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? 😂

Why the hell would your parents not interject??

Steak pie with custard at my Nans. Was meant to be apple but she got the homemade pies in her freezer mixed up.

As a child, mother used to make a pastry pie base, then fill it with egg mixed with tinned tuna. She would bake it until the egg was cooked to a rubbery consistency. Served with plain boiled potatoes.
I would have to cover it in so much ketchup to mask the taste and get it down.
I still hate tinned tuna to this day.
This was a weekly meal.
if you didn’t eat it, it would be presented again and again each meal time, getting drier and more horrid, until it was gone.

At school, a massive ‘pizza’. The base was always raw sodden bread dough. Topped with whole tinned tomatoes (not even chopped) massive raw pieces of onion, baked beans(!!!) and a sprinkling of the cheapest cheese available. Had to be eaten, or you would be punished severely.

Turkey Curry and tiramisu

I'm veggie and allergic to coffee.At this point I'd known that friend for about 10 years!

I moved food around a bit, hid it under my fork and left asap - went straight to the nearest petrol station for food.

My sister and I sometimes spent a couple of weeks in the summer with one of my mum’s friends. She was, generally speaking, a good cook, but she had a Thing about leftovers, and any leftover food was saved in the fridge, and on Friday she served Scraps Dinner and Scraps Pudding - basically all the leftovers shared out amongst us all.

She did ask mum if there was anything we didn’t eat, before the first time we went, and mum said yes, we didn’t eat liver. Well - that time she made us liver pate sandwiches, which we choked down, because there wasn’t anything else on offer, and she decided my mum didn’t know what she was talking about, so the next time, she made liver casserole. It was vile. Dsis couldn’t eat hers, and I only forced mine down by holding my breath (I didn’t dare refuse it, because I’d been brought up to believe that was very rude, and I didn’t want to get into trouble).

No, actually. The competitive undereaters aside, the lunch was very small.

There were two thin slices of baguette (sideways cut not lengthways) each, then 4 slices of salame, 4 slices of prosciutto, 4 slices of cheese and the pate. Plus the leaves. Between 2 of us.

You must eat like a toddler if you think that’s enough food.

We were invited to a customer of DPs for drinks and something to eat. We were offered a banana & no food. It then started to look like a wife swapping night so we left & got a takeaway.
A freind invited a few of us for a meal & the chicken portions were virtually raw. The cat did well that night.
Employer freind cooked up some ducks feet. Made me bit queasy & I politely passed.

An aunt of xh's made us tuna sandwiches. Canned in oil, and not drained. Heaven knows how they stayed down.

Pretentious friends of xh served us something that was accompanied by little cubes of potato fried, not in sunflower oil, but cooking oil. Had stomach ache for the next 4 days. Another.time we got so-called 'tarte au citron', baked blind pastry case, with several dried up, overbaked lemon slices in the bottom. No lovely lemon curd type filling.

Spaghetti with seafood from a colleague who was supposed to have Italian family. She'd emptied a jar of cockles in vinegar into it. Hot vinegar and spaghetti is not good.

Another who served us 'auntie Rosanna's special lasagne recipe'. She'd made the pasta herself. It still had 50,000 miles of tread on it and was far too thick.

Tête de veau - calf's head - vile rubbery and grey. Completely revolting.

Visiting my friends grandma in Russia and she served us salty, full fat milk porridge on arrival.

Corned beef hash - and I make a nice one - but the one that was served to me by a relative was like parboiled chopped up potatoes mixed with tiny slivers of corned beef and a load of dirty water. It looked like it had been thrown up on my plate and to be honest smelt slightly like it too. The memory has stuck with me for 10 years

My friends spag bol.
Boil the mince in water. Drain. Overnight in fridge.
next day add tomato ketchup and…….wait for it, PEANUTS.

That sounds fine for a lunch 🤣 who has two courses at lunch at their friend's house.

Not in this country, worst ever was macaroni sprinkled with icing sugar and poppy seeds. Now who on earth thought of that as a meal??? On the plus side it was veggie.

Went round to friends' house for dinner one Saturday evening and were given stilton and broccoli soup. It was mind-bogglingly salty, and instead of a creamy consistency, it was what can only be described as fatty water with blue and green bits floating in it. Aside from some croutons (most of which their dc snaffled), that was it. Nothing else at all.

Name changed for this as I've told the story numerous times. When at my first ever boyfriends house his mum asked if I wanted to stay for dinner, she was cooking bubble and squeak. I was starving and love bubble and squeak (pan fried crushed roast potatoes, swede and cabbage/sprouts, usually roast dinner left overs) and so said yes please. What I was served was left over meat and vegetables, mixed in a pot with gravy and... BAKED BEANS. It was absolute slop and the sight of it turned my stomach. But I'd been so eager to accept that I had to eat some to not offend. It was awful and I never stayed for dinner again.

A very very very thin friend invited me for dinner and served a baked aubergine. That was it- one aubergine each cut in half with a tsp of creme fraiche on top and some sort of herbs/spices sprinkled. Problem was the aubergine wasn’t properly cooked so it was hard and basically inedible. I haven’t eaten aubergine since!

Pasta with meatballs and the meatballs were raw still 😂 and there was so many I dumped them on dh plate 😂😂😂
He was not happy 😆
my dad’s girlfriend cooking I think she done it on purpose thou !

OP I see nothing wrong with what your friend offered 🤣

I was only telling my sister this one last week....

I was 14 and visiting my Aunty after a really long drive with my dad and toddler sister. I didn't know her too well and dad obviously wanted us to be the perfect guests. She'd cooked us chicken legs in this white/grey mushroom sauce with whole boiled (totally rock hard) potatoes.

Fuck me, it was vile! I cannot stand mushrooms and coupled with the sauce I was stifling off the gag reflex. My dad was getting mad at me for not eating but I just couldn't do it. 25 years later and I could still gag just thinking about it.

A very tiny and sloppy Morrisons ready meal for 1 -couldn't tell you what it was - just sloppy red tomato tasting 'stuff'

I love a decent M&S or cook ready meals but this was truly shit and minute as well- ok for a3 year old maybe

We were picking up DD from a school friends house, they were in Y7 so we didn’t know the family very well but had chatted and had coffee etc. Kids had had sleepovers and I had been to the house a few times . They were (and are) very nice, although Mum is a bit scatty.
The Mum suggested at drop off that when we picked up we came for something to eat as they had just had a new extension done which we had discussed and they wanted to show the new kitchen. They have a lovely big house and the extension and kitchen were very nice. We arrived and were offered drinks and then Mum pulled frozen mini sausage rolls out of the freezer and popped them in the fancy new oven. When they were done she put them on a plate on the island with a couple of bowls of crisps. I thought they were for the kids - but we were told to help ourselves, and that was it!!
Very odd
Worst thing was Me and DH had been out for lunch at a lovely restaurant and had made sure we didn’t eat a lot due to the invitation to go to this family’s house for food!!

I'm veggie- went to a dinner party with a friend, to one of her friend's- I was given rabbit stew! I had a house rabbit at the time, with whom I was besotted, so I was doubly and (not envy) my friend just hissed at me not to say anything as she hadn't told them I was veggie - tried to eat around the meat, but it was there in the gravy- just hideous

Pretentious friends of xh served us something that was accompanied by little cubes of potato fried, not in sunflower oil, but cooking oil. Had stomach ache for the next 4 days

What's wrong with frying something in cooking oil?

Just thought of another one - as a child my mum regularly served up ham and leek. Literally just a boiled leek with a cold piece of ham wrapped round it, covered in flavourless white sauce. Horrendous. And finally, my mum told me how when my grandparents were young they didn't have a lot of money. They invited some friends round for afternoon tea and my grandmother served lettuce sandwiches. To stop any waste, the next day for dinner she served up lettuce sandwich pie. I can't even imagine what that must have been like!

There's not a huge difference between vegetable oil and sunflower oil, is there?