What was the worst stuff your parents made you eat?

[S.A. Boggs]

Cooked spinach rates right there with beef liver. Only was I could eat either was with catchup!
Sam

[JOHN COOK]

I was never forced to eat anything my parents provided me for a meal. I also never forced my two children to eat anything either that was placed in front of them. The food was placed in front of them and they ate or went a little hungry. Some of you will say that's cruel or that I'm just making this up, but that how it was.
I am sure the TROLLS will have a field day on my comments.

So let it rip..
So Mote It Be

john

[blackhawknj]

Never had anything forced down my throat. I am a firm believer in respecting one's palate. Some tastes can be acquired-and lost. In my youth I did not like sausage, I enjoyed Taylor's Ham and mayonnaise. Now I like sausage and Taylor's Ham and mayonnaise are no longer on my plate. One woman told her mother was constantly forcing cauliflower on her. Her mother would find all sorts of ways to mix it in with other things. And she'd spit it out.

[Vern Humphrey]

I wouldn't say it was the worst, but my Grandfather always made me eat the potato peel -- because of An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger in Ireland.

[togor]

Boiled Brussels Sprouts. Taste like some kind of skunked rubber.

[S.A. Boggs]

Boiled Brussels Sprouts. Taste like some kind of skunked rubber.

If you want, I will post a good Brussels Sprouts salad that has cheese, bacon and chopped eggs. Let me know.
Sam

[pcox]

Liver!!!!!! I simply do not eat innards.

[leftyo]

canned pea's. hate them things. nasty tasting, and had to sit there until they were gone.

[JB White]

Dinner went on the plate and we had to eat everything on it. Our cousins in Europe didn't have it so good, or so I was told. I ate liver, spinach, brussel sprouts, cabbage, bleu cheese....long list and I liked it. I used to ask for hackenpater on pumpernickel with a bit of limburger. (got beer with that) Never acquired a taste for broccoli but I forced it down. Spare ribs...nobody ever cooked them right and we had to suck the bones dry and white. I used to call it plastic meat. Told them not to even think about putting fried calves brains on my plate.
To this day I don't eat ribs. Given a choice between ribs or vegemite, I'll take the veggie on toast any day.

[Major Tom]

Rudabeka (sp). Hated that stuff.

[dryheat]

God, what a insult to food. I like peas but if I was on a desert island after the ship wreck and a case of canned peas washed ashore...I'd still starve. Lima beans. Lima equates to Lime or poison or something else awful. If I look at a Lima bean long enough I can see it growing legs and morphing into some kind of insect.

[Allen]

God, what a insult to food. I like peas but if I was on a desert island after the ship wreck and a case of canned peas washed ashore...I'd still starve.

More than likely you wouldn't have a can opener anyway.

[dryheat]

That probably wouldn't happen anyway. It would be a case of canned salmon. God likes to mess with me.

[AZshooter]

My parents used to love stuffed Bell Peppers. Although, as a kid I could eat sliced raw bell peppers in salads, the cooked version was sickening (I literally couldn't digest them & got sick). As I got older, the problem digesting bell peppers worsened & a Doctor finally told me that some people don't have some particular enzyme needed to digest it. Even as an adult, Mom delighted in torturing me with bell peppers (I chopped them up extra fine, so you won't even know they're there).

Eggplant is another non-favorite, although some friends grew a variety of tiny ones that were more solid & actually good.

[Allen]

My parents used to love stuffed Bell Peppers. Although, as a kid I could eat sliced raw bell peppers in salads, the cooked version was sickening (I literally couldn't digest them & got sick). As I got older, the problem digesting bell peppers worsened & a Doctor finally told me that some people don't have some particular enzyme needed to digest it. Even as an adult, Mom delighted in torturing me with bell peppers (I chopped them up extra fine, so you won't even know they're there).

Eggplant is another non-favorite, although some friends grew a variety of tiny ones that were more solid & actually good.

That's one reason why my folks never forced me to eat certain foods and I in turn didn't try to force my children. You never know how they feel or what their digestive system will react to. My mother always said she would fix me something else to eat or I could just make a sandwich if I didn't like what she had prepared. My parents remembered how it was being kids themselves and certain foods you just have to acquire a taste for as you mature. Greens, turnips, liver, rutabaga, carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, tomatoes and others while you may hate them as kids you may actually like them as old age starts setting in. My dog even has a very finicky stomach and I don't persuade him to eat. I don't get concerned unless he goes for a day or two w/o eating.