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? 😂

Commitment 🤭

A sliced beef tomato on toast, no butter/salt/ anything

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

But you didn't eat all the food that was there. By your own account there was still food on the table (which you were debating taking some of) when your friend started clearing up.

I was debating taking more when my friend started to clean up. I was still hungry!!

You could have just said "actually let me grab a bit more salami before you clear".

My mum did try a few times or gave me some off her plate but it never really stuck and I still got peas everytime, my mum was shy and didn't want to start arguments with my aunt who was a very eccentric woman, so she would smile and nod along and would give me toast or something when we got home

ally beavers ?.. ...physically heave . 🙄

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

Ooh, that reminds me of a few years ago - not a friend's house but a long haul flight. DD had pre-ordered the vegetarian option. Lunch as pasta in sauce, with some kind of side. Dinner was pasta in a different sauce, with a side dish of, wait for it, pasta salad! She nearly cried, until I offered to swap my rather nice-looking Indian veggie option with her.

So rude to just apologise for a guest not being able to eat what you're serving. If you invite someone to eat you make sure there's actually some proper alternative to the thing they can't have.

Bet it was a marrow someone was desperately trying to use up!

I used to have a very disorganised friend who liked doing dinner parties - you’d end up eating half-cooked paella at midnight. The worst was seemingly bottomless bowls of unseasoned buckwheat served with a little bit of flavourless, bony fish at 2am. We’d been waiting hours and hours for what we’d been repeatedly told would be a real treat.

I must have been around four years old and I was staying at a friend's house.

The parents gave us a choice of scrambled eggs or pancakes, and all the kids chose eggs, which I thought was so weird and obviously picked pancakes!

Turns out they were horrible soggy crepes that had been in the fridge without a cover, so they were just globs of wet dough that had hardened on top.

Still cringe thinking about it!

It is Saturday, mid summer. "Come round this evening for drinks and something to eat. We can sit outside!" At 7pm we walked round and brought a nice bottle of Sancerre.

They opened and poured the Sancerre equally around four glasses. We had finished our first glasses within 30 minutes. Out came a bowl of those miniature tomatoes, little bigger than a large pea.

That was it. For the whole evening. We left just before 10pm. He was CEO of a large organisation and she was a GP.

@newtb

Pretentious friends of xh served us something that was accompanied by little cubes of potato fried, not in sunflower oil, but cooking oil.

I don’t follow, sunflower oil is cooking oil. What’s wrong with frying potatoes in cooking oil? That’s what chips are.

Mouldy Ferrero's after dinner. I unwrapped mine halfway, saw it was green & furry and tried my best to discreetly wrap it again & sneak it into my pocket without being seen, whilst pretending to be deeply into the conversation.. How British is that? I cannot fathom how long that box must've been hanging around her sideboard...

That's not a spag bol....that's a nightmare

Not in someone else's house, but in my own house, served by my husband;

Spaghetti bolognaise - took a bite but couldn't eat it because it was so bad. I asked what was in it, my husband told me we were low on beef mince so he'd topped it up with tuna. Beef and tuna bolognaise.

Raw joint of gammon - I came home to find my husband calving a raw joint of gammon. It turns out he'd cooked it for half an hour and didn't realise a joint would take longer to cook than smaller cuts of meat.

'Risotto' - I took a bite and it was crunchy, with uncooked bits of rice in. It turns out my husband was trying to make a risotto kind of dish with basmati rice, however, five minutes before dishing up he realised that there was too much liquid so he poured in some extra rice to soak it up.

I enjoy eating at other people's houses....

Oh god. I once went to a wedding of some very posh friends of DH's family. In the grounds of their parent's' massive home. There was a huge marquee. I had ticked the veggie box when invites were sent. We sat down for food & I had a tiny plate of some lentil salad. Then all the plates were cleared. We were all drinking wine & chatting when I said, "that was yummy! I wonder what's for the main course?" The table, who were mainly very slim posh friends of the couple, I didn't know, looked at me & someone said, "umm I think that WAS the main course." I. Could. Have. Died! 🙈😳

Well, we were invited for dinner once and there was no food. After an hour or so, no smell of food and no move to go cook something, my starving DH outright asked when dinner would be. Host look surprised and said she’d already eaten. He said, “sorry, but I’m very hungry, do you mind if I order a pizza?” We did and host ate half!

another time, we were invited for “tea”. Came hungry AND with a hungry toddler (our host had a child same age as our child). They offered a cup of tea and biscuit to each of us, nothing to toddler but did give their child half of a banana. Our DC was so hungry that DH asked if we could have the other half of banana for our DC. After that, we always brought food for her no matter where we went.

other time, was invited for dinner. Host served roast chicken - yeah! Her DH carved and have me a wing.

That's a pretty standard dinner! I'm guessing from your name, you're from Liverpool and so am I. I thought it was normal round here 😂😂

jellywobblescobbles we used to have cold roast meat with chips on a Monday - delicious!

DM's chestnut soup made using the brine a bacon joint had been cooked in. Incredibly salty and vile.

DH makes boiled bacon but soaks it changing the water a few times. It is lovely especially if cooked in cider/apple juice.

Unfortunately whenever he suggests it my first thought is DM's bacon with added salt!

Primary school dinners. Was free school meals so had to eat them, generally was just glad of the food but one thing sticks in my mind was frozen potato things with breadcrumbs on the outside, would always still be frozen solid in the middle. Absolutely vile and made me gag. And I will generally eat absolutely anything.

My sister, dad & and I went to visit my grandparents one summer & my grandma made fish egg pate sandwiches, it was absolutely revolting 🤢 My dad, bless him let us pile quite a few sandwiches on his plate so it looked like we'd eaten more than we actually had. I haven't actually touched any kind of pate since. The thought of it still makes me want to vomit 🤢

The clue is even helpfully right there in the name!

Durian fruit........tastes like onions boiled in custard during a gas leak......worst thing anyone has ever served me

A sort of casserole made with diced chicken breast and broccoli with a sauce of condensed mushroom soup, mayonnaise and curry powder, all thrown into the casserole dish raw and mixed together. The chicken was still slightly pink. It was utterly revolting.