What was (more-or-less) banned in your house growing up food-wise?

[Redway]

My mum has this thing about sachet noodles (KOKA, Indomie, whatever) as being inherently extremely unhealthy and that extends to everyone under her purview, even now. Even now, I can’t visit home and just casually make some noodles without her nagging me to death about how unhealthy they are and what they’re saying about how the owner of certain brands of noodles regarded them as beneath him and his family. It just never stops, regardless of how old the people around her get. Home for Christmas with your cousins? None of us can eat noodles in peace. I wonder what she thinks about food-cultures in Asia where noodles traditionally play a big role.

I’ve got a tale I could tell about her approach to Sunny-D one evening in Tesco but that was more banter than anything. She wasn’t beefing it for-real.

[Beso]

Swearing

[Crimson Dynamo]

Eating fish on a Friday and wearing anything green

[Zizu]

My mum banned Vimto when some spilt on the table and took the top layer of varnish off !!!!


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[Niamh.]

Nothing as far as I can remember

[Vicky.]

Ice-cream from ice cream van

Always had 'choc ices in the freezer ' :laugh:

[Livia]

Pork and shellfish mainly.

[Niamh.]

Ice-cream from ice cream van

Always had 'choc ices in the freezer ' :laugh:

aww :laugh: We lived on a main road not in an actual housing estate so the ice cream van never stopped near us........luckily for my mother

[Benjamin]

I can’t say any food was banned.

[Cherie]

Ketchup, my mom said it was very unhealthy and fizzy drinks, we only had fizzy at Christmas or if we went out somewhere which was not very often :laugh:

[Benjamin]

Oh actually yes there was! Sunny D!

[Beso]

The ice cream van

[Strictly Jake]

We were only allowed McDonald's or the like once a month. Sometimes not even that. My mum and dad are also very anti microwaves. I think we had one for a bit at home but it was way later then everyone else then it broke and they never got a new one and still dont. Don't know why they were so set against them. Also there was a massive rule of never reheat rice. Since ive moved out I regularly reheat rice the day after I have a takeaway(in my microwave) and haven't died or been ill from it yet. Also I have at least two takeaways every week now haha

[Benjamin]

We were only allowed McDonald's or the like once a month. Sometimes not even that. My mum and dad are also very anti microwaves. I think we had one for a bit at home but it was way later then everyone else then it broke and they never got a new one and still dont. Don't know why they were so set against them. Also there was a massive rule of never reheat rice. Since ive moved out I regularly reheat rice the day after I have a takeaway(in my microwave) and haven't died or been ill from it yet. Also I have at least two takeaways every week now haha

Rice is a fair one. It should cooled and then be reheated properly as it can cause severe food poisoning if not.

[AnnieK]

Ketchup, my mom said it was very unhealthy and fizzy drinks, we only had fizzy at Christmas or if we went out somewhere which was not very often :laugh:

We only had fizzy drinks at Christmas too - and she bought them off the milk man so they were generic rola cola type but tasted soooo good. I can't stand it but Dandelion and Burdock reminds me of Christmas whenever I smell it.

We also weren't allowed Vimto - as she read something about it dissolving teeth (we had it at my Nan's though and she never knew :laugh:).

My mum went through various fads so we all went vegetarian for a while until she became really anaemic and the Doctor told her to eat read meat and then she force fed me liver on a weekly basis lol.

[Jessica.]

I wasn't allowed to have caffeinated fizzy drinks like coca cola until I was a teenager, that's the only thing that was a full on rule regarding food/drinks.

[Redway]

My mum banned Vimto when some spilt on the table and took the top layer of varnish off !!!!


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I’ve heard people refer to Vimto as ‘wine for kids.’

[Redway]

I wasn't allowed to have caffeinated fizzy drinks like coca cola until I was a teenager, that's the only thing that was a full on rule regarding food/drinks.

My mum was never a big fan of me spending money on coffee outside of what was in the cupboards. If she has it her way, I low-key wouldn’t have had caffeinated water until I was 21. No-cap. In that sense she’s one of those stereotypical boomer-parents who tried to steer their kids away from expensive coffee and avocado toast and towards saving for a mortgage. She’d let me get her a vanilla-latte from Costa every once in a while and that was it.

[Redway]

Ice-cream from ice cream van

Always had 'choc ices in the freezer ' :laugh:
I remember choc.-ices. My mum used to love them. I … didn’t mind them but I wouldn’t buy them for myself.
We were only allowed McDonald's or the like once a month. Sometimes not even that. My mum and dad are also very anti microwaves. I think we had one for a bit at home but it was way later then everyone else then it broke and they never got a new one and still dont. Don't know why they were so set against them. Also there was a massive rule of never reheat rice. Since ive moved out I regularly reheat rice the day after I have a takeaway(in my microwave) and haven't died or been ill from it yet. Also I have at least two takeaways every week now haha
We have some family friends who promote(d) (I don’t know about now, to be fair) Saladmaster (a stainless-steel-pots company) and, actually, that’s all well-and-good. Stainless-steel pots are among the best for cooking but with that promotion from them came a personal narrative that microwaves are the devil’s handiwork (probably due to the rays of heat transmitting dodgy messages, in some peculiar schizotypal-parallel kind of culinary pharisaical line of reasoning; no-shade-no-titty but come on). They don’t have a microwave in the house but we never went that far. At my family-house there’s just a microwave-cover and that’s about as much as anyone could ever be bothered with, tbh. Pots? Fine. Saladmaster-kettle, even. Fine. My mum got kitted up with that, too. But removing a whole microwave just isn’t practical. Most people can’t live like that.