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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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cupcakesinthesnow · 26/12/2009 16:05

I think she had added the baked beans just before bringing the lettuce and carrot out as she said the plates looked bare but obviulsy couldnt work out what she had missed

hotpotmama · 26/12/2009 16:13

plain plate of spaghetti when I was about 7 and went to a friend's house for tea. No sauce just the spaghetti pasta. I wasn't allowed to leave the table til I'd finished it either.

Can't remember if I cried but think that is very cruel to do to someone else's child!!

cornysxmasmuffmusic · 26/12/2009 16:16

MIL served a bowl of raspberries and condensed milk with loads of little white wormy things crawling around on the raspberries. They sat and ate them and MIL tried to make me feel like a freak as I couldn't eat them.

badietbuddy · 26/12/2009 16:18

Shame to say it was probably the Christmas dinner I was served yesterday. We were at a friends family home and the veg were boiled for about 3 hours while the turkey was in It didn't so much melt as disintegrate in the mouth, and the gravy was really better described as beige coloured water. I have never been so grateful to be sat next to ds who will anything, and palmed pretty much the lot off onto him.
Aside from that, I once had a boyfriend who would reguarly run out of ingredients and think nothing of serving up curry with spaghetti rather than rice.

notquitenormal · 26/12/2009 16:22

Low fat chocolate cheesecake...made with a packet of cadbury's highlights and cottage cheese.

It still had the cottage cheesy lumps in it.

CitizenPrecious · 26/12/2009 16:32

hotpot my dcs think that what they call "bare spaghetti" is a treat

thelunar66 · 26/12/2009 16:37

Years ago at in-laws.. the meat eaters got precooked turkey that was every so slightly mouldy.

We vegetarians got cheap frozen iceland own brand pizza, burnt on the bottom.

JackTheHallsWithBauersOfHolly · 26/12/2009 16:41

When I was living on my own in spain I was invited to a freidns house for a 'family' meal as I was feeling homesick.

They decided to cook English food to make me feel at home.

Boiled sausages with mash, made with water. Pudding was supposed to be trifle made with digestive biscuits, plain jelly (as in gelatine with no flavour...) custard and single cream.

God it was foul but they were so pleased with themselves.

saadia · 26/12/2009 16:46

this thread is really compelling but is making me lose my appetite

Bonsoir · 26/12/2009 16:47

Guinea Pig wrapped in a banana leaf. Somewhere remote in South America.

donnie · 26/12/2009 16:49

a friend of mine was invited round to someone's house for dinner. She explained to them that she is Jewish and also teetotal.

She was cooked sausages in red wine.

DUH.

sherby · 26/12/2009 16:51

IL's in austria, turned up pregnant and starving and was given bread, ham and cheese

for dinner

for breakfast

for lunch

for snack

about 3 slices of each for 10 people to share

theagedparent · 26/12/2009 16:53

I went to meet a boyfriends family one new year and the Christmas turkey was still going. A lovely round of turkey vein sandwiches. Had to eat them as was on best behaviour and trying to impress. Awful it was.

oxocube · 26/12/2009 17:02

CP and hotpot - my dd loves plain spaghetti too!! It drives me mad - I let my carefully prepared sauce simmer or an hour or so and then she wants plain pasta. Even worse is the pasta she makes for herself and her friends: pasta with Heinz ketchup [boak]

Hassled · 26/12/2009 17:07

Probably a 1970s style curry at the ILs. In a creamy sauce with more sultanas than chicken. Both sweet and rancid at the same time. And we had sliced banana in little dishes served with it.

foxytocin · 26/12/2009 17:15

watching store bought burgers go on the barbecue grill still frozen. I told dh I was not going to give myself food poisoning just to be polite to the hosts - and didn't.

BikeRunSnowflake · 26/12/2009 17:16

Mum (not great cook by her own admission) once made Christmas pud. She replaced all the alcohol with fruit juice, which didn't evaporate. She also used suet that had come out of my grandmother's kitchen (she died in 1990) and had the price on in shillings. It tasted of rancid fat, and looked like loose stools.

Very good friend once made my turkey curry and tiramisu. I thought that I had known her long enough not to need to remind her that I am vege and allergic to coffee.

foxytocin · 26/12/2009 17:24

another one with a kid who eats plain pasta with oil.

Lonicera · 26/12/2009 17:26

one of my children likes plain pasta, but not as an entire meal.

OhYouMerryMerryKitten · 26/12/2009 17:39

a hot oil fondue with bits of rabbit to fry up in it. I couldnt do it because
a)I was soft about eating things like rabbit in those days
b)it wouldnt cook properly
c)I was terrified that the hot oil would catch fire anf there would be an inferno that would burn us all to pieces.

BooHooo · 26/12/2009 17:47

A thai green curry so hot it was inedible, with raw red chicken from the scraggy leg bone. The hosts ate it DH and I just pushed it around our plates. The next morning she said they had been sick all night because of how much alcohol she drank.

Nope it was your rancid cooking love!

moondog · 26/12/2009 20:09

'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.'

This is noughties Britain personified,noone has a fucking clue.

The thread is truly terrifying.More please.

MrsMattie · 26/12/2009 20:18

Vile dinner party food consistently served up at friends house. Everything always dripping in vile creamysauces and containing stupid amounts of cheese.

Excuse me for me being a Judas bitchsaying - and she is my friend and I do adore her - bt she is the size of the house and diabetic and for Christ's sake... is it any wonder?... when dinner at hers consists of enormous bowl of broccolli and stilton soup (tastes just like a huge chunk of stilton melted and mixed with double cream ), followed by seafood spaghetti (seafood and spaghetti drowning in gallons of double cream and parmesan), followed by cheesecake + (you guessed it) cream followed by...a cheeseboard with industrial size loaf of crusty white bread.

Vom. It.

cocolepew · 26/12/2009 20:22

As mentioned, peanuts. And for pudding cut up apples. Thankfully I persuded the nutter MIL I wasn't going to bob for them.

thingamajig · 26/12/2009 20:31

I wouldn't have minded being served squirrel had I been told that was what it was. Instead we were each presented with a bowl of undercooked rice with a small ribcage on top. We played "guess the meat" and when I guessed rat she said "nearly"

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