Worst Meal you ever had!

[dottiedodah]

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!

Veal at the “posh restaurant” of an all inclusive resort in Mexico. I still can’t adequately describe the texture. I was only 18 and on my first proper grown up holiday so thought I was being fancy but soon regretted it!

Another one was in a grotty pub when on holiday near Whitehaven. Steak arrived floppy and grey and swimming in the water of the over cooked cabbage that was bizarrely served as an accompaniment.

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ fish skin! I’m heartbroken that most shops take it off.

Mine has to be a chilli made by a friend who clearly can't cook- basically was boiled cheap fatty mince with a teeny bit of chilli powder in it- no tomatoes, no red kidney beans , not really any spice- really horrible

My husbands was a kind of an Italian fish stew version of French andouillete, looked (and tasted) like a bucket full of heated up chum with tentacles etc - utterly disgusting- apparently it's a delicacy in Tuscany

Rock eel! Always order this in the chippy! Lovely!

Have you ever prepared one? Dogfish pee through their skin and it absolutely stinks when you boil it. I retched every few minutes whilst I prepared and cooked it for a boyfriend (now an ex). I can feel myself wanting to retch at the memory

Agree with various pp that andouillettes are shat from the devil's arsehole though.

I thought somebody must like it or they wouldn't keep selling it.

Ate veal in an Italian restaurant in Ohio, 2010. It was grey and tasted like beef flavoured milk. I think they were going for a "melt in your mouth" texture but it was more like tinned beef stew. Vile. The pasta it came with was lush though.

I'm vegan now but even if I wasn't I wouldn't eat it again.

Another vote for andouilles
we had them in a little rural place in france, the dish of the day.
we didn’t want the owner/chef to think we were rude ignorant English so tried to feed it to his dog who was wandering around, even the dog refused to eat it 😳🧐 🤮

I once had a medium rare pork fillet with blue potatoes and a strawberry sauce - I was on a work trip to the states and sat there trimming the cooked part of the pork as best as I could leaving this breast implant looking pork on the plate

A friend of mine famously and hilariously can't cook. I love her but she's dreadful, it's like she's been cursed or something.

She tries so hard, she follows recipes, but something always goes wrong. She perseveres, she keeps trying. Her dinner parties are legendary and always end with Papa John's. She takes it with extraordinarily good humour, she serves good wine and is excellent company, but the food.

I'm not sure I could pin down which of her recipes was the worst I've ever had, but off the top of my head it would have to be her attempt at bouillabaisse. I cannot do it justice with words. Thin, grey, oily broth that resembled dishwater in both appearance and flavour. Lumps of chewy, unidentifiable meat that were hopefully fish. Slimy, leathery fish skins drifting about just below the surface like old chip bags in an estuary, shedding their not-removed scales into the broth to get stuck in your teeth. And finally sad little mussels stuck to the bottom of the bowl that were like eating salted rubber bullets.

It was glorious.

carrot pie

Tripe in a restaurant in France - tasted and smelt like warmed up shit.

Mince on toast. Just vile.

I hope you left a worthy review on trip advisor 😂

"Like old chip bags in an estuary"

Absolutely brilliant!! 😂😂😂

Is there even a recipe for this? 😂

We were very, very hard up when I was young and my mum bought and boiled a pig’s head (back in the early 70s when such horrors were sold.

She picked through it and plated up. None of us could bring ourselves to eat it though so I guess it’s actually the worst meal I never had 😁
Fed the dog for a few days.

The same dog that wouldn’t eat the gingerbread I made at school. Bastard.

Spam and cheese flan at school just no, no, no, thick grey pastry and lumps of spam that were shiny with grease. Also their mince it came with very little mince and stuffed with things like left over baked beans, peas, carrots - you name it it was in there - and a lovely thick layer of shiny grease on the top, usually served with grey mashed potatoes complete with hairy lumps and see through cabbage.

I refused to eat either of them.

It was at a wedding - octopus pasta. Consisting of dry octopus and dry pasta…. Hard no.

I once went in a date and he served up mung bean curry

It was the most disgusting but hot curry I've ever eaten

I was once visiting my boyfriend (now ex)

While he was working,I ordered a takeaway from the Indian takeaway that was over the road to his house

It was the most salty meat I've ever eaten in my life-it was just pure salt with a vague meaty texture

Threw it away after eating a bit of it-went home and 2/3 weeks later,the takeaway was in the local papers

They'd been found to have had half a German shepherd dog in the freezer and where making curries out of it apparently (trading standards closed them down)

I will never know if that was the meat I ate but it makes me gag at the thought

Another ex served up mince and onions

That he boiled to death first-together-my lot ate anything but they turned their noses up at that

Same ex tried to serve up rabbit,offal and badger-not a chance was I trying any of them (he liked his road kill and offel makes me gag)

The absolute worst meal ever was cooked for us by good friends. They were elderly Londoners snd had told us about pease pudding and one day asked us to around for a meal to try it. It was absolutely revolting. Both my husband and myself kept moving it around our plates but we couldn't eat it. I can't remember what we had with it but it wasn't much better.

I'm sure I've shared this before. I lived in the Middle East for a time as a child and a local family friend made an array of traditional meals for us- majority delicious. 1 dish was goat meat, which had been pounded to separate all the fibers and served mixed in a thick paste.
Imagine eating goaty flavoured hair in a thick masque 😫