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what is the worst meal you have ever been served in a home

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FolornHope · 26/12/2009 12:50

i mean not a restaurant
and of course you ate it politely and never once said you your h " shit remember the mouldy trifle sponge with evaporatedcream on it" as you are NicE people.

but if you ever had a dark thought ( altho i know its NOT popular on mumsnet atm) let rip here

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TinselianAstra · 26/12/2009 12:55

Not disgusting, but I have a (male) friend who has no idea of portion sizes. And not in the way you might expect.

A few of us visited him and spent the day trekking around museums etc, and he made a very tasty chicken dish with 2 chicken breasts between 5 of us, 3 small new potatoes each, and a sprig of purple sprouting broccoli. No, it wasn't in any way bulked up with sauce. No, he is by no means poor. Yes, we bought crisps at the train station on the way home.

TheArmadillo · 26/12/2009 12:58

my sister serving mashed potato made with milk I'm suprised was still liquid.

She kicked off when I didn't eat it.

stitch · 26/12/2009 12:58

at dh's brothers wife's parents house. major meal, with about 10 different curries, none of them containing any salt, and barely any chilli, but lots of other spices, in total, was very very bland boring and difficult to finish meal.

moondog · 26/12/2009 12:59

Dinner at an American woman's house in Russia.

Chicken legs which were raw in the middle.Blood seeped out into packet mashed potato. Accompanied by tinned runner beans.
Vile synthetic cream blue and yellow Russian cake like polystyrene for pudding.
Accompanied by oxidised Georgian sweet wine.

I didn't, nay, couldn't eay any of it which is not like me at all.

Hideous.

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FolornHope · 26/12/2009 13:06

sister hwo is a fab baker mistook baking poweder and bicarb

EW
nasty cake

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tethersjinglebellend · 26/12/2009 13:10

Chow mein once cooked by my flatmate. He didn't have enough noodles, so bulked it out with...

...Cornflakes.

The horror cannot adequately be described in words.

dollishillbilly · 26/12/2009 13:12

The food at our staff canteen takes some beating. Sunday lunch a couple of weeks ago consisted of tough, dried-out chicken breast, overcooked broccoli and undercooked Bisto gravy.

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FolornHope · 26/12/2009 13:14

gravy is the measure of a cook /rest imo

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TheFoosa · 26/12/2009 13:50

a friend served up delicious roast beef and potatoes, but not a vegetable in sight, not one

sarah293 · 26/12/2009 13:53

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callmeovercautious · 26/12/2009 13:57

BBQ at a friends where her DH had done half chickens on the BBQ - all were raw in the middle

Worst thing was they were feeding it to their 1yo

merrycompo · 26/12/2009 14:00

Dh used to make tuna pasta bake with packet mix and crushed crisps on top [shudder]
this thread remind me of rachel from friends dessert with mince in if 'it tastes like feet'

TinselianAstra · 26/12/2009 14:01

My mum used to make tuna pasta bake like that and it was lovely! (probably wouldn't appreciate it quite the same now)

mrswill · 26/12/2009 14:06

Before I learned to cook, my best dish was Tuna Surprise, the surprise being that my uni mates actually ate it. It was disgusting.

My DP once tried to impress me by cooking pancakes on pancake day, which were more like omelettes with sugar and lemon on. I choked it down.

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FolornHope · 26/12/2009 14:45

i hate tuna really i htink

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badgermonkey · 26/12/2009 14:56

We once had that pasta bake with crisps on top at someone's house, and DH would kind of like me to make it now. I refuse to make anything with crisps on it, though.

We once went to MIL's and she really tried hard to put on a spread - she made curry (supermarket own-brand jarred sauce) with clumpy rice, lasagne (again, jarred sauces) with jacket potatoes and I think there was garlic bread. No vegetables or anything else. I sat there patiently waiting for the salad to come out; no salad. She had made an effort but it was just bland carbs with gloopy, salty sauces on them. The worst thing is when it's food you like (lasagne, yum! Curry, bring it on!) but in such a horrible form you can't help but think of all the nice versions of that meal you have eaten or could have made yourself.

snigger · 26/12/2009 15:09

The most dubious dose of gutrot hospitality we've every been offered was lukewarm 'lasagne' with sausages in it, which I took a small amount of. I excused myself by saying I was leaving room for pudding, praying for Viennetta.

No such luck - basmati rice, sprinkled with brown sugar, soaked in milk, and kept warm in the oven - apparently rice pudding. Even the cat sitting on the counter turned its nose up, but me, well I'd left all that SPACE, hadn't I?

If she hadn't been 603 and really sweet I would have run. It was bloody awful. Having a laundry basket behind your chair didn't help either.

CitizenPrecious · 26/12/2009 15:28

once a friend proudly announced he had made "a chicken with 40 cloves of garlic".

That was it- apart from two loaves of (shop ie weeny) garlic bread. For 6 greedy adults. We got very, very pissed that night

...also when I had just started going out with dp, he made chicken in cream sauce with pasta (which would be pretty anyway, imo)- he used cream that was three fucking weeks out of date

...I still ate it because I really really fancied him

wanttostartafresh · 26/12/2009 15:37

At MIL's. She served some absolutely disgusting combo of indian chicken curry in a really watery gross sauce with slimy overcooked chinese noodles with overcooked vegetables. It was truly foul but i was starving and for that reason alone i ate it and said it was nice. But DD who usually will eat anything tried one mouthful and refused to eat any more and I didn't blame her at all. It's always the kids who will tell you the truth!

peacocks · 26/12/2009 15:42

a whole sheep's brain fried in breadcrumbs, and not in a household where this was normal or traditional fare

twas a "special treat"

reader I ate it

QOFEisinatizz · 26/12/2009 15:44

Has to be Christmas dinner at exMIL's a few years ago.

She did frozen reformed turkey slices for the meat eaters, with frozen roasties and tinned peas. For the veggies (me and DP) she did Linda MacCartney sausages chopped up and cooked in a jar of pasta sauce.

Quattrocento · 26/12/2009 15:44

Brain soup

It's not in the spirit of the thread though, because it had probably been exquisitely cooked and great care taken with it

But still, brain soup

Yuck

Maize · 26/12/2009 15:51

Friend's made beef stroganoff once and served with almost entirely raw rice. Crunchy and lukewarm, we choked it down, was vile.

Maize · 26/12/2009 15:52

Excuse rogue apostrophe in friends

cupcakesinthesnow · 26/12/2009 16:03

A bit sad really, but an elderly relative who insisted upon DH and I staying for supper and absolutely refused any help in the kitchen and asked us to just sit and drink wine while she prepared the meal. Well, we sat down expecting a feast and had to try really hard not to giggle when we were served a salad of lettuce and chopped carrots with baked beans We thanked her and started to eat and it was half way through the 'meal' she suddenly jumped up with a start 'Oh! I forgot the steaks!' (which had not even been cooked, and were still inthe fridge, bless her!)