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.

A Chinese meal in Swansea - which arrived with a surprising bright yellow (lemon) sauce . The taste was SO strong of synthetic lemon it made the meal inedible. This grim meal was enhanced by the fact that walking to the restaurant we were drenched with a heavy downpour. So we sat wet and pretending to eat our food.

It's a toss up between a pasta meal I made in the slow cooker than turned to a disgusting sloppy mush. It was like baby food. Or a Slimming World quiche recipe that involved eggs and cottage cheese mixed together. It smelt and tasted like rotten egg farts, after one mouthful I was knocked violently sick.

When we had recently moved in together, my then-BF (now DH) decided to make honey & mustard chicken for dinner one night, but instead of following any kind of recipe to make the sauce, he just mixed together a load of honey and a load of English mustard and dumped it on the chicken. It was indescribably bad & literally eye-watering!

Tuna and baked potato my MIL made. The baked potato was both raw and over cooked at the same time. When you cut it open it was liquidy with raw lumps. The tuna she had pummelled until it was liquified.

she used to make gravy so thick you could slice it.

Not as horrific as some already stated but:

Apricot and almond soup (hot)
A Greek salad that looked delish but on closer inspection, contained three wiggly baby caterpillars.

I guess the apricot and almond soup is a matter of personal taste as are most of my dislikes: oysters, whelks, squid, brawn, tongue, pease pudding and I've always swerved things like andouilette and sweetbreads, tripe, trotters, etc.

On a school ski trip in Northern Italy (late 1980's) and the food they served us was very basic, small box of cereal in the morning or 1 slice of toast, we never got lunch and dinner was either an omlette (nothing else) or a small (tiny) piece of tough chicken and a tablespoon of boiled mixed veg. Teachers used to go out in the evening and leave us in the accomodation. (no doubt to stuff their faces) Last night on the trip, the accomodation owner proudly told us we were getting fish and chips, we got a fish finger and 4 chips honestly that was it. Bearing in mind we were all growing teenagers and we were skiing all day. It was awful, we all complained and our parent(s) got involved as some of the other's had taken pictures (using a good old fashioned camera) of the meals and also the teachers leaving the building each evening. At least two teachers lost their jobs, others I believe were put on probation and we got some money back from the trip which had initially cost £400. So whilst the one fish finger and 4 chips were not horrible it was the lack of food and all whilst we were in Italy a country famous for their wonderful cuisine.

A goats😫 cheese salad.😣

Pigs ears and cabbage was notably bad.

Assorted chicken offal (livers, kidneys, neck and feet) boiled with carrot (nothing else was offered, just bread). So i had a carrot sandwich.

Both in Portugal where I have also had some lovely meals (I lived there for some time). The chicken mix is sold in packs so apparently it is a 'thing'

Oh, one of my friends (back when we were teens/ early 20s and poor) ate curry flavour super noodles mixed with baked beans and loads of butter nightly. Although that was surprisingly not too bad.

At a Christmas meal I once has the salmon with a herby crust. Except it wasn't. It was some of the pudding apple crumbles crumble topping. Sweet and a little cinnamony. It was terrible.

We went to someones house for dinner once and they had tried to make sausages in a red wine onion gravy. What they served up were sausages in a thick, pink, sweet, oniony goo. They had used a lot of sugar to caramelise the onions and then when they added the red wine the sauce was too thin so they added too much corn flour.

A chicken breast in some sort of sauce, made by a friend of my aunt. The sauce had no salt in it and looked and had the texture of gobby saliva. I had to eat some to avoid looking rude, but it was disgusting😖

A burger and chips, think it was coral island in Blackpool. It was still raw but also rubbery in parts. If I threw it at someone it would have hurt them yet it still had raw bits. Really puzzled me.

Pigeon Pie 🥧

Someone mag me spag bowl once but had no pasta sauce so drowned the mince in ketchup that they tried to heat

A "vegetable stroganoff" at the Campanile Nuneaton about 20 years ago that was blatantly the overcooked leftover vegetables from the wedding next door with a trickle of watery sauce on the top that looked like the chef had knocked one out over it 😬

OR the vegetarian starter at a highly pretentious local restaurant the other night. "Confit courgette"- a tiny pile of RAW courgette chunks in cashew cream. Words were had. "But nobody else has complained!" Well they fucking should have.

DH, who eats pretty much anything and loves anything French, said this was the worse meal he'd had in his life. I refused to try it.

@larklane17 wins the award for actually making me feel sick just reading it

This reminds me… during lockdown we treated ourselves to Hawksmoor at Home. Everything arrived very professionally in chilled vacuum packs with instructions on how to roast, bake, reheat or whatever. There were two packs of brown sludge which I was somehow convinced need to be combined to make gravy. One was the gravy, the other was the sauce for the sticky toffee pudding. Oh dear. We did manage to rescue it, but the gravy definitely had a sweet aftertaste. 🤣

My lovely MIL's boiled tripe in milk. I was very fond of her and didn't like to offend her but even the smell would turn my stomach. (Her baked goods were traditional and delicious)
In Canada I tried to eat poutine. It was rank.

Mine was a vegetarian lasagna too. Nothing against vegetables - I love them, but it was absolutely foul.
The vegetables were hard, the carrots had been cut into cubes, it was watery with a few peas floating around & it literally looked like vomit. Oh and it was lukewarm.
I had two mouthfuls before I sent it back & never ate there again!

Jellyfish salad from a Chinese restaurant in Fitzrovia. The rest of the food was delicious though!

My OH is actually a very good cook, but he made a huge mistake one night with a slow cooked veggie hot pot. We like root vegetables (carrots, parsnips, swede, plus usual other veg and Quorn). I had added cut up Beetroot to our Xmas roast veg, which had been delicious. So he though he would add Beetroot to the hot pot. Oh Lord, it was disgusting. Imagine boiled beetroot water, slightly flavoured. I gave up after a few mouthfuls, pride made him finish his full bowl. I still tease him every now and then.🤣

Whelks.
It's just unflavoured, impenetrable rubber? Absolutely bizarre and I couldn't even swallow it!
Maybe if you cooked them for ages with loads of garlic or something, but the ones at the seaside. Horrendous!

I used to eat slices of 2p Kwik save toast slathered in margarine when I was a stoned teenager. And dip them in a pot noodle. In my defense nobody cooked for me or taught me how to cook from 14 onwards!?

I second that. I'm pretty omnivorous but andouillette was disgusting. The smell and look- yuk! Sausages filled with intestines- how can that be considered tasty