's probably why his grandmother loved it.He said he was 15 years old before he knew chickens had 2 legs or any breasts at all!
OMG!! I thought my grandpa was the only person in the world that did that!! He came from a poor Polish family, and his favorite part of a chicken or turkey is the neck, or the the hearts. Blech!!
My mom used to make this most horrid old navy dish. Hamburgers cooked in mushroom soup, served over toast. The hambergers were cooked so long and hard and shrank so much that they resembled haard little round hockey pucks. The mushroom soup was nasty and greasy, from the cheap brand that she used. And it was all soaked up by this toast. *shudder* My grandpa, who lives with my parents and is 96 years old, calls it sh*t on a shingle.
My dad's favorite snack was "Cracklins" ..... deep fried pieces of pig skin. Not the "pork rinds" you find in the potato chip aisle today, but real pieces of pig skin.....he bought them in the grocery, I think back in the deli/meat dept. You'd bite into one and sometimes bite into a bubble of grease (bleck!). We pretty much let dad have these all to himself .... I hated it when I'd pick one up and it would still have the hair on it!
My dad's favorite snack was "Cracklins" ..... deep fried pieces of pig skin. Not the "pork rinds" you find in the potato chip aisle today, but real pieces of pig skin.....he bought them in the grocery, I think back in the deli/meat dept. You'd bite into one and sometimes bite into a bubble of grease (bleck!). We pretty much let dad have these all to himself .... I hated it when I'd pick one up and it would still have the hair on it!
Indy, are your folks from the South?? My stepfather LOVED Cracklin!! I hated it!! He also loved "chow chow"; some form of different peppers and pickles chopped up to look like relish. GROSS!! His other favorite thing was this lunch meat called "liver cheese" (getting sick thinking about it)
Oh, my mother was an AWESOME cook, so good that every time she made liver and onions, I had to taste it because it smelled so good, needless to say, I only took one bite because I HATE the taste of liver.
One more thing, something that would gross everybody out (including my DH and my sons) is chitterlings (pig intestines)!! Very southern, but my DD and I love them. (sorry if I grossed you out)
Anybody else get fed stewed tomatoes in school? I realize they were part of a government program, but did they really expect grade schoolers to chow down on a bowl of stewed tomatoes? Couldn't they have pureed them into tomato sauce and made spaghetti out of them? What a waste!
Didn't Ronald Reagan declare that ketchup was a vegetable, when discussing the school lunch program? THAT'S scary!
my worst meal comes from my husbands family christmas dinner tradition. Beefburgers, waffles, beets, cinnamon pickles and hot chocolate. Maybe these things separatly aren't too bad but together and just watching them eat it all was sooooo gross. His family eats such weird stuff!!
My mom's favorite sandwich, pb, Miracle Whip (not mayo) and lettuce. Blech.... still turns my stomach when I think about it.
The dinner that had me running for the door.... S.O.S (Stuff/S#!t on a shingle) using packaged chipped beef mix. Ugh, I just remember gloppy white goo mixed with what I guess you could call meat, all on toast.... ugh... <shivers> I was happy when she stopped making that.
We must be related in some way, only my mom eats banana sandwiches. bread, bananas, and miracle whip. YUCK!! She said that was all she craved when she was pregnant with me. Maybe that's why I don't like bananas. She also made the chipped beef. Everyone else liked it but I hate it. She didn't toast the bread either, so you go a nice chipped beef mush sandwich. 
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Anyway Michele01 I too must be related to you. My dad eats the banana, mayo, peanut butter and onion on bread. Has to be Best Foods mayo of course! I cant even get near it.
I have never been one for chipped beef either, the thought makes me gag to this day.
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My dad was watching my daughter last week and I came home to see them sharing a huge hunk of HEAD CHEESE!
I didn't even know what it was until my dad told me it was "mostly cheeks". Aaaaah!!!
And why am I still reading this thread? I am 11 weeks pregnant and right now my stomach is spinning in horror. I'm nauseous right down to my toes.
I will never eat head cheese!! My grandmother used to make it all the time. She was dirt poor when my mother was little so they had to use everything. So when they slaughtered a pig she would take the head and boil it on the stove until everything came off, add gelatin and some spices and voila....head cheese. All I can say is I am so glad I am not my mother. She actually had to eat it. Can you imagine seeing a pig head being boiled on the stove. YUCK!!
I will say the worst meal my mother ever made was cabbage rolls. We're polish so it's quite common in our family. They smelled nasty!! My parents love them though. I'm really not sure why.
wow, i can't remember ever having to eat anything so nasty i would rather chew on a flip flop. my mom likes hot buttered egg noodles mixed with cottage cheese though. it makes me want to cry just thinking about it, but she never made me eat it. i was never a big fan of mom's cube steak, though.
It's funny that I came across this post last week and replied. I had a customer beg me to do mini cakes for her this weekend. I let her talk me into it. Well when she gets here, (and hands me a check) she says......the cake tastes good right. I was laughing so hard inside thinking of this post.
Indy, are your folks from the South?? My stepfather LOVED Cracklin!! I hated it!! He also loved "chow chow"; some form of different peppers and pickles chopped up to look like relish. GROSS!! His other favorite thing was this lunch meat called "liver cheese" (getting sick thinking about it)
Oh, my mother was an AWESOME cook, so good that every time she made liver and onions, I had to taste it because it smelled so good, needless to say, I only took one bite because I HATE the taste of liver.
One more thing, something that would gross everybody out (including my DH and my sons) is chitterlings (pig intestines)!! Very southern, but my DD and I love them. (sorry if I grossed you out) [/quote]
We must be related.
My mom makes cracklin cornbread (cornbread with chunks of pig fat!).
Ever New Years Day, she makes the cornbread, a big pot of black-eyes peas, and streak-o-lean (very fatty bacon). I go hungry on New Years!
One of my parents favorite sandwiches is liverloaf (gross).
My dad loves chow-chow!
My g-grandmother made fried salse-meat sandwiches (pig head). Wonder if that's the same as "head cheese"? Pigs feet (pickles/boiled) were also a staple.
One thing that I do like that may seem gross to some is polk salad. Any of you southerners know what that is?
Ok.. Outside of the blood pudding, which is in its own category, I think I got y'all beat, or, rather, my DH does. Now, you have to understand that he and his family love liver, I won't touch the stuff. They also like meat loaf. So one night, my MIL decided to do some creative cooking and make a liver meat loaf. Yeah, you got it, a meatloaf made of liver. All the same fixins, just substituted liver. It was so bad, after one bite, the whole family threw it out and made PBJ's. I gag just thinking about it.
BTW- if you are ever in a diner, ask what scrapple is! 
It's yummy 
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