8 Old-Fashioned Foods Boomers Refuse To Touch

All of us, at some point, remember nightmare food experiences from our childhood. It's the time mom made us sit at the table until every piece of broccoli was eaten, or the time when our dating interest's parents made their special soup and we knew we had to eat it or be considered rude.

All age groups have their stories, but some of the most frightening tales of food nightmares might come from the baby boomer generation. In a couple of posts on social media, hundreds of boomers shared many of the foods they were forced to eat. While some are rather tame, many of them are nightmare fuel. After a little research, we put together this list of eight old-fashioned foods that baby boomers refuse to touch, mainly thanks to their childhood.

Overwhelmingly, one of the top foods baby boomers remember is liver in some form. Liver and sauteed onions (one of Guy Fieri's most hated dishes) is certainly a popular dish that used this protein — which is often described as having a metallic, musky flavor with a grainy texture. While most boomers weren't fond of liver, some say they enjoyed it and still eat liver today.

Though it doesn't sound that appetizing, many people enjoy pigs feet — depending on how they're prepared. One popular preparation back in the day was pickled pigs feet. One Facebook commenter says, "My mother loved them and of course I had to try them. Hated hated hated them. I was traumatized for life looking at them."

What exactly is tripe? Used in many international cuisines, tripe is essentially stomach lining that comes from cows, pigs, or sheep. It's often used in soups and stews. One Facebook poster simply calls tripe "a food not on taste but just on sight that you would refuse to try." Another Facebook user adds, "Yep, same ... as a nine year old, staying at my older married sisters house, a horrific cooking smell hit me. I went into [the] kitchen to find my sister simmering tripe for her husband. I looked into the pan and was horrified."

The human palate changes over time, so some foods we hated as children, we might enjoy as adults. Perhaps pea soup is such an example. The bright greenish color with the creamy texture might seem unappealing to a kid, as it was to many a baby boomer back in the day, but cooked properly at a nice restaurant, it can be quite an enjoyable appetizer. In fact, split pea soup with ham is a luxurious option you might see even at Michelin star restaurants.

Some foods just sound questionable. That brings us to "head cheese" — which is, in fact, not cheese at all. Head cheese is a mix of pigs feet, head, and skin formed into a gelatinous mixture. Though it sounds a little odd, it's a popular dish in Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Though baby boomers might have bad memories of head cheese ("I thought it was made from someone's head," one Facebook user says), it actually has plenty of history and is enjoyed in many cultures.

This is a Southern dish that goes way back. Needless to say, some baby boomers might have an issue or two with it. The idea was to pour a tall glass of milk and crumble some cornbread into the liquid — perhaps as a way to make it more filling or to use up leftover cornbread. Either way, it's one of those dishes that might bring to mind bad thoughts to the generation that grew up with it on the table.

Blood sausage is another dish that, like tripe or pigs feet, might look and sound questionable at first glance. Blood sausages are some of the oldest known sausages in the world, and they consist of animal blood mixed with fillers, such as fat, grain, bread, and spices. Though this might be a popular food item in some places, it seems to be a hard pass for many baby boomers. "Grandpa always liked blood sausage but I'm telling you that is one thing I could not stand," one Facebook user says. "Even thinking about it now makes me want to barf."

For the unfamiliar, Tab was Coca-Cola's first foray into the world of diet colas. The drink was extremely popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and the parents of many a baby boomer seemed to have enjoyed this beverage. "My ex-wife drank it," one Facebook user says. "Worst bitter aftertaste ever."