What’s the worst food someone ever gave you when you visited?

[LadyCampanulaTottington]

This week I was invited to friends house. She’s just moved in and wanted me to see the place. She said she would provide lunch and not to bring anything.

So I rock up hungry as it’s already 1:30. We start with a couple of pieces of baguette with some sliced salame and prosciutto, liver pate and some cheese. There is also a small bowl of salad leaves.

I take a small portion of each thing except the pate and my friend has some too. After a while it becomes apparent that this was not the starter but the entire meal. I was debating taking more when my friend started to clean up. I was still hungry!!

So I had to sit there with my stomach rumbling for another half an hour before I could leave and go get something to eat!

I’ve had meals in her house before but this is the first time she’s served such a small meal, she’s usually generous with portions. Does she think I’m fat and is trying to help? 😂

Mistakenly? 🤔
If you go there again, don't drink the soup...

Usually the latter is called a "Builders" breakfast 😁

Porridge curry.... Need I elaborate?

The worst has been not enough food or no food when you've been invited at a meal time. Eg. Barbecue held at 1. No food til 7. 1 year old birthday party held at tea time. No party tea for the kids.

Macaroni pudding is a pudding we had in Scotland growing up.

So it’s clearly not referring to it being available all day then, which is what I was saying.

God yes. The horrible sinking feeling when you arrive for an afternoon BBQ you've been told to arrive for at 12.00, and the BBQ isn't even lit and there's a load of frozen chicken sitting out in the sun. And the hosts are already pissed.

And you realise you have to talk to them for hours.

This is why I became I recluse tbh.

@Impatientwino did you tell her you wanted a jacket with cheese and coldslaw or was she meant to mind read what you wanted, can't believe you actually cried instead of asking for what you wanted in the first place

DHs colleague was served live jellyfish in China. I just assumed he didn’t eat it.

I’d be fine with that for lunch!

Worst was at my BIL. His wife is an awful cook, was like eating pedigree chum. I was trying not to gag. usually I’ll eat anything to be polite, but it would’ve been less polite to vomit over the table.

Please do! 😁

not in sunflower oil, but cooking oil. Had stomach ache for the next 4 days

IZDED.

So it’s clearly not referring to it being available all day then, which is what I was saying

But it's not just available for breakfast time, so your definition (breakfast that will fill you up all day) doesn't work, as it's clearly served for lunch. Which is the last meal they serve.

The fact that everyone else that has posted about it says that it's a breakfast that is served all day (including the one person that says it could mean both) doesn't make you think that the rest of us might be correct?

Curried Porridge, I think it’s also known as Congee and is a staple on the Asian section of a breakfast buffet in certain parts of the world.

But it’s not everyone else. You’re reaching now, I gave an example that showed it wasn’t served all day; just admit you were wrong, apologise, and you can move past it.

It's not everyone else? Who, other than the one person that said it could mean both, has agreed with you?

And have you managed to find an example of an all day breakfast that is only served at breakfast time yet?

If I was wrong, I would say I'm wrong.

I'm really really sorry that everyone else is right.

Oh, congee... Congee is a rice dish, it's hardly akin to Ready Brek.

Lumpy mashed potatoes, Fray Bentos pie and tinned tomatoes. Oh man it still brings me out in a sweat when I think of eating it.

BIL and then SIL invited the extended family for pre christmas drinks and dinner. We paid for a babysitter (our ds not invited) and went. I'm gluten free and have been all the time they'd known me, and we'd asked if we should bring food. No need. Everyone else had nice party food. I was handed a (previously opened as it had a clip on it) bag of Asda economy peanuts.

MIL was a terrible cook bless her, and the first christmas I went to theirs, I was horrified by the cheap meat cremated the day before, sliced, then left in gravy to be reheated on the day. It was both rubbery and hard. My mum was no great cook, but the christmas meat was a big thing in our house and so though there wasn't a lot of sides or anything fancy, the meat was the best meal of the year. But we still laugh about mums tactical weapon mince pies....

The lunch described in the OP sounds lovely.

My worst ever was visiting an elderly relative who served a version of bubble and squeak made with left over swede and potatoes. It could have been lovely but the oil she 'cooked' it in was barely warm so instead of hot, crispy fried vegetables it was lumps of cold veg swimming in lukewarm vegetable oil. I ate it because she was lovely and I didn't want to hurt her feelings but I was very, very sick afterwards.

Is “being wrong about the definition of all-day breakfast” really the hill you want to die on?

@HuffleWoof err no of course I didn't expect her to mind read, she just got my order wrong! It was a simple mistake, I was tired and hormonal and it pushed me over the edge and I cried. It was very clearly a light hearted post for goodness sake so wind your neck in

We were invited for dinner by work colleagues to see their expensive new London house.
we took a good bottle of wine. They served us bacon and egg ( one slice of bacon each ) They never offered the wine. Excruciating evening.

You didn't even warrant a bowl for your peanuts! That's so bizarre I'd wonder if they were trying to tell you something?