One of my mother's favorite punishments was withholding food or forcing me to eat unsuitable food.
Due to this, there are many foods I still cannot eat to this day.
Coffee: My step-father drank coffee on the weekends and in the latter part of the next week she got such satisfaction from making me drink the leftover moldy coffee she left in the coffee pot all week. It took a good 15 years before the smell of coffee didn't evoke a sensation of queasiness in me. I finally like the smell of coffee but am pretty sure I will never enjoy the taste. I also get tired of people telling me that I will eventually develop a taste for coffee...doubt it.
Pinto Beans: I know there is nothing evil about feeding a person pinto beans but it is another one of those things that I doubt I will ever eat again. I ate many a meal of pinto beans, usually cold, over the years. I am not sure if it was what I was eating as much as it was the fact that I was not allowed to eat with the family, nor at the same time as the family, or that getting to eat was a reward instead of a right. Regardless me and pinto beans are not big fans of each other.
