Worst meal youve ever had

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My OH cooked for me tonight, the WORST meal i have ever eaten. It was meamt to be a stirfry with onions mushrooms carrots prawns etc but he burnt it in the oven (blame ps4🙄) and it tasted like burnt chargrilled watery mush lol. So were ordering takeout so i am just curious what is the worst meal you have ever cooked or been served that you ate because you didnt want to hurt someones feelings

In the Canarie Islands we had a desert that crumbled in your mouth. It had the sensation and taste of dust.

My mother’s Sunday roast. Every bloody Sunday she would put a lump of meat (chicken, lamb, beef, made no difference) into a pyrex dish, put piles of chopped up onion and carrots round it and shove it in the oven. The middle was ALWAYS undercooked and she called the watery liquid that came out of meat and veg “gravy”.
It was always served with boiled potatoes and leftovers would be heated up in the microwave and served for dinner on Monday.

I've thrown out a few meals I've made in the slow cooker that tasted vile. Some things are just not meant to be slow cooked.

My mum used to make salmon in cheese sauce when I was a kid. Served with plain boiled rice.

It was disgusting. Little bits of tinned salmon floating in cheese sauce.

My mum is a terrible cook.

Weirdest veggie meals:
I was served was a whole head of broccoli with cheese sauce in Germany
I got a jacket potato with plain yoghurt and salad and an extra side salad and manfully claimed it was ok because I LOVE salad (out with a client) in Denmark - they took me to a meat restaurant which m colleagues loved. Me not so much.
Worst meal was a sweet pastry case filled with cheese gloop at a ski hotel - their error but was truly vile

Not me but my adult DS. He hadn't seen his father for years because he is properly weird and agreed reluctantly to go there for christmas.
His father served up spring rolls and an inedible salad for christmas lunch.

@pastabest What the fuck is that.........

@userxx

I was served it as a starter on holiday in an Italian hotel that mainly catered to German and Russian OAPs.

It's allegedly a pasta dish.

It tasted exactly how it looks.

It was one of many quite strange dishes I ate at on that holiday. They also gave us food poisoning.

Last year during lockdown 1, I took the opportunity to try some new recipes. Hadn't cooked anything from Jamie Oliver before, mostly because I think he's an annoying little tit, however...

Comforting Sausage Bake
www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/comforting-sausage-bake/

It is not comforting, it is minging. Leaden, hugely soggy, tasteless foccacia, like a really bad savoury bread and butter pudding. I dismantled it, rescued the beans, tomatoes and sausages and made a chunky soup. The rest went in the bin.

I used to eat so badly in my twenties, most of my worst meals I actually made, and ATE myself!

Spaghetti, cooked, then just stir in a couple spoons of mayonnaise and a tin of tuna, voila!

A sandwich made up of two slices of white bread with salad cream in between. Nothing else.

Eating a cold tin of baked beans with a spoon. Regularly.

Ugh I won't bore you with more but Christ. So glad I bothered learning to cook eventually.

Roasted Brussels sprout pasta. I was 13 weeks pregnant and particularly nauseous in the evenings. I hate Brussels sprouts and always have done. I have no idea what DH was thinking

Liver Curry, I can still remember the smell.

I have never eaten liver again.

Chicken Caesar salad on a train once (catering was included as it was an overnight train) it was just iceberg lettuce with processed chicken cut into chunks. No croutons, no dressing. Grim.

I had to throw out a massive potato salad once. I had made it up with baby salad potatoes, mayo, spring onion , bacon bits and it looked lovely until we all started tucking in and I realised I had actually forgotten to cook the potatoes.

A vegetarian pizza in Italy. It was just cheese and sliced carrots

A curry rice dish, which was the texture of mashed potatoes with sad, soggy sultanas dispersed throughout being the highpoint. It was a Christmas party held by the chair of a group I was in. He was very thin and I understand why now.

The absolute worst that I've eaten was jugged hare. The one I refused to eat was a bowl of raw ducks' intestines. Like a pp I have also had to get through a whole tongue in France.

Uber posh/funky restaurant in Paris over 20 years ago.

Beef Steak Nebraska. Rare ? It had been cooked by leaving it on the kitchen worktop for 30 mins in a hot kitchen.

The mashed potato was like glue.

We didn't have the confidence or vocabulary to complain. IIRC we paid 'top dollar' for the meal too.

Other than that French food is delicious. Albeit heavy with meat, potato and butter. Yummy.

About 25 years ago, I was doing some consultancy in a nursing home run by an order of nuns. We were offered lunch. I was going to decline but my colleague answered first and accepted. I told them I was vegetarian so, as expected, got the same lunch as my colleague except without the meat.

It consisted of a pile of overcooked, watery, mushy swede, another pile of cabbage you could have sucked up through a straw and some watery mashed potato. All three are vegetables I detest even if properly cooked. My colleague got an overcooked lamb chop with his.

I'm going to sound like a proper princess with this one but... on millennium NY eve we were invited to a friends. I was veggie at the time and friend wasn't a great cook, they'd planned a huge roast with all the trimmings etc for everyone. I offered to make a separate veggie dish more than once, there was lots of 'oh no we wouldn't dream of it, we've planned, it's all going to be amazing...'

Turned up and the 'plan' was two Linda McCartney veggie sausages for me. No problem, I'll have all the veggies and sides - oh no Lonny, we've cooked them all in goose fat cos it's a special occasion. So I ate two sausages on the millennium. And the kicker was, I love cooking and would have been happy to do all the cooking for the whole party...

Male friend cooked a witty tomato veggie and cous cous thing for me.

But the real horror was that half way through I realised it was meant to be a date which I definitely wasn’t comfortable with. I had to say I felt unwell and left.

Had a partner who was just as bad a cook, watery tomato and veggie pasta a specialty. But it tasted way better because there was actually chemistry there.

Salty banana soup followed by chicken with salty bananas, in Sri Lanka.

DP has whatever the taste equivalent of being tone deaf is. Made a curry with condensed milk instead of coconut milk.

@jay55

Ordered pizza in a touristy restaurant, I was given hot dog rolls with ketchup and grated (not even melted) cheese on.

Um... In which country?! That's insane!

Mine might have been the baked dip I made the other day, from a thread on here.
It looked like vomit. DH ate it and said it was fine, (but he will eat anything) though I still had to throw most of it away.