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? 😂

It really doesn’t.

My regular breakfast is a big bowl of fruit topped with yoghurt and seeds, sometimes followed by either a hard boiled egg or a tin of sardines. That usually keeps me going until my evening meal. So some people might define that as an 'all day breakfast'. But I bet they would be very surprised if they were served it in a cafe!

I thought all day breakfast was a cooked full breakfast that you can order any time of the day.

Surely that’s what it means?

I've got 3!

You get brothers girlfriend insisted on making Sunday lunch for the whole family as a thank you for staying with us. She made a sausage casserole but put the sausages in from raw so it was just soggy sausage meat floating around in their condoms.

Friend - invited us for Sunday lunch and absolutely everything was pre packed shop bought with no flavour. And 90% of it was either burnt or really undercooked. The starter was a raw red pepper filled with undercooked rice.

Friend (again) - all looked smelled good until she took the big pan of red hot oil she was cooking spring rolls in and drained them into a sieve with the oil going down the sink and then RINSED them with cold water 😱😱😱

Many many years ago I went out with a lovely guy who came from a very middle class family.

We went to his parents for dinner and the starter that was served was grapefruit swimming in Creme de Menthe!!! 🤢

It has stayed with me all these years as the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten. And I eat most things.

Yeah, that's a thing.

As I said, I think ‘All Day Breakfast’ basically means whatever the establishment using the phrase wants it to mean. So everyone is right, and you can all stop arguing, otherwise I will be sending people to the naughty step, and using my Cross Mum voice - and you don’t want that!

soggy sausage meat floating around in their condoms

A bag of chestnuts as my packed lunch when I was on the French exchange. Just chestnuts. I mean I did say I liked them when we'd picked, roasted and eaten some the evening before, but that was all I got for a whole day out 😕

a bowl over overcooked frozen brussel sprouts with a sprinlking of cheese on top and a piece of white bread on the side.

Swede crumble. Just boiled swede and a crumble topping, with the selling point that it had 'less sugar than usual' made with petrol-flavoured cheap margarine. Absolutely vile.

This made me LOL 😂

Plain, unflavoured pork ribs. On their own.

Ooh then what happened? Were they meant to be eaten with your tea? Or were they there by mistake?

That is what I thought - I have crumpets or porridge for breakfast. But if I ordered an all day breakfast I would expect a cooked breakfast - bacon, eggs, hash browns etc

Have people really never heard of them?!

And then what happened? Were the egg and sardine there on purpose?

We quite often have a full English for dinner.

Not the worst meal ever, but for sheer consistency I think my step mother wins. Every meal she ever cooked us , whilst well cooked, came with a side order of hair. Horrible. Worst cook I knew was my MIL. I saw her once cook a frozen breaded plaice fillet for FIL by putting the still frozen fish into a cold frying pan and pouring about half a bottle of cooking oil over it before turning on the hob. In the 40 odd years I knew her, we were only once invited to eat there and I would stake my life that she cooked her potatoes the same as the fish - raw potatoes into a cold pan, loads of oil splashed over them and then put into the oven before turning it on.

A lovely friend of ours thought any salt was very bad for you so wouldn’t salt pasta water. It turned out she also didn’t believe the water had to be boiling before you put it in, just warm. So we had spaghetti that was both over and under cooked, with what I think was meant to be blue cheese sauce, made by just heating the cheese in a pan until it was separated into oil and lumps of mould.

And I once made (not in retaliation) a dish of cannellini beans in tomato sauce with baked eggs on top, which tasted like reheated leftovers from an all day breakfast.

That’s exactly what it means and this shouldn’t be controversial!

this shouldn’t be controversial

Pretty sure it's not. Pretty sure someone is just entertaining themselves, but it's kinda funny watching them try to justify their definition despite very nearly everyone else agreeing on what it is.

I remember this dish, I'm pretty sure I made it in cookery class probably around 1967. It was probably one of my least favourite things to cook and I've never cooked it since.

Only on Mumsnet could a lighthearted thread descend to pistols at dawn over the definition of an 'all day breakfast'

@midlifecrash yes the egg and sardine was meant to be there. I did eat the egg but the sight of the sardine was enough for me. His family did turn out to have extremely strange eating habits.....sausage rolls covered with creamed rice out of a can.....a memorable Xmas dinner....instead of gravy there was condensed chicken soup poured over the whole meal. Also....arranged artfully along the edge of the plate....Rolo sweeties. Sitting at the table with them was surreal....if it was meat , potatoes and say two veg.....none of the items were allowed to touch. The meat was eaten first then the potatoes and then each of the veg....never a mixture . I'm sure they were planning a Wicker Man for me in the garden when I ...shock horror....had potatoes AND meat together on my fork.