what is the WORST dinner party/meal out thing you have ever had

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we havent been too unlucky. although one weekend sticks in my mind.
us - young workers no kids
invited to
them - urban folk moved to cuntry with small kids
we drive for HOURS to get a BOWL OF SOUP as tea.
then have to go to local village shitty beer fest in freezing tent.
then in the morning they let their kids wake us up " to get practice in"

THANKS

Ex MIL made us chilli.......with brussel sprouts in it.

A delightful German friend of ours invited us for dinner with her family. We were all in North Italy at the time. She served Pizzocheri which is buckwheat noodles from the Italian Alps with a swiss chard type vegetable and Fontina cheese. I think there was potato in there too. It was grey, slimey, bitty, bitter and foul. I like my friend enormously and so we chewed our way through every mouthful. I still shudder when I see that pasta in the supermarket.

I've added a link of a dish that at least has some colour to it!

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I have some very good friends and I do love them to bits however!!! when we go there for dinner it is a case of getting something for the DC and I to eat on the way and then on the way home.

One day we went for Sunday Dinner.
Me
DP -eats like a horse
DS1 - ^ As above
DS2 - toddler at the time and picky
Him
His DW
2 of their sons and their g'fs

so 10 of us. Dinner was a pidgeon sized chicken that by the time they had finished dishing up was virtually who except the breast meat - (the rest went to the CATS!!!!) 3 roast tatties each, 1 parsnip cut n cooked, 2 carrots, and I think that was it. Followed by a piece of cake and about this much cream O each.

BUT there were 4 bottles of wine on the table.

Kebabs on the way home

Burnt macaroni cheese with mashed swede, followed by pineapple mousse made with raw eggs.

...the worst thing, (not the "runs" that I had next day), was being told beforehand that the host 'cooks the most wonderful meals based around fresh crabs and lobsters that he dives for'.

The other week I ordered a chicken burger at a cafe - grilled marinated tenderloins on a bed of salad, that sort of thing. What I got in the bun instead was a pile of dinosaur shaped "chicken" nuggets that may, possibly, have been driven past a chicken farm without stopping on their way to the cafe.

I mean. If you've run out of the adult meals, say so.

My Mum is basically Rea out of 'Butterflies' so I can bore for hours on the unusual, nearly-edible stuff that comes out of her kitchen. My favourite was her Boxing idea for left-over Christmas Turkey. Roughly chopped and balanced on top of frozen individual cheese and tomato pizzas before being grilled... very festive.

No... best 'bad meal' was down, not to the food but the timing. My friend invited everyone round for supper. Got to her place about seven, feeling nicely peckish and she announced we were having Boeuf Bourgignon (sp?). Lovely - my favourite! Then she started prepping... We finally ate at about 11pm, by which time we were a) a bit squiffy on wine and b) not very hungry.

I just love these stories. Agree if you can't cook then a hunk of cheese and bread is delicious.

My ex parents in law. used to cook everything in lard and cook the hell out of a piece of meat which came off those auction meat lorries. The whole meal used to nearly choke me, the roast spuds were covered in salt and always slimy. Always cabbage cooked for nearly an hour. The smell was something else and my guts after - hell!!!! Shocking, I have never seen food cooked so wrong - and they wondered why they were so fat!

When 8 months PG with DD, went out to friends of DH.
Fantastic starter (for the life of me can't remember what it was!! and then.........NOTHING!!
The other 3 were slowly getting more and more pissed whilst we all chatted, the DP of the other couple spent the whole evening talking to my breasts and making lewd comments about possible threesomes and no more food was forthcoming.
Eventually at about 11pm they said something along the lines of " well it's a bit late too start cooking now, does anyone want coffee??"
At that point, before the karaoke was about to start (I kid you not) I glared at DH and we made our excuses to leave.

I could quite easily have been one of the dreadful hosts on this thread:

I invited some friends to dinner while I was housesitting for my parents.

Within minutes of the last guest's arrival I set my parents' kitchen on fire.

I put the fire out, but in doing so contaminated all the food.

I left the guests with the vacuum cleaner while I went out to buy more food.

I got lost on the way back.

You got lost? On the way back to your parents' house? :o

Dh once ordered an 'exotic fruit salad' at a local restaurant.

What he got was:

2 x plums, 1 x apple, i x orange, 1 x kiwi, a handful of strawberries.

ALL served WHOLE with stalks and skins still intact... thrown onto a plate.

The pièce de résistance, though, was the copious amount of squirty cream sprayed all over the dish.

Great thread!

I went on the school French Exchange, and on my first day was presented with a mound of plain boiled spaghetti with a fried egg balanced on top.

Not a meal, but in Russia we were all craving Western food. My friend saw a heap of golden brown doughnuts in the local shop so snapped them all up. We sat round the table to enjoy them together (3 adults, 5 hungry children)- they didn't contain jam but chopped liver. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in my life, or spat anything out so quickly!

On a school trip to France aged about 14 we had "creme caramel" in yoghurt pots that tasted of old egg with a burnt sugar sauce. Ugh. More upsetting is how much I really like the yoghurts in France when I go there now. Why not jsut give us something nice?

Ew ew at liver donuts

That liver doughnuts story made me laugh my head off, still laughing now!

Arrived for lunch at a Spanish friend's house. She served up a bizarre salad made from chopped up hard boiled egg, tuna (in oil), chorizo, tomatoes, orange segments and prunes, dressed with orange juice. It was quite, quite vile. I finished my plateful as quickly as I could, just to get rid of it, and she took this as a sign that I had loved it, and filled my plate again despite my protests. The second time I actually gagged. I think she noticed.

Same friend also once served me cod, spinach and prunes all mixed together.

The worst thing is she is convinced she is an excellent cook and is always telling everybody proudly about the meals she prepares.

bump!

that last thread has almost put me off my tea

There is a vair posh eatery near us we went to for our first dating anniversary, I cant have much off the menu due to a milk allergy so I couldnt have any of the starters.

So the main was Vensison, £30 venison. 6 pieces of it about the size of a fifty pence piece. No veg or potatoes. Just meat and Jus.

We ate and paid (cant believe dh didnt kick off, he often does) and we had a maccy d on the way home in my heels and posh dress.

I avoid like the plague anything that says Fine Dining.

Worst meal with friends was DH younger cousin and dw, he cooks "I do a mean steak" er no you dont, grey meat and on a cold plate so it all went stone cold in 5 minutes. DH was so drunk he was ill for 3 days so he didnt care.

At university a friend (who is usually an excellent cook) made us a meal of lemon juice and Parmesan spaghetti. IIRC she was recreating a delicious dish she had eaten whilst on holiday.

We all ate it out of politeness despite it tasting like gone off lemon curd pesto. I seem to remember everyone eating a large amount of bread and salad to wash down each mouthful.

Took us years to tell our friend how vile it was too.

ooh yes we've been to a posh hotel where dad ordered the pork and that is what he got. Some pork. No accompaniments, not even a sprig of parsley. We assumed that was normal for posh places and started going back to the pizza places.

mmm the lemony past sounds nice actually

it really wasn't

sorry!

Hahahaha @ liver doughnuts!

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