Mom: My Mother was generally a good cook - though she did tend to over use Campbell's Golden Mushroom soup. Most things she whipped up were pretty good. Her cheese potato casserole is legendary. However, her "meatloaf" was dreadful. It was made in a casserole dish and had large cubes of soggy bread in it. Fortunately, the recipe has been lost to time but it likely included Golden Mushroom soup. I ate it and didn't realize how bad it was until having other people's meatloaf. Mom used to threaten us with Salmon Wiggle, which her Mother used to serve on Fridays. Canned salmon, sour cream sauce, and peas. She never actually served it to us; thank God.

MIL: My wife's mother is truly a dreadful cook. Nothing edible comes out of her kitchen. She even screws up pancakes, which taste of raw flour and have a dense unappetizing texture. Her fried chicken is simultaneously burnt and raw and the gravy she makes from the grease is indescribable. Spoon that black-flecked mess over her soggy rice and it's impossible to choke down. My wife and her sister describe something called Spaghetti with Cheese as the number one horror of their childhood. It was her version of Mac and Cheese. Think overcooked broken spaghetti strands mixed with milk and shredded cheese. The cheese would congeal rather than melt into a sauce. Enjoy!

P.S. - When I read the "boiled liver" and drink the juice thread to my wife, she gagged. We once had a dog that was very ill. On the advice of a vet, we fed her cubed boiled liver. The smell was repulsive. We discarded the boiling liquid. We wouldn't feed that to our dog.