Rice Pudding.

Flickr photo, by Almoko



Rambler's comment on those nasty, frozen fish-sticks got me thinking about a few foods I did not like as a child. Fortunately, I can not think of too many, partly because my mother was a good cook, and partly because we were not (generally) forced to eat food we disliked.

Which brings me to rice pudding.

I was served it once as a child at a friend's house and, since it was not my home, had to be more polite in the way that I disliked it. I can still see those little cold beads of rice showing through the vanilla pudding-like substance. They looked like translucent fish eggs. It was sweet but the texture made me gag. I managed a few polite bites and sat through the remainder of the dessert hoping no one would notice my distaste. I picked at it long enough to be relieved of the obligation to finish.

The only other distasteful memory is frozen spinach -- a dish designed in hell's kitchen. Not only does it look bad and taste bad, it also smells like mold. But for me, any vegetable boiled tastes bad. Raw or stir-fry okay, but boiled, mushy, tasteless vegetables are terrible.

That's my short list. Got something better from your childhood? Pass it on.