When I was a kid, I went to Belgium, and was served, for dinner, a piece of endive with a tiny slice of ham on top. 

It jarred me for life, and now I cannot eat ham nor endive. Nor can I return to Belgium, no joke. I just automatically think ENDIVE. 

I was a very picky eater but in weird ways. I would eat pretty much any vegetable. The dishes I loathed were usually because of the texture. 

- HATED wild rice, still to this day cannot eat it

- Anything with caraway seeds or rosemary that wasn't ground

- Anything with ham or fish or dark meat chicken

- Ricearoni - any flavor (legit threw up at the table when my family tried to make me eat this)

I think mine was meatloaf…I’m sensing a theme in the comments! 

I can remember a salmon loaf that made me want to diiiiiie. Haunted to this day.

Definitely cubed steak, the texture was so tough and I hated it. I still have nightmares till this day..

We would go fishing on a small lake in Lincoln, NE… and we’d have to eat the nasty lake fish. Perhaps to some it was a delicacy, but to me, ew. My dad would say that if we didn’t eat our dinner, we wouldn’t get DQ… so I scarfed that ish to get my ice cream. My sister, on the other hand, went without. 

Pork chops! BLAH! (Loved a meatloaf, damn these responses are ruthless!) 

I guess I had a blessed childhood because 95% of my diet was mozzarella sticks. (The other 5% were Little Debbies.)

Meatloaf. Something about it made me gag EVERYTIME 

Now, I realize the answer to this question is probably "All of them!" if you were a picky eater. Plus, if most kids were left to their devices they'd have pizza or chicken nuggets every night. But what you asked what dinner was that night, what response filled you with the most dread and disappointment.

For me it was pork chops! So chewy and dry and bland! Yuck! Even worse if it was with a side of broccoli. Honestly, that meal would still fill me with dread. So, what's yours?

What was your most dreaded dinnertime meal as a child?