What Atrocious Food that you hated as a kid, but still wouldn't Eat today?
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GadgetGuy
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Eels!!
Gross! Eew!!!
Were you offered them as a kid, @Yorky?
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Not quite a kid. But if I had have been, I would have politely refused!
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Most of the inedible bilge that was plonked down in front of me for school dinners. The desserts were particularly noxious, usually involving some form of hideous pink custard. I can only assume that the school canteen acquired a job lot of the stuff somewhere.
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Were eels and insects food from your childhood?
Same here. School custard was either, green, pink or brown and usually lumpy. It took me years and years before I started to eat custard and even now, I don't put a lot on. The first time I tried proper fresh custard was a revelation.
Green? Are you sure about that?
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I think we are interested to know if you were offered them as a child (eels, that is!).Never ate them then, not now, not EVER!!!
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While I seem to have been spared green custard, I am reminded that we were subjected to brown filth that went by the name of chocolate sauce. I seem to remember that the pink stuff was deemed to be raspberry sauce. Whatever it was, it was bloody horrible.
I had strange experiences at school because I decided to go vegetarian when I was 10. They gave me very strange dinners which I had to eat because they were free (In the UK you got (still get?) school dinner free if your parents earned under a certain amount). In those days the dinner ladies knew very little about vegetarian cooking. For example, I got big slabs of processed cheese along with the vegetables that everyone else had. Nasty rubbery cheese... but I ate it.
Just cornflour and milk with a bit of colouring. Nothing really bad for you.
When I was in high school, no one would eat there. Not even the 900 free lunch kids.
The food superintendent sent our school the cheapest food he could find because all but 25 kids were on free lunch. We may have been poor but all the parents cooked good food.
So he closed the campus thinking it would force us to eat the crappy food.
The only thing that accomplished was no one eating lunch. The cafeteria lady asked for a meeting with the 25 students not on free lunch.
She told us if we each gave her a dollar, she would go to the grocery store to get what she needed to make the food better. Word got out quickly, so she had a full cafeteria. After that we got the same foods they sent to the rich schools.
The food superintendent sent our school the cheapest food he could find because all but 25 kids were on free lunch. We may have been poor but all the parents cooked good food.
So he closed the campus thinking it would force us to eat the crappy food.
The only thing that accomplished was no one eating lunch. The cafeteria lady asked for a meeting with the 25 students not on free lunch.
She told us if we each gave her a dollar, she would go to the grocery store to get what she needed to make the food better. Word got out quickly, so she had a full cafeteria. After that we got the same foods they sent to the rich schools.
Kake Lover
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Yes, they just added colouring. It all tasted the same whatever colour it was.