The worst meal I ever had was...

Mutant13
Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
in Food and Nutrition
A draw between a particularly bad experience at McDonald's with a cold bacon burger with missin bacon and stale fries

And the 'spaghetti' my then boyfriend made me which consisted of 2 minute noodles topped with ketchup and plastic cheese singles.

What's yours?
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  • escloflowneCHANGED
    escloflowneCHANGED Posts: 3,038 Member
    I can't get past the ketchup on pasta....
  • JossFit
    JossFit Posts: 588 Member
    The sweet potato tots from Sonic. They were like greasy pouches of regurgitated sweet potato puree.
  • bookworm_847
    bookworm_847 Posts: 1,903 Member
    Your spaghetti sounds magical. I'm shocked that someone would find that unappealing. :laugh:

    I think my worst meal was a pastaless veggie "lasagna" I got from Kraft's website. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten. I took two bites and had to throw the rest out. I'm not picky at all, but it made me gag a little.
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    I can't get past the ketchup on pasta....

    I think I qualified for welfare just by eating it
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    The sweet potato tots from Sonic. They were like greasy pouches of regurgitated sweet potato puree.

    Imagery!
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    Liver and onions
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    Your spaghetti sounds magical. I'm shocked that someone would find that unappealing. :laugh:

    I think my worst meal was a pastaless veggie "lasagna" I got from Kraft's website. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten. I took two bites and had to throw the rest out. I'm not picky at all, but it made me gag a little.

    What was gross about it? I wanna know!
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    Liver and onions

    Liver is not nice. Brains are actually pretty good though
  • Mom4Liz
    Mom4Liz Posts: 55
    When I was 12 my Mom got our first microwave. It came with a book saying you could cook anything in it. My mom cooked a chicken in it....just no.
  • RllyGudTweetr
    RllyGudTweetr Posts: 2,019 Member
    Ever had scrambled eggs cooked for 10 minutes in a microwave?

    Ever tried to eat rubberized pretend eggs?

    The two experiences are pretty much the same.
  • bcf7683
    bcf7683 Posts: 1,653 Member
    "TVP Chili".... an invention of my own. and worst idea ever.... You could say I wasn't quite as educated as I am now about a year and a half ago when I decided to start watching what I eat and exercising. So I thought it'd be a great idea to make chili with textured soy protein instead of actual ground meat (apparently I hadn't discovered ground turkey/chicken yet?) So I made this awesome tasting chili (I should've just stopped and made it veggie chili).... and I threw in some TVP. Had a bite and thought "wow this is pretty good" but after about 5 more bites I decided that it tasted like I was eating someone's puke.

    I don't know why I ever thought that'd be a good idea.

    I'm glad that I've settled into my high protein, meat-eating ways over the last year.
  • amelia_atlantic
    amelia_atlantic Posts: 926 Member
    The sweet potato tots from Sonic. They were like greasy pouches of regurgitated sweet potato puree.

    You are a lyrical genius! You definitely painted a picture I'm not interested in buyin'. :)
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    "TVP Chili".... an invention of my own. and worst idea ever.... You could say I wasn't quite as educated as I am now about a year and a half ago when I decided to start watching what I eat and exercising. So I thought it'd be a great idea to make chili with textured soy protein instead of actual ground meat (apparently I hadn't discovered ground turkey/chicken yet?) So I made this awesome tasting chili (I should've just stopped and made it veggie chili).... and I threw in some TVP. Had a bite and thought "wow this is pretty good" but after about 5 more bites I decided that it tasted like I was eating someone's puke.

    I don't know why I ever thought that'd be a good idea.

    I'm glad that I've settled into my high protein, meat-eating ways over the last year.

    Ugh, I was a teenage vegetarian. TVP was like a punishment
  • JossFit
    JossFit Posts: 588 Member
    I should also add that I'm in the military so I've been subjected to all manner of DFAC food both overseas and CONUS, MREs and everything in between.

    Powdered 'eggs' heated up in an MRE? No.

    Ever had American 'comfort food' cooked up my contract workers from Kurdistan while in Afghanistan or Iraq? Not awesome.

    Mystery meat of all sizes, shapes and colors... usually coated in some sort of sauce.

    Salmon, crab legs and other seafood frozen and shipped in via convoy from God knows where. I advise you stay away from the lobster on holidays. More people than I can count have suffered Montezuma's revenge after consuming the food on "surf and turf" nights, and if there is one place you don't want to be sick it's in a deployed environment.

    STILL - The sweet potato tots were somehow worse.
  • silvergurl518
    silvergurl518 Posts: 4,123 Member
    I should also add that I'm in the military so I've been subjected to all manner of DFAC food both overseas and CONUS, MREs and everything in between.

    Powdered 'eggs' heated up in an MRE? No.

    Ever had American 'comfort food' cooked up my contract workers from Kurdistan while in Afghanistan or Iraq? Not awesome.

    Mystery meat of all sizes, shapes and colors... usually coated in some sort of sauce.

    Salmon, crab legs and other seafood frozen and shipped in via convoy from God knows where. I advise you stay away from the lobster on holidays. More people than I can count have suffered Montezuma's revenge after consuming the food on "surf and turf" nights, and if there is one place you don't want to be sick it's in a deployed environment.

    STILL - The sweet potato tots were somehow worse.

    hahhaa. oh noes. montezuma's revenge.

    i can't remember my worst meal. i come up with strange combos anyway. i can go from eating a bite of a pickle to a spoonful of yogurt or pudding with no problem.
  • MidwestAngel
    MidwestAngel Posts: 1,897 Member
    I can't get past the ketchup on pasta....

    I think I qualified for welfare just by eating it
    wow...
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    Has to be a starter my mother served up once, made of lime jelly, raw onion, yoghurt and cucumber.
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    Ketchup Chips.

    I haven't even had them yet, but I am pretty sure they are going to be terrible.
  • bad_hair_bear
    bad_hair_bear Posts: 56
    My friend and I once tried to make "chelly" - cheese and jelly (jello). It.. didn't work, to say the least. Still, I suppose that's not a meal.

    Worst meal was a couple of years ago. Had very little in terms food in the cupboards (I had a freezer full of meat and meals, but no microwave and I'd forgotten to take something out to defrost). After searching, I found pasta, cheese and "pek" - tinned pork, similar in concept to spam.

    So - pasta with cheese sauce + processed tinned pork it was! It was... really bad. Really really bad. Gave up after 2 bites and called for pizza instead..
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    Ketchup Chips.

    I haven't even had them yet, but I am pretty sure they are going to be terrible.

    Can't be much worse than the Chicken and Waffles chips. I tried one and spit it out....horrid!
  • Amy106Days
    Amy106Days Posts: 172 Member
    I once found a recipe for a casserole that combined shrimp, angel hair pasta, salsa and lots of fresh veggies and expensive spices. I looked forward to it all week and dropped a bit of $ on the spices. I followed the recipe to the letter and though it looked beautiful the whole thing had a very stomach bile flavor :/. My husband said after his first bite..."I have a pretty good idea how this would taste coming back up" . Ended up having PBJ sandwiches instead.
  • alsunrise
    alsunrise Posts: 386 Member
    When I was 12 my Mom got our first microwave. It came with a book saying you could cook anything in it. My mom cooked a chicken in it....just no.

    LOL. I inherited a ton of cookbooks from my husband's grandmother and there was about 4 of them that was recipes for cooking chickens and roast in the microwave. Just the thought... *gag*
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    My worst meal was probably the time I was out of crackers and making meatloaf. Tried substituting Cool Ranch Doritos and my husband still gives me crap about that one.....15 years later.
  • ShreddedTweet
    ShreddedTweet Posts: 1,326 Member
    The piece of cheese I found when I cleaned behind the cooker.
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    liver and brussel sprouts.

    the only thing that could have made it worse would have been black licorice for dessert.

    mr-yuk.gif
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    The McRib.

    As Sam Kinison once said, McDonald's decided to put *kitten* on bread and call it a sandwich.

    The gastrointestinal distress that followed was not pleasant either.
  • dnish53
    dnish53 Posts: 162 Member
    Miracle noodles. Just couldn't choke them down. They have a very weird texture.
  • dovetail22uk
    dovetail22uk Posts: 339 Member
    liver and brussel sprouts.

    the only thing that could have made it worse would have been black licorice for dessert.

    That actually sounds like a delicious meal to me!

    TVP as a vegetarian then vegan youth definitely was the sign to get back to my carnivorous ways. It's not natural.
  • lilmissymoo90
    lilmissymoo90 Posts: 324 Member
    liver and brussel sprouts.

    the only thing that could have made it worse would have been black licorice for dessert.

    That actually sounds like a delicious meal to me!

    TVP as a vegetarian then vegan youth definitely was the sign to get back to my carnivorous ways. It's not natural.

    is it bad im vegan but have no idea what TVP is? i live in africa thou and i don't eat any substitutes ...
  • Lisa_Rhodes
    Lisa_Rhodes Posts: 263 Member
    I should also add that I'm in the military so I've been subjected to all manner of DFAC food both overseas and CONUS, MREs and everything in between.

    Powdered 'eggs' heated up in an MRE? No.

    Ever had American 'comfort food' cooked up my contract workers from Kurdistan while in Afghanistan or Iraq? Not awesome.

    Mystery meat of all sizes, shapes and colors... usually coated in some sort of sauce.

    Salmon, crab legs and other seafood frozen and shipped in via convoy from God knows where. I advise you stay away from the lobster on holidays. More people than I can count have suffered Montezuma's revenge after consuming the food on "surf and turf" nights, and if there is one place you don't want to be sick it's in a deployed environment.

    STILL - The sweet potato tots were somehow worse.

    When my husband came back from Iraq, he told me the horrors of the food from over there. I know he had a little umm... 'mishap' on a convoy bc the food messed w/ his stomach something terrible. That convoy was a loong trip, too. Felt so bad for him!

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