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? 😂

Out of date cold quiche. I was pregnant and paranoid. Person is extremely well off. I was

When I lived in China, my friend's wife made me a disgusting soup which consisted of oil, fermented peanuts, and burned rice from the bottom of a rice cooker. I retch just remembering it.

Pics or it didn't happen. (Veal) tongue is a family favorite but the skin always gets taken off after braising, so I simply don't buy your story about "the taste buds". Nobody eats the skin! The grey colour simply means the poor beast didn't get treated with a fuckton of nitrate salts which anybody in their right mind ought to welcome. Bit old-fashioned but utterly yummy, especially if served with rice and a marsala or caper sauce.

My paternal GM was a terrible cook (the complete opposite of my maternal GM).

When my parents first met my mother thought my DF was a really fussy eater and had a stupidly limited diet. Turned out he liked pretty much everything when it was cooked properly.

Essentially she boiled the hell out of everything. You'd get a grey lump of meat that was utterly unidentifiable after having been boiled in unseasoned water for 5 hours, served with watery vegetables that spontaneously self-pulped if you tried to put a fork in them (carrots apparently took 40 mins to "cook" properly). Cauliflower was boiled whole until it resembled a watery grey brain.

A sandwich was made from the cheapest bread, margarine and a tiny sliver of yesterday's martyred meat.

Then all the leftovers were re-boiled again in water to make "soup" gruel that even Oliver Twist would have not requested "more" of.

Every time we visited my DM took us "supplies" to secretly snack on and we arranged trips out as often as possible to ensure we could visit a cafe. Visits to the local fish and chip shop were frequent.

Super-noodles followed by a cheap lemonade ice lolly for dessert. shakes head to try and remove awkward memory of it Host was so pissed that he was not dextrous enough to get an equal amount of super-noodles on each plate (there were six of us). shakes head again.

That would go down very well with me !

Not in my experience. Where are you that that’s the meaning?

Century eggs.

I went to a friend’s for dinner. It was fajitas, great. They used stewing steak and cooked it quickly. The chewing was interminable. I think I just had the veggies and wraps for the rest of the meal.

My student landlady, aeons ago, gave me some cold meat that looked a bit like tongue, but paler. I didn’t like tongue, but ate it anyway.
‘Do you like that, love?’ she asked.
‘Yes,’ I lied politely. ‘What is it?’
‘Udder.’ 😱

I used to sit with an elderly lady who had dementia, one afternoon a week. Halfway through the afternoon we would have a cup of tea and biscuits. One day the lady announced she had made a little snack for us. She went in the kitchen and brought out a plate with 2 very soft hobnob biscuits, spread with butter and marmalade. It doesn't sound to bad written down but the biscuits must have been so old it tasted hideous. She was so happy and proud that I had to force it down somehow 🤢🤢

From the Wikipedia entry on a Full (English) Breakfast “It is so popular in Great Britain and Ireland that many cafes and pubs offer the meal at any time of day as an "all-day breakfast".”

As pp say, an all day breakfast is a breakfast served all day, not just at breakfast time.

I've found an all-day breakfast to mean a cooked breakfast served at any time of day practically everywhere I've been in the UK.
That's what it means.
Also, I don't understand why - if you like a cooked breakfast - it would be so awful to have it for lunch or dinner.

I was invited to stay with a friend at their parents' house and they served dog. Tasted okay.

I certainly don’t eat like a toddler but that’s a perfectly adequate lunch. We are not all competitive under eaters because we don’t have two course meals for lunch and a sandwich equivalent is fine for us. The fact you’re big eater doesn’t change that.

amd the worst I ever had was a friggen slimming world curry which was devoid of all taste.

When I was about 12 I went to my friends house for a sleepover. She asked me if I like curry, to which I was delighted with as curry is my favourite food! Get to the table and see a pile of what looked like chicken tikka masala on the plate. Stuck a fork in and put it in my mouth, it wasn't chicken curry, it was chunks of banana curry

Given that's what everyone else knows it to be, the more important question would be where have you got that definition from?

That sounds like my ideal lunch OP!

An exBF used o invite me to his parents every week and I started to say no because the meals they cooked were revolting. They were lovely people but thought anything that didn’t resemble a post-war working class dinner was ‘fancy’. Think Mince, onion and potatoes. Or veg boiled to buggery and the stringiest beef going. Or chilli con carne with no seasoning or veg, just mince, chilli and rice. Now and again we’d get liver and onion. Their house constantly stank of onions and I had to force the food down.

An all-day breakfast doesn’t mean it should last all day, it means it can be served at any time of the day. Otherwise it’s a full English/Scottish breakfast or simply and a cooked breakfast

Asparagus boiled in milk.

All Day Breakfast means that it is served all day, hence the term being used on menus where you can purchase it at any time of day, not just before 11am or noon.

My food hell is an overloaded plate.
I still remember going to BF’s friends house over 20 years ago and being given vast amounts. 2 massive jackets potato’s etc.

My friend at uni invited me round for dinner. Undercooked rice, tinned tuna on top, over-cooked broccoli, no sauce. She died young, would love to share that meal with her again

Went to my in laws for a curry when I had not long just met them.

The “rice” was so undercooked it was crunchy.

I was polite though so crunched my way though it 😂

Many years ago when I was a teenager my then boyfriend invited me back to his house to meet his mum. She was a bit of a Hyacinth Bucket character ....very awfully awfully . She asked if I would like a cup of tea ....I'm not a tea drinker but didn't want to be rude and refuse. She brought out a rather fancy tray with bone china cups and saucers and as she passed me my cup I noticed ....perched precariously on the side of the saucer....half a hard boiled egg and a sardine.