What is the worst meal you have ever had?

[Joey1471]

Well for lunch a few weeks ago , I had a chicken panini which I overcooked badly so was hard to eat.

[TheBlindspot]

When we first started living together many moons ago, DH decided to choose some dishes out of a Jamie Oliver book and cook for me one night. He chose to make a sweet marinated pork thing, with a side of sweet potato mash that was mixed with chilli and mango chutney. They were from two separate recipes, he though he'd just pick and choose bits that 'looked nice' instead of cooking the recommended dish as a whole.

They were the right recipes, and he'd cooked them correctly but the sweet pork was supposed to be served with seasoned veg and the sweet mash was supposed to be served with something salty, I forget what. But anyway, together they were absolutely vile. I hate mango chutney anyway, and that mixed into sweet potato mash was so grim. I ate about 2 mouthfuls.

At least he tried!

[FarmerSee]

*plonked (not blinked)

[FinallyHere]

First house, first mortgage, with first own separate kitchen and dining room. I had decanted all the staples, flour, sugar etc into matching jars. Loved 'em.

Except that i picked the wrong one, so made the white sauce for fish pie with icing sugar rather than flour

People in dining room had taken two bites before i joined them, took my first mouthful and declared it inedible. We dined off bread, cheese and gusts of laugher. Good night had by all. Sigh.

[littlebillie]

Tuna steak it was off and the histamine burnt my throat it probably would have killed me if I had swallowed any

[PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks]

Any breakfast from the Asda café.

[MissMary0fSweden]

Xmas dinner at my boyfriends grandparents when I was a youngster. I'd foregone my own parents delicious offerings knowing I was eating there and OMG despite being ravenous, I could barely eat it.

Chicken that had the texture of having been boiled, frozen mixed veg (those little cubes of green, white, orange and yellow) that was barely thawed, and completely colourless potatoes whose only evidence of roasting was the grease. Oh and a splash of yellow gravy. That was it. I just couldn't force more than a few forkfuls down.

I know I sound ungrateful but I did try not to let it show honest!

It was the year that the sprouts episode of the Vicar of Dibley was first shown, and I remember watching at their house with a growly stomach

[Efferlunt]

Thick slices or raw aubergine with curdled cheese that smelt like sick. It was my mum’s first attempt at Italian cooking and she was so upset when nobody ate it.

[Mindhunter]

Many years ago at a Chinese restaurant I had a veggie meal called 'chest of treasures' it had tofu in it and the sauce tasted like vomit even thinking about it now makes me feel sick.

[TonicAndTonic]

Boiled tripe and chickpeas, in a hotel restaurant in southern Spain (not a tourist area) as part of a set dinner. It was horrific.

[Elllicam]

Tomato soup at a Chinese restaurant in Mallorca. They had clearly chopped tomatoes and then boiled them for a bit and then seemed to have poured cooking oil on the top. I was young and polite and tried my best to force down the layer of oil to get to the watery, half cooked tomatoes but I kept being sick in my mouth

[whatareyoueatingNOW]

At a very expensive and very posh hotel. On a Sunday you chose you're meat ( lamb , chicken, pork) and then they served you a Sunday lunch.

I chose lamb. It came with asparagus, fried courgette, spring onion mash, roast parsnips, roast carrots, and a Yorkshire pudding. As though they had mix and matched two nice, but different dinners. Then they gave me my port gravy. In a teapot type thing. As I gently poured the port gravy onto the Yorkshire, I was alarmed when it sloshed out, quickly covering all food. It was just port. Cold port. When I queried this I was told that I was supposed to pour the port into my cup (no cup provided or mentioned) and dip my food into the port. "Otherwise, Miss, you will cool you're meal and plate with the port!" Said with the incredulous tone of someone speaking to a child who has just weed before taking their pants down.

[PaperdollCartoon]

@whatareyoueatingNOW that’s mad. What did you say after that?

[Lkjem]

Following a posting abroad a couple in the firm invited us to dinner with another couple.
Pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie and pumpkin something else for dessert. I hate the taste of pumpkin so really struggled to eat it and left most of every course.
Said couple then announced they were having a baby. My DH stupidly announced we were too.
We never saw them again.

[DrCoconut]

A local pub which had quite a good reputation. It was Monday. The veggie option was cheesy vegetable bake. It was lukewarm and beyond obvious that it was leftover veg from the previous day's carvery with packet cheese sauce. Not impressed.

[Iwasjustabouttosaythat]

Oh dear, dinner at SIL’s house. She and I did not get along from the start, and I think this was a last chance on her part for me to be the sort of person she wanted her brother to date (never going to happen).

She cooked this awful stir fry. Dried noodles that were cheap and brown and just tasted awful. She mixed them with anything she could find in a tin: tinned baby corn, tinned bamboo shoots, tinned mushrooms, tinned pineapple (!) then she topped it all off with the sweetest, most sickly orange sauce anyone ever ate. It was just absolutely vile. I remember trying to eat it but it was so awful, and I was thinking how much I really did want to get along with her and how disappointed DP would be... but I just couldn’t do it. And neither could he. 😂 20 years on and she still doesn’t like me. Which I guess is a win because she’s never invited me to dinner again.

[whatareyoueatingNOW]

Paper doll- I apologised and tried to eat what I could I was 19 and on a "romantic" weekend away with my uni lecturer, so didn't feel confident enough to challenge it.

[lastqueenofscotland]

Century eggs in Hong Kong

[littlepill]

CHIcken feet soup in Hong Kong, tripe, eels, intestine sandwich elsewhere I Europe, processed chicken hormone casserole thing in the UK & some horrible crap disguised as Italian food in Frankie & Benny’s

[thenightsky]

Not me, but DD, who is currently working in China, sent me a picture of duck's head soup... literally a ducks head floating in hot water.

[MrNewcastle]

Jacket Potato when i had it for the first time

[SenecaFalls]

A wedding in the US. The main course was a seafood stew type thing. The fact that it was gray really should have been a clue that it was going to be seriously nasty. One bite was all I could handle. Other people were pushing it around their plates trying to make it seem that they had eaten some. We stopped for burgers on the way home where we encountered several other wedding guests.

[AdaColeman]

MIL wasn't a wonderful cook, though skilled at opening tins and packets.
Her signature dish was yellow "savoury" rice served with tinned mince, with a garnish of packet parsley sauce spooned onto the mince.

The worst restaurant meal was the seriously "off" dressed crab with salad. Luckily I didn't eat any of it as I caught a hint of its smell when I first stuck my fork in.
As it warmed up it started to really smell awful, and by the time the manager came to the table, the smell was overpowering. As she snatched the plate away with an irritated grimace her only comment was "It was alright yesterday"!
We never ate there again.

[LadyinCement]

Dm’s Idea of spaghetti bolognese was 20-minute boiled pasta with tinned mince with gravy . It was grim.

[beguilingeyes]

Wahaca is rank..faggots on the other hand are delicious. I miss them (can't get them in London).

I was in Madrid once and ate at a Chinese restaurant. There was tinned fruit in it (peaches cherries etc). Unpleasant.

[raglansleeve]

Suki, DH had similar in SE Asia, also a pork dish with a nipple in one piece of pork .

My worst paid for meal was at The Witchery in Edinburgh - we'd been wanting to go for ages, couldn't afford it, BIL bought us some gift vouchers towards dinner there as a Christmas present.

I have NEVER been so disappointed in my life.

Oysters Rockefeller - admittedly good oysters but with a splodge of cold béchamel and a raw spinach leaf on top, a steak that was so tough it took me an hour to eat, cutting off tiny pieces at a time - served with a piece of marrowbone which slid around the plate unappetisingly, along with side dishes at £4 each which consisted of 6 chips and a thimbleful of cooked lettuce and peas.

I still don't know why we didn't say anything but paid up and left. It was the combination of almost inedible food and the HUUUUUUGE bill which I found so disappointing. The Witchery seems to be all style over substance - our local pub does better steaks.