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? 😂

That's the dinner of the Gods!

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
😁😁😁

At an official reception in Russia, they’d done a roast beef dinner in our delegation’s honour. They had obviously cooked it well in advance, plated it up, and then put it in a very cold fridge for several hours. It came out cling filmed, and icily cold.

it was better than the pike soup from the previous day though…

A Slimming World ‘lasagne’ with grey watery mince and cottage cheese instead of béchamel 🤢

A 3 course meal. Friend wanted to impress, our starter was a massive bowl (think pasta bowl) of green soup (spinach? Broccoli?) it tasted good but completely impossible to get through it all then eat mains and dessert (can't even remember what these were can only remember the never ever ending green soup)

I think the lunch in the OP is a perfectly normal lunch 🤷‍♀️

Probably my worst experience is when I was 18 and went to my boyfriend’s nan’s house for dinner and he forgot to tell her I was (at that time) a pescatarian and she made a mince beef based dish. So awkward.

Though, not going to lie, I’ve done worse. Cooked a meal for another ex, I was 21 and an appalling cook. Recipe said three cloves of garlic. I mixed up cloves and bulbs. Three whole bulbs of garlic 😩 bless him, he tried to eat it before we went to the chippy.

All sorts of places. Here’s the MN standard, Center Parcs; “All-day breakfast, served until noon.”

www.centerparcs.co.uk/discover-center-parcs/restaurants/sports-cafe.html

I am a long time vegetarian who doesn’t eat meat because I am repulsed by its texture and flavour. A friend invited me to lunch knowing I am veggie and served up some truly vile fake minced beef made from textured soy protein in a ‘shepherd’s pie’. I couldn’t force much down and pretended I wasn’t hungry. Mortifying. I wanted to tell her that if I wanted to eat meat-like substances I would eat the real thing, but kept quiet.

I messed up on that one…

This one’s more appropriate;

www.thestabletearooms.co.uk/menu/breakfast/

OP that does sound like a perfectly normal lunch to me. What do you normally have for lunch?

Proper ham, egg and chips is the food of the gods.

Crumbed brains. I wanted to die.

My friend made curry mutton and rice. My favourite. I was salivating when I got to her house.
I'm thinking she may have dropped the whole salt bottle into the mutton because I could've had a heart attack with the amount of salt that was in there.
Because she knows I like it she practically watched me like a hawk while I was eating it. It was so bad I wanted to cry!

Don’t think you are correct in this instance.

Where I am, the “All day breakfast” means that you can order the traditional breakfast fry up at any stage of the restaurant’s mealtimes.

Didn't she have any herself?

All of these stories are horrendous; each and every one.

I’ve clearly been very lucky, so far.

Spaghetti hoops, sans-sauce.

Oh god that rinsed thing? ‘Add butter’?

No thank you.

FIL cooked sausages with the lid on, which means the skin doesn't go crispy and instead goes rubbery so you literally can't bite through it. Plus the inside was very much still pink. It has put me off sausages forever.

An all day breakfast means it is served all day by the restaurant/cafe. This is common knowledge & quite usual. I live in Sydney. It’s not an exclusive concept.

Ken Hom’s curry pasta. Love curry, love pasta, but for the love of Christ, not together.

Liver and mashed potato.

I agree, 'all day' means it is available all day.

My worst was a BBQ.

I love a BBQ my friend hated them, when I was visiting him at his mum's I found out why.

When I do a BBQ I make a salad, put out burger buns, hot dog rolls, salt, pepper, ketchup etc and start cooking sausages, burgers, chicken.

As they are cooked through they are handed over to who ever wants what to eat and new meat is put on. The afternoon is spent eating and drinking.

So this, or similar, is what I was expecting.

Friend's mum puts all the meat on the BBQ and cremates it, it is then put in the oven to make sure it is rock heard.

A table is laid with a cloth and napkins and salad and burger buns are put on the table.

Once the meat has been baked into the consistency of bricks it is brought out and put on the table.

Everyone eats what they can without braking a tooth and then the table is cleared.

It’s not fine at all. It’s mean in spirit and in quantity.

Haven't finished the thread so not sure if anyone else has already posted about this, but I couldn't believe this and thought you must have been exaggerating the recipe, and then found this. It's a Ukrainian favourite it seems!