To ask about your food disappointments?

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LIGHTHEARTED- I'm aware people have real problems etc etc.

So, DP and I got back late last night after a few drinks (I'd heard some very sad news about my grandma so we went to a comedy night to try and have a bit of a laugh)

We hadn't had dinner and I'd been low carbing for three weeks. We were ravenous. Absolutely CRAVING a MacDonalds (yes I know! I like it once in a while)

So we did an Uber eats thing.
We ordered: 2 Quarter pounders with cheese
2 large fries
6 chicken nuggets
1 chocolate milkshake
1 strawberry milkshake

Took bloody AGES but eventually turned up.

I unwrapped a sad, flaccid and pale chicken wrap thing with no cheese

1 portion of stone cold fries

1 Big Mac with no cheese, and no
sauce (who are these phillistines)

2 Diet Cokes

I could have cried. After living on eggs, ham and spinach all week the disappointment was very real. Just like that time I treated myself to an M&S giant scotch egg and the egg part was missing!

DP got a refund but still. Tell me about your food disappointments to cheer me up!

Big tasty meal today. Big messy. Wasn't that nice either

I asked DD the question in your OP.

She is currently in the hospital - her very accurate 11yo response was "EVERYTHING!!!"

I admit, the meals she has been sent have been a special kind of awful.

I've been craving lasagne for yonks and because DH doesn't like it I haven't made it in well over a year.

Went to PILs last night where I was so hyped up over a home made lasagne, thinking there would be lots of veggies in it like carrots and peppers and courgette and I was so so excited.

All it had was a tin of tomatoes in, I was so disappointed. It did taste night but it would have been so much better.

The Apple crumble he made though was bloody lovely

Nice* not night

DH and I had to pop into a supermarket and closest one was Morrison’s

We had a mooch about and I spied the jam filled donuts - bought some

Got home took a bite and YEUK

Jam was just think red paste and the donut was claggy

IT WAS NOT M&S I TELL YA!

Even the gannet that is DH couldn’t eat his

I once really fancied cheese on toast. Asked for it in a cafe and got grated cold cheese on top of toast. Not what I meant! I wanted slabs of cheese melted on toast!

Last Christmas I very excitedly went to M&S to pick up a bag of their prosecco crisps – the ones with gold stars on, cos festive. I love crisps. Love them. But I took one bite of these, insisted everyone else try one to check they were, in fact, disgusting, and chucked the rest of the packet.

M&S, I expect more.

The cosmopolitan crisps are just as disgusting.

My worst disappointment was actually something I never got to eat. I'd had a horrendous day, was starving and was planning on consoling myself with a big plate of homemade spag Bol in front of the TV. I didn't drain the pasta well enough and it was so slippery the whole fucking lot slid right off the plate onto the carpet as I flopped on to the chair. I cried with hunger and frustration as I picked pasta out of the carpet, as sauce and spaghetti had gotten lodged into the skirting board.
I carry plates of pasta very carefully these days.

When you go into what looks like a naice cafe and order a sandwich. You expect lots of filling and lovely big slices of fresh bread, but you get horrible cheap sliced bread. There will be a salad with no dressing and not enough crisps on the side. You paid £6 for it and are crying inside.

Many years ago, when it seemed like the latest new thing, my DM and I decided to make a banoffee pie for our Sunday tea. Waited 3 hours for the tin of condensed milk to boil while we got on with the rest of the baking, lovingly assembled the confection, opened up a cupboard to get another plate and a glass bloody bowl jumped out and smashed on top of an entire afternoon's baking, embedding itself prettily into the pie. I think we reverted back to cheesecake the following Sunday.

The very worst curry I ever had was bought from M and S. It was awful, tasted horrible and I'm not known as a fussy eater.

I had to throw it out, and I never chuck food away. Never had one since from there.

Accidentally purchased maple bacon crisps and not normal bacon crisps, they were like crisps dipped in sweetener, utterly rank.

Have also had a Benedict disappointment ordering the smoked salmon version and them bringing out a pongy spinach one. They did take it straight back. But my stomach flipped at the smell.

Eggs Benedict is something I love but somewhat of a risky thing to order IMO- the eggs might not be runny, I've had sauce that's gone to vinegar, fatty ham....the local wanky cafe thinks it's funny by serving only ONE half of a muffin and avocado on the side. Twats.

Same way I don't order steak when
I eat out. I can't trust them to cook it exactly as I want it- that crucial five second window between rare and medium rare

Sunday Lunch

I make a good Sunday lunch, but every time I go to eat it, I am disappointed that it's not something else. I would stop, but DH loves the tradition (so I now make 2 meals, which I don't mind, as I love a bit of wine in the kitchen, chopping away, listening to the radio on a Sunday....).

Had beef stew with dumplings last Friday in our local pub restaurant. You could have taken an eye out with the dumpling it was that rock hard.

Went for a lovely vegetarian tasting menu. We'd had it last year and one of the courses is a delicious truffle risotto.

4 courses in, I realised everything we'd been served was vegan - yes they'd changed it to a vegan menu, and my lovely risotto was no longer even veggie, as they'd started using chicken stock. I actually did get a bit teary at the table, though I was trying not to.

We live near the best take away in our city and twice a year find an excuse to have a treat. We unwrapped our chips last weekend and they have changed hands. The new people cant do chips
Why would you buy a takeaway if you cant cook chips?

Krispy Kreme donuts - they always look good but always taste like sugary stodge that leaves me feeling bloated for ages.

I made the JO flatbreads from a recipe raved about on MN thread recently.
They were VILE.

I gave up on mine - couldn't even get the dough to roll out.

McDonalds (and all chips) are horrible if they aren't eaten straight from the fryer. Uber and mcdonalds will always be a disappointment.

Hadn't had anything junky in a month (it could have been less but certainly felt like a month!) and we treated ourselves to a Mexican take out. It was absolutely disgusting not worth the calories, fat etc. at all! So I feel your pain!

Some doughnuts from Tesco. They were absolutely vile. Somehow managed to taste raw despite being dry as a dry thing. Also way too much sugar and not enough jam. I stick to m and s or the local bakers now.

Also I had a packet of crisps that I thought were salt and vinegar (I was constantly craving salt at the time due to the medication I was on) and they were just vinegar flavour. Tasted sweet and disgusting.

I had a pasta disaster too!

Just moved into new house- house has no sink in kitchen. Cooking on a camping hob.
New baby and toddler.
Husband away with army

I am having to drain pasta into colander over grid in garden... the whole lot went in.

I think we bolognaise butties that night ( and I demanded a fully functioning kitchen)