What is the most awful food you have eaten?

[leaserspottedmummybird]

Just that really.
Dp once made burgers bulked out with weetabix that were vile and ended up in the bin🤮 and also a slow cooker beef and veg stew with water and no stock.
I once made a Chinese tofu vegan dish from an American cookbook that looked like cat 🐈 sick and also went straight into the bin without a taste( brave dp tasted it and said it was ok)

I also made a tuna lasagne from a budget cookbook that was rank.

Minestrone soup in a café in Edinburgh. I have no idea what was in it, but it tasted poisonous. There was lots of salt and something that make me think of physics lessons.

Supposed carrot and coriander soup at a work Christmas party. It tasted like warm gritty water.

Dh made Morrican chicken once - for my birthday meal!
So much it stretched to the next night also.
most def not envy...
Grim.

Black pudding and white pudding. Vile

A Chinese sweet which had a hard fruit candy outside filled with something fishy. To be fair the wrapper had a picture of a prawn on it, I should have been warned.

Sausages in a Ukranian restaurant in Budapest. We thought we'd try something different. Tough, grisly "meat" encased in tough skins. I only ate one mouthful and the waitress asked me if I would like to take the rest away with me!

Oysters. Revolting

Morrocan - not sure why phone spelled it wrong!!

Suria fruit. It tastes as bad as it smells.

Tripe. In Peru by mistake. It was the most awful texture I’ve ever encountered.

Beef bourguignon at a work Christmas lunch. It was like eating gristle and gravy

I ordered Mediterranean vegetable pasta with garlic bread once and had a mental image of roasted courgette,peppers,tomatoes etc mixed with the pasta and grated Parmesan on top, but was served what can only be described as vomit on pasta and consisted mainly of sweet corn as far as I could see in a grey roux sauce and the garlic bread was ordinary sliced bread spread with garlic butter.
I didn’t eat it and refused to pay for it as well and as they didn’t quibble expect that they had done so before.
I was served over cooked spaghetti once and that is truly disgusting but as it was someone else’s birthday meal I just kept quiet.

Local restaurant, some pasta with veg that had probably been hanging around a few days and tasted slightly off.

The worst thing was that they then covered it with dried parmesan. This was a few years ago, but even then I hadn't seen that stuff for 20 years.

My ex’s mum made me pasta with broccoli, I don’t know what she did wrong but it was revolting

Tripe stewed in baked beans. I wouldn't have minded so much if my friend hadn't bigged up her friend the chef who cooked it and promised it would be an amazing meal. I tried to just eat the baked beans but in the end had to fake a stomach upset.

I don't like baked beans, either.

Andouillette. The menu said it was a sausage served with mustard sauce, so that sounded pretty nice. Unfortunately it looked, smelled and tasted like pig shit.

beets - They taste like dirt.

Veg soup starter in a supposed Christmas dinner. It was a bowl of salty water with 2 cubes of swede in it.

My sister cooked quinoa from a packet. It was over cooked, was all mushy and sprouty . Also the time I made a diet lasagne recipe using leeks instead of pasta sheets. It tasted like plastic bags in mince. Was also really fiddly to do so took longer to make than regular lasagna!

Some sort of stew/soup made with toad, when we were visiting DH’s family in rural, northern Thailand
To be honest, the smell was worse than the actual taste. But the fact that I’d watched his grandma trap and kill the roads beforehand made the whole experience even worse. Not a dignified death for the poor things: being swung by the legs and smashed against a rock
It’s also extremely rude to refuse food or drink offered when you are a guest in someone’s home, so I was in a sticky situation and had to at least try the toad sludge soup

Toads? Gribbit gribbit, green jumpy things? I thought they were poisonous!

Pork and apricot stew. 25 years ago and I can still feel the tough over-boiled cubes of pork and the hard, furry little apricots floating about in what can only be described as amoebic dysentery coloured water.

Ah, sixth form dinner parties...

Hmmm possibly a smoked fish and prawn lasagne served at a dinner party. I’m vegetarian... (as in ‘don’t eat meat, poultry or fish’).

In Marrakesh, chicken and salad. Looked lovely, but the chicken was drenched in argan oil, which is NOT to my taste.

Desperately trying to not look rude whilst suppressing my gagging. I won’t even buy argan oil conditioner now

@LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD indeed. Toads. Green/brown, hoppy, ribbitty things. It would appear that not all varieties are poisonous s they are quite a common fixture in a few Asian cuisines! I’ve eaten it sort of spatchcocked and barbecued before which was actually strangely pleasant - kind of like slightly fishy chicken. But the stewed/soup version was honestly foul It smelled like a spicy swamp.