One time on Usenet, "projectile vomit chick" > said:
> -L. wrote:

> > Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
> > out in your mind?
>
> My mother made a nasty concoction that was called "Chinese casserole"
> when I was a kid back in the 1970's. It had bamboo shoots and water
> chestnuts in a slimy gravy along with browned ground beef. To this day
> I cannot even look at a can of bamboo shoots or water chestnuts.

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Oooh, you reminded me of something my mother used to make that
I found disgusting -- canned beef stew baked with refrigerator
biscuits on top. In time, Mom became a wonderful cook, but some
of her early efforts, like this one, were just nasty...

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"Little Malice" is Jani in WA
~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~