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.

Work trip to Japan. Lots of wonderful hospitality and meals. I eat almost anything but the special occasion:

shark fin soup was a step too far.

Don’t agree with the barbarity unless it’s ethically sourced, I’ve eaten lovely shark steak . It was grey, congealed, horribleness.

I went in a hike in a seaside village in Cambodia and our guide invited us into their grandmother's home for lunch. I'm very open minded with food, but honestly couldn't identify what I was eating. it was like a blubber/ fish fat stew, had bits if scale floating around and wobbly fat, served with what I guessed to be plant/flower bulbs dipped in a spice mix. I still don't know for certain, they were about the size of a plum, had texture of a parsnip, and tasted bitter and earthy, served raw.

A staff restaurant at a company I was visiting in Milan, mid 1990s.
No menus, you carried a tray, indicated what you wanted to the ladies behind the counter and they served you a plateful.
I asked for what looked like large brown mushroom based dish. Already a bit squeamish as the lady serving had large square flakes of dandruff in her hair (no hair nets). Got to my table to find the mushrooms were actually brown tripe.
i went hungry.

Oh this reminds me of my mum’s attempt at pasta in the early 1970s.
Long spaghetti (twice the length of the stuff in modern shops), boiled into oblivion. Dollops of tomato ketchup ( well, that was tomato sauce, wasn’t it?) and cubes of Lancashire cheese (that’s where we lived, so that’s what we ate for cheese).
it was vile. This vindicated my mum’s belief that pasta was horrible and to the end of her days she avoided eating it if she could.

I spent two weeks in a very rural Bolivian hospital. I had lama steak for lunch, every day. In the evening, it was chopped into cubes and put in a clear broth. It's not awful but has a flavour I connect with a really bad time.

Andioulette in Paris, we didn't know what it was. When we cut it open, coils tubes sprang forth, and an overwhelming stench of urine filled the room.

Beans, hotdog and homemade crisps in primary school anything the beans touched I wouldn't eat. I threw up down the dinner lady's back when she gave me a fireman's lift to the loo after she made me eat the hot dog bun. Same primary, ice cream scoop of heavily salted mashed potato.

M and S chicken and cheese triangles in the 80s. They made me throw up for days.

Some disgusting meal in a diner in centre parks, ketchup on table had same consistency as water.

I had a friend who was served live jellyfish in China

Burned fish fingers and overcooked quinoa. No sauce.

I made this for my sister when she visited me when we were young. It was awful 😂

Lumpy mashed potato - wasn't good, but was delighted to have guacamole, even with odd accompaniments.
Took a large mouthful - not guacamole, mushy peas.
spat it out, it was vile.

I'm a very proud Welshy but, though I can sometimes stomach sushi rolls, I do find laverbread revolting.

In a restaurant in Bognor Regis Butlins 30 years ago. I ordered carbonara. It was made with bacon rinds. No actual bacon.
I sent it back and got a refund.

Bbq’d Octopus.
A French friend served it, dh and I ate a few pieces but it was grim.

Also seasnails and Green crabs in a fancy restaurant in Iceland. It was a horrendous seafood tower kind of thing.
I couldn’t actually eat it and just hid everything under a napkin.

I'd rather have had a bowl of tbe dandruff flakes.

@Growlybear83 and it is so that you are a warrior, but you are in a minority I'm afraid - may I suggest a bit of garlic? 🤤

Agree….also andouillette. Is smells of shit. Looks like a sausage but snells of merde. I would go hungry than eat that

Is ethically sourced shark a thing?

Went to stay with hunting shooting fishing type friend. She served grouse I think complete with shot pellets. I pretty much eat ANYTHING but I could not eat this. It was the most disgusting food I've ever been served, I couldn't lie. No idea if it was badly cooked, off. But it was repulsive,

🤣. Now I could eat a bowl of mushy peas just with a bit of salt. I'd also be weirded out if I thought it was guacamole to be honest.

The buffet at Pontins Camber Sands, New Years Eve 2011.

Went to a dinner party and was served a huge bowl of broccoli soup as the starter. I literally couldn't shove another spoonful in when I was only a quarter finished the taste wasn't great but the quantity was shocking

Our first camping trip and for ease and convenience, we took a tin of new potatoes, a tin of processed peas and a tinned beef casserole.
It looked and tasted like sugary vomit, we've come a long way since then!

I know. Good thing I don’t like sausages cos I wouldn’t be able to face one after seeing that.

Nothing especially horrific but when I was 18 there was a local restaurant which was supposedly excellent.

Me and my boyfriend booked to go with another couple but as luck would have it I’d had a sickness bug a few days before and didn’t feel up to eating anything fancy so asked if they had a salad. The waitress checked and said that they didn’t have any on the menu but I could have a green salad prepared.

When it was brought out it was just a few basic lettuce leaves, some slices of cucumber and a sliced tomato on a side plate. Basically the same type and amount of salad which my friend had on her plate with her chicken and chips. The real kicker was that when we were given the bill they’d charged £15 for it as it was off menu, bear in mind that this was 1988 when a main course was usually less than £5.

My Ex-H very early on in our relationship not long after we moved in together decided to surprise me by cooking. He found some stewing steak a bag of stir fry and one of those sachets of Chinese sauce and threw it in the wok, then he added a tin of baked beans. It was crunchy, chewy and mushy all at the same time. Even he couldn't eat it. To make it worse I ended up having to throw the wok away, no matter how hard I scrubbed I couldn't get the burnt baked beans off it.

As an inexperienced cook who had experienced a limited range of ingredients when I was growing up, I once (and only once) made a spinach casserole. It would have been quicker, easier and almost certainly tastier to have taken a spoon to the nearest duck pond.

Banana hearts in Indonesia, which was on the menu (no photo)

Not sweet, no taste of banana !

Looked like the forest floor & tasted xxxx

I ate pizza the next day

Still laugh about how horrible it was