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!

@AguaLavanda she's poetic isn't she 😂

We need the context. WHO is the sweet macaroni fiend 😂

My ex husband cooked stuffed trout...... but left all the bones in 🤢🤢🤢 every mouthful was crunchy 🤢🤢🤢🤢 i couldn't finish it 😂😂

On holiday in Tours in France. There was a bank holiday in the days before cash machines, so cash was tight, and we chose the cheapest thing on the menu, which was ... Andouillettes.

As so many others have said, they are truly disgusting, and I couldn't eat more than a mouthful.

I'm a good cook and I used to love my steak and kidney pie, but one time I made it, a piece the kidney tasted strongly of urine, and I've not made it since.

A set tourist menu in Budapest. First course arrives is some sort of very oily soup, served lukewarm. Ignored it and waited for main which was lukewarm potato pasta ( I think) with some very stringy grey chicken. At least the beer was drinkable. So envious of our gluten free friend tucking into her delicious looking goats cheese salad.

Not wrong!

Pigeon pie 🤢

My mum said they had pigeon in WW2 and was a bit like chicken. I wouldn't fancy trying it out 🤢
My cat rather likes it though, still flapping it's wings 😬

I like pigeon. Rabbit is good too.

My sister in law cooked pasta.

It was prawns, onion and a tin of value tomatoes warmed up in the microwave No seasoning. It was absolutely vile.

@LakeTiticaca haha! 😂 wasn't for me, tasted awful... I eat most things but nahhh lol 🤮

Stewed pigs trotters in France. It isn't so much the taste, but the texture - my God. With every fatty mouthful you'd have to spit out trotter nails.

I also can't eat goat's cheese. Physically can't do it. The flavour makes me physically sick.

An acquaintance of mine thinks they are quite the baker but every cake they make tastes like a mouthful of margarine. It's pretty rank.
And a few years ago, a hotel on the South coast had an offer on for a 3 course meal. The starter and dessert were delicious but the main was so full of salt it was inedible. I think it might have been accidentally over-seasoned.

I visit an elderly man whose great pleasure in life is to cook for me. Unfortunately he cannot stand for more than a couple of minutes, his kitchen is FILTHY, he has only the most rudimentary knowledge of food hygiene (he didn't know you couldn't freeze and thaw meals indefinitely, for example) and he can't grasp that less, sometimes, is more.

So I will arrive to be told with great anticipation that my dinner is ready and he hopes I am hungry. Worst meal is a toss up between the cold-in-the-middle, underdone roast pork, the seafood paella ("it's all right, I washed it!" - I am deathly allergic to mussels, which were in the seafood mix) or the absolutely set-solid egg-thing which had every ingredient he had in his fridge in it, and, inconsquence was a dirty brown colour, set like concrete and had....things in, which may still have been alive.

I have the constitution of an ox, but even so, I sometimes take a few mouthfuls and say I'm full. Bless him, he so loves cooking for me. I've tried telling him not to bother, but he says it's his only pleasure. I feel my days are numbered.

@igivein there have been worse dishes on this thread but yours made me snort with laughter. I imagine you sitting by the loch trying to feed sprouts to the wildlife 😂

@Daleksatemyshed and there was nowhere to even get a packet of crisps, never mind a bag of chips - it was miserable 😩

I use Kitchen Sanctuary recipes. I've tried the beef curry, chicken korma and the butter chicken one with good results. The cat also enjoyed the butter chicken sauce left in the pan.

Her onion bhaji recipe is also good.

Endless spaghetti in congealed cheese(?) sauce at Cheddar Youth Hostel, I can still see it...

Cooked by others - currywurst in Germany. The appearance of a sunburned penis covered in baby poo. Tasted about the same as you might expect, given the description. My mum got food poisoning.

Cooked by me, aged 19 - garlic cod, made for a new boyfriend. The recipe said two cloves of garlic. I added two bulbs. Bless him, he really tried to eat it before we ran to the chippy.

Probably the meal at a hotel in France in 1989. Entrée was "crudités" - mounds of raw, shredded carrot, beetroot and goodness knows what else. So flavourless everyone ended up smothering the things in salt. Main course was some sort of casserole thing that seemed to feature peanuts. I remember Ed from San Francisco saying to me "You know what we call this at home? Leftovers!" I've had truly crap meals elsewhere, but that's the one I've never forgotten.

I'm not sure if it was the worst meal, but it was certainly the worst BBQ. I couldn't understand why a friend never wanted to have a BBQ until we went to one at his mother's.

Every single piece of meat goes on the flames at the same tine, no waiting for the coals to char.

Once the meat is cooked, and over cooked it is then all put in the oven while a table is set with a cloth and cutlery.

A plate of salad is put out, with a plate of bread rolls and then the meat comes out of the oven like leather from an old shoe.

Food is eaten in about 15 mins and then the table is cleared.

@MrsSkylerWhite

As a child we went to relatives for a meal, my parents, uncles and aunts, grandparents. The uncle and aunt hosting are both good cooks but they bought and cooked a pigs head for a joke and to decorate the buffet table.

But my mum decided to try it and kept going on and on about how nice the cheek was.

I like food in general - am fine with offal, entrails, bottom-feeding fish, I've even eaten testicles and alligator. Some of the PPs' experiences, though, are spectacular 😂

My OH GOD NEVER AGAIN thing was river crabs. They were a very expensive regional specialty at a high-end place in Spain. The dish is best described, I think, as spiders drowned in dishwater. I tried but really couldn't eat it!

Years later, on the other side of the Atlantic, I was offered a local delicacy of crab. Suspiciously, I poked it first - yup, it was not the lovely hard-shelled marine creature but a floppy, rubbery abomination that should've been left under its rock in a river. I know it was rude to reject it, but I had to!

If we're talking about awful dishes I've made for myself, though, we could be here all day. I'm a "bit of this, bit of that" cook and, sometimes, my creations are so gorgeous I can hardly believe I did it! Other times, though ... well 🤮