Every family has that one meal from childhood that still haunts them. But one family took it to another level. TikToker Ellie (@elliesworldtiktok) is listing the craziest foods her mom used to give her as a form of torture. They sound less like dinner and more like failed science experiments.
Her mom’s favorite meal to feed her was a sandwich made with Wonder bread, one piece of bologna, and one piece of Kraft cheddar cheese.
The whole sandwich was then soaked in vinegar. If Ellie didn’t eat the entire sandwich, her mom would stand beside her and cough into her ear until she choked it down.
“I got a good method to eating this sandwich because it happened all the time,” said Ellie. “I would just take it in little balls and swallow it like a pill. Terrible, that sandwich.”
The next food was raw asparagus, including raw asparagus stock. It took Ellie years to be able to eat asparagus again. For breakfast every morning, Ellie was forced to drink a 355-milliliter cup of Metamucil, a fiber supplement powder, mixed with water.
However, there was so much powder that it wouldn’t fully mix into the water, resulting in a thick and clumpy concoction. That was accompanied by big swallows of fiber pills.
Ellie was also taking handfuls of medications she wasn’t supposed to have. Her mom had the psychiatrist wrongfully prescribe her anti-psychotics.
When she was being starved, she would eat a box of Kleenex because that was the only semi-edible item in her reach.
Her school lunches would consist of a plain, all-bran fiber bar, a bruised McIntosh apple, and one white tortilla with one piece of bologna and half a slice of Kraft cheddar cheese.
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If they didn’t have any bruised apples at home, her mom would drop one on the ground a few times to make sure it was bruised.
The tortilla was also microwaved for five minutes and then placed in a plastic bag. Ellie would have to eat it cold and soggy at school.
If she were lucky, she would get sent to school with a peanut butter sandwich. However, she would have to eat it alone in the hallway at school because nuts were an allergen.
One time, her mother allowed her to get some more pasta for herself for lunch. Ellie filled her plate with pasta because she was starving.
Her mom proceeded to make fun of her on the phone to her dad, calling her a greedy, fat pig. Then, she took the pasta away.
Luckily, her grandmother would feed her, although she was a bystander in the abuse Ellie was experiencing at home. At her grandma’s house, she would eat whole boxes of Velveeta macaroni and cheese and whatever chocolate was nearby.
For Ellie, food has been an issue throughout her entire childhood. There were so many more things she experienced than what she discussed in her video.
This kind of food torture led to her developing a severe eating disorder. She was hospitalized twice for it. She has since recovered, but is still working on her relationship with food.
By Emily Chan
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