What food(s) did you love as a kid and now can't stand?
I'm running with this thread and reversing it.
So, 'fess up....what can't you stomach anymore?
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Processed cheese slices. I'd melt them in a tortilla, microwave them between two slices of bread, put two of them in a regular sandwich. I even remember eating them as snacks. I now think they're vile and the idea of putting one on a sandwich grosses me out.
PumpkinBear at 7:35PM on 03/03/09
Man, I used to BEG for brussels sprouts. HATE them now.
meg3j at 7:35PM on 03/03/09
Ketchup.
American cheese slices.
Spam.
Canned noodle soup, esp. Campbells
Many sugary cereals.
sadiepix at 7:44PM on 03/03/09
tuna fish sandwhiches with cheetos. gag. I would rather starve than eat those ever again.
mhurst826 at 7:47PM on 03/03/09
Amaretto cookies - My parents would always buy them for Christmas parties and would save a handful for me. These days, just the smell makes me gag.
hammondcheese at 7:55PM on 03/03/09
ALL i drank as a kid was white grape juice. now it's so sweet it hurts my mouth.
megannesta at 7:57PM on 03/03/09
@PumpkinBear....same here! I buy them for my 6-year old only because that's the only kind I can get him to eat on sandwiches. Bleah.
Milk. I used to drink it by the gallon and now I can only tolerate it IN things or on cereal. I don't even like chocolate milk.
momobotx2 at 8:01PM on 03/03/09
Cotton Candy.
The squishy insides of any bread.
That's all I can think of...LOL.
therealchiffonade at 8:06PM on 03/03/09
Ha! @trc- My sis will ONLY eat the squishy insides, the squishier the better!
sadiepix at 8:10PM on 03/03/09
i can't believe i actually ate froot loops.
cybercita at 8:12PM on 03/03/09
Man, the list is too long...as a kid I loved McDonald's, KFC, not 'real' meat but processed meat like liverwurst and pepperoni and hot dogs, really disgustingly sweet cereals like Frankenberry, and pretty much anything sweet. I am a discriminate consumer of sweet things now, then I was indiscriminate.
HeartofGlass at 8:12PM on 03/03/09
Liver - loved it as a kid, no way now! Oh and milk - drank it by the gallons growing up, no way now - although don't mind cooking with it.
Ribster at 8:14PM on 03/03/09
Spaghetti-Os
kathyvegas at 8:18PM on 03/03/09
Steak, milk, ham and bologna. I ended my relationship with bologna at around the age of nine, when I put a pkg of it in my daisy-flowered basket that was attached to my banana seat bicycle, when I decided to run away from home. I rode seven miles and then hid out in a lean-to in the woods behind our house. I was gone for maybe two or three hours and haven't liked bologna since. Steak, ham and milk all went out the door in my mid to late teens.
dhorst at 8:23PM on 03/03/09
Fried potatoes. Yuck!
Traveller at 8:23PM on 03/03/09
american cheese slices, apple juice, white bread, chicken fingers
ssultan23 at 8:39PM on 03/03/09
What stands out...
- poultry
- onions
- pizza
Cassaendra at 8:46PM on 03/03/09
Licorice whips, well not really licorice, but the "red Flavor" whatever that was. I used to buy them in six foot long pieces and eat them in one day. Now the thought of it makes me feel sick. I doubt I could finish a foot long piece.
whatseatingme at 9:02PM on 03/03/09
Bologna sandwiches are the main one....also canned soup, Chef Boyardee pasta, Hawaiian Punch...oh, and hot dogs. Once I found out what was in them, it was all over.
kimberlymac at 9:18PM on 03/03/09
Apple Juice (must've drank gallons of it while I was in the hospital with a broken femur) & eggs.
thehostess at 10:42PM on 03/03/09
Candy Floss (or Cotton Candy) is probably the only such thing. Oh, and apple juice, too, although I remember drinking it, not so much really loving it. I can't think of anything else.
brooke29 at 11:07PM on 03/03/09
chili - my mom was a fan of ONE POT MEALS.... now i really never even think to make chili .... not that i hate it, just have bad chili trauma.....or bad chili karma.
and bisquick pancakes. yuck.
pooch at 11:12PM on 03/03/09
Soggy Special K cereal--pour milk over bowl of cereal, wait at least 8 or so minutes until there is no texture left whatsoever, consume.
Just the idea of eating something so cold and slimy makes me feel a little ill now! Blech.
ChristineB at 2:52AM on 03/04/09
spam
lettuce sandwiches on white bread with miracle whip.
sardines
McDonald's
machellebelle at 4:11AM on 03/04/09
chef boyardee ravioli... I grew up in an area that had no italian restaurants, so really any family restaurant that served spaghetti and meatballs was italian. Never had "real ravioli" until I went out on my own... now the canned stuff makes me gag.
Pavlov at 5:30AM on 03/04/09
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blave at 6:33AM on 03/04/09
Twizzlers I hate them now. When I was a kid I always got them at Woolworth's now I cannot even look at them.
JerzeeTomato at 7:18AM on 03/04/09
@blave- I'll pass, thanks.
meg3j at 7:35AM on 03/04/09
@blave ~ You have no idea who you are dealing with here.
izatryt at 8:03AM on 03/04/09
Blave started a topic about tastefully simple in another folder. A perfect example of "How NOT To Build A Business."
therealchiffonade at 8:42AM on 03/04/09
Anything sweet. I thought it was child abuse if my parents didn't allow me to order some huge, chocolate, cakey, mousse, drizzeled with chocolate, sprinkled with chocolate monstrosity. I dreamed about the day when I could move out and eat a roll of cookie dough without anyone saying anything. Now---I pretty much hate everything sweet.
jcrisco at 9:59AM on 03/04/09
BANANAS. Seriously, I HATE anything banana. Except banana bread. Apparently I would scream in the grocery store for one. My mom said I was the only child that would scream for something in the produce aisle (bananas) and be silent in the candy aisle. I never really liked candy. Still holds true. I like it here and there but it isn't something I crave.
Other then that, I can't think of anything. Pretty boring, huh?
Butrflygirly at 10:11AM on 03/04/09
Miracle Whip, especially in place of mayo on sandwiches.
Karencooks at 10:21AM on 03/04/09
Chocolate milk...used to drink it all the time but now it's just not the same...I think Quik may have changed it's formula...
sammie at 11:23AM on 03/04/09
mad dog 20/20
sloppy at 11:44AM on 03/04/09
Any and all canned pasta products. I get a little queasy thinking of that nasty texture. And doughnuts. I think I put away a dozen of them by myself once. My teeth are now shivering with the memory of all that sugar at once.
mollykate678 at 11:56AM on 03/04/09
Bologna. I had bologna sandwiches with mustard and squishy white bread almost every day for most of grammar school. I haven't had it since and I don't miss it - now just looking at it makes me feel nauseated. Also, ding-dongs, ho-hos, etc. Way too sweet and dry (and full of preservatives) for me to eat now.
Junie at 11:58AM on 03/04/09
ew, yeah, I'll 'fess up to the Chef Boyardee, too. blechhhhhh.
Used to beg my parents for ANYTHING Chef Boyardee. Ravioli and Beefaroni being my favorites. I'd rather do an episode of Fear Factor than eat a can of that mush now.
wookie at 12:17PM on 03/04/09
Captain Crunch cereal. We never had it in the house (kumbaya granola people), but my best friend did. I could down bowls of the stuff. Just thinking about it now makes my jaw ache. Oh, and Strawberry Quick.
chisai at 1:21PM on 03/04/09
@kimberlymac: I totally agree with the bologna sandwiches. I used to just take 3 slices of bologna and sandwich in between the slices, presliced american cheese. Can't touch the stuff now.
FrostyGhost at 2:02PM on 03/04/09
Malted milk balls. A product called potted meat. Mom would mix it with mayonaisse and spread it on bread for sandwiches. eww
JasonP at 2:12PM on 03/04/09
Bologna
ChefJeffSD at 2:16PM on 03/04/09
cheez whiz
cocoa pebbles
frosted flakes
MadelynRodriguez at 2:29PM on 03/04/09
Any processed cheese - I used to see a cheese plate on menu's and think, why would anyone order slices of cheese?! lol...
Also, I used to like pickled pigs feet and sardines. I would pass on them now...
ddvierra68 at 2:31PM on 03/04/09
Anything overloaded with sugar: cereal, pixy sticks, you name it. I remember mom telling me that someday all that sugar wouldn't taste so good, and she was right!
onalark at 2:57PM on 03/04/09
Boxed mac and cheese dinners, spaghetti-os, any meat ( I am vegetarian now), hard candies, Popsicles
jo_wang at 3:17PM on 03/04/09
sardines. I used to sit with my Dad and eat them all the time. Now I don't even want to see the can.
mommyme at 3:30PM on 03/04/09
Definitely fast food and canned ravioli. Really mayo-y tuna salad (still love tuna, but can only stand a tiny drop of mayo in it now). Twinkies. Also, instant pudding.
CookiePie at 3:40PM on 03/04/09
There was a salad that was popular when I was very young that I liked that was made with green peas, square chunks of orange cheese (Cheddar?), and occasionally, square chunks of ham that were ideally the same size as the cheese, all tossed together in some kind of mayonnaise dressing. Thankfully, like "Fluffy Mackerel Pudding," you hardly ever see this salad anymore. I saw it a few years ago at a salad bar and I felt repulsed.
LadyMarmalade at 3:49PM on 03/04/09
Spaghetti-os and twinkies. They both taste awful to me now.
Rottenmom at 4:15PM on 03/04/09
I can't believe I'm admitting this but...
When I was a kid (super little, like 4-6) I used to LOVE the fat on the meat. I preferred it to the actual meat and I'd make my parents and brothers give me their meat fat (they gladly handed it over...I wonder why). Now, I've come to my senses and literally get nauseous when I think about all the straight up fat I ate as a child. Yuck!
Hillary
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Chew on That at 5:06PM on 03/04/09
Brains and eggs!
Mirab at 5:14PM on 03/04/09
I just can't eat Honeycombs or Cap'n Crunch (not even the peanut butter variety): And sadly, I can't stand grape juice anymore... Unless it's been fermented into wine, mind. ;)
bansidhe at 5:37PM on 03/04/09
Processed cheese. Ugh.
Also, I used to LOVE LOVE LOOVE Dinty Moore's Beef Stew. I requested to eat it every Sunday morning. yum sodium!
Can't eat that stuff anymore.
avocadoboba at 5:59PM on 03/04/09
Cool-aid and grape soda. Apparently I loved plain raw tofu as a toddler, which i dont actually remember, but definitely don't eat now. I still like most other "kid foods" and never liked process cheese or bologna.
Embackus at 6:19PM on 03/04/09
kraft mac'n'cheese but for some reason i get craving once ina while i get a craving for it but i has to be with soggy noodles and i actually switched to the white cheddar variety...speaking of that actually sounds good
Sigilum at 6:23PM on 03/04/09
Grape juice
Bologna
Mayo on sandwiches. Or more than a little bit in general, really.
McDonald's Chicken McNuggets
Funnel Cake
Really fatty cuts of meat
Chicken Skin
White Pizza (WTF was I thinking?! The sauce is second only to the dough in pizza!)
I also won't eat Chef Boyardee anymore, but that's because there's not really any redeeming nutritional value and I could just as easily cook up a box of pasta or frozen ravioli, not because it tastes bad.
cycorider at 6:31PM on 03/04/09
me too! i LOVED kraft mac n' cheese all the way through college... now ten years later.... it's terrible! also, apple jacks.
andshewas at 6:32PM on 03/04/09
Lucky Charms. They're magically disgusting.
And bologna. After my doctor told me in second grade to cut out the daily bologna sandwiches or I would get fat, I haven't taken a bite since.
laurelie at 6:36PM on 03/04/09
spaghettios! along with lucky charms, cool ranch doritos, chicken mcnuggets, velveeta, koolaid, kraft cheese slices..............
dettling05 at 6:41PM on 03/04/09
Spaghettios for sure. So gross now, but always a treat as a kid.
Also as a kid, I would take peanut butter in a bowl and stir in maple syrup and eat it with a spoon. The thought makes me sick now.
Karee at 6:48PM on 03/04/09
Oh, and because they deserve a special mention: McDonald's pancake and sausage breakfast menu, with a big honking thing of butter right on the pancake. McD's sausage biscuits, hashbrowns, French fries in the car. KFC and Pillsbury's biscuits. Aunt Jemima blueberry waffles and blueberry syrup. Pop tarts--one toasted, one eaten raw while the other toasted. A slice of cheese pizza with garlic salt all over it, alternated with a non-garlicky one, and a root beer.
I miss 'loving' these foods with a little kid's love so much, but not their aftereffects.
As for normal food, blueberry pancakes and waffles don't do it for me as much as they once did.
HeartofGlass at 7:07PM on 03/04/09
-fastfood
-ketchup
-processed cheese and/or cheese product (what happened to the cheese!?)
-pop
-juice
-poutine
-canned soups/pastas
-WIENERS
....and i'm sure there's more. like. sugar candies. although when i say fastfood i mean like McDs, Burger King, KFC, etc, etc...i do like Extreme Pita though. and Pizzahut. yes. i know.
eggyzhe at 8:38PM on 03/04/09
Campbell's cream of mushroom soup.
Root beer.
Lucky Charms and Cap'n Crunch.
Bugles. (are they even still around?)(Never mind answering that. I don't really want to know.)
There were these frozen chicken pot pies that I ADORED - maybe Swanson's? Hardly any meat but I loved the whole thing, yellowish gluey gravy and all.
moibec at 9:08PM on 03/04/09
Beanie Weanies, i used to eat them all the time when i went to my grandparents house, now i think of them as "hobo food" all tinny and gross. I think that maybe i ate them so much and loved them because i wasnt ready for the grown up norwegian food they all loved.
CATERPILLARGIRL at 9:14AM on 03/05/09
Yuck=
-Frozen hash browns
-Any kind of sweet cereal (my mom never bought it, but I ate it in college)
-Mister Mistys from DQ - sugar overload!!!
-Canned soups (Campbells)
-Quick powdered chocolate milk mix
-Fritoes
-Canned veggies
-Canned pears/peaches
-Microwave pancakes
-iceberg lettuce
-Hi-C or Kool-Aid
-Fruit Roll-ups
-2% milk
jenh78 at 11:37AM on 03/05/09
@ Junie, I think we might be twins. Bologna on squishy bread, especially a cream cheese and bologna sandwich, can make my grown-up stomach turn. And I also used to beg for those gross dried-out packaged baked goods like yodels and swiss rolls. Now I'd only eat one if you paid me.
Our local roller rink (Rollerama)(awesome name, right?) had some kind of pizza-like product that I loved as a kid. If I concentrate, I can still recall the way it smelled. It looked like pizza, and I guess that was enough for me.
Kerosena at 1:29PM on 03/05/09
@ HeartofGlass - I thought my brother and I were the only ones who used to eat one Pop Tart cold while waiting for the other to toast. And for some reason, we used to think wrapping the toasted one in a 2-ply paper napkin would keep it warm while we polished off the first one.
orangeobsession at 2:36PM on 03/05/09
Jello cheesecake - I was worried they would quit making it by the time I grew up...bleccchhhhh! couldn't stand a bite of it now.
Butterscotch on ice cream
ham spread - I think I would vomit now if I tried it
rckymtn1 at 4:44PM on 03/05/09
I basically only ate meat as a kid. Now I've been a vegetarian for five years. There you go.
fossilization at 4:58PM on 03/05/09
candy is food?
chinolam at 5:07PM on 03/05/09
I used to eat peanut butter on hotdogs. I still love peanut butter, but no longer eat hotdogs, and the thought of the two together is pretty ick-inducing.
PestoGal at 5:38PM on 03/05/09
I used to love fake Mac & Cheese (sorry Kraft) probably because my mom refused to buy it. Now I find it rather gross and much prefer mac and cheese made from scratch with good pasta and lots of real, fresh cheese.
evemis at 6:41PM on 03/05/09
@orangeobsession--clearly the three of us could have done a 'Galloping Gourmet' show on how to cook zee Pop Tarts in different ways. I don't know what I would have done if there had been the ones you freeze when I was a kid. Thank goodness, otherwise I would have had one toasting, one freezing, and one 'raw.'
I never kept mine warm, though, I always bit into it right out of the toaster. You'd think that singeing my mouth would have turned me off of them straight away but NOOOOO.....
HeartofGlass at 7:04PM on 03/05/09
I have memories of enthusiastically noshing on Twinkies, Fruity Pebbles and Pop Tarts as a kid.
I don't remember what it was like to enjoy them. I just have isolated memories of happily eating those noxious products.
Now, the weirdly vitamin-esque dusty artificial smell of Fruity Pebbles is enough to nauseate me.
fuuchan at 11:21PM on 03/06/09