Idea pinched from another subreddit.
You come in from school, dump your bag. You are hungry and looking forward to tea. You wander through to the kitchen and peer around. Your heart drops, because dinner tonight is ..
For me, this was mince and tatties. I love tatties, I love gravy, I love veg. I can't stand mince. Even as an adult, I don't understand how people can voluntarily eat pinhead-sized lumps of chewy, fatty meat. I don't dispute the possibility that mince in our house was badly cooked, but it doesn't change the result. Mince and tatties put me on a downer every time.
I vividly remember tentatively dipping tatties in the mince, and painstakingly dissecting the chewy wee buggers from my fork-full of food so I could at least try to enjoy the gravy on its own.
My favourite dinners were chicken casserole, or chicken pie. Anything with pastry got my vote.
What was your dreaded dinner as a wain?
Edit: I have been reminded of the dreaded packet fish in cream sauce. The microwave stuff. My mam knew I hated fish, but every so often made it as a wildcard dinner, almost as if she needed assurance that I still hated it. Final boss of unhappy post-school dinners.