Worst meal you ever ate multiple times?

Growing up, fresh fish was not as common as it is today. If it was fresh, my Dad and I probably caught it and it was bass, crappie, brim or catfish.

The only salmon that I ate, while growing up, was from a can and used for making salmon patties. OMG, that stuff was nasty and had pieces of bone in it causing further gaging. We had to endure that meal at least once a month until I was about 14 years old.
 
I was raised on a ranch in eastern Colorado when money was very tight. Electricity came to house when I was 5, indoor plumbing 10 years later.

I never want to eat carp or jackrabbit again.

I like liver and onions if the liver is not overcooked. Rocky Mountain oysters of any variety are a treat.
 
I’m not a fan of organ meets. Liver, heart, brains, tripe, stomach ( as in haggis), intestines, kidney are all best left for someone else.

The one I keep trying is menudo (tripe soup). Occasionally I’ll try menudo again. I’ve run into good menudo occasionally which is the reason I keep trying it. About 80% of it is miserable stuff.

I’ve been told that properly cleaned and well rinsed tripe is the secret to good menudo: something you’re most likely to find at small, family owned restaurants. Larger operations are more likely to skimp on preparation.

I’ve left a lot of bowls of menudo on the restaurant table hunting for palatable menudo.
 
Mom's go to meal for Fridays was tuna noodle casserole or salmon croquets. I WILL NOT EAT EITHER TO THIS VERY DAY. First Christmas without mom. :( But thankfully we cleared the air on this one years ago over a wonderful whisky filled evening with my brothers and sister:D
 
Growing up, fresh fish was not as common as it is today. If it was fresh, my Dad and I probably caught it and it was bass, crappie, brim or catfish.

The only salmon that I ate, while growing up, was from a can and used for making salmon patties. OMG, that stuff was nasty and had pieces of bone in it causing further gaging. We had to endure that meal at least once a month until I was about 14 years old.

My mom, and now Ruthie, make excellent salmon patties. My oldest grandson requests them.

When dad was supporting the five of us on an enlisted man's salary, times were tight towards the middle and end of the month and mom would buy canned mackerel to make patties. The smell of canned mackerel is unmistakable.

I knew we kids were in for a siege as per dad's rule:

 
One Boy Scout camping trip the kid who provided breakfast brought Instant Cream of Wheat. We called it Barf of Wheat. Flavored with sugar, Tang (yes!) it was totally inedible.
 
BEST meal I ever ate

Back in my Puppy Dog Days - went to Survival School.
We had some survival kit rations.
Tropical Chocolate- kind of like Baking Chocolate.
Yes Please!
Fruitcake. Who you calling a fruitcake? Yes Please!
Cereal Bar. Dissolved in hot water, Sort of like drinking hot glue.
Early in the morning with a cup of instant coffee, not that bad!
And then there was them Cheese Bars.
I would have liked to been at the meeting when they selected it.
Nobody I knew liked it! It was that bad.

After the bus ride back from the boonies in USAF survival school in 1969, where it was ice cold and we got about 500 calories a day for 5 days I think. Marching around from point to point in the snow.

I hopped off the bus at Fairchild AFB and sprinted to the mess hall, hoping to catch lunch.

Too late, serving had stopped. But I spotted five or six guys sitting around. Went over and sat down and asked each one, "You gonna eat that?" of their leftovers. Ate every scrap of whatever each fellow had.

I think they thought me a little eccentric but I could have cared less. Those leftovers were GREAT!

I hardly ever complained about food after that week outside. Most everything tastes good to me.
 
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