Is there a food your parents made you eat that you refuse to eat now as an adult?

I LOVE RAISINS.

My father never forced me to eat or not eat anything. I don't have any hangups about food, not because of my father anyway. I did have a really bad experience with ham when I was 9 or 10. Going on 15 years that I haven't eaten ham. I was a vegetarian for 9 of those years. I'm not any more but I'm still scared of ham.

I really hate raisins,too. Although, I did like them as a child.

I ate meat and meat products till I was 11-12 and haven't eaten any more of that since.

There are other reasons I've turned on food and not due to my parents. I can't drink gatorade since I associate it with being sick. It's all I smell when my kids are holed up with a stomach virus so I just can't stand the stuff anymore. Also veggie lo mein. I got sick off it once while I was preg and that was it for me.

I would always try one bite of everything and then I could decide whether I wanted to eat the rest or not. That was my moms rule. There was never anything she would force me to eat. She always tried to get me to like seafood but I never liked it. That's really the only thing I don't eat.

Add: I do have to second the bologna mentioned by someone else. It doesn't really have to do with my parents but they always bought it and I loved it as a kid. You know how people eat cheese and bananas together? I would eat bologna and bananas together. It was good then but completely grosses me out now. I cannot even think about eating it at all anymore.

actually no I'm a bit of a foodie. I used to moan and complain about anything until I was about 7 or 8 and then I just ate what I was given. I am not a big fan of lamb but had it every Sunday with my grandparents, I will eat it though.

The opposite is true of fish, my family ate a lot of fish, I used to help catch it sometimes, but refused to eat it, I thought it came alive again inside me. Now I love it.

BOILED SPINACH. My dad loves this slop, always did, everyone else in the family hates it, always did. It has the taste and texture of shredded boiled SLUGS. One time at a rich co-workers super fancy, 200+ guests, christmas party; they let me sit at the adult table with my dad. I couldn't have been more than 9-11 yrs old tho. Anyway, he insisted I take some of the spinach he brought so as not to make him look bad. (I admit I have done the same thing to my kids, but it was good food, not boiled slugs).... So I took a few bites, and I tried to tell him that stuff never agreed with my stomach and was making me feel sick. He didn't believe me and made me finish it. As I was nearly finished I SPEWED VOMIT ALL over the table and a few guests!!! It's funny to me now, but I was crying I was so sorry and sick, and I'm sure my dad wanted to strangle me!

PS. He was good friends with this guy, so after we watched the lighted-boat parade (this was Seattle area on the water) we got to stay the night in their big, fancy house. Totally true story.

Prune Juice! OMG my mom used to force my brother and me to drink it before school. She would give us these huge cups -- like a 24 oz size. We would always put some in our mouths and then throw up in the sink when she left the room. But there were days where she didn't leave the room and we had to digest it-- UGH GOD it was revolting.

She also gave us gruel one time. I don't even know where you buy gruel! But anyone who has to eat it, I feel so bad for. I cried the whole time I ate it. But because of this, I have not had prune juice or gruel since then. Thank god.

P.S., my mom makes lasagna so much I want to kill the person who invented it. lol

Ditto Ethels canned shrimp- GROSS! I was never forced to eat anything but this did make regular appearances at the table because my father liked it- I can't understand why, his father was a fisherman and caught the REAL stuff!

ANY variant of spinach that comes prepackaged, I can eat it fresh but if it comes out of a can or a plastic bag it makes me gag!

Paw paw- we had a paw paw plant in the back garden of one of the houses we lived in (we moved about a fair bit) that was a MASSIVE fruiter, at the time I LOVED it and would eat it all day and all night but now the SMELL of the stuff makes me gag!

Liver. I refuse to eat liver. Mom was big on all the iron available on liver.

I haven't eaten it in years, not since my childhood. I can't stand the smell of it. My son has never had any. In a way, I feel like my distaste for the icky stuff is robbing him of a very important childhood experience. After all... how can you truly enjoy and appreciate the good in life if you've never experienced the bad?

tripe and "throat sweetbread"(beef thymus gland)

first of all I don't know who thought of calling cow's thymus"sweet breads"

and tripe is just nasty my mother used to make it all the time she'd try to hide it in the spaghetti I remember getting so sick as a child being forced to eat it that I threw up and the dinner table as if that was not enough my step father came over and made me eat my throw up, when I refused I was choked until I passed out. Oh those great childhood memories!

"Au Gratin Potatos. Pork chops. Baked ham. Mac and Cheese. Seasoned green beans. Turkey and Dressing. Chicken and Dumplings. " My 1 year old eats all of this. "hard-as-leather 'chicken nuggets', slightly insincere fast food hamburgers, pizza pockets, and stuff really vile like Speghettios. And the pre-packaged deli slices of balogney and cheese to go on dull soda crackers that they have to stack themselve" She eats none of this. Kids eat junk because that's what's given to them. You hear and see a lot of "my kid only eats kraft and hot dogs", well that's because that's what you give him. My kid eats broccoli because that's what I give her. Junk is unavailable to her on a day to day basis. Because of that she chooses veggies over junk when she does get the choice at other people's houses. It isn't the kids, it really is the parents.