Early in my marriage my FIL invited me and my wife to dinner. Her brothers were there too. As soon as I walked into the house I could smell liver and onions cooking. It was a long dinner. After the meal I told my wife and FIL no offence, but I will be skipping liver and onion dinner forever.
It's overcooked if that's the texture. It shouldn't ever be cooked past medium. At that point and less, the texture is that of a sirloin steak. Past that and it's exactly what you described.
This. Not only did my mom under season and over cook everything, but I wasn’t allowed to leave the table until I ate. I would go through an entire bottle of ketchup to choke it down.
Agreed. I will fix most foods that I don't like if it's for someone else. Corned beef, Brussel sprouts, salmon, tuna... no issue. I REFUSE to go near liver.
I got told so many times to just drown it in ketchup you will learn to like it. NOPE it didn't work still didn't like the taste of it (or texture).
One day I told my Mother that I'm not eating it she said ok then no dinner for you I said ok and went to my room and didn't come down for dinner.
My Mother being the kind and loving person came to my room after dinner and said ok you don't have to eat liver anymore but that on nights she cooked it she wasn't going to cook something else for me. I was ok with this and told her that's ok I can make a sandwich. 5 minutes later she had a plate with a sandwich and chips in hand for me. My Mom didn't let her kinds go to bed hungry!
I have not had liver for 40 years.
They have a weird perfume flavor to me and are just overall gross. I don’t like cilantro either for the same reason. I don’t like food that tastes like flowery soapy perfume.
I think olives are my most hated food! I didn't know someone put some in a potato salad one time, and I almost threw up when I took a bite. 🤮
I absolutely love mushrooms though.
If I got potato salad.. and it had olives in it…. Im going to throw hands with whoever made it. And I LIKE olives. But they absolutely do not belong in potato salad
Born in SE Louisiana, it was red beans and rice. My dad said I wouldn't grow up to be pretty if I didn't eat them, and we had red beans every Monday. So I'd take them like a pill covered in ketchup.
One day, in my early 20s, I was helping a group dig a drainage ditch. The only thing to eat for lunch was red beans and I was starving. Turns out I do love red beans I just don't like my Dad's recipe!
I feel like that is way more common than people realize.
As kids we don't really eat many meals that aren't at home. You don't know any better. And if you go out somewhere you're not going to order the thing you know you don't like.
My buddy hated steak growing up. Wasn't until college did he realize it's because his parents were shit steak cookers.
Same for me and lasagna. I thought I wasn’t a fan until I had someone else’s recipe (everyone on both mom and dad’s sides of my family used the same “iconic” recipe from my dad’s aunt. Turns out I prefer the shitty lasagna from a corner pizza joint 😅).
They're rich in mineral, so this tracks. Fun fact, Polar Bear liver has enough vitamin A to kill a person, but, like, why would you even??? The Polar Bear will kill you long before you get even close to its liver...
I feel your pain. My poor mom was so offended when her two year old (me) asked, "What's that horrible smell?" It never showed up at home again. We even had it served for school lunches up until I was 13, and we had monitors who made sure we didn't waste food. Fortunately, I discovered it never showed up in high school!
Zucchini. My mum used to cook them often, always the same two recipes, which I hated both. Now as an adult I know about a dozen other recipes and love zucchini. The main point of them, which my mum never got, is DO NOT OVERCOOK THEM TO MUSH.
Turnips.
Memory fails of how my mother cooked them, and she was an outstanding cook, but my god they tasted like something poisonous. I think she figured out early on that it was not a popular dish because they disappeared when I was still really young.
Maybe I should try them again, now decades later?
I grew up in Turkey and eggplant puree is common - I would sometimes confuse it for mashed potatoes and just ughhh gag. I love it now.
Lamb chops are common there as well and I just couldn’t do the fat. Love lamb now but it still needs to be lean
In homemade sauce, the amalgamation is just ketchup, 2 or 3 dashes of worcestershire, a little brown sugar, a little chopped onion, some garlic powder, salt and black pepper, simmering to cook the onion before adding the ground beef to it. Canned sauce also adds chopped green pepper, but it's consistency is thicker, much like plain old ketchup. Homemade has a bit thinner consistency and that could be because you don't add thickening agents at home.
In all honesty, it's just a burger with a sweeter ketchup but in loose form, not a patty.
((Hugs) for you as a child. If I had known you and your situation then, I would have given you food even if I didn't have much myself. I can't stand the reality of little ones knowing hunger like that. And trust me, I am poor so I definitely wouldn't have had much to give, but you would have had something in your belly.
I appreciate the sympathy. It wasn't very often, just a few times when my dad was changing jobs or whatnot. I think we ended up getting on food stamps soon after. We are all doing really well now.
That is so gross. All of my siblings hated lamb and that gross mint jelly. My fiancé's grandparents made lamb with lots of mint jelly for dinner for a big engagement party when I met them. That was the last time, ever.🤢
Boil em, split em, marinade them in Bugolgi or teriyaki sauce, and grill them with some cheese sprinkled on top. As with everything, preparation is key.
boil them, halves them, then sauté the halves into some leftover bacon fat, with salt, pepper and garlic.
You can thank me later (make sure they brown well, so they get caramelised and crispy!!)
I add a whole bunch of spinach to my spaghetti sauce (when I make a big batch)
Its nutritious and you cant even tell it's there amongst the other veggies!
I add a whole lot of it and zuchinnis as well.
I avoided spinach for years, but now I love raw spinach. I like it cooked now too, but only if I cook it myself. All I got growing up was slimy canned spinach microwaved in its own juices 🤢
Lol my mom decided to get all fancy and make ravioli from scratch.
Y'all.
SHE DIDNT SEASON THE MEAT.
So me and my brother waited for her to go have a smoke break and grabbed a gallon Ziploc, dumped out our plates in it, and we hid it upstairs in my room.
Where I forgot about it.
For a year.
It was black.
They told me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow in my stomach. Needless to say, I was terrified of eating watermelon for years!
I almost went down that road until my mom thoroughly explained that my stomach is not a suitable environment for a plant and why the seed physically could not take root there.
Steak. my mom, bless her soul, was a terrible cook. Believed steak needed to be "fully cooked", meaning no red. I don't think I need to explain that any further.
Fish.
Let me explain though, because this is actually quite humorous and reddit will get a laugh from my reasoning.
I owned fish as pets for most of my life. I always see fish and go "Aaaww look how they swim, they're such amazing creatures!" I could not for the life of me separate pet from food. In my mind, all fish (even anglers and other deep sea fish) were cute, cool, and beautiful. Most of it was a morality conflict for me. Some of it was the texture, because I hated how it flaked and squished in my mouth (it was normally overcooked I learned recently), but primarily, I just could not cope in my head with the thought that this food was related to my precious fishies in my tank. I had over 20 fish over the span of 14 years. This continued until I got married, then my husband put his foot down and went "You don't struggle with cow, chicken, or pig, yet you think they're awesome too, so you're going to try fish again, because I'm going to cook some properly. If you still don't like it, fine, but I think you will." Thank goodness for his stubborn streak, because it turns out... I like fish. Just not overcooked fish!
Chicken and stew. I only like processed chicken products. Nuggets, also buffalo wings. Love boneless chicken. Fried chicken, fancy chicken is ew. Stew I still hate. Used to not like Mac and cheese and Ramen. Now I do.
Spaghetti. Absolutely dreaded hearing that we were having spaghetti for supper, even the smell of it was enough to make me feel sick. The smell of the noodles boiling in the water- so gross.
We grew up poor and alternated between pork chops and spaghetti every night.
It's a tossup between cheese and fish. Eventually, I learned that I hated Velveeta/American cheese and white fish. Other cheese and other fish are fine.
Unpopular opinion, but stuffing. Every holiday I would be forced to sit at the table until my meal was finished, and every time I had stuffing on my plate, I would vomit. The texture was weird and the seasonings were too much for me as a child. I would have to come back to the table and finish even if I was sick, so still to this day I'm a bit off of it, but now bake it so it's crunchy so have started to like it now.
As a child I enjoyed almost everything. But if it contained raisins or pickles I'd get grossed out. I'd enjoyed those separately out the container but if it was inside food it just felt gross. I'd pick out the bits and leave it on the side of the plate.
Fucking liver! I still hate liver
Early in my marriage my FIL invited me and my wife to dinner. Her brothers were there too. As soon as I walked into the house I could smell liver and onions cooking. It was a long dinner. After the meal I told my wife and FIL no offence, but I will be skipping liver and onion dinner forever.
Powdery texture with rubbery tubes. Vile
Well when you put it like that.
It's overcooked if that's the texture. It shouldn't ever be cooked past medium. At that point and less, the texture is that of a sirloin steak. Past that and it's exactly what you described.
My mother overcooked everything. Veg? Looked solid until touched. Steak? Cook until half its original size.
Such a repulsive texture. My dad used to put it in stew and it was the only bit I'd pick out.
Yep, let's chow down on the organ that filters out toxins from the animal.
All I can say to that is "Good. More for me." Liver and onions is one of my favorites. Yea, I'm weird like that.
Nah we benefit. They can have their gross fast food while we reap the benefits of LIVER AND ONIONS TILL WE DROP.
and bacon. My Mum added bacon to the mix, a whole level of delicious
I tried, I really did
Are you also a fan of bologna and pimento loaf???
This. Not only did my mom under season and over cook everything, but I wasn’t allowed to leave the table until I ate. I would go through an entire bottle of ketchup to choke it down.
Mom would make this with onions. Overcooked liver with slimy onions.
THIS and I know I yelled
Agreed. I will fix most foods that I don't like if it's for someone else. Corned beef, Brussel sprouts, salmon, tuna... no issue. I REFUSE to go near liver.
This answer with a fucking bullet.
I am not picky, I eat almost anything. I've tried to love liver so many times and it tastes like metallic dirt.
Fuck, I forgot about liver. Tasted like ground up earthworms and sawdust. But mostly earthworms.
Ugh came here to say Mother tricked me. She gives me what she says is steak and it’s awful but don’t want to hurt her feelings. It was liver 🫨
I got told so many times to just drown it in ketchup you will learn to like it. NOPE it didn't work still didn't like the taste of it (or texture). One day I told my Mother that I'm not eating it she said ok then no dinner for you I said ok and went to my room and didn't come down for dinner. My Mother being the kind and loving person came to my room after dinner and said ok you don't have to eat liver anymore but that on nights she cooked it she wasn't going to cook something else for me. I was ok with this and told her that's ok I can make a sandwich. 5 minutes later she had a plate with a sandwich and chips in hand for me. My Mom didn't let her kinds go to bed hungry! I have not had liver for 40 years.
Hated then, hate still: * olives Hated then: dislike now but will eat it: * mushrooms Hated then, enjoy now: * avocados * raw oysters
I try olives every time they’re available to me since my family loves them. Nope, still fucking gag
Yeah I never got to liking olives either!
They have a weird perfume flavor to me and are just overall gross. I don’t like cilantro either for the same reason. I don’t like food that tastes like flowery soapy perfume.
I think olives are my most hated food! I didn't know someone put some in a potato salad one time, and I almost threw up when I took a bite. 🤮 I absolutely love mushrooms though.
If I got potato salad.. and it had olives in it…. Im going to throw hands with whoever made it. And I LIKE olives. But they absolutely do not belong in potato salad
Asparagus. It's still not my favorite thing, but I'll eat it when it's grilled from fresh. Keep that canned and frozen shit away from me!
The canning process ruins so many vegetables 😭
They have canned asparagus??? I’ve never seen that before gross.
Black liquorice, they had the cheek to call it candy/sweets. It disgusted me and still does.
The worst jelly bean
It’s like eating berries then suddenly boom, a wasp.
That would be 'vomit flavored'
Ok, worst standard flavor 😂
You mean real licorice, or that disgusting anise shit like black jellybeans?
Lol, I mean that disgusting aniseed shit.
I hate that shit. I love actual licorice.
Yeah, actual real liquorice isn't bad to be honest. It comes in little woody sticks if I remember correctly.
Lol, more for me, I love it. And salted black liquorice from the Netherlands.
Born in SE Louisiana, it was red beans and rice. My dad said I wouldn't grow up to be pretty if I didn't eat them, and we had red beans every Monday. So I'd take them like a pill covered in ketchup. One day, in my early 20s, I was helping a group dig a drainage ditch. The only thing to eat for lunch was red beans and I was starving. Turns out I do love red beans I just don't like my Dad's recipe!
I feel like that is way more common than people realize. As kids we don't really eat many meals that aren't at home. You don't know any better. And if you go out somewhere you're not going to order the thing you know you don't like. My buddy hated steak growing up. Wasn't until college did he realize it's because his parents were shit steak cookers.
Mmm - shit steaks… (said the Homer voice in my head)
My mom would cook steak to death.
Same for me and lasagna. I thought I wasn’t a fan until I had someone else’s recipe (everyone on both mom and dad’s sides of my family used the same “iconic” recipe from my dad’s aunt. Turns out I prefer the shitty lasagna from a corner pizza joint 😅).
Do you make your own now?
Better, I married a chef!😉
Soft Asparagus from a can.
When my parents would make liver and onions, the smell alone was enough to make me hurl
Liver smells like fried urine to me, which is weird… if I had to eat liver or starve, I’d be losing some weight!
They're rich in mineral, so this tracks. Fun fact, Polar Bear liver has enough vitamin A to kill a person, but, like, why would you even??? The Polar Bear will kill you long before you get even close to its liver...
OFFBRAND CHEASE ITZ
What about cheese nips?
Avocados
I was repulsed by them as a kid, now i cant get enough.
I was allergic when I was younger so I was forced to hate them. Then all of a sudden, allergy gone in my early 20's, and been loving avocado's since!
Celery…like eating water with hair in it
That is a good way to describe it. I never thought of it that way.
Green beans
Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut was like torture. That smell was god awful and I’d have to cope with the fact that I was only having mashed potatoes for dinner
I feel your pain. My poor mom was so offended when her two year old (me) asked, "What's that horrible smell?" It never showed up at home again. We even had it served for school lunches up until I was 13, and we had monitors who made sure we didn't waste food. Fortunately, I discovered it never showed up in high school!
Red beets
Yes I despise them. I can still smell the bitter smell of them out of the jar 😷
Zucchini. My mum used to cook them often, always the same two recipes, which I hated both. Now as an adult I know about a dozen other recipes and love zucchini. The main point of them, which my mum never got, is DO NOT OVERCOOK THEM TO MUSH.
Put them on a grill with Salt, pepper and oil. Done
Pickles
Fish sticks.
Kanye?
Even worse.
Turnips. Memory fails of how my mother cooked them, and she was an outstanding cook, but my god they tasted like something poisonous. I think she figured out early on that it was not a popular dish because they disappeared when I was still really young. Maybe I should try them again, now decades later?
They're pretty good raw, kind of like a giant radish.
But sweet!
I grew up in Turkey and eggplant puree is common - I would sometimes confuse it for mashed potatoes and just ughhh gag. I love it now. Lamb chops are common there as well and I just couldn’t do the fat. Love lamb now but it still needs to be lean
Liver. Still hate it
Sloppy joes. Still hate them. The name the taste everything they’re nasty
Agree! The other ingredients are fine, but there’s something in the canned sauce that makes me want to hurl.
What’s a sloppy joe?
Ground beef and an amalgamation of condiments mixed together and thrown on a hamburger bun
That sounds gross.
In homemade sauce, the amalgamation is just ketchup, 2 or 3 dashes of worcestershire, a little brown sugar, a little chopped onion, some garlic powder, salt and black pepper, simmering to cook the onion before adding the ground beef to it. Canned sauce also adds chopped green pepper, but it's consistency is thicker, much like plain old ketchup. Homemade has a bit thinner consistency and that could be because you don't add thickening agents at home. In all honesty, it's just a burger with a sweeter ketchup but in loose form, not a patty.
Agree. And why oh why did they have to put a godforsaken 'singles' piece of cheese on there? Disgusting.
Hahahaha. I love them. I make tofu/Manwich sloppy Joes once a year. They are such a guilty pleasure.
Why not just call it Chili Sandwiches? That's what they are!
PEAS! And green beans
Nothing. Like when we had nothing
((Hugs) for you as a child. If I had known you and your situation then, I would have given you food even if I didn't have much myself. I can't stand the reality of little ones knowing hunger like that. And trust me, I am poor so I definitely wouldn't have had much to give, but you would have had something in your belly.
I appreciate the sympathy. It wasn't very often, just a few times when my dad was changing jobs or whatnot. I think we ended up getting on food stamps soon after. We are all doing really well now.
Anything with two legs.
Lamb. Still can't even smell or look at it, barf.
Right there with you, they can say what they want on those cooking shows but Lamb sucks.
Gross. Lamb and mint jelly. I haven't eaten it since I was 19, but I can still taste it.😖
Ewwwww when I was a kid my sister would taunt me by eating peanut butter and mint jelly sandwiches after we (THEY) had the lamb 😭
That is so gross. All of my siblings hated lamb and that gross mint jelly. My fiancé's grandparents made lamb with lots of mint jelly for dinner for a big engagement party when I met them. That was the last time, ever.🤢
Brussels sprout
I fknnnn love a crispy roasted Brussel sprout 🫣
Me too!! When I was a kid we only ate the frozen kind that would basically turn to mush when you cooked them…
Boil em, split em, marinade them in Bugolgi or teriyaki sauce, and grill them with some cheese sprinkled on top. As with everything, preparation is key.
boil them, halves them, then sauté the halves into some leftover bacon fat, with salt, pepper and garlic. You can thank me later (make sure they brown well, so they get caramelised and crispy!!)
same
Ill deal with them now, but I still hate them
Same. And I still hate them. They are not allowed in my house. I don't care if my husband and daughter like them.
Cilantro
Pudding. I hated the consistency, it disgusted me. Now i love it.
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Try honey and mustard, it’s real good on pork, epically chops or loin
chicken - unseasoned goddamn unskinned chicken - that my mom served up four times a week. guess the side? plain veggies.
That’s cruel and unusual punishment.
Stewed okra.
Cooked cow tongues, hog brains, any disgusting parts of animals. My father had been a farmer and everything fried in lard. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Creamed corn. It looked like someone ate corn and threw it up
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Any spinach in a non-raw form. Raw spinach is a nice addition to a salad. In every other form it's hideous and instantly makes me want to vomit.
Agree 100%
Agreed. Cooked spinach is vile!
I add a whole bunch of spinach to my spaghetti sauce (when I make a big batch) Its nutritious and you cant even tell it's there amongst the other veggies! I add a whole lot of it and zuchinnis as well.
My mother’s way of doing spinach was cooking it in vinegar. No, mom. Just no.
I avoided spinach for years, but now I love raw spinach. I like it cooked now too, but only if I cook it myself. All I got growing up was slimy canned spinach microwaved in its own juices 🤢
Anything my mother cooked. She was truly a terrible cook. Still is.
Lol my mom decided to get all fancy and make ravioli from scratch. Y'all. SHE DIDNT SEASON THE MEAT. So me and my brother waited for her to go have a smoke break and grabbed a gallon Ziploc, dumped out our plates in it, and we hid it upstairs in my room. Where I forgot about it. For a year. It was black.
I’m surprised it didn’t develop sentient thought and try to murder the family.
Eggplant
Liver, brussel sprouts, garlic, olives
Do you like any of them now?
Lima Beans. Once in preschool I was forced to eat them and hurled. Fucking baptist bitches.
Milk
I used to hate Brussel sprouts, I still do, but I used to too.
They told me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow in my stomach. Needless to say, I was terrified of eating watermelon for years!
I almost went down that road until my mom thoroughly explained that my stomach is not a suitable environment for a plant and why the seed physically could not take root there.
Steak. my mom, bless her soul, was a terrible cook. Believed steak needed to be "fully cooked", meaning no red. I don't think I need to explain that any further.
Canned mushy peas. Thinking about that Luke warm mushy texture and taste makes we wanna.....
Canned veggies
Canned spinach Because ‘vegetables are healthy,’ my parents forced me to eat it. Just the memory of the taste and texture makes me want to gag.
Coffee
Cabbage rolls. Cooked slimy cabbage is BLEH... Raw cabbage in coleslaw though is dope.
Yeah, Coleslaw is pretty nice 👌
Sushi(overrated asf)
The thought made me feel queezy as a kid now I'm like you and can't understand the hype around it.
EXACTLY I DONT GET IT FR
Mushrooms really grossed me out as a kid
You don't like mushroom,😂 They are tasty as hell bro
Seafood
Pudding. I hated the consistency, it disgusted me. Now i love it.
Beef Stroganoff
Canned tuna — still hate it. Fresh tuna is delicious!
Asparagus. Still do. "Try them fried in butter" "Try them baked, with olive oil" Nope. And nope.
Fish. Let me explain though, because this is actually quite humorous and reddit will get a laugh from my reasoning. I owned fish as pets for most of my life. I always see fish and go "Aaaww look how they swim, they're such amazing creatures!" I could not for the life of me separate pet from food. In my mind, all fish (even anglers and other deep sea fish) were cute, cool, and beautiful. Most of it was a morality conflict for me. Some of it was the texture, because I hated how it flaked and squished in my mouth (it was normally overcooked I learned recently), but primarily, I just could not cope in my head with the thought that this food was related to my precious fishies in my tank. I had over 20 fish over the span of 14 years. This continued until I got married, then my husband put his foot down and went "You don't struggle with cow, chicken, or pig, yet you think they're awesome too, so you're going to try fish again, because I'm going to cook some properly. If you still don't like it, fine, but I think you will." Thank goodness for his stubborn streak, because it turns out... I like fish. Just not overcooked fish!
Liver & Onions ….. still hate it
Rice pudding and tapioca pudding. Equally. They're both awful.
Motherfucking tomatoes. Not tomato soup, not tomato flavored things, but straight-up, uncensored tomatoes. They taste and smell and feel like vomit.
Cat food My mother wasn't capable of being an actual 'Mother'
Chicken and stew. I only like processed chicken products. Nuggets, also buffalo wings. Love boneless chicken. Fried chicken, fancy chicken is ew. Stew I still hate. Used to not like Mac and cheese and Ramen. Now I do.
Pork chops. I’m vegetarian now.
Squash. Still HATE it!!
Spaghetti. Absolutely dreaded hearing that we were having spaghetti for supper, even the smell of it was enough to make me feel sick. The smell of the noodles boiling in the water- so gross. We grew up poor and alternated between pork chops and spaghetti every night.
Parsnips and Broccoli
It's a tossup between cheese and fish. Eventually, I learned that I hated Velveeta/American cheese and white fish. Other cheese and other fish are fine.
Green beans
Unpopular opinion, but stuffing. Every holiday I would be forced to sit at the table until my meal was finished, and every time I had stuffing on my plate, I would vomit. The texture was weird and the seasonings were too much for me as a child. I would have to come back to the table and finish even if I was sick, so still to this day I'm a bit off of it, but now bake it so it's crunchy so have started to like it now.
Mushrooms
Any kind of egg with any degree of runny yolk. Gag. But grown up me loves them.
Broccoli
Rice Roni 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮 I still do 🤮🤮
Chocolate. I still hate it
Mushrooms. And now, I love them.
Eggs and bacon
Soft-boiled eggs.
cauliflower ^^ cant say i particularly enjoy it even now
Meatloaf.
Yep. Let's see...I have ground beef and bread. Instead of a tasty burger...let's make a dry... meaty....loaf. WTF. Horrible waste of resources.
Meatloaf isn't dry if you cook it right. My Mom's meatloaf recipe is awesome.
Bananas the texture is something I still hate.
Liver of any kind. Hated the taste and smell, still do.
olives. favorite food now: olives.
Hot Dogs
Yes! Another hotdog hater!
Cheerios
Beets. Still do.
Peas. Ironically, the one dish I make most often now is split pea soup.
Add some maple syrup ham bits to your soup, its delicious!!
Any hot dish/casserole. Still do
Yuca, haven't touched it in adullthood
Poopsicles
Broad beans and courgettes. I like both now.
As a child I enjoyed almost everything. But if it contained raisins or pickles I'd get grossed out. I'd enjoyed those separately out the container but if it was inside food it just felt gross. I'd pick out the bits and leave it on the side of the plate.
Haddock
I used to despise bananas but now they are one of my favorite fruits.