To ask what one thing is that ruins a dinner?

[ChloefromSundy]

I'll go first - nothing being crispy and no texture, so slop on a plate.

Especially poison ones

Undercooked meat/ overcooked veg. And gravy.

Edited: Overcooked meat and undercooked veg is also gross. As any of the combinations.

Paying £5-7 for vegetables alongside your main meal. Just serve a meal including veg. Veg is cheap.

Also triple cooked chips = dry chips imho.

Coriander! Tastes like washing up liquid!
mismatched cutlery or bent cutlery.
Not enough gravy!

Coriander leaf. Herb of Satan.

For the artery/valve/tube haters - my mum used to make casseroled lambs heart. We got one each and it was …. interesting, to dissect your dinner! And I once found a cardboard label stapled to the heart I was eating.

People who think salt and pepper are seasoning and bland food 🤢

People who think their plate and cutlery are percussion instruments and bang and clatter their way through the meal.

A caterpillar on your salad.

The lack of a nice glass of red.🍷 Or white. 🥂

You must hate Indian food, it is one of the main ingredients in a dish.

I hate too much seasoning. If people like more, they can just add more but it's impossible to take it out.

Multiple caterpillars in your cauliflower cheese!

I have to have a tiny spoon too. It just tastes better.

Gravy in a Pyrex.

Hard boiled eggs in a dish - DM used to make something with fennel, breadcrumbs & hardboiled eggs & even thinking about it makes me feel sick. I do like eggs but not whole in things!

Someone else putting the food on the plates. I want to be able to have the right amount of everything not what someone else thinks is the right amount of everything.

Being with someone who narrates everything they’re eating. This is lovely! Mmmm, try the xyz… so tender! Generally with some accompanying appreciative noises as well.

I absolutely cannot bear it.

For a roast dinner specifically, not enough gravy…well actually not enough of pretty much everything.

’‘Tis a sorry sight when you look at your plate and see a sliver of meat, a solitary roast potato, no Yorkshire’s and heapings of overcooked veg.

More generally anything when a hot meal is served cold due to general pfaffing around by the cook and plates not being warmed.

Cutlery that feels wrong.

Having a bacon/sausage sandwich in a cafe/restaurant and the sandwich isn't buttered.

Cold plates and anything spicy.

Meat and two veg type meals where the veg is microwaved from frozen and the gravy’s some kind of brown powder/boiled water mix … sorry MIL I know you think cooking is a massive chore but food has evolved a lot since the 1950s!

No seasoning and undercooked vegetables .

Coriander, hate it. I love mint though.
Non crispy and unsmoked bacon - give me crispy and smoky please.

Fish heads with eyes on the plate