What's the worst thing you have ever cooked or been served.

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I once made a beef pasta thing, it had 20 cloves of garlic! I followed the recipe to the letter, it took hours. I tended to it almost like I tend to the kids. It tasted like feet.

I think I can still taste it, and it was five years ago! There was so much of it, and we tried to eat it in vain. I eventually threw if away after it had festered in the freezer for a few months years.

Pretty much any of the vegetarian options available. I paid £15 for what was literally just pasta shells and passata. Even my kids would've said that's bland.

We should do a "best thing you've ever cooked" because I love reading new recipes!

Pretty much any of the vegetarian options available. I paid £15 for what was literally just pasta shells and passata. Even my kids would've said that's bland.

We should do a "best thing you've ever cooked" because I love reading new recipes!

I once made pizza with short crust pastry. Fair play to me even getting it on the pizza stone.

Had pheasant once that obviously hadn’t been hung so it was tasteless pink protein.

At a female relatives house got served bbq chicken raw in the middle, host known for being temperamental so I covered with it salad rather than say anything. My mil is the bravest woman alive and put hers under the grill. You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife after that.

Served: boiled chitterlings in a restaurant in Northern France as a kid. I thought it translated to chicken in my Y7 level French.

Oxtail!
My Dh was a great fan of offal, and kept asking if we could try cooking our own ... he brought home this enormous ‘tail’ ( you realise that it is, in fact, a tail😧) and I got the recipe on the Internet ... Crikey, it took bloody hours... eventually we fished it out of the pot... I don’t know what went wrong, both of us read the recipe, both of us prepped it etc...
It was vile!🤢
Greasy, stinky (not in a good way) just bleugh!
You know it’s really bad when the German Shepherd - aka ‘dustbin’ turned her nose up and wouldn’t touch it!!

@fourquenelles
I’ve got the Hamlyns All Colour Cookbook!!
There’s certainly some ... interesting recipes in there!🤣

Sardine curry. When we were students we ate it a lot because it was so cheap and, er, tasty.. I know you all want the recipe;

I large tsp curry powder
1 tin sardines in tomato sauce
handful of raisins

Mix in pan, heat, serve with boiled rice.

I don’t like or drink milk, never did as a child. Got served a milky tea at a boyfriends house, so being polite took a large sip to gulp it down, they had made it with milk from their own goats - it was vile! Also at a different boyfriends house, blancmange, again, to be polite, started to force it down and noticed that some tinned cat food had fallen into it - had to discreetly tell boyfriend who then yelled to his mum that I had cat food in my pud

I cooked steamed turbot once when I felt adventurous. You could have used it as a wobble board, it was really expensive too.

@Kaathesnake interesting is the right word! Was my bible when I was a 19 year old flat sharing in Shepherd's Bush. Too much aspic........

Once went to a posh and somewhat famous hotel, went down to breakfast and ordered a Croque Monsieur. Was given a single peice of insanely dry crusty bread with no ham, not cheese, just some thick glutinous mustard sauce substance on top

We went to the nearby Costa for paninis and hot chocolate instead

Oh, I'd forgotten being given a cup of coffee that I swear had either fabric softener instead of milk in it, or some kind of combination of milk and fabric softener. Yes, the taste was distinctive enough to the extent that I can put decent money on that being fabric softener rather than washing liquid. Weirdest thing ever - DH also got served coffee at the same time, which had nothing laundryesque about it.

The worst thing i've ever been served was a bowl of salad leaves that had been covered in salt. And not just a bit of salt either, there was so much of it. I tried to eat a little to be polite as I wasn't the one paying and it was a posh £££ per head event, but it literally made me heave.

They'd forgotten I was vegan apparently and that's the best the chefs could muster in a pinch. I always have emergency pringles and chocolate with me now!

Just remembered an egg-custard I once made... popped it in the oven carefully so not to spill it. Didn’t realised that the cooker was not level and ended up with barely a covering of egg custard on one side of the tart - and several inches of egg custard on the other side🙄
Well, half of it was very nice!!

A Slimming World chickpea curry recipe. Took ages to make and looked like frogspawn in pond water when cooked. Utterly vile and went straight in the bin.

My rice and sausage meat loaf from Hamlyn's All Colour Cookbook back in the mid 70s was rank.

I've still got my nana's copy of that. I think I've cooked 2-3 recipes out of it, almost all cakes / desserts. Nostalgia City!

My mil once served up boiled belly pork , sloppy potatoes and boiled for an hour white cabbage . Luckily we'd called in for a cup of tea only but I wanted to heave at the sight of it. I've been with dh over 20 years and never eaten a meal there !

@fourquenelles
I love old cook-books!!
I have a ‘Fanny Craddock’ one (yikes!) .. 3 Jimmy Young cook books from late 60s early 70s - some truly shocking recipes in there, ‘Farmhouse Kitchen’ book from the old tv show, that assumes you had 8 hours spare every day to steam puddings...
The Hamlyns one always makes me think of Beverly in ‘Abigails Party’... all for show, making flowers out of tomatoes etc😱

Not me but my OH - he ordered a mushroom burger from a restaurant once when we first started dating. He thought it would be the typical veggie fake meat in the style of a beef patty. Nope. It was literally a large soggy mushroom in a burger bun

'Vegetable korma' from our local Indian. The place looked a bit sad but we'd recently moved to the area and thought we'd try it in case it was a hidden gem. It was not....their idea of vegetables was a handful of oven chips, only partly cooked, with about three peas, floating in a horrible watery sauce that tasted like a diluted version of the cheapest supermarket jar sauce.

@DivisionBelles - have you tried the Slimming World mushy pea curry? I swear someone made that up when they were pissed - or they had a competition for the worst recipe they could foist on gullible members. Absolutely rank.

Tried to replicate a delicious Breton stew we'd had on holiday. Bought rabbit from the local posh game butchers and honestly the finished product tasted and smelled of urine. I could never eat rabbit again

Re best recipes:

One of the family favourites is this peanut butter chicken one. DS(14) has never really liked peanut butter but he will try any food at least once (always has really) but he loved this when he tasted it and wants his own serving next time.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/2244/slow-cooker-peanut-chicken.aspx PEANUT BUTTER CHICKEN

I went out with a boy when I was about 18 who always reckoned his Mum was a great cook. - she was a lovely lady but her meals were a little unusual! A frequent meal was some sort of fish cake ( don’t know what the fish was, but it was strong in flavour and stronger in smell) always served up with a fried egg and a lump of solid bead!
An odd combination...
he always reckoned it was his favourite meal 🤷‍♀️

Try again with the proper link

Peanut butter chicken