The One Thing You Hated To Eat As A Child

@sassy28 (834)
United States
January 26, 2010 11:01am CST
What was the one thing that you just hated to eat growing up. Not counting liver and onions, I am sure that is the number one thing. My mother used to make this thing with chicken(skin still on, not the healthy cooking we have today) in the oven, she would add tomatoes(fully despise them), carrots and potatoes. Sounds good, not the way she made it, it was awful. It was soupy and just plain nasty. Both my brother and I hated it. What do you cook that your kids hate. Mine actually hate sloppy joes, can not imagine why. They won't touch them, so being the good mom, I don't fix them anymore.
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
26 Jan 10
Hi, sassy28. The food that I dislike the most would be beets. I tasted them and thought that they were delicious. And I found out that these red nasty veggies are very gross! I don't see how anyone can eat them. I have heard that they are good for ones Iron. I will try to find me another alternative to building up my Iron levels.
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
26 Jan 10
That sounds all good! But never with beets! Ughhh!
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@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
The only way I can eat beets, if they are pickled. Then I will eat them with salad. Just can not eat a beet my itself.
@marguicha (215662)
• Chile
26 Jan 10
I love beets. Try them with a little olive oil, lemon and salt and minced cilantro (coriander) leaves (fresh).
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@Galena (9110)
27 Jan 10
I was never forced to eat anything as a child. just encouraged to try new things. and if I didn't like something, but had't had it in a long time, I'd be encouraged to see if my taste buds had changed. but I was never forced to eat something if I really didn't want to. to this day I have a healthy love of food. food is wonderful trying new foods is an adventure. even as a child I loved liver and onions. I didn't used to like cooked onions, but raw I loved them, and would try them cooked at regular intervals and now I enjoy them. I have always lved brussels sprouts, spinach and so on. all kinds of greenery, all kinds of meat. because I was never FORCED to eat anything, I am willing to give most foods a fair chance.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
27 Jan 10
hi galena my dad made me hate those small green grapefruit. he forced me to sit at the table until I ate the dammed thing but when he was out of the room my mom ditched the half grapefruit,put an empty grapefruit rind on my plate and whenhe returned he told me I could go. so after that I never took a serving of those bitter green grapefruit halves. I still detest them but love the pink ones, they are sweet and delicious. I actually have very few things I dislike but sour grapefruit heads the list. kids who are forced to eat things grow up hating them.
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
I try not to force my kids to eat things they don't like. Like your parents I try to encourage them to try new things. My youngest is all for it, but the oldest so darn hard headed won't try anything different.
• Estonia
26 Jan 10
I hated liver too. But the thing I hated the most was lard. When I was in kindergarten, they used to serve a soup with pieces of lard. I hated these little pieces, they almost made me throw up once. I usually separated the pieces from the soup and then, when done with soup, I put my desert plate on the soup plate, so the pieces of lark were hidden under the plate. I managed to fool the teachers like that, because otherwise they would make me eat the lard too.
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@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
That just sounds so nasty. I can not imagine anyone having to eat lard. Was that a typical soup or just the school trying to save money and making a cheap soup?
• Estonia
28 Jan 10
No, the soup was okay except those pieces of lard, the food was very good in the kindergarten, but the reason is that in our national cuisine we have many dishes containing lard, so that was kind of a national soup or something. That was the only food I hated it there, other dishes were fine.
@marguicha (215662)
• Chile
26 Jan 10
Funny! Now I eat everything. I include even somethings that I shouldn´t but still love. But when I was little there were few things that I liked. I hated steaks. For me it was like eating sole. But the worst was a dish my mom made with zuchinni, tomatoes and fried onions and the like.I think she added eggs,but I´m not sure. The mixture of colours (zuchinni and tomato) made me think of when I was sick and threw up. I now love zuchinni, make a thousand dishes with them (cooked, raw, baked, caseroles) but I will NOT mix zuchinni and tomato.
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
I like zuchinni, usually fried. Still can not stand tomatoes, love sauce, salsa, etc, just hate the tomatoe. I will eat fried green tomatoes, I guess because they are sliced thin and then breaded.
@marguicha (215662)
• Chile
28 Jan 10
I hate raw tomatoes from the super. But when they are rippened and then picked, they are something else.
@olisaur (1922)
• United States
26 Jan 10
I was a very picky eater when I was growing up...I still am! lol w
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@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
Do you still not like hamburgers? I have never met anyone that did not like a hamburger. They are so good with lettuce and pickles, enough mayo and ketchup to make it messy. But it does have to be cooked well done.
• China
27 Jan 10
no green vegetables? never? wow...hard to believe...lol
@faimei (127)
• Philippines
27 Jan 10
In our language it is called "ampalaya" in English it is Bitter Melon. As its name states it is really BITTER. I'm not fond of eating them when I was a child and up until now. I still find the taste very awful. Even if you put on it. Although the difference now it I just eat a couple of pieces not because I like it but I have set in my mind that it tastes like that and it will never taste any better. hehehe. LOL.
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• China
27 Jan 10
it looks like same things happen everywhere across the world...lol when i was a kid we often eat bitter melon at summer, they alway told me that's good for my health and still it made me want to vomite. but things change now, when i started to cook myself, i made a lot of bitter melon untill my boyfriend complain about that...
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
26 Jan 10
for me, as odd as it sounds, i hated to eat steak when i was a kid because of its texture. we used to eat it alot because it wasnt that expensive like it is now. of course, now i love steak!
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@sassy28 (834)
• United States
26 Jan 10
We ate steak alot growning up, we lived in Texas for 3 years. I never really cared for it, but like you said it was cheap. Even now I only eat it on occasion, still not a big fan. My kids love steak.
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@derek_a (10874)
27 Jan 10
The things I really hated as a kid was greens. If someone put sprouts or cabbage on my plate I couldn't eat anything else on there. The mere smell of greens used to put me off my meal. Strange because when I was a young baby my mother told me I loved them, and now that I am older, I love to eat them now too. _Derek
@derek_a (10874)
29 Jan 10
Yes, that is strange. I wonder what it is with us as babies that we can eat almost anything that is put in front of us, and then a year or so later, we can't eat it! _Derek
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
My son is the same way. When he was little he would eat all types of vegetables. When he turned about 4, he just quit eating them. All he wants now is meat, no vegetables or potatoes.
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@donna22 (1116)
26 Jan 10
I was never made anything I did not like at home but I can remember at school getting semolina and tapioca "frog spawn". Im sure there should be child protection laws against giving children these foods lol.
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@sassy28 (834)
• United States
26 Jan 10
I have never heard tapioca called that, but thinking about what is looks like, it could easily pass. Oh yes, school lunches were not good. Mystery meals to say the least. The best part was the cookies and milk.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
27 Jan 10
Big fat Lima beans, I hated the texture in my mouth, I still can't eat them. I can eat dried baby Limas and often make a big pot of them for the family, but the big ones no way.
• United States
27 Jan 10
I almost forgot, I also hated the big fat lima beans - mom put them in the bean soup which is why I hated it so - made me gag.
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
I don't like the big lima beans, the smalls ones are ok. But I have to eat them over rice, can not eat them plain.
• United States
26 Jan 10
The only thing I haven't liked was celery. ust plain old celery. I actually loved brussel sprouts (but mama didn't make them often bc she didn't like them) and I actually liked liver and onions! That's some good stuff... it's just not good for you!
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
26 Jan 10
I do like celery, but only with cream cheese on it. Loved brussel sprouts growing up, still do. Liver and onions still makes me cringe. We were at a cafeteria awile ago and they had it there, it still just looked nasty. All the salt and pepper, and even ketchup would never help it.
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@jilshi (271)
• Malaysia
27 Jan 10
i do not like to take vegetables when i was young. i will throw away the whole meal if there is vegetable. however, i had change my diet habit when i grew up. i fell sick easily and had no choice but to eat healthy food like vegetables and fruits
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@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
My son is that way, he hates vegetables. If one is on his plate he won't eat. Even if it did not touch anything else. He could live off meat only.
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
28 Jan 10
well, sassy, my kids, when they were growing up see greens on their plates as enemies. they simply hate vegetables, any kind, for that matter. for me, my eating habits as a kid were guided by curiosity and exploration. i was always willing to eat anything that others eat, even adults, but never do it the second time if i don't want the taste. in foods, the taste mattered when i was a kid.
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
My oldest son is the same way, don't even try to give him a vegetable. My youngest will try anything one time. He pretty much likes most vegetables.
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
29 Jan 10
that's what they call, again, individual differences. to put it more succintly, what's at work here is what they call human and individual preferences. however, when it comes to the food we eat, changes in preferences almost always occurs... and that's quite often...
@brymel25 (285)
• Philippines
27 Jan 10
When i was a child, i really hate vegetables! lol. I know these are good for the health but i just can't tolerate the taste at that time. I hate string beans and other green leafy veggies. But now, i try to eat veggies because i know it would be very good for my health.
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@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
I think as we all grow older we realize that vegetables are really not so bad. Green beans are still not one of my favorites. I love to eat carrots. It is so easy to eat them now, with the baby carrots already peeled and washed. Just grab a handful and go.
• Philippines
11 Feb 10
I guess for them Mylot is boring because they don't have interest on some discussion posted. Of course we don't bother to read such discussion that can bores us , so we will shift on discussion that will interest us . Maybe they are just checking on new discussion. Some old discussion are interesting too. There are many members who started a very interesting topics, why not invited them as a freind so that the next time they check on your discussion they will be entertain. Honestly, I get bored when i don't see some interesting topics. so I make a topic of my own. There are no perfect sites anyway, but here in Mylot, I am staying no matter how bored they were.
• Philippines
11 Feb 10
Please ignore this, there is aproblem with my posting here ..... Sorry...
• Philippines
27 Jan 10
when i was a child i do eat almost all kinds of food as what my mother says...but there's one that my cousins really love to eat which i don't really eat since i was a child until now that i am bit older...i really don't know why i hat BALUT, never tried it before. But i hate the thought of it. So, I don't know if i'll ever get to try it, unless maybe i'm really drunk or something.
• Philippines
29 Jan 10
A balut is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell...believed to be an phrodisiac and considered a high protein, hearty snack, mostly sold in the street ... one of the streetfood in the Philippines.
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
What is balut? I have never heard of it. Is it a vegetable?
• Cyprus
27 Jan 10
Well...I hated to eat lentils and tomatoes.Now i am ok with eating lentils but still dont eat tomatoes because i dont like the taste and i also found out that i am allergic to them :)By the way you choose nice topic :)Have a nice rest of the week.
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
I have never tried lentils, but hate tomatoes. Did not like them as a kid and still don't like them. Hope you have a great week and weekend.
@x298163 (13)
• China
27 Jan 10
i don't like to eat carrots and eggplants,my mother said carrots are nutrious vegetables, she cooked it with mushroom,but ,at last i finished the mushroom left carrots .i often fell there was a unplesant odor in it. some of my friends don't like these vegetables too. speak to eggplants, my grandmother used to make it by filling meat into eggplants, then fried them in oil.
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
Have you tried to slice an eggplant(thin), then dip into eggs and milk. Then dip into seasoned breadcrumbs then fry it. It is really good this way. You can also cook it like that and serve with spagetti and sauce.
• China
29 Jan 10
really? thank you for your suggestion. i will try it .
• China
27 Jan 10
There were 2 things I hated in childhood,jujube and "You Cha Mian"-a very traditional food in westen China,mightly made from mutton fat and flour.OMG,it used to be my nightmare! I dislike jujube because of it's pericarp ,it's so tiny that easy to drop into the slit between teeth,rarely possible to get it out**."You Cha Mian",I would feel like vomiting if I smell it.How can people make this unhuman food?
• Cyprus
27 Jan 10
Unhuman food? But eating dogs is ok with you?
@merondu (18)
• Israel
27 Jan 10
I actually liked liver. i was impartial to Onions, but later liked them. As a child, I grew up for a few years in Australia, and the one thing really loathed was Vegimite. For those who don't know what it is, it's yeast extract. I never understood why the Auzies love it so much. Blech. I appologize to all those down under if I have offended any of you for my blaspheomous comments.
@sassy28 (834)
• United States
28 Jan 10
I think they have vegimite in England to or maybe it was marmite. Not real sure what either of them are, but would not eat it.