Least Favoruite Foods is the topic for Week 39 in Amy Coffin’s and Geneablogger’s 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History series. Like most people I hated them, especially the fatty meat, liver, red cabbage, sprouts and anything with hot milk such as custard and the milk puddings - rice, tapioca (nicknamed frog spawn or fish eye pud!) and semolina where I tried to eke out the miserable spoonful of jam to disguise the awful taste. Also among my dislikes, soggy bread & butter pudding and Queen's pudding (apart from the meringue topping), Menus did not seem to change much over my 13 years of school life.
I must admit I was a fussy and unadventurous eater as a child and it took me a long time to try anything new such as pizza and Chinese food. I am now into healthy eating, so will eat vegetables (even sprouts), I would not touch as a child.
But "No" - I have never come to like any of those awful school dinner dishes.
I too had a problem with school dinners (I was at boarding school in grades 8 to 12). I particularly remember the brown bread. I don't know how it was made, but it was very brown, very heavy and tasted awful. For many years afterwards I would not eat brown bread... but now (having grown up and come to my senses) I genuinely prefer wholemeal or multigrain bread.
ReplyDeleteYuck! I may never be able to enjoy an old favorite of mine again -- not with the name "frog spawn" embedded in my mind.
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