Gosh, it was quit a while ago, but really we weren't allowed to dislike food.  The kids were 7, 9, 13, and 15.  And I was 20.  So I don't think we were elderly!  We all knew we couldn't complain about how something tasted or weather we wanted to eat it or not.  This wasn't an authoritarian family either.  It's just the way things were.  The standards could be different there now, but I suspect they aren't that different.