What would you NOT eat if they paid you?

I remember being given butterbeans as a vegetable when I was a child visiting an aunt. They were out of a tin, with no sauce, just mushy orangey-beige butterbeans.

I was horrified, but because we knew we had to eat everything other people gave us, didn't dare leave them, so I 'hid' them one at a time under the tablecloth . When we'd finished, my aunt took off the cloth to shake it out and revealed the pile of butterbeans in front of my seat at the table.

There are one or two things people have mentioned that I haven’t tried (e.g. frog’s legs), but most of the ‘hated’ things are favourites of mine. Tripe, whelks/winkles, ox tongue…..yum! The only food I really don’t enjoy would be butterbeans, but I do eat them if we’re dining out and I’m given them.

I remember being given a single winkle in a slice of bread, and that moment when my teeth clamped down on said winkle..

My mum saying "Just swallow it!" Tears again, I'm afraid.

I used to pick winkles on the beach with my dad as well, Shinamae, as well as collecting sea coal. Happy days!

Our parents must have got a bit of peace while we worked our way through the winkles with our little pins. Though I wouldn't dare give them to the grandsons now - I was in enough bother when one of them swallowed his bubble gum (I thought it was a chewy sweet when I let him get it from a machine).

I’ve just been thinking,my dad used to eat half a pigs head and also pigs trotters and I think he would make brawn after cooking the pigs head….. but my dad would eat anything even roadkill… And he lived to be 87…?

Another backhanded compliment!

MissA Your mashed potato story reminded me of when my granddaughter was little she had a friend round for tea. Her mum (my DD) gave them sausages and mash. The little friend said to my DD 'Your mashed potatoes are lovely. Much nice than my mum's. I prefer them with lumps in like yours'.

Oopsadaisy1

Gefelta fish, had it in Israel during a festival and was forced to eat it as I was surrounded by locals who were very proud of it.

Eels and the liquor

Frogs legs or any other bits of a frog.

Anything that lives in a shell.

Tripe, brains, chitterlings.

How much money are we talking about? I’m sure if I held my nose and shut my eyes I could eat most things for a few squillion £ s

£25…?

Baggytrazzas

You can stick them anywhere you like

We used to collect them as children, boil them and eat them with vinegar.

I can't think of much that would induce me to do that now.

Maybe I'm getting my whelks and winkles mixed up, lol

Baggytrazzas

Grannydarkhair, I am digressing slightly - but snotters is a really brilliant word isn't it?

I too remember people pulling whelks from shells with pins although I didn't, and in some places in Glasgow where there were outdoor markets with stalls selling cooked whelks along with a safety pin, you could not walk a single step without crunching on empty shells that were several inche's deep.

When we were kids we used to go on the beach regularly with dad,we would pick a load of Winkles and actually cook them on the beach in an old tin can,we have pins with us to eat them.BUT A big fat no to Whelks and oysters…..?.. dad would also pick Laver (Black seaweed) and he would spend hours preparing it it needed a lot of cooking and a lot of cleaning but it was bloody lovely with pepper and some bacon….(I think some people call it lava bread)

Bodach

I have occasionally answered the question "Do you have any specific dietary requirements?" with "I prefer large portions"...

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same in our house so I learned early on to eat the stuff I didn't like first so that I could then enjoy the rest of my meal.

My mum was of the "you'll sit at the table for as long as it takes" school of thought.

Of course, cold rabbit tasted no better than hot.

I regularly got told to leave the table right up until the week before I got married. Not for not eating, but for " carrying on"! I had to lift my plate and eat at the kitchen table on my own.

I wasnt allowed to say anything, but I think the doleful eyes were enough to spoil dinner times.

I didnt realise at the time, and i think i should have been allowed to leave the table and go without.

It would have been easier all round.

honestly, some of you must have made your parents lives a misery at mealtimes!

Otherwise I have no problem with any of the things listed here. I used to live in Troyes and andouillette de Troyes was the local speciality. Unusual but not inedible. Not unlike the local speciality to where I live now - Saumagen. Stuffed pig's stomach. Made in winter with chestnuts. Great stuff.

Beetroot

Lumpy mash.
My family also had my tearful eyes when I had to swallow a lump.

I used to get told off for inspecting every mouthful as a child.

I'm surprised I've managed to get so fat!!

Probably if you enjoy something you're likely to just tuck in and miss seeing any "extras".

I dn't eat meat now and haven't for many years, but when I did, I was repulsed by offal. I can't stand anything with jelly on it, just seeing jellied eels makes me gag. The thing most likely to make me heave though is a lump in mashed potato. Blimey, my eyes are watering just at the thought as I type this.....

Oh no, worms in fish! I’ve never found one, unless I’ve eaten it without noticing.

I love fish, but will always be wary of skate since I was served skate wing that reeked of wee, and tasted just as I’d imagine it (if I had to) as well.

Mustard. Olives.

JaneJudge

Basa
I bought some from M&S once and it had the HUGEST worm in that I will never forget bleurgh

I had battered cod at the seaside, in an attempt to make myself eat fish, and found a worm in it.

That was about 40 years ago. Never again!!!