What's the worst food you have ever eaten that was cooked by someone else?

[QueenOfMyWorld]

Under cooked bacon wrapped around philidelphia cheese. It was a starter that a friend did,I vomited that night,might have been unrelated but doubt it.Urgh can still taste it years later

Not cooked as it was a buffet.

I arrived late afternoon and we had to 'pop' to Spar where DF just cleared the shelves of leftover insipid dips, and the few remaining crisps.

A green Thai curry at MIL. It was literally a hot parsley and coriander soup with some rubbery chicken in it. I hate coriander!

However, she is a vegetarian. She always insists on cooking us meat based meals however she also insists on overcooking the meat to the point where unless you saw it raw you wouldn't know what it was!

Sorry that should say New Years Eve! So there was even less available.

My DH tells the story of one time when he was young he had to go visit an old lady. She very kindly offered him a slice of apple pie which was very nice but as she didn't have any custard she put hot water - out of the tap - over it instead! Poor DH had to sit there and eat it and pretend it was lovely 🤢

A "stew". It was spoken about in reverent terms - "we'll be having one of my special stews tonight" - and I do like a hearty stew. What we had was basically a ratatouille except the vegetables were pretty much raw and there was added water. Lots of added water. Imagine chasing a raw courgette around a bowl of vaguely tomatoey water and you're there.

Jamie Oliver ravioli with some horrid crunchy lemon stuff on top.
To be fair, I'm not a ravioli fan, I don't really know why I chose it. It probably wasn't awful to someone who would've liked it iyswim...
I felt sick for the whole journey home, it still makes me shudder now and I will never, ever go to a Jamie Oliver restaurant again!

1. my mother's attempt to cook liver. Cardboard.
2. walnut soup cooked by a friend's father - had to be polite and finish it
3. pork with prunes cooked by a 'friend'with whom I was waging a passive aggressive dinner party war. She lost!

A 'sandwich' from a bring a dish buffet at a friends party, I drunkenly took a big bite cos I was starving and very drunk. It looked lovely, cheap white bread, no crusts and something brown and mushy in the middle, the absolute opposite of any sandwich I have had since the 70's!
To this day I still don't have a clue what was in that one bite, but I know it was terrible, it's been a year and I can think about it now without wanting to be sick........but what the fuck was in that sandwich!?!

A toffee cost me £160 in a new filling once too, but it wasn't handmade quality street.

Ex MIL had never catered for a vegetarian before I met her son, and the first meal she cooked for me was a whole packet of filled pasta. Just that in a bowl oh, and it was over cooked so there was lots of pasta water in there too.

whispers the pork chops in batter tasted nice but they were on the bone so really difficult to eat

I make a spaghetti with walnut that’s lovely, I hope.
Beetroot soup. Looked amazing but was made with pickled beetroot. For some reason I ate the massive bowl of hot viehar. So you know what a lot of beetroot does for your pee? Imagine that but smelling like vinegar.

A tuna sandwich made by my friend's mum where she hadn't drained any of the brine off the tinned tuna chunks, just mixed it all together. It was a few flakes of tuna between two slices of sopping wet salty bread. They'd been put in the fridge for a bit too so the bread was really cold and soggy.

On the other hand though I once made a cauliflower cheese so bad I had to drain it through a sieve before serving, and it was still fucking awful

They used to talk about raw kidney beans all the time on That's Life

2 weeks ago on our way to see iron maiden made the mistake of stopping in mcdonalds on bury new road, cold fries, 9which they did replace) by the time i got hot fries my big tasty burger was, stone cold, covered in that much sauce it slid apart when i tried to bite into it, the bacon on it had white fat so stright out of the delivery packet not cooked and stone cold, i will never go in mcdonalds again except for drinks as the toffee latte was nice

@Mominatrix you had me googling shabby shabby!

A boyfriend in my teens took me home to his parents one Sunday to meet them and stay for lunch.
First time I'd ever been there or met his family.

I'm absolutely not stuck up in anyway, but the second I entered the house the overwhelming smell of dog hit me.
The house had about a decade worth of grime everywhere. The kitchen was filthy and to top it off his mum had dirt under her fingernails.

I swear I swallowed some of it without letting it touch my tongue.

Still makes me queasy now.

An ex boyfriend made spam mushed into mash potato and baked beans. Absolutely vile, like him.

Vegetarian 'meal' on Emirates Airline, about 1998. I think it was just a block of plain broiled tofu in one of those plastic peely trays. It looked and tasted like a bar of soap floating in scummy water.

A moussaka made in a home economics lesson. My lovely friend made it, didn't like moussaka so asked if my family would like it. We gratefully accepted the offer and I took home the delicious smelling offering still warm in its Tupperware. When we came to eat it that night we discovered to our tonsil clogging horror that it was FULL OF HUMAN HAIR. And I don't mean one or two stranded, this was a good clump in every mouthful. Head hair thankfully. Didn't have the heart to tell her the next day. Still shudder to think of it 25 years later.

It was at a Chinese restaurant. Special occasion, we were served a 'banquet' meal. I've never seen so much food I couldn't eat and I'm not fussy, honestly. Most of the first platter was covered in a cold clear jelly-like substance. The second platter looked promising - noodles! I took a big spoonful. Wasn't noodles

My grandmother's soup - any of them ever but the one she made in 40 degree heat in Australia and then got in a mood about when nobody ate it was particularly special.
Oh and her strawberry mousse - with lumps and gritty bits from the strawberries. This was roughly 30 years ago and it still makes me feel queasy.

Once in a kids play area - a jacket potato that was barely cooked in the microwave so the skin was soggy and the insides hard. Served with "tuna salad"...... a whole tin of tuna not drained very well, and a few kernels of sweetcorn. All swimming in a little sea of brine. I was nearly sick. Put me off tuna for life.

I took it back and suggested they employed someone trained.

We have some lovely friends and the bloke thinks he is quite the chef.

But he isn't.

He has cooked us plain pasta (yes, completely plain), salty mince with rice swimming in salty water, raw chicken, rock hard veg and all manner of strange, barely edible things.

Frying steak (sooo tough and really thin) served with broccoli and cauliflower. Did have peppercorn sauce with it which was lucky otherwise I doubt I'd have been able to politely eat it.