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

Lemon flavoured soup made from watered down milk, in a Greek restaurant. Go on, tell me it's a delicacy.

Seriously undercooked raw as fuck chicken in a curry made by a relative. I got campylobacter food poisoning. Thought I was going to die. Couldn't leave my house for 10 days and was at least a month before I even felt remotely well again

DP once made something he called 'Prawn Surprise'.

It consisted of cauliflower, broccoli and prawns cooked together and covered in melted cheese.

I rechristened it 'Prawn Shock'.

Lasagne soup!

"Prawn shock"

OMG Pepper123123 did we have the same boyfriend? I was about 18 and he took me to his parents for Sunday lunch. The house reeked of dog and was full of flies, and they had an African parrot. The roast lamb tasted alright, but I suspect flies had laid eggs on it while it was waiting to be carved as I spent the next week essentially shitting my arse off.

My lovely mum had an enthusiastic leftover-keeping habit which made for an eclectic fridge (half a sausage, 3 boiled potatoes, half a pilchard etc). One weekend we visited she served up a shepherds pie, and as we tucked in she proudly said that it made from roast beef from 3 weeks before, which she had frozen then thawed, minced and recooked, plus last weekends gravy, a spoonful of leftover sweetcorn, and some Chinese five-spice to pep it up a bit.

It was rather tasty actually. Mum has alzheimers now, but DH and I fondly remember the Chinese shepherds pie.

Cod tongues and seal flipper pie - served to me in a place where the options were A) to eat it or B) starve

Also, the vegetarian option on a BA flight a few years ago - a mushroom sandwich. I hate mushrooms.

That reminds me of a long flight years ago where a fat bastard nicked my pre ordered veggie meal. They gave a mini packet of crackers and a pack of mustard.

Oh my life Fekko! Why oh why don't they have some basic backup options? I would've taken a jam sandwich over a mushroom sandwich/ packet of mustard!

First dinner back home from hospital after traumatic birth, feeling totally beaten up and sleep deprived. Bleeding from three orifices, kneeling at the table. Heatwave. DP cooked a 'hearty stew', a steaming, orange, acidic, paprika-loaded vegetarian monstrosity, when all I wanted was a single fresh leaf of lettuce and a tub of Ben & Jerry's.

I was young... (I now travel fully prepared for everything). The man got the evils from me bored into the back of his neck for 7 hours. I may have also said loudly 'that bastard kicked my pre ordered vegetarian meal!!'. He didn't go the the loo during the flight either...

On a wine tasting evening in Spain at a corporate event we were served tapas - there was some pork dish that literally smelled and tasted like shit and I'll normally eat anything

Whilst everyone else was swilling their wine about and spitting it out I was knocking it back trying not to gag from the horrific smell.

If my mum had been there she would have been checking the bottoms of everyone's shoes. I shit you not.

Cat poo curry at MIL’s.

Seriously looked like cat shit on rice. Was very chicken and very pink inside. Probably not helped as she likes to cook in the dark

We all sat there politely pushing it around our plates and only eating the rice that hadnt been touched.

Luckily she thought it was fucking gross too and we still affectionately refer to it to this day

Fortunately I didn't actually eat this. A pub I once worked at put on a carvery every Sunday. Imagine my horror when the person showing me the ropes dragged out a bucket of grey slime and explained one of my duties was "freshening up the gravy", whilst dumping some gravy granules and hot water into the toxic mess in the bucket whilst giving it a vigorous stir.

@GrapesAreMyJam or Spaghetti BologASIAN

DH would like to refer you to 'curry cake'. As a student I once made chocolate cake, but didn't have any butter. Figured oil would be fine so used the only oil I could find some kind of curry-flavoured oil.

Hard jacket potatoes followed by unset milk jelly.

My Nan's buffet teas in the 80's. Every offering like Kryptonite for a 6 year old.

A plate of tinned PEK Ham in aspic
Pease pudding stotties
Scotch eggs
Boiled eggs
Celery with Shrimp Flavour Primula cheese
'Savoury' rice (over cooked white rice with an onion in it)

I once ordered andouillette in Paris. I got it mixed up with l'agneau and thought I was getting lamb.

I wasn't. I was getting what looked like a donkey dick that released the smell of an open sewer when I cut into it, and was basically stuffed full of tubes and entrails. Totally disgusting.

And once my dear old dad served me condensed mushroom soup that he hadn't realised he needed to dilute.

So it was basically a dish of warm, salty, mushroomy jelly.

Rank.

My lovely 10yo DD asked if she could make a cake today. She's pretty competent so off she went. I went into the kitchen just as she was pouring the batter into the tin and it smelt a bit weird.

Did you substitute any ingredients? I asked (she has form).

Swore blind she'd followed the recipe to the letter.

Once it was in the oven I discovered she used chip fat from a bottle instead of vegetable oil.

We didn't eat it. Smelled very very peculiar..

Some form of slop as I seen it, when I was about 16 at a party of a Brazilian friend. His mum cooked us some strange Brazilian soup and it made me honestly gag. At 16 eating in other people's houses that I didn't know was disgusting (immature)

Pasta salad with prawns and melon

Anaemic-looking apple crumble with custard that was so rubbery you could literally slice it

Dinner at a well-off friend’s house which consisted of bits of grey mince and lumps of carrot floating in grey water with over-boiled potatoes, and a “fairy cake” that I nearly broke my front teeth on. But the grapes were served with silver scissors ...

I was backpacking in Oz and had an invitation to visit an old school friend of my aunt's. She would have been in her later 70's I think. Now, as a backpacker I didn't often get home cooked meals so was looking forward to it. She cooked pasta with some sort of white sauce. But the consistency and colour of the sauce was a bit like that of Chinese chicken and sweetcorn soup, so gelatinous and translucent, like saliva, floppy and with absolutely no salt whatsoever. It was like someone had just deposited their spit (or worse over a pile of overcooked pasta. And I was ravenous, and I had to eat it. I felt a mixture of disgust and disappointment, and wondered how the hell it was possible to make something like that.