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.

Think yourself lucky, Sudowoodo ... I took some American friends to a Kenilworth pub/restaurant, not realising the owners had changed, and a tinned spag bog is precisely what they got

It wasn't Heinz either, but clearly one of those "Happy Shopper" type brands ...

Caviar. At a v v v posh restaurant being treated by a highly-paid friend, the food was lovely but my salmon had a poncy wee row of caviar eggs on top. Never had it before and of course it's famously luxurious so I assumed it would be delicious. Ate one and it revoltingly POPPED and spread the most intense stinky fishiness all over my mouth. I like fish, but can't stand that "fishy" fish taste, urgh urgh urgh. It was like eating old rotten fish out of a bin. 🤮

A Cheese Ploughman's Sandwich from Tesco, bought for me by a friend's Mum as my dinner for a play date. The lettuce water had turned the bread into phlegm and the cheese was 'pineapple and cheese skewer' cheese but in a block like lard. I remember silently gagging as my eyes watered and rolled into the back of my head.
I won't even talk about the tomato.

Another for Andouillette, sounds nice and well I was in France so thought, so can't be bad! Hell it came smelling of piss and didn't taste much better, only managed a taster. Yuk

Okra that was a bit too far gone... was like eating a slimy, dead eel

Head 'cheese' in Morocco. Cured sheep brains chopped up into cubes, but artfully rearranged into a brain shape. I couldn't chew or swallow the one cube I took to be polite. It was beyond nasty.

A cheese burger in India. It was a lump of, I think, tinned buffalo cheese, in a doughnut, with a cherry on top and sprinkled with sugar. I did laugh, I should have known better by then as I'd been travelling for a while, but I was recovering from dysentery and wanted something comforting from home.

Sheep bollock soup in Prague. Another one I just couldn't eat. It was literally boiled bollocks complete with the remains of tubing in a clear soup. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Dodgy Italian restaurant where I was served mashed potato on my pizza instead of cheese because they'd run out and 'didn't think I'd notice'.

Camel, a big song and dance was made about the fact it had been stewed for days and days and days. Toughest meat I've ever encountered and the nastiest taste.
Camel cheese on the other hand, was delicious! Like posh dairylea.

Raw jellyfish in a sushi restaurant. The texture is the stuff of nightmares and the aftertaste is vile.

Buttercream made with lard....I literally threw my ring up

I was invited to lunch by someone once (with several other people) and she served boiled courgette (boiled until it was basically liquid with a few stringy bits in it).
That was it - just the courgette in bowls - loads of the stuff. We all sat there eating small mouthfuls with fixed smiles on our faces and she jumps up and says 'oh no I forgot......' (and we all think she going to say she forgot an edible foodstuff) but no - she forgot 'the tabasco'.

Seriously - boiled courgette - nothing else? Did it taste nice?

My mum went with her parents to visit the prospective in laws. They were given sandwiches for tea and it looked like ham with the fat around the edges. It turned out to be fry’s chocolate delight sandwiches. My grandpa still went on about those sandwiches 40 years later!

White German sausages in Sommerach that were like thinner, gristlier andouillette, but even more rank. They were a local thing.
It’s a beautiful wine village, so don’t be put off visiting.
We binned them after a couple of bites and we are pretty hardy.

Seriously - boiled courgette - nothing else? Did it taste nice?

No it was awful - I like courgette but this had been boiled to slush. As we were leaving one of the ther guests whispered to me 'that was the worse meal I've ever eaten'

The woman who invited us is actually a really nice person, but she's no cook. She bought a cake into a club we all go to once and it was hideous too - (made of bran or something I think) of course we all chomped our way through it making 'yum' noises 'another slice - oh no I couldn't. I'm stuffed'

Raw celery

We had a coworker who was really into her health and body and used to make baskets of buns and cake when we had company meetings.

They were lovely - but bloody hell we all got terrible constipation! Yes we do discuss such things in the office. I don’t know what the hell she put in them!

My DH once made a breakfast concoction involving frankfurters in some kind of omelette. Sounds normal enough, I suppose, but it was absolutely inedible. Still gets discussed almost 15 years on as a benchmark for disgusting food.

While in Tokyo I suffered the worst food poisoning of my entire life. Nothing to do with unusual local cuisine, but a chicken sandwich I'd been served in a meeting. I spent two days unable to get up from the hotel bathroom floor. Horrendous.

Maybe she laced them with Immodium

Tapioca

@sueelleker I had similar from an Indian takeaway recently. Ordered a vegetable curry thinking peppers, onions, mushrooms maybe?

Nope they had taken the curry sauce base and basically tipped in half a bag of birds eye frozen country mix veg. Green beans, baby carrots and sweetcorn. It was awful.

Beetroot risotto. Looked like freshly blended brains. Vile!

My dad bought a red pepper in the early 80s thinking it was an apple and tried to eat it like one!

Korean food!! It's absolutely disgusting

I ordered noodles and some sort of sauce, this was back in April and it still makes me feel sick now

For me I couldn’t choose one, there are two standout horrendous meals in my life.

Chronologically, the first was when my mum first learned to make spaghetti Bol (an exotic novelty for us in the 1970s). The first time it was lovely, a rich meaty sauce with loads of flavour. However DM is very frugal and started ‘adapting’ the recipe to be more cost effective. Out went the minced beef and in came reconstituted soya mince bulked out with huge quantities of frozen peas and carrots. Tinned tomatoes were replaced with diluted tomato purée and an oxo cube. After a few years of these adaptations she ended up with a few chunks of grainy soy mince and manky frozen veg swimming in a greasy clear film of watery sauce poured over mammoth portions of spaghetti. She boasted that this cost about 3p a head but it tasted more like 1p.

The more recent horror was a fish pie in an otherwise very nice pub in Brighton. It consisted of grey flakes of unidentifiable fish in water with a few peas topped with runny Smash. The new proprietor had been very friendly and nice so to avoid embarrassment we tried to leave while he was busy out back. Unfortunately he came out and noticed our barely touched plates and called across the pub to us ‘was the food not nice’. My DH escaped out of the door and I called back ‘it wasn’t to our taste’. By this time he was beside me and demanded ‘would you say it was edible?’ There was a long silence whilst the whole pub listened (including the man who had sat next to me and who was waiting for his own order of fish pie) and eventually I stammered ‘No, I wouldn’t call it edible exactly’ and made my escape.

We later found out he had inherited the chef when he bought the pub and was desperately trying to find reasons to sack him.