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.

IKEA meatballs or should
I say horse balls

Wesson, at a Blackpool market stall ... no, I'd never heard of it either, but the lady offered me a "taster" of this long curled thing which looked like a cumberland sausage, assuring me it was delicious

It wasn't until I'd eaten it that she told me it was actually cooked oesophagus

Vegan "bacon".

Bacon it was not.

Beaver in Riga, which I ate so you don’t have to.

You’re welcome.

@chemenger I don't know why yours has made me laugh so much , but it has

Liver Stroganoff as a student (we were running out of money & it was15p/lb in the 80s). Maybe pigs liver? I'm no expert on offal. It was disgusting & a waste of 15p.

Shark eggs in Sardinia.

Extremely pungent and salty.

Pineapple on a pizza

On a German exchange visit on my first morning having breakfast with my host family I was presented with the driest piece of bread topped with the spicier, chewiest piece of cured meat topped with the greasiest wobbliest fried egg.....I loathe eggs 🤮 ....unless they're in a Victoria sponge 😁....that was a tough plate of food as I didn't want to upset my hosts! I can still recall how clammy I felt at the prospect of having to eat at least some of it!

A long time ago went for fish and chips with my parents on holiday.
Someone had filled the salt shaker with sugar ... Not envy

Chitterling sausage. The smell! 🤢

Last week - in an otherwise delightful wine bar we made the mistake of ordering tuna salami AND tuna heart. One was the saltiest thing I'd ever eaten until I tried the other. Bleurgh. Bleurgh. Bleurgh.

I do not like olives.
To the point of throwing up.
I had one too many glasses of wine.
Fancied a bit of fruit...
Reader, it was not a grape.

Sneaky fucking olives.

A hazelnut that I shelled and chewed before realising it had gone bad.

I could taste it for days.

Gizzard

fishy noodles in vietnam, the stock tasted like fish and liver together and the fish was thin bits of fish fill of tiny needle-like bones. some slices of fish bladder in there too for extra yum.

The caff I ate it in was extra-filthy as well with plenty of cockroaches running around and a rat that ran across the floor as I ate. oddly enough my stomach was fine...

A student house mate’s unique creations.

Fish cakes- Tesco value tuna in excess brine bulked out with kidney beans and coated in uncooked value rice, then baked high enough and long enough to guarantee burnt raw rice and luke warm tuna.

Chicken and potato salad. Chicken done rare enough to leave blood on the instant mash topped with soggy 3 week old lettuce. Admittedly I didn’t actually eat any but it took months before I could even think of either chicken or mashed potatoes without gagging.

Cheese and noodles. Sounded like a variation of typical cheese and pasta student fare. In reality it was pot noodle and cottage cheese.

She genuinely did try and appeared to have no tastebuds, so I opted for the kinder option of telling her I’d become vegan.

We went to visit friends a long way away - "Don't eat on the way," they said. "We'll cook a big pot of chilli for when you arrive," they said.

We all love a good chilli con carne so took them at their word. Had an early, light lunch, then 5 hours on the road stopping only for a drink and a biscuit, and arrived to find...

A saucepan of watery vegetable chilli. There was enough for a ladleful each and it was utterly devoid of flavour (don't think there was actually any chilli pepper in it), served with baked potatoes that were raw in the middle.

I did my best but I physically couldn't eat the potato. And I could see DD struggling to get anything down. She was trying to be polite but kept giving me little sad glances.

After the meal I thanked our hosts for going to the trouble of cooking for us and suggested that we return the favour by buying everyone dessert from the shop across the road. Sent DH over with secret instructions to get the biggest, most substantial cake he could find and put it straight on the table so we could serve ourselves. Never seen DD look so relieved!

Caviar! Tasted like semen spots popping in my mouth. Just utterly vile.

Ok I eat anything without complaint.

Burgers in a coastal restaurant that can only be described as soles of a shoe.

Had to complain they were both inedible and even the waiter admitted they'd changed to a new supplier and had complaints. I don't know how someone could serve food that is inedible and not be embarrassed.

Spinach, not an ingredient I was familiar with at the time and I was young and I didn't realise how stupid this was, Casserole.

Imagine a bowl of canal.

Overripe goat's brie. I was violently sick. If I smell goat's cheese now it makes me heave.

Bread &Butter Pudding at school, only they forgot to cook it

Oh god, once we went to our bachelor neighbour's house for lunch and he served us broccoli soup that was just a puree of broccoli with water, with cranberries sprinkled on top.

And there was no salt at the table, and everyone ate all their soup, so I just had to somehow get it down.

I once made a lamb stew and had the brilliant idea of adding barley into it. The problem was that I put so much barley in it ended up like a savoury porridge with lamb in it. It was absolutely vile.

I also spent ages making a beef curry in the slow cooker a while back and that was bloody awful too. It had stuck to the side of the slow cooker and the whole thing had a bitter burnt taste. It was inedible.

Thankfully I am quite a good cook, so these are the only two fuck ups I have made since leaving home 12 years ago!