What's the worst meal you've ever eaten?

[latteloverr]

I'll go first. Steak and coco pops. The steak was in the coco pops. DD made it.

In Japan, I was served a dish that might have been sea slug. The texture made me want to gag but I had to have a few mouthfuls to be polite. 🤢

Sea 'Cucumber' in South Korea. Basically, a big slug and, I did not eat it after the first taste of gelatinous evil - and I've had Crubeens - bleurghh too.

Yup @BanksysSprayCan same thing - vile.
Andouille, just why? You can smell the shit coming from a mile off. I think 'Ortolan Bunting' is illegal now, don't google - just don't . . .
What I can't get over is why primary school kids were served Shoe Leather Stinky Liver (Pig, Ox?) in the 70's and it was deemed acceptable. Any surreptitious hiding under mashed potato was immediately foiled by the dinner ladies who would force kid to eat it - they would vomit and chain reaction would ensue.

I've just had to Google andoullettes.
Just no lol
True andouillettes are rarely seen outside France and have a strong, distinctive odour coming from the colon

Thank you for the seaweed lesson
And your answer to my question?

I was at a wedding, and for some reasons, the bride thought I was vegan.
So when all my table was served a plate of big juicy scallops, I was given a salad with a piece of tofu.
I absolutely love scallops I could have cried.

A friend's mother's BBQ.

I couldn't understand why my friend hated the idea of a BBQ. Until I went to one at his mums.

All the meat was put on the BBQ at the same time, it was then transferred to the oven in the kitchen to bake into something you could build an outhouse with.

Then the table was set, outside, but with knives and forks and a table cloth.

Then all the meat came out again, everyone one had a burger and a hotdog then everything was taken away and left over meat binned.

😱 Ugh! I'll leave them to the otters!
Also read somewhere that their gonads are a delicacy...😶

Fuck me, that andouilette stuff is going to haunt me now...
And this bit... "Although sometimes repellent to the uninitiated, the scent is prized by its devotees."
The scent of faeces and boiled anus? 😭

Pull yer skirt down, hen. Your xenophobic knickers are showing

I can eat most things - snail, snake, crocodile, ants. But I was once give "Toast Cannibal/Filet Americain" in Belgium which is normally dressed raw minced beef but in this instance was large chunks of raw stewing steak held together with beaten raw egg. Politeness decreed I had to make a token attempt to eat it so I womanfully washed it down with copious water- it was so foul 🤢. 3 days of food poisoning ensued...

My mother's fish in cheese sauce. White fish, poached in cheese sauce, served with boiled cauliflower and potatoes.
Vomititious. Every single week for my entire childhood. It took me years to eat cheese in any form, and I still cannot tolerate fish or anything sea-tasting, so seaweed, etc. Instant barf reflex.

Worse thing is Mum was a properly trained cook, she went to college with Mary Berry. So it was probably beautifully cooked (everyone else ate it) but just not for me

A lamb stew for school dinner that had lumps of lamb fat hanging off the meat. I never forget it.Horrible.

My grannie did a regular meal of poached white fish, boiled potatoes and cauliflower. A very white and unappetising plate although there was nothing wrong with the food.

In China about 11 years ago. My cousin's engagement party. Sixteen courses that we all shared, every one lovely except pigeon head soup. The decapitated heads all bobbing about in the broth. Nope.

Andouillette. Or poo sausage as we call it.

The only meal I've ever had to spit out.

Humdrumdumb - didn't the necks look like necks, then?

That reminds me, we had a stew at primary, we called is 'spew' I have no idea what meat it was, or was supposed to be and for some reason it was served with a dry piece of something that might have been pastry or a flat bread.

These were the days of no choice.

A fish pie that, when sliced, [cut, actually, because there was nothing to slice except the crust] spewed forth liquid and bits of things.

Anything my late mother cooked. She was a lovely mum otherwise, but to be fair, she frequently admitted that she was a terrible cook. Too many to mention, but these are the most memorable:

Home made apple pie. She'd made the pastry with chicken fat.

Sunday lunch was usually roast beef so overcooked that it was dry, potatoes boiled until they were watery mush, frozen mixed vegetables, gravy browning mixed with water so it was basically just brown water.

Her cottage pie made with the leftover Sunday lunch, was the dry beef minced up, covered in more brown water and the mashed potatoes, cooked in the oven for about 5 hours so it was all dried out.

Rice pudding that was either so overcooked that you had to cut it with a sharp knife, or so undercooked that it was just hot milk with hard uncooked rice.

Banana bread using dried bananas. Instead of soaking the dried bananas first, she just added the whole packet to the bread mix.

I was always a skinny little child who absolutely loved the school dinners that all the other kids hated 😆😆

Oh you've just jogged a memory of beef stew with a suet/flour square thing that my DM used to make!
They weren't dumplings, just a sort of crust thing that floated around on top...not my favourite 😬
Might have been a Mrs Beeton recipe, or one of those scary 70's cookbooks she used to have with terrifying pictures in - everything seemed to have slices of some variety of tinned fruit lying over it and a weird orange glaze😖
Anchovy and tongue crumble with peach slices and a liver and coconut sauce etc. Horrific experimental shite!

An awful lot of my mother's meals, unfortunately. She couldn't cook when she and my father got married. He could cook as his mother had made sure of that, so he, in turn, taught my mum the basics. I was born in the early 60's and the words, "al dente" or "medium rare" were almost unkown, so absolutely everything was cooked to within an inch of its life. I'm late diagnosed autistic, and one one of the things I've struggled with all my life is food texture. Sludgy, or slimy food is a no no. Many meals consisted of grey sludge (I think it was cauliflower, though I'm still unsure), mushy carrots and fatty meat. My sensory nightmare! Friday was always chippy night, Saturday was salad, and Sunday my dad cooked a roast (he was a good cook), but the other 4 nights were always terrible. I think I was one of the few who actually preferred school meals! My mum was of the old school, "You'll get the same dinner for every meal until you eat it", so I would often be sat in front of the same sludge for several meals until it went off, just totally unable to put it in my mouth. The one thing I swore to do when I became a mother, was not to force my kids to eat something they disliked, and I never did. I would encourage them to try different things, and once they'd tried it, if they still didn't like it, then I wouldn't make it for them again. Same with my grandkids now. As adults we rarely eat something we don't like, or even don't fancy at that moment, so why force kids to do it? I wouldn't accept, "I don't like it", if they'd never tried it..... though saying that, I could never get my son to even try curry, no matter how mild. Then one day he came home from a friend's house and told me he liked curry! When I asked him how he knew he said that his friend's mum had cooked tikka masala for dinner and he said it would be impolite to refuse it, so he ate it. And discovered he liked it! Lol! But I think that aside, they tried everything I gave them, and made their decisions based on that. My son is also late diagnosed autistic and I discovered recently that his dislike of mushrooms has nothing to do with the taste and everything to do with their texture....

raspberry pavlova with a slug on top, complete with slime trail. Well I didn't actually eat much of it...