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? 😂

My MIL is a terrible cook. I sound horrible but not sure how she managed to feed 4 children 😬
She once served me spaghetti with carbonara sauce. She said it was mushroom sauce. I'm a vegetarian and had been for years at that point. When I asked if it was meat, she insisted it was mushroom and let me look at the label. It was pork. Then she asked me to eat round it! I had 3 spoonfuls before I had to leave it.

My Grandma once accidentally made gravy with coffee granules and poured it all over the roast dinner. That was pretty grim.

Friend's father did the cooking. He liked things plain. I caught him boiling calves' liver. Not even simmering but a full rolling boil. It was very hard and very dry when he had finished killing it a second time.

Haha. This reminded me of my mil whipping out a massive tub of ice cream and her face dropping when she realised it was leftover gravy from a Sunday roast

A roast dinner where every element of the meal was grey and tasted of nothing. Served by the loveliest couple who were religious, so by the time prayers were said and thanks were given, it was also cold. They were fab company though!

i think your lunch sounds meagre.. 2 slices of baguette and a bit if salad and olives? Too small. An older family member makes us meals such as cold slices of meat and chips when we visit. 🤢

Back in the early 1990s a close family member and her partner, both postgraduate students, didn't have very much money. I had the privilege of experiencing one of their standard dinner dishes, which was boiled pasta mixed with a tin of red kidney beans and a tin of tomatoes. Not even a shake of salt or dried herbs. They're still together, in a completely different place financially, and have a fine repertoire of pasta dishes using home made fresh pasta.

Someone else I knew through a mutual hobby held a "dinner party" at which she served plain boiled white rice with sliced mushrooms boiled in single cream and nothing added to make it taste of anything. Mercifully, the portions were tiny and the other guests were interesting. In her blog afterwards she called it something fancy like "mushroom royale".

Lasagne that was full of chilli peppers and I wasn't told. It tastes nice but was so spicy that it gave me the poops

Oh yes the toasted cheese only done on one side (white flabby naked underside) and that sliced cheese that comes in plastic wraped squares where you wish you'd eaten the plastic.

Half a jacket potato ( yes half!) with potato salad . Potato+potato

Had tea at my friend's house when I was about 10. Leftover chicken which was OK, but with mountains of watery boiled cabbage (they were market gardeners) and thick chips that were both raw and burnt, sort of black in some places, slimy in others and cold, hard and raw in the middle. For afters her mum asked if we wanted yoghurt or tapioca and her little sister bellowed "TAPIOCA" before anyone else could get a word in, so we each got a bowl of lukewarm frogspawn pudding.
My mum had taught me to eat everything on your plate at friends' houses so I had to stuff it all down somehow.

We have breakfast for dinner at least once a month - I love it

As a child, we lived in the Middle East for 3yrs due to dads work. Dads colleague had us over for dinner and put on a huge table of local cuisine to try. All made from scratch and likely took the wife days!

1 dish was goat. I can only think it was pounded or slow cooked so the threads of meat were all separated. It looked and tasted like human hair in a very thick paste and smelt strongly of a goat farm. I've never seen or had anything vaguely similar since- which I'm very glad about.

We visited mil once and fil , thankfully not for a meal but they were eating there's . Boiled pork belly slices ( which is basically streaky bacon but about an inch thick ) jacket potatoes peeled and boiled whole , and mushy white cabbage . The bacon slices were just white fat , and the rest of the meal was white as well.

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Chicken wings cooked in watery tasteless sauce with salad. Awful.

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You poor thing... but this made me laugh out loud! 😂

A friend of my parents' known for being eccentric. We were there for dinner with another family whose daughter was about my age. We were served cold curried sausages and rice. She didn't want anyone to help her in the kitchen. "Everything is under control!" and she brought in bowls for everyone with the food in. As she was back and forth to the kitchen everyone was whispering "It's cold!" When she came in and sat down and started eating we waited for her to comment but she didn't. She just tucked in and we all had to try and do the same! I love curry. I wouldn't mind a curried rice as part of a salad. But cold curried sausages? No thank you!

A baked potato and broccoli. Everyone else had that plus a gorgeous looking chicken pie, full of cream and mushrooms. They said they were aware I can't have dairy ( medical reason)

It was Sunday lunch and I couldn't have the fruit crumble either as it had butter in it. I was desperate to get home and eat something as I was so hungry!

Was especially miffed as some of their family are vegan/ vegetarian and I'd cooked a whole separate main course for them when they came, yet they couldn't even be bothered even to do a quick omelette for me to go with the dry veg they gave me.

I went to a stranger's house in the course of my work. It was a man I'd gone to see, and his wife was in the middle of making a curry.

He insisted I had to try some as his wife was a great cook, and even though I wasn't hungry I agreed to taste some as he was very insistent and I didn't want to be rude...he then brought a plate in from the kitchen that his wife had just dished up and it was really watery and stone cold. I didn't want to offend them so I ate it but it was grim 🤦‍♀️

As a teen I was in Poland visiting family with my cousins who were also from the UK. I went to my aunts house and my cousin was already there eating a bowl of soup. It looked awful, it contained tripe which looked like hollow caterpillars. My mum had told me off a few times for turning my nose up at the food but even she couldn’t bring herself to eat it!

Cold purple sprouting broccoli, al dente with caterpillars hiding within. Obviously hadn't been washed or inspected, worse thing was my DD wanted to eat my "leftover broccoli" and I had to quietly discourage her. She loved/loves all veg.
I managed to get away with it and scraped in the bin without ever telling my friend who'd prepared it (I wouldn't say cooked because everything was weirdly cold on a cold plate)

I once went round to a relatively new friends house for drinks and a meal. She said she was going to 'make it special' and while she didn't eat steak her husband quite liked it and she knew I did too as it's all I ever ordered when we ate out.

She gave me grilled minute steak. Not even grilled but grilled so it looked, felt and tasted like a fucking burnt crisp. Never have I ever been so disappointed in a meal in my life. I never went back to her house.

On the subject of not so nice food, I was once served cream of chicken soup mixed with cream of tomato soup.

We were at DMILs a while ago... there were 5 of us, and she had 6 tins of soup. Something like, 3 of pea soup, 2 of squash soup and 1 of tomato. She was pondering how best to serve these and suggested mixing them all together! Thankfully I stopped her in time and we heated them up separately for people to choose what they wanted.

I was a student nurse way back in the day tapioca was one of the pudding go tos. I usually to physically ally beavers at the sight of tapioca, for that very reason looked like frogspawn and conjured up all sorts of horrible memories from being force fed it at school. When I had to feed it to patients I practically had to hold it at arms length. Even the thought of it makes me feel nauseous. Other than smelly fish heads it is up there with my never never ever foods.