To ask about your food disappointments?

[HarrietKettleWasHere]

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!

I remember the excitement when theyou brought back VICE VERSA sweets. Oh my, I was salivating at the thought of these beautiful nearly minstrels but with white chocolate!
Vile. Nothing like they used to be. Completely ruined all my childhood memories.

Last month dh gleefully arrived home with surprise for me. He'd stopped at the fish and chip restaurant in our city which I'd been dying to go to forever and never had (no idea why) and got me some chips. They were Vile. Cardboard would have been better then these....... I threw them in the bin in disgust. Even my dc wouldn't eat them. They eat everything of mine.

Mimosa's

Essentially Buck's Fizz...I was gutted!

Oh, and don't ever put Parma ham in a stir fry, it's bloody revolting...

Went to pub lunch, ordered nachos. Got cheese doritos on a plate with salsa chucked on, gobsmacked.

Yescafeaulait! Morrison's doughnuts need removing from the shelves under the trade descriptions act! They're like stodgy balls of partly cooked bread dough filled with a thick, semi sweet jellyfied fake jam and dusted in a bit of icing sugar. Id rather go without ...

The week after I'd had DD1 having been not eating/drinking so many things because I was pregnant. Went to Sainsburys with DH and bought what I thought was a dressed crab - so excited shellfish at last!. Turned out to be just a cooked crab so you had to pick it out carefully and I was just too tired. I burst into (baby blues) tears and all DH could do was tell me not to "wallow in it". He is lucky he didn't get a black eye for that one.

Milk Tray hazelnut whirl. No fucking hazelnut just chocolate. I was outraged.

I ordered a fish finger sandwich and got half a battered fish sandwich!
So so sad 😢

Burton burger gave me the rage. A tiny gerkin you could put in your eye on the side and no flipping chips! Who serves a burger in a restaurant without chips? Was dead expensive too. Grrr.

Should be Byron burger, sorry

I ate out in Manc and ordered cheese and onion pie. Now, cheese and onion pie can be a thing of beauty. But no. This came in hot water pastry - the stuff you make pork pies with. And the bottom was burnt. 4 years later and I'm still gutted.
Also Sainsbury's beetroot and quinoa burgers taste of nowt.

Accidentally setting my mouth on fire by eating half a green chilli whole from a Thai takeaway.

Me and my boyfriend got a KFC at the weekend (a rare treat for us) he asked for a Variety Box Meal (because he loves chicken on the bone) but upon opening the bag when he got home, we realised they’d given him a FUCKING BONELESS BANQUET INSTEAD!!!!

He was raging, I told him to take both meals back but because my own meal was correct (I was very hungry, and he couldn’t be arsed to drive back across town) he took the hit and just ate the BONELESS chicken. To be fair he polished everything off and said he’d enjoyed it, but was SO disappointed at the lack of chicken on the bone.

Luckily, my Box Meal came with a couple of spicy wings that I didn’t want (I don’t do chicken on the bone) so he wasn’t totally depressed - but my god, we love a cheeky fast food dinner from time to time - but they constantly fuck up orders, McDonalds Drive Thru has to be the worst for it

I also just remembered a time we went to an All You Can Eat in Bristol (something Bazaar? Can’t remember) for boyfriend’s son’s birthday dinner.

You were made to wait on the stairs for ages with hundreds of other diners before being herded allowed to enter the melee, you had about 30 mins max inside. My memory is not great but I feel like they actually rang a fucking bell to get you all to leave? Like quick-change PMSL.

The place was so packed you could barely get anywhere near the “food” (I was 6 months pregnant at the time and the food, to me, was ALL disgusting, Luke warm and tasteless - even the “world food” type “dishes”) and it was so bloody hot inside I almost fainted. I still believe to this day that they crank up the heat on purpose so people tire quickly and don’t eat as much food

I think there should be a prize on this thread for the most ridiculous overreaction. God knows there's plenty of competition. 'DH offered to make me a peanut butter sandwich. He used SMOOTH instead of crunchy!!! I immediately downed three packs of paracetamol and a bottle of gin!!!'

jmh was that Tops Buffet by any chance?

Weasle yes it was

Actually no it wasn't it was the one in the print works

Cooking all day... large pot of soup on the hob. Stew in a casserole dish reducing on the hob. Cake on cooling rack next to hob. Opened cupboard next to cooker to get salt and a fecking jar of jam jumped out... hit the edge of the casserole and exploded into a million pieces. It was in the soup, stew and all over the cake (and the kitchen floor) in a gloriously sticky mess.

I cried.

We went to a Thai restaurant around a month ago, I was so excited as I’ve been off food for a bit.

Starters were great, mains came - mine looked like a big ole plate of slop and my husband got noodle with prawns I think, it was think glass noodles, it looked and texture was like big jelly worms!! It got left and then so did we.

So disappointing!

I am so tired of mediocre restaurant food that I always say something now when asked how it is...especially as it's really expensive and I used to work as a sous chef so I know how easy it is to get the simple things right!

Had to argue the toss at my (usually very good but had the dreaded refurb) at my local pub the other day- we had been packing up our flat and literally didn't have a minute to eat anything and it was 5pm by the time it was done. So we went for a roast dinner. Guy behind the bar is new and South African. He asks if we want a giant yorkshire for £1. I said no, a regular Yorkshire is fine.

Comes with no Yorkshire! He said well you didn't want one! I said no I don't want a giant Yorkshire for an extra £1, but it should have a Yorkshire as standard anyway, it's a roast bloody dinner. He swears blind Yorkshire puddings do not come as standard on a roast dinner...

I got my Yorkshire.