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

[JustOneLastThing]

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.

There is so much on this thread that has made me laugh out loud, but @StillSmallVoice that is truly awful. Glad to see he is an Ex now.

We were in holiday a few years ago with buffet style food. DH helped himself to a nice big slice of beef wellington and poured gravy over it, wondering why the server was looking at him like he was bonkers. It was only when he tucked Lin he found he'd poured gravy all over some cherry strudel.

@iklboo

We were in holiday a few years ago with buffet style food. DH helped himself to a nice big slice of beef wellington and poured gravy over it, wondering why the server was looking at him like he was bonkers. It was only when he tucked Lin he found he'd poured gravy all over some cherry strudel.

Awesome

Did he eat it?

@KingOfDogShite - he had a good few mouthfuls before giving up.

@BendyLikeBeckham I too am glad he's an ex. I have a much nicer one now!

I was once served a beef curry in a pub and I can only assume that it was left on the side and a cat jumped up and shat in it before they brought it over to me ….. the stench was something else.

I tried to make a tagine once and it tasted of vinegar, even though there was no vinegar in it. I'm sure there are lots of nice tagine recipes but that has just put me off.

I was offered some mystery meat on a stick once in Kenya and it was a situation where to refuse it would have been incredibly rude. It tasted of blood and was quite chewy. I deliberately didn't ask where it had come from.

I usually eat anything. But I was given cold, salty, thick lentil soup once — the level in the bowl just didn't seem to go down, and it honestly looked like vomit.

Worst I've made... probably a Scotch broth. Chewy bits floating in stock.

I do actually really like soup usually!

I've just remembered a particular hideous meal out in a small town in off the beaten track central Spain. DH had the local specialty soup, which appeared to be the outer couple of inches of a pig, so mainly bristles, skin and fat, chopped into cubes in a bowl of lukewarm water with a raw egg thrown in. I had chicken that was worryingly pink, but it was still better than the soup!

I’ve just remembered a particularly awful salad I had in a restaurant.

It was in 1988 and we’d gone out for a meal with another couple, we were all in our late teens and would usually go for a curry so this was a bit of a treat.

I was on a diet so ordered a salad, although there wasn’t any kind of salad on the menu but the waitress said she’d get one prepared for me.
When it came out it was just a couple of limp lettuce leaves, a sliced tomato and a few cucumber slices on a side plate. I ate it but when the bill came I’d been charged £12 for it (bear in mind this was 32 years ago) which was double the cost of the mains that the others had ordered. When I queried it I was told that we either pay the full amount on the bill or they’d call the police.

A family member cooked spaghetti bolognaise.

It included

500 grams of the cheapest mince, boiled together with one tin of tomatoes. Nothing else, no garlic, oregano, onions, tomato paste, red wine, nothing.

Then, to make things even worse....they added a pack of (I can hardly even write this), a packet of salted peanuts for the last three hours of simmering.

Soy granita as part of a tasting menu cooked by a foodie colleague. Basically salty ice. Literally couldn't swallow it.

**Served - I made a Jamie Oliver lemon pasta thing that was completely inedible once. I don’t know what inspired me as it sounds fucking disgusting now

Served - I made a Jamie Oliver lemon pasta thing that was completely inedible once. I don’t know what inspired me as it sounds fucking disgusting now

My worst meal was a lemon pasta in Jamie's Italian restaurant- it might as well have been boiled in lemon washing up liquid it was that bad.

I made a meal which included Tempeh as I was curious to try it. It smelled absolutely rank, but I persisted and tried a bit as lots of things smell weird if you've not encountered them before, but taste good. I threw up on myself after a single bite! That is the only food I have ever had such a visceral reaction to, it was unbelievably awful. Maybe it had gone off, I dunno, but I'm not risking ever trying it again!

Another victim of the Jamie Oliver lemon pasta! I mean, it sounds obvious that it’s gross, but it sounds nice in the book...

Oh god

DP got back in touch with an old mate who said we had to come over for dinner as his girlfriend was an amazing cook.
It went on a while but we hadn't been over ASI had the worst month of constant morning sickness and even the smell of food made me heave.
Once it calmed down, we got a babysitter for our DD, I managed to find something nice to wear with my bump, and off we went with the promise of chef quality delights we'd been assured of.

Man oh man. I have no idea if he was just really loved up or genuinely had the worst taste in food (and women as it turned out, she was vile).

She said she was doing a curry.

She then opened a tin of Tesco value curry sauce. She stuck it in a microwave bowl with some chunks of sandwich chicken. She then stuck some micro rice in and served it.
He then adds raw chopped onion with a flourish.

It was rank. Literally congealed and cold and tasteless. We were both looking at each other like, what?
He had been bigging her up for weeks and weeks and then that.
I couldn't eat it and she stood over me and barked "what's wrong with it?"
I blamed pregnancy sickness but DP wasn't so lucky.
We got fish and chips on the way home and left as soon as it was polite, the atmosphere was awful.

He's a lovely fellow as well!

I don't k ow about Jamie's lemon pasta bit this works: knob of butter, half shallot finely sliced, smoked salmon pieces (the cheap swanky bits), juice of a lemon, slosh of white wine, car on of cream, snipped fresh dill, salt and pepper, stir through Linguini. Delish. Might not be Jamie's recipe but includes pasta and lemon :)

The salted peanuts made me snort

The other worse one was when I had DS (he of the morning sickness cause).
I had high blood pressure so they kept me in for a fortnight.
The food was diabolical in there. Utterly rank.

By far the worst was when it was fish in parsley sauce. I was so happy as it sounded like food I eat at home. The rest of the time it was chick pea curry or lentil curry or veg curry (huge Asian community in the area the hospital is in so they tried unsuccessfully to cater for them, even the ladies on my ward said it was slop and if it hadn't of been it was like serving a side dish as a main).
Gets to our four beds turn to go and get some, after 8 other women in other bits of the ward.

I got to the front and was served a grey "boiled" (rock hard) potato, just one. Two slices of carrot. And a white watery sauce.
Asked where the fish was to be told none left as the ladies before us had it all. Considering it wasn't self serve she knew she had over served and didn't give a shit.

Was utterly starving though so attempted to eat it. The potato was just inedible and raw so nope. Got to the slivers of carrot and they were covered in the sauce.

Be warned at what I'm about to say.

The only way I can describe it, and this is impolite, is to suggest I now know what carrot in jizz tastes like.

It was salty and nasty and immediately made 2 of us heave and other vomit. The fourth said she took one look and didn't bother.

I actually came out of hospital after having Ds a size 8. I wasn't even a size 8 before I was pregnant with him. That was how little I ate in 2 weeks.

Raw chicken few times in restaurants 🤢

Liver curry, it was revolting.

I can still recall the smell!

I have been served some horrendous food in the Far East including sea slug, fish stomach, and “drunken prawns” (drowned in brandy at the table)

The worst thing ever cooked..... has to be when during an economy drive, I made a sardine pie.......

Some vegan curry with kale and red onions. So, so nasty.

I cooked boeuf bourguignon for my now DH. He was living on Findus crispy pancakes and the like. I had no idea I needed to cook the beef for hours!

The neighbour very kindly invited us to a Sunday lunch. She served rock hard burnt roast beef, mushy broccoli and bisto gravy, followed by burnt shop bought apple pie. Everything could have been fabulous, but she wasn’t good at timings. It was super kind of her, but now we always invite her to ours, she’s alone and often doesn’t eat properly.

Went to a friends house for dinner once. We were quite excited as he said we were having venison and chocolate fondue!!

Venison was dry overcooked venison burgers on rolls with no dressing or even butter. Dry chips, limp salad with no dressing.

Chocolate fondue was cooking chocolate with dry fruitcake to dip in it, not even a marshmallow or a single strawberry.

Could have been the best meal ever, even though it was over 20 years ago we still remember the night that Neil cooked for us!