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? 😂

Breakfast foods are never bad

Isn't is called balut and from the Philippines?

I saw a programme on unusual foods from around the world. Did someone serve this to you at their house???

On a school exchange trip to France, my hosts were flummoxed by how to cater for a vegetarian and gave me a plate of plain boiled rice for dinner, with ketchup. A more recent baffling experience was at a gala-type event in Spain at a very fancy venue with a highly feted chef. My main course didn’t come out until more than 20 mins after everyone else had been served their suitably impressive dish, which was a big bowl of all sorts of fancy seafood and stuff on a bed of peas. When my main finally came, it was…yep, the same bowl but with just the peas.

burblish that's reminded me of being a newly turned vegetarian back on the early 80s. We were staying at a hotel as a coach party and on arrival they gave us sandwiches. Just corned beef sandwiches. When reminded that we'd advised them that a vegetarian option was needed, they suggested removing the corned beef from the existing sandwiches.
Same place for dinner the next day apparently forgot again to cater, so the meal I was offered was a bowl of overboiled sprouts.

Quite possibly! Gelatinous is the word. It was disgusting! I remember 11 year old me thinking why would my mum feed me this, disgusting stuff! does she hate me don't think I ate it to be honest. Made the bread all soggy too. Ugh. @Thinkingblonde definitely not corned beef, although that is a pretty gross concept too. I could have coped with that. Why anyone would eat the other stuff I've no idea.

The "steak" thing is a big way that the catering industry rips off vegetarians and vegans.

DD paid £50 to attend a Uni graduation dinner (same as everyone else) and whereas everyone else got sirloin steak and sauce as their main the vegetarians/vegans got "Portabello steak" which turned out to be a single and small (about 4cm) Portabello mushroom, not cooked through and without any sauce or filling.

Back in the 1960s/70s Spam also came in key open tins. Also I remember my granny having key tins of "Old Oak gammon ham" that had a horrible jelly around it.

Let's settle the all day breakfast debate once and for all.

An all day breakfast is served or available ALL DAY it typically includes hot foods such as bacon eggs beans and toast. It isn't called an all day breakfast because that's all you eat for a day. Well not unless you're a pig and you do one of these silly cooked breakfast challenges that has 8 of everything on the plate and then you might not need to eat for a week after that!

Lunde

Back in the 1960s/70s Spam also came in key open tins. Also I remember my granny having key tins of "Old Oak gammon ham" that had a horrible jelly around it.

I remember my mother buying this and washing the jelly off under the tap.
It still had a horrible texture though.
So many tinned things in the 60s & 70s - tinned cream which had a strange aftertaste.
I suppose it was because fewer people had fridges back then.
I think I can remember us getting our first fridge in the late 60s.
However, I'd have been around 4, so it may be a false memory and my parents are dead so I can't check.

That's how I make cheese on toast for myself.

Roadkill

@SummerLovin123 , more info please
( checks to make sure sick bag is near by)

If this is a poor unfortunate hare that has been hit and run over several times and liberally doused in exhaust fumes , no thanks.
If its a deer that you hit and you have to put it out of it's pain and you are starving then yes

My mum offered me soup tonight that's been sat at room temp since yesterday lunchtime. It has chicken in that I cooked on Sunday and has mostly been out if the fridge since then. It's been cooked once and reheated three time now. Fucking disgusting, but if I say anything all I get is "I have a food hygiene certificate!!!"

I'll be amazed if they both don't have food poisoning tomorrow.

Yep I remember ham in tins, and 'chopped ham and pork' which was a Polish version of Spam.

I think what you are describing is 'luncheon meat'. Does that ring a bell?

I seem to remember beef burgers in a tin with onion gravy. Mail order catalogues would feature 'Christmas Hampers' which were mainly tins.

Atomic Shrimp on Youtube does occasional films of, "strange things in a tin"

As a PP said fridges were not as common and freezers well even rarer. If we were having fish fingers I would be sent to the shop to buy them that afternoon.

OMG you can still get tinned ham

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/food-cupboard/tins-cans-and-packets/tinned-meat-pies-and-spreads/tinned-ham-and-pork

Luncheon meat does ring a bell! Another grossity. However this wasn't that-I only know so because I remember my Mum saying she'd never buy that as it was gross, when I asked her on a supermarket trip if Luncheon Meat was what she bought and she said no, that was horrible stuff (what the difference was I've no idea). I am feeling a bit gippy just reading/writing about it!

I am going to look that youtuber up!

We did have a fridge (90s) but I think my Mum just couldn't be bothered to not feed me whatever was hanging about, at times!

That page of tinned hams is making me feel a bit sick! Honestly I'd feel wrong about myself if I even fed that to my dog!

This is the tinned ham: groceries.asda.com/product/cold-meats-corned-beef/princes-ham/910000868473?&cmpid=ppc--ghs----google---_-dskwid-s92700069514766730_dm&s_kwcid=AL!11432!3!459891151413!!!g!1211186252371!&ds_rl=1254319&gbraid=0AAAAADuzMyhvghk0jgIpR3uAJKWg5xHbF&gbraid=0AAAAADuzMyhvghk0jgIpR3uAJKWg5xHbF&gclid=CjwKCAjwo_KXBhAaEiwA2RZ8hJ5BcjMSqHavZLh5hocmX-Me6_JBN6GtuiW7ogjOmVzd0ytqCBwKJxoC0lAQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

it came in that distinctive shaped tin and was just a slab of cooked congealed ham surrounded by an orangey-yellow jelly. You had to slice it yourself and the edges were slimy.
it was a staple through my childhood and I am very non-fussy (would happily eat tongue or corned beef) but that made me retch

this is the ham. Possibly only out-done in grossness by the tinned burgers a pp mentioned

I remember it being 'pinker' than that but it could just be the photo. 😝why isn't there a 'vomit' emoticon?!

In my first year at uni I remember someone cooking burgers from a tin. It baffled me..

With the tinned ham , if you chill them for a few hours the gelatinous fat solidifies .

Years ago I ate a mini pork pie (I think on a picnic) as I bit into it the liquid jelly just poured down my front <boak>

The whole THING was like gelatinous fat! I know what you mean, like on corned beef?

But this was like pink jelly, slightly more solid not much with a faint hint of meat.

I've just rememebered another one too. Mum cooking a meal for family. Me, being vegetarian in the early 2000s asked if there was anything for me?
Just the roast vegetables. No main and no potatoes as she'd cooked them in goose fat and there weren't any others.

I accepted my fate and cut up and put some more vegetables in the oven so at least I'd have more than the side of such everyone else had. Then I went to do something else until roundabout the time dinner would be ready.

Came back and Mum's serving up-I had a SIDE PLATE with my portion of vegetables on. Everyone else getting a proper dinner. I went to the oven to discover that she'd taken the extra larger portion of veg out of the oven and they were now on the worktop, uncooked, still on the baking tray!

"Mum, why?!"

"I've already done you some vegetables!!!"

"I know that, but that's ALL I've got for dinner so I put some more in?!"

blank look ...

I ate my side plate of vegetables some of which I don't even like and went home hungry.

Mind boggles. I think she thought vegetarian = on a diet. A deprivation one.

Scroll sown on this page for a 1970s Hamper, the delights include 'fry pan pizza mix' and 'cheesecake mix' as well as several different tinned hams but all that strange oval shape.

www.explorethepast.co.uk/2017/12/christmas-and-kays/

This has tinned Ox tongue! Along with cigars and instant coffee.

www.explorethepast.co.uk/2018/12/kays-at-christmas-1973/

@sashh I made the frying pan pizza aged 14!
My mother bought it and I made it…it was basically a scone mix. After frying it I grilled the toppings.
We honestly didn’t know whether it was pronounced ‘pizz-a’ or ‘peet-sa’.

Oh god I still get nightmares thinking of this.
Went to a ex's place and he made pasta with gravy on.
I honestly nearly was sick.
Penne pasta with gravy

I seem to remember those burgers in a tin and I seem.to recall they tastes pretty good!! My nanna always had a tin of ham with that jelly stuff at Christmas. Me and my brother flat out refused to eat the jelly, we thought it looked like glass!!🤣
A stand out favourite for me was the vesta curries and chow meins.
My mum refused to buy them so when I started work I used to buy my own and and have an absolute feast. I have been informed that they are still around but sadly I haven't seen any