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

Congee.
Omfg

And haggis on the Isle of Skye

Definitely the pasta bake with vegan cheese I made the other night (DP has some stomach issues, so trial and error to see which food triggers it and trying alternatives).

The pasta underneath was nice but top layer with the cheese definitely tasted like Rachel’s trifle🤢

I also need to know how you make a stir fry in the oven. This makes no sense.

I’ve had many a bad meal. Among the most memorable:

• Jellied beef consommé - aka beef jello. Just why
• seal meat. Extremely strong tasting and not in a good way
• calamari stuffed with ricotta, tasted and looked like puke 🤢

Congee and haggis I’m fine with. Vegan cheese, some of them (the ones made with nuts) are delicious, but some are utterly vile and shouldn’t be sold as food.

The first time I went to Pil's they said would you like a cooked breakfast - Brilliant I said.Bacon was almost raw with all the fat on it - white soggy bread & eggs with the white bits still quivering on the top. I should not say this but luckily they had a labrador who would eat anything. ( now a dog owner I would not do this ) but he scoffed the lot under the table & I made myself some toast later.

@Givemestrengthorgin

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.

Shouldn't laugh but I am!!

We stupidly followed slimming world a few years ago and with 2 high needs children strapped to my boobs I managed to follow a nice looking courgette soup recipe that involved grating lots of courgettes, it looked and tasted like a big green cow pat so we ended up getting a Chinese takeout. Mistake number 2 I copied a yummy looking version of there Mac and cheese with spring greens in it was awful and a good waste of Philadelphia that could have went on bagels, I’ve finally realised not everything in a magazine tastes good and some meals are supposed to be high in calories

Oh I forgot raw eggs benadict? I m sorry if I’ve mis-spelt I’m dislexic, it was from a well known chain restaurant, the cheeky sods only gave me a partial refund because the muffin was cooked ok just completely raw and I mean raw not lovely poached egg with a runny yolk and raw bacon

@Givemestrengthorgin That has made me laugh - sounds so lovely until the "forgotten to cook the potatoes" - Oh I so hope you will do it again (cooking the baby potatoes ) because it otherwise sounds delicious and at @userxx it made me laugh also .

No- give it a go once more @Givemestrengthorgin - it does sound really delicious if you can just cook the potatoes -

The goat that was slaughtered in honour of our visit and turned into a curry by a FijianIndian family we were staying within Suva in the 90's..as much as I pushed it around my plate in wouldnt disappear. I'd been vegetarian since aged 10 though it wouldve been terribly bad form to turn down the feast so I feigned travel-sickness and DP ate it his and mine.
Fortunately when we lived in India although we had a few shockers it was super easy and a real treat being veggie.
Accidently ended up in a snake restaurant one night absolutely hammered in HongKong-lucky an expat was there and steered me right-couldve topped goat for sure.

Once in a small senegalese town I ordered a ‘vegetable pie and fried potatoes’. No menu and I am vegetarian so tbh I was happy there was something I could eat.
Stupidly I was anticipating something like a pasty stuffed with interesting veg/spices. I was hungry.
The plate came and was a lump of plain mashed potato (Grayish) shaped into a ball. On the side a very few very greasy lumps of fried potato. I was too hungry to cry. My dp and I had just had an argument about something stupid and as a result I didn’t get any sympathy which made it all the more awful I seem to remember.
Mash and chips

DH says the Cawl I made, but it was lovely he just didn't expect it to be a thin broth, which it is supposed to be. I love Cawl.

A friend of mine recently made duck breasts in a plum sauce. There was so much vinegar in the sauce that I started to choke and could not breathe when I tasted it. It was the most frightening sensation. I have choked on meat before but this was a lot worse. Many many glasses of water later I was still gagging.

When I was 10 I went to a new friend’s house for tea, they had more money than us and a much bigger house, and things like microwave, freezer. I say this because when you are little you assume more money will bring nicer things, but we were served up burgers which were still frozen in the middle. I couldn’t say anything, too shy and overwhelmed, I transferred the burger into my hanky which I had up my sleeve and flushed it down the toilet.

I went to a went to a friends house once and her mum had made spag bol. But there was no tomato, basil, garlic etc.
It was literally mince and onions on spaghetti. Vile.

My MIL cooking is grim too. She also sugars her carrots when cooking ( not a touch of sugar. Lots they taste like a dessert)
I've never known anyone sugar carrots other than her.

My mums chicken casserole or burnt to a crisp roast beef 🤮

A blue cheese risotto. Looked and tasted like vomit. I can still taste it years later 🤢

The one that sticks in my mind was about 15 years back
We got on well with the young childless couple who lived two doors down from my and DPs first flat together. We used to pop up the pub with them, have them over for a cuppa. The heady pre-kids days of yore.
Anyway, we all found ourselves with no plans for Christmas, and so they said, come to us.
Lots of promises of how the male was an excellent chef, all the trimmings, just bring wine.
Was so looking forward to it
Oh god it was awful.
The gravy was so over salted. The turkey was dry enough to sand a floor down, the veg was undercooked and the roasties were obviously frozen ones. They served it with corn on the cob as well, never have I ever before or since seen someone serve corn on the cob with a Christmas dinner.
We ate barely any, blamed a hangover and went home. DP actually cooked our own one the next day.
Or the first time DP and I had a night off with I had stopped breastfeeding DD at a year old. His friend wanted us to meet his new girlfriend. Apparently she would cook us a curry. She's a great cook apparently.
I should have known from the last person who promised this. She clearly wasn't happy to meet us at all, she was so sulky. She then opened- it was a kitchenette in the living room so we could see her cooking- a Tesco value tin of chipshop curry sauce, plonked in a bowl, with value chicken breast plain chunks from the sandwich aisle. She put that in the microwave, then whilst the microwave rice cooked she added raw red onion on the top. It was horrific. She just plonked it down, said she had a headache and went to bed.
I don't know what was worse, the curry or the atmosphere. We left as soon as was polite and went and got fish and chips on the way home. They split up about a month later.

It might be roast guinea pig which I had in Peru on my Gap Ya. I was veggie most of my childhood and had just started eating meat. I also had beloved childhood pets who were of the same species, so think it was that, rather than the actual taste.

I went vegan shortly afterwards and actually, vegan meat from the early noughties comes a close second in terms of not tasting very good! I am no longer vegan or even veggie FWIW.

Chicken soup at my first real boyfriend’s house, cooked by his mother who didn’t really like me. It was like grey water with a film of grease on top and when I put my spoon in, some thing bobbed to the surface like a Kraken emerging from the depths, resembling a blobfish covered in innertubes...

Miss you Joyce! 😂

"Mermaid surprise", it was a vile creation my mother used to serve us as children. It consisted of a tin of tuna mixed with a tin of condensed mushroom soup with grated cheese on top, microwaved in the bowl to make an unevenly heated, oily mess.

Basically imagine if someone who had never eaten fish pie had the concept explained to them, then tried to replicate it without any of the correct ingredients or cooking skill.

@ForeverBubblegum 🤢 that just turned my stomach.

NaughtipussMaximus

Chicken soup at my first real boyfriend’s house, cooked by his mother who didn’t really like me.

Oh! This reminds me of the first time I stayed at a boyfriend's house.

Tbf, his mother was a good cook but had specifically asked if there was anything I didn't like.

Well, it's egg white. I'm not allergic to it, I eat it mixed into anything like cakes, I'll eat scrambled eggs and omelettes etc; if given a fried/poached/boiled egg, I'll extract the yolk and leave the white. I know it's pretty innocuous stuff but the texture, particularly, makes me feel sick.

For that first dinner she made kedgeree with the hard boiled egg chopped really fine and mixed well in. There was no way I could puck out all the bits of egg white.

I got it down (taking it like pills with a large slug of wine or water each time) but it was horrible.

My FIL cooked one Boxing Day. It took forever. Finally we were presented with a plate of thin pork loin chops, which had been cooked on a George Foreman grill for so long you couldn’t get a fork into them. They were as dry and solid as a roof tile.

Served with fried carrots and sprouts. Simultaneously raw and blackened. Awful.

Spag bol pot noodle🤮🤮