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? 😂

Was the pan pizza any good? Or did you not know because you had not had a pizza?

Tesco still sell burgers in a can - someone must still be buying this stuff.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/268221800

Ops lunch of bread/cheese/meat/salad sounds fine to me. Who expects a starter at a friend's house for a casual lunch?

My sis-in-laws cheese on toast
she put the cheese on the bread and put it under the grill so only one side cooked
the other side was ‘raw’ bread

This is actually my preferred way to have cheese on toast (toasted cheese on bread, really). But I never make it like that for anyone else as I know it's weird!

When I was about 12 I had a friend over and my dad made homemade 'pizza' except the wholemeal dough had too much liquid and was sloppy, the tomato sauce was the liquid from a can of peeled plum tomatoes (watery thin, no herbs), with cheddar on. It was like a sour grainy tomato and cheese soup. It was not pizza.

It was 40 years ago and my Dad still occasionally brings it up as proof of what a nice person I am that I attempted to eat it without complaint!

In my teens, a bf used to live with his Nan. She cooked using a deep fat fryer. Full English was her go to. Everything would go in the fryer. Deep fried bacon is vile.

Yes. Folks with limited money I expect. Not everyone has the luxury of choice. That was certainly the case for my parents when choosing tinned ham and burgers over wafer thin and frozen

@Danceswithkids this is how I do my cheese on toast too...thought I was the only one ha ha
Bread ..cheese under grill =bingo

Not at a friend’s, but in a well known chain fish restaurant. I had mussels, bloody lovely, sadly spent most of the night puking in the hotel en-suite.

Me, having just met my now DH, he told me boeuf bourguinon was one of the best meals, so I made it, but had no idea that the meat needed slow cooking for hours. It was inedible, obviously, after my quick cook! 🤮

Whilst working abroad, I was told to liquidise a lamb brain for the baby. I was vegetarian and found that very difficult.

Right - don't tell anyone else this because it's embarassing but after a late night at the office in India, I got back to the hotel and checked the room service menu to see what was the quickest thing. It was pizza.

It arrived with an undercooked egg on top. But it was already 11:45pm and I worried if I sent it back it could be another 30mins or more and I had an early start. So I tipped the egg off and ate it.

When I literally shit myself the next day, feet from the toilet, I wondered if I'd made the right decison after all

PoundStretcher sells them! I've always wanted to try them because of threads like these

@LaMarschallin Bizzarely, I'm very partial to that tinned cream, I also like fussells condensed milk on good bread!!

I also like fussells condensed milk on good bread!!

I bought a tin of Fussells as a treat when I was an impoverished student. It was so sugary that a small spoonful allayed my cravings for something sweet for a good while.
These days I use it in my Millionaire's Shortbread recipe. I gave the recipe to a friend who rang in great distress while she was trying to make it.
She'd used evaporated, not condensed, milk...
Obviously not an aficionado of the tinned dairy product.

Boiled stuffed beef hearts. They weren’t cut up, they had been stuffed and the artery bits tied closed with string.
They were rolling around on the plates. I kept thinking I could see them beat. There were no side vegetables or bread.
I managed one tough, rubbery mouthful and then looked at the aortary bit and knew I’d heave if I ate anymore.
They also served lemon snow for pudding. It tasted like washing up liquid and had the consistency of snot.
They were sniffy and kept making snide ‘fussy eater’ comments all night.
I’m just glad I was never invited back.

This made me think of the film Human Centipede.

Fil's prawn aspic. Basically prawn jelly. With celery included

Just so wrong on so many levels

Worst thing in a resto was haggis. Couldn't finish it

DH had a lush burger, bastard

Crayfish, where was that?!

Coop or scotmid still sell vestas

@Crayfishforyou 🤢 just like my mother served me! The aorta did it for me too. I sat a whole summer holiday afternoon in front of those (surely still beating) hearts.

@Geppili why did they have to BOUNCE AROUND ON THE PLATE LIKE THAT????? WHHHYYYYYYYY??????!!
The hosts acted so smug about it too, as if it were some sort of foodies delicacy and not eating it meant you were a total uncultured pleb

@Crayfishforyou your hosts were sadists and so was my mother! 😂

A stand out favourite for me was the vesta curries

I had strange cravings for these during my second pregnancy. It's probably because they are food but not food i.e. less likely to make you throw up than actual real food. I didn't find any then, but have since seen them in some bargain shops.

Oh yeah - mum gets Lurpak, kids get a scraping of marge because 'Lurpak's too good for you', perchance?

My mother did a complete meal called 'boiled onions'. There was also a bowl of 'boiled white cabbage'. Both served with salt and pepper, mind.

Asda sell Vesta chow mein apparently.

My mil did that to me just after I moved I. With them, she’d never even seen a jar of marmite before but knew I loved it so bought one specially and made me a cheese and marmite sandwich, she’s spread it thick like she does jam! I didn’t see it before I took my first bite and despite desperately trying to be polite I gagged. Luckily she thought it was hilarious and asked me to show her how much was right. I lived with her for a decade with my now dh and luckily she was a pretty good cook (although most food came with cat hair because she always had six or seven, but I’d come straight from a neglected childhood where I was expected to do all the cooking from about 8 so it was like the ritz) until the day we moved out after our wedding I wasn’t allowed to make even a cup of tea because it was “my turn to be looked after”

I had dry bread and lettuce because my mum forgot I’m lactose intolerant and had been vegetarian for 30 years at this point.

When I was 13 she served us soup which was the water from her boiled gammon. It was salty and vile but she yelled at us to eat it.

I know this is a zombie from last summer but I think of the Great All-Day Breakfast Controversy and the MNer who doubled down hard on her insistence that it means a breakfast big enough to keep you going all day every time I cook one

First meeting with boyfriend's parents 'heart' was served. I couldn't eat it. I had been asked beforehand if there was anything I really didn't like and I said liver.