To ask what is the weirdest most bizzare concoction of food ever served to you?

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I've just mentioned this on another thread and am bored on this miserable rainy afternoon so would love to hear some of yours.

My mum is a terrible cook, but still insists on experimenting with various meals. A few of the things we were served as a child:

Tinned mandarin and vanilla muller yoghurt poured over chicken breasts. The yoghurt curdled.

'Risotto'. This was made by leaving the basmati rice in its water, stirring through tomato purée and throwing some plastic cheese on top.

At Christmas one year she basted the turkey in lime juice, and put pineapple rings on top.

She stirs through primula cheese in a tube into mashed potato.

'Tropical rice'- boiling it in tropical fruit juice or squash.

It's been YEARS since I braved a meal at hers but my brothers tell me not much has changed. Looking back these dishes fasincate and horrify me in equal measures. I made sure I knew what I was doing cooking-wise from quite a young age.

Anyone got any horrors or just plain strange ones to add?

DD is in a nursing home. They quite often serve beetroot risotto, which he seems to enjoy, even though it is a rather lurid pink. Last time they served mash & roast potatoes with it. Not revolting but rather carb heavy!

I had a friend who told me her mum used to sprinkle raisins on top of lasagne. My in laws also have a specialty called "mince and macaroni" which is a bit odd. Just boiled mince with pasta stirred in.

Aged 15 on a French exchange I was served fried peaches with cold lentils one night. Ever since then and with being a vegetarian teetotaler I've thought that French food is overrated.

When I was on the postnatal ward I had something like cheesy potatoes with boiled potatoes one day.

My parents - who were vegetarian at the time, in the 80s - used to regularly serve fruit curry. It came from a recipe book and was therefore a thing we were expected to eat regularly. It was all kinds of wrong.

Fruity chicken curry is an m&s ready meal!

Lots of banana combos going on here!

My great grandma served us calves-foot jelly once...à delicacy back in the day apparently

DH and I still unfondly recall a lunch at DM's when she apologetically announced we were having a funny use-up-leftovers sort of lunch. We were presented with slices of Mathesons smoked garlic sausage mixed with a white sauce, alongside a pile of cold plain green lentils

My dad's favourite sandwhich fillings were sardine and banana, and beetroot and Gorgonzola. He also used to eat raw potatoes, sliced up, sprinkled with salt and pepper and dipped in vinegar.

Not weird as such...but my son was served what looked like stewed greens/dark green cabbage and rice, on flight. We had asked for a dairy free meal and this is what he got. There was lots of it and the steward had tried to artfully arrange it on a plate...I think they were embarrased and actually apologised. Lovely stewardess gave up her chicken for him

Fellow Caians - did you also have salmon Wellington with raisins in it?

It was a good day when the Mars bar ice creams showed up for pudding.

I'm vegetarian, and on a school ski trip when I was about 14 the hotel came up with some interesting things. My favourite was a plate of three hard stale BLOCKS of cheese (literally about 300G each) in big triangles with a leaf of lettuce on top and a tomato to weigh it down.. went hungry that night

Some of these meals sound like the delights featured here!

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The single deciding factor on which uni I chose was that all the halls at my chosen uni were Self Catering

I'd visited friends and various unis and seen the offerings - particularly the veggie meals - and thought no thank you!

Chocolate milk scrambled egg made by DH one morning .He obviously not quite awake and got the wring milk out worst thing the dc's loved it and had for years after😁🙂

Wrong milk ffs

I've remembered another. When I was 15, I went on a school exchange trip to Germany. The first morning, my host offered me cornflakes for breakfast, but there was no sugar on the table. I was a very shy child, but asked, in my best German, if I could please have sugar.

Unfortunately something was lost in translation, and they presented me with a packet of sweetened hot chocolate powder. I didn't have the nerve - or the grasp of German necessary - to say, sorry, that wasn't what I asked for, so I just meekly sprinkled it on, and ate it.

I am laughing at the kids liking the chocolate scrambled eggs and wanting it again

DP put soy sauce in a sausage casserole, wasn't nice but still ate it 🙈 Tho after all I had this aftertaste of soy sauce in casserole sauce that lingered 🤢

My husband once years befor we married cooked me a fishfinger curry.. he basically fancied a curry didn't have any appropriate meat to use and thought fish fingers would be fine! It was not...it's the most disgusting thing I have ever eaten.

Whole baby boiled frogs on a bed of watercress.

I thought I'd ordered chicken

A friend once made me a pasta dish with chickpeas and tinned snails.

Sorry but boiled froggies win (just).

Once my parents served this salad : iceberg lettuce with little piece of melon with green beans, ham...not nice

Because I'm British I did actually try, but ended up just rearranging the watercress a bit. They even had eyes. I just couldn't. 🤢🐸🙊

I heard millet powder is good for you so bought a packet. It said that you can have it in porridge etc. So i made some porridge with oats, milk and the millet powder. Had 1 spoon of it and had to throw the content of the bowl in the bin- it was sooooo disgusting!.

I also bought this lean turkey mince and made mince curry (very similar to bolognese) but the awful smell of the fat is making me consider to just dump the whole thing in the bin.

A "Chicken Lasagna" my mother dreamed up. But not little flakes of chicken, no. Cut through the pasta sheets to find whole chicken quarters/thighs/legs in there. Bizarre