Worst Meal you ever had!

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Min was as a child in London, My Uncle brought some jellied eels for my Nan and Grandad. She put a couple on the plate for me.I recoiled in horror ,at the awful stringy taste of this vile "meal" I can still see them set in grey jelly! Just all kinds of grim!

It was quite recent at a chain called Murger Han. The most disgusting food ever! I was with 5 work colleges and none of us finished the food. Even the waiter couldn’t identify what each dish was. Never again

At acquaintances house for dinner. They made a cottage pie. I found 2 dog hairs in mine but had to keep eating as didn't want to be rude.

Don't know why, this has really made me LOL

My granny's scrambled eggs. She was legendary in the family for her undercooked runny eggs. She was great at cooking everything else though!

It's a toss up between a 'ham' salad in France. It was warm pigs ears tossed in oil on soggy lettuce. The ears were still hairy and it was totally inedible.

Or the 'chicken fried steak' sandwich in a middle of nowhere town in Colorado. It was grey entrails of some sort cooked in ancient oil with a soggy coating, in a bun made almost entirely out of sugar. Absolutely vile. Even my father in law -who was a dustbin- couldn't eat it.

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I'm not fussy. I'll eat anything even if it's awful just to be polite.

But went out for a milestone birthday to a Spanish place and ordered the paella and it was just swimming in grease. I have no idea where all the grease can come from with seafood?!

Pure salt and grease. I tried to spoon off as much as possible into a glass but it soon became obvious I was fighting a losing battle. The prawns were still full of poo. There was some, what I THINK was chicken pieces that were just like bullets.

The tapas dishes again were all cooked to death - padron peppers with no salt that had turned to mush so you couldn't pick them up.

Tortilla black underneath. I could go on.

I couldn't believe they actually brought it out. We waited two hours for food.

I could have cried. I was so embarrassed.

I once made a fucking awful curry. My husband tried his hardest to get through it, bless him, but it really was shocking.

I'm not actually a bad cook but I just can't make a decent curry.

Sausages at a Ukrainian restaurant in Budapest. They were grisly and tasteless.
I only ate about 2 bites than had to stop before I was sick. The waitress asked if I wanted a box to take them away with me. Unsurprisingly I declined.

School dinners in high school - the meat used to have tubes in it (arteries or veins I guess) and was chewy and inedible. But this was the 1990s so there was no option but to eat it or go hungry.

Oh, or andouille sausages in France. Made from pig guts and you can see all the wiggly bits. Literally tasted like shit but I ate it anyway as I was pretty sure I was having a joke played on me - the looks on the French lads faces when I sat and ate it.

All school trips!

On a day trip to Boulogne with the school when I was 13. We had a meal at a restaurant. We had some chicken casserole and it was disgusting. I had giblets on my plate. It was watery. On request from us, the coach driver drove to a McDonalds in or around Dover on the way back home.

Whitby aged 10. Hotel served us with horrible lumpy mushroom soup each meal! I’m sure they reheated the soup each day from what little was consumed

A very bizarre meal of macaroni ( no sauce just cooked macaroni) sprinkled with icing sugar and poppy seeds. This was the main meal, not a desert. It was just…….wrong.

A toss up between a relative’s boiled sausage stew - looked (and tbh tasted) like pink flaccid penises floating in brownish water - or the world’s most disappointing fish and chips on a seaside holiday. DH picked out a bit of my fish to give the child, about the amount you’d get in a fish finger, only for me to discover that the rest of my ‘fish’ was just a single layer of fish skin, no actual fish attached, fried until the batter was dark brown, and so greasy the chips were floating in the bottom of the cardboard box.

Another for andouillette.
We lived in France and went with our trad dance class to an all day 'stage' for Cajun dance to be followed by a meal and then an evening 'bal' . After several hours of dancing the meal arrived; Jambayla made with andouillettes. OH managed to hold his nose and force it down. I ate bread and green salad.

As a northerner I've always been a fan of fish and chips. In London years ago I was starving and went to a chippy for fish and chips. Back to my lodgings and opened it up. Cut into the fish and realised there was a thick backbone all the way through it. I was horrified and couldn't even eat the parts that no bone in bleugh

Hardly a meal, but as a child I stayed at an aunts house and she served gone off cereal. I can’t describe the taste, it was rubbery and just tasted disgusting and I felt so bad I forced myself to eat it. It put me off cereal for years.

Pretty much every Sunday dinner at the ex in laws. Think boiled to death grey mash, grey cauliflower and yellow cabbage. With gravy so thick you couldn't pour it. I used to try and make an excuse not to go or concoct up some excuse that I was calorie counting and take a WW meal and a bag of steamed veg. The by far the worst meal there though, was some seafood noodle thing my ex mil made. It was pretty much just a lump of congealed noodles with some rock hard prawns in and no flavour whatsoever to it. Non of us could eat it it was that vile

Mine was a lasagne made with tinned sprouts as their veggie offering

Fish and chips with the skin left on the bottom of the fish. I had to spend so long removing it that it was almost cold

Slow cooker garlic bread quiche. I got the recipe off the slow cooked wonders FB group which you vipers all recommended to me. It was minging.

Squid ink pasta at a Jamie Oliver restaurant. Foul salty crap. Still annoyed that the waiter sneeringly said "it's meant to be like that " and I didn't protest and paid.
Awful food Awful service

It seems that you were served rock salmon AKA dogfish, often seen in London F&C shops, it tastes awful and has vertebral column running through it UGH!

probably a slow cooked rice pudding that had been cooked overnight so it was just sludge but I had to force it down.
Also, probably not the worse but a Moroccan soup that seemed to consist of water, milk, maybe flour and some sort of wheat flavoured with black seed and almost nothing else. I really struggled with it and ate a few spoons out of politeness. The other two people were really enjoying it. Im not even fussy with food and I’ll eat anything usually.

Seems I got off lightly compared to some on here.
I remember very oily spam fritters at school. I think that's what they said they were. God they were foul.
I was served tinned spaghetti Bolognese at a nice restaurant in Mexico, such a disappointment. It might not have been tinned but it really fucking was iyswim.
Once had to force a smile through some undercooked fish in a milky sauce at the in laws.
Had some sliced potatoes in a thick mayo like sauce at a UK restaurant. Must have had about 5000 calories in it. It was a huge portion and looked awful. Tasted of nothing.

I'm a fat shit and love food but I don't think I've ever been served a meal that was so disgusting I couldn't eat.

Except one, I made from Joe Wicks diet plan back in 2015. It was some sort of teriyaki salmon and courgette noodles but I couldn't eat more than a mouthful, even DH the human vacuum couldn't eat it 🤣