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Have you ever been so disappointed in a food order before

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Animum2 · 07/01/2021 19:38

So today I really fancied an egg mayo sandwich and We all know what that is traditionally supposed to look like, so imagine my surprise when i went to the cafe by work and asked for one

What i got was a thin layer of mayo followed by a layer of egg and another layer of mayo, in my surprise at seeing this made in front of my eyes I didn't think quick enough to stop them and I was left with something that i didn't actually ask for

It was very dry 🙄

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Peachered · 07/01/2021 22:34

I guess it wasn't the food's fault, but I was pretty disappointed the night I found out I was allergic to oysters suddenly. I had a flight six hours after consumption - I think I spent the entire twelve hours hogging a toilet vomiting.

Nachos, when they use cheap crisps rather than hard core nachos and squirty cheese or cheese spread rather than melted cheese. That really, really bugs me.

Lots of incidents of turning up to restaurants and being told they don't cater for people with allergies, or getting excited about food then reading that line on the menu / website.

Oh. And the fucking sea cucumber soup. That was a bad one.

borntohula · 07/01/2021 22:38

When I'm torn between two options on the menu and I'm left wondering 'what if...'

beela · 07/01/2021 22:38

We ordered pasta with Mediterranean veg for ds at a pub once, it was a plate of plain pasta with some overcooked brocolli stirred through.

Ds loved it Blush

katseyes7 · 07/01/2021 22:41

My friend took me out for lunch after l'd had major surgery and was still on crutches, so we went to a local carvery as it wasn't far from my house.
I ordered a prawn Marie Rose baguette and she had the carvery. My sandwich was lovely, but it came with sides of Yorkshire puddings and roast potatoes. Strange, but lovely!

ChristmasUserName2020 · 07/01/2021 22:43

I went to an Indian restaurant with DH. Decided to move away from my usual korma and picked one of the chefs specials. It was rank 🤮🤮 DH said he quite liked it so we ended up with me ordering something else and taking home the offending item in a takeaway box for DH to have for lunch the next day. Korma forever more nowadays!

Blowingagale · 07/01/2021 22:43

Painful one as a child about 10years old on holiday in India. Parents eating out and wanted proper food that would have a lot more chilli than I could cope with so ordered a plain pizza. Only realised a bit late that plain included chilli as part of the basic base with the tomato and cheese. Hotter than thing they were eating.

BertieBotts · 07/01/2021 22:45

I once had a chicken curry at a services which was so disgusting it resembled actual sick. The taste/smell was awful as well, although not actually sick-like. I couldn't eat more than a tiny amount of it and I felt so guilty because we never ate at services (more than a sandwich or maybe a Burger King) and I think it was about £12! Hmm My mum and sister had equally inedible food although I can't remember what they had. It had been a terrible journey and we'd wanted to cheer ourselves up and she couldn't afford to replace it with anything better.

Actually looking back I don't know why she didn't complain and get a refund! Maybe she was just exhausted and having one of those FML days.

MrsSchadenfreude · 07/01/2021 22:48

We went out for lunch to a local pub for DD2’s birthday. She ordered fish and chips. The fish was hake. We could smell it before we saw it. We sent it back and the owner came out and argued the toss with us - a huge row in the middle of a crowded pub. He grudgingly replaced it with something else and then tried to charge us for two meals.

We knew that Keith, the fish man from Grimsby, delivered to the pub, so we asked him about the hake. He confirmed you shouldn’t be able to smell it and said he hadn’t delivered to the pub that week because the owner told him he still had a load in the fridge from the last week!

MsTimTam · 07/01/2021 22:49

On our honeymoon we went out for a fancy cocktail at the hotel bar and their specialty was a chocolate martini. Sounds good to me, I’ll have one of those please.

I was imagining something like an espresso martini but chocolate (I may not have thought it through or asked enough questions before ordering). The drink that arrived looked like a normal martini but instead of an olive it had a chunk of chocolate in it that looked disturbingly like a clump of dirt. I looked at it and then at dh’s gorgeous frozen margarita and could have cried with disappointment.

It's been referred to with much hilarity as the dirt martini ever since 🤣

HibernatingTill2030 · 07/01/2021 22:50

I ordered a vegetarian meal from a local take away on uber eats and they sent me a beef version. One of my family ate it and I had cheese on toast instead. Couldn't be arsed to order again but did call them and tell them, they didn't seem too bothered!

Theimpossiblegirl · 07/01/2021 22:54

Sally Lunn's cream tea.
I was so excited to finally be going and it was so bland and not worth the £££. The world's most overpriced teacake.

JudyGemstone · 07/01/2021 22:59

Oh god missing sauces are the absolute worst! Like gravy with a roast dinner, many meals are rendered inedible by the omission of one ingredient.

I remember in Spain one year ordering chicken nuggets for my toddler daughter. They were raw. When I sent them back the waiter huffed at me that I should have asked in the first place if I'd wanted them 'well done' Confused

formerbabe · 07/01/2021 23:02

Ordered a jacket potato with cheese from the sandwich shop by my old work...put in a plastic container so didn't see until I opened it at my desk that they'd melted all the cheese. Ruined

thaegumathteth · 07/01/2021 23:04

I worked in a chain pub. A lovely old woman once came up and was really nice but said 'I'm so sorry to bother you but my apple pie and custard is actually a steak pie and custard'

Peachered · 07/01/2021 23:09

@thaegumathteth I just laughed, belly laughs. Thank you for sharing that.

beela · 07/01/2021 23:12

@JudyGemstone

Oh god missing sauces are the absolute worst! Like gravy with a roast dinner, many meals are rendered inedible by the omission of one ingredient.

I remember in Spain one year ordering chicken nuggets for my toddler daughter. They were raw. When I sent them back the waiter huffed at me that I should have asked in the first place if I'd wanted them 'well done' Confused

We had the exact same in Spain one year! A half raw chicken breast and the waiter said 'oh - you wanted it well done?'
PodgeBod · 07/01/2021 23:14

This will sound petty, but I went to a independent peri-peri house near my home yonks ago. I ordered a wrap meal, no mayo. I got home and they had put mayo in anyway. I called them and they didn't want to deliver a replacement because I had picked up my order (they did deliveries usually), but I argued that I had had a long day at work and shouldn't have to go back out for their mistake. They delivered a replacement wrap with no mayo... but loads of burger sauce Shock which not only doesn't go with peri peri, its very mayo-y. I left them a shitty review and never went back.

FuckOffBorisYouTwat · 07/01/2021 23:17

After months of curries tried spaghetti in an "Italian" restaurant in indian. Soggy overcooked to death spaghetti with ketchup on top!

PodgeBod · 07/01/2021 23:20

On the subject of Spain I went to a restaurant with my OH in Majorca once and was served the most disgusting ribs I have ever eaten. I don't know what they did to them, I'm not fussy, I usually enjoy supermarket ribs and love a bit of Harvester. When the waiter came to ask how the meal was I told him they weren't good (did NOT ask for any discount or anything, was just honest). The WHOLE kitchen staff came out to glare at us and talk loudly in Spanish. I've never felt so awkward in my life. My OH got the ribs as well and agreed they were awful, but said I shouldn't have said anything. They weren't even cheap

villanova · 07/01/2021 23:29

I was on a work conference in Italy. The (fixed) lunch was pasta with a wild boar ragu, which everyone said was lovely. As a vegetarian I asked for a veggie alternative. I got the plain pasta - no sauce, no butter, no oil, and so congealed I had to eat it, in slices, with a knife & fork.

Colouringaddict · 07/01/2021 23:31

DH ordered a coffee ice cream in Tenerife, was on their menu, it arrived, a cup of black coffee with an ice cream scoop of ice cream in it.

Wouldn’t have been so bad but he asked them for fresh onion in his burger, took the top off to add sauces to find that all that was in his bun was a slice of raw onion

JudyGemstone · 07/01/2021 23:36

interesting beela, maybe they have iron guts there and can eat raw chicken with no issues 🤔

SquirtleSquad · 07/01/2021 23:37

These are great!

PattyPan · 07/01/2021 23:38

The olives with stones on a pizza reminded me of a time in Croatia my DP ordered a seafood pizza and it came with langoustines etc all still in their shells on top of the molten cheese! He was trying to pick the shells off and burning his fingers 😂

TableFlowerss · 07/01/2021 23:41

Lovely bakers in town that does a nice ham salad roll. Really looking forward to eating it when I got home, opened it up and the daft cow didn’t put any ham in. I was just staring at it thinking ‘you silly bitch’ 😂

Another time we went for a posh afternoon tea in an expensive hotel (the England football team have stayed) so I was expecting something nice and the hand sandwiches were like Billy bear ham 😠 or peck chop pork - we complained!

It all goes tits up with me and ham!