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? 😂

😂 piss off!

I always thought an all day breakfast is a breakfast you can eat any time of the day. I live in Wales, but I've seen this in pubs in England/Scotland. I don't think its a regional thing 🤷‍♀️. Lots of pubs offer this. I never thought it was called an all day breakfast as it was meant to keep you going all day, rather you can eat it any time of the day.

Another I forgot. Not a meal at someones house though.

A work colleague bought in a 2 tiered, sponge cake. We all cut a slice and started eating. I noticed small, blue blobs and said 'Oh, its a blue berry cake is it?'.

No, it wasn't a blueberry cake- she hadn't stored it in the fridge and the cream had started to go rancid and grow blue mould!!!

Did you not read the follow up post?
2 thin slices of baguette each and a couple of slices of salami. That's not 'plenty' of baguette and meat 

My XP's mother invites us to dinner and produced tinned frankfurter sausages with pasta that was so over cooked it could almost be mashed and cauliflower that had been boiled to death. The most disgusting meal I've ever seen and eaten. She wasn't a great cook but this was a new low!

Why was it a follow up post, I wonder? 🤔 It seemed adequately (and differently) described in the op.

No it doesn't or pubs and cafes would stop serving them after breakfast time,
It means you buy a traditional cooked English / Scottish / Irish / welsh ( depending on where you are ) breakfast at 8am 12pm 5pm or when ever you want it ,

Just as a side thought does anyone know what I welsh breakfast would be i don't think I have ever had one

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

Better than my in-laws who think "cheese on toast" is just that, slices of cold cheddar off the block, served with dry toast. Very surprising / disappointing!

Pasta with pink custard. Slimy pink tubes of yuck. This was the 1st time I'd ever had pasta, I was probably less than 10. I didn't have pasta after that until my teens. Thankfully it was home made lasagne.
My gran always cooked the same meal whenever we arrived at hers, it was a sort of pasta bake, it involved beef mince, tinned spaghetti o's (couldn't be normal spaghetti- reminded grandad of worms), topped with egg. I'm sat on the fence about whether it was gross or not because my gran died 35 years ago when I was 16. It was back when artificial flavours were still a thing and I'm never going to re create that meal properly.

When we used to visit in laws, mil would always make us salmon sandwiches to take home for the train journey.... safe to say they went in the bin. Everytime as soon as we got to the station they ended up in the bin. We asked her nicely not to bother as we didn’t wanna bother her but she insisted but they were vile... I do actually like salmon sandwiches, just not the way she made them 🤢

Just as a side thought does anyone know what I welsh breakfast would be i don't think I have ever had one

Usually the addition of laverbread (seaweed) and maybe a Glamorgan (cheese and leek) sausage.

It does sound meagre to me. I would also have asked my friend if she had finished before clearing it away.
I don’t like cold sliced meat with hot chips.

I don’t like cold sliced meat with hot chips.
So? That doesn't make objectively grim.

it

A pho type soup, which was hyped up beforehand no end.

There was a thick layer oil sitting on top of the soup as it has been made with pork stock 🤢
I had one spoonful and decided I’d rather be rude than to be sick in their home.

My MILs roast dinner. She prides herself on her roast and it's absolutely rank. Dried out meat served barely luke warm, carrots and broccoli which have been boiled for an hour, Yorkshire puddings which are so hard they could kill a man at two paces. Gravy which is essentially gravy flavoured water. Bleurgh. Poor dh thought that was the gold standard of roast dinners until we were married.

To ME it does! That’s my point.

My first serious boyfriend gave me tinned tomatoes with garlic. I ate them, because I was in love with him and the sex was good

At a time party of 40 people where dinner had been promised and the host ordered 6 pizzas. It was roughly one slice each. Terrible hosting.

We were visiting my parents friends on New Years Eve and for lunch we were served turkey soup, this was the bare Christmas carcass that had been boiled for hours with a carrot and half an onion, served up with homemade wholemeal bread that was so unbelievably heavy and chewy but was amazing compared to the grey water with a chunk of carrot floating in it.

Tuna sausages. Worst thing ever. Served as a starter at a neighbour's dinner party.

When we were little we were foisted on to various neighbours, because Gran was very ill in hospital. I think my parents ran out of goodwill because we stayed one evening with people we hardly knew. Dinner was 4 strips of fatty lamb breast in watery bisto gravy.
The neighbour said 'sorry there's so much fat' and trying to be polite, I said 'that's OK, I like the fat. And before I knew it everyone had dumped their fat on to my plate. I'm sat there with 16 strips of fat on my plate and she got annoyed because I didn't finish it.

My worst experience wasn't a bad meal just a paucity of it.
Dsis invited all sisters and BIL, so about 12 altogether with her DH.
She brought from the oven an enormous casserole dish. Great. Except the actual food in it was no more than 1" deep. You needed a torch to see the bottom and a fecking stepladder to reach it. Barely enough for 1 person

One of my BIL caught my eye and we started laughing. I often wonder what I could have said without causing WW3. (Her cheating lying wankbadger made the casserole, I think he made it tiny as a provocation).

They are still together, but they don't invite any of us to any more dinner parties, nor does he get invited to our houses. She does (Dsis)

It was actually me but the first time I ever cooked for DH. I asked him what he had in and he said only rice and some veg. I actually had never made rice before, or cooked much, and it was a disaster. I wayyyyy over cooked the rice and it was a claggy mess and for some reason I decided to add some paprika in an attempt at 'flavour' then I tried to cook the peppers and carrots but I didn't realise how long it'd take so they were very raw and I only just quickly wok fried them.. It was really bad. A gloopy red mess with hard ass veggies mixed in. I knew DH was a keeper when he tried to eat some of it just so not to hurt my feelings but did say it wasn't great but thanked me for trying 😂 I'm a much better cook now!

Travelling for work I've had some interesting food - like @AugmentedToast I've had fried jellyfish - not the worst as they didn't taste of anything. The live (well, still twitching) lobster in China was not my favourite, but the most disappointing was at a big get-together in Italy - the fixed pasta course was tagliatelli with a wild boar ragu. I don't eat meat so asked for the veggie alternative: I was served with plain pasta: no seasoning, no oil, no sauce, while everyone else raved about their great meal.