The worst meal I ever had was...

Two meals are stuck in my brain.

My Mum's curried sausages. Cheap nasty pork sausages, boiled so the fat comes out and the casing melts and creates a slimy sticky goo that has the consistency of snot (sorry), which is then flavoured with horrible chemical tasting 'Indian curry' powder that is not only a bright yellow/green shade (more snot similarity) but also adds a gritty texture. Truly revolting. Ate it a lot in my childhood - had one of those parents who made you stay at the table until you had eaten all your dinner so it was either a huge glass of water and choke it down, or a very late night . Believe me, eating cold curried sausages until midnight is no fun....

Oher one was in Turkey at a group lunch at the end of a bus tour during which the food at been routinely pretty bad. This was the pinnacle of the trip. . A huge pale grey/white lump of oily, boiled to death chicken, , skin still on plus a few feather stumps sticking out, that looked like a peice of human flesh. Accompanied by greasy boiled potates drowned in what tasted like engine oil and a pile of hard little not properly cooked frozen peas. I threw a big strop, as did quite a few others, and went over the road to a shop to buy crisps, chocolate bars and cakes instead. The joys of travelling.

I once had this weird Dutch salted candy thing. It tasted like watching Two and a Half Men feels

LOL! Dropies is what they're called. Heavily salted liquorice. You have to be Dutch to like them. I'm half Dutch and never really took to them myself. Personally, I think the main ingredients are tire rubber and road salt.

The worst meal I didn't have was a boyfriend's version of mac cheese.

Buy quick cook macaroni. The three minute kind. Then boil an entire packet it for twenty minutes until it resembles a pan of melted baby jellyfish. Add tomato soup. Then, stir in a pound and a half of the nastiest cheddar imitation I've ever encountered, the sort of geese that slides out of the packet on a slick of its own grease.

Slop this radioactively coloured filth onto the largest plate you can find. Until it is overflowing.

Then grate more cheese on the top. Because, you know, there's only a little bit inside.


Then wait five minutes for it to 'cool down so you can eat it quicker', at which point it is getting cold and the cheese is starting to congeal. Just like it's going to do around your heart.

Now you call your significant other for this wonderful, romantic meal.

And get upset when she tries one forkful and nearly barfs over the floor (as you've not bothered laying the table, this is to be shovelled down whilst sitting on the floor watching television.)



Ugh.


And to make matters worse, he put my plate in the fridge and reheated it later.


I have idiot exes.

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

Please tell me you never let him in the kitchen again?

Conch with a side of macaroni and cheese from a box. I was on a tiny island and had no other options than to eat what was put in front of me.

Conch with a side of macaroni and cheese from a box. I was on a tiny island and had no other options than to eat what was put in front of me.

Cooked right, conch is absolutely delicious (assuming that this wasn't cooked right--you may just not have a taste for it.) But I'm from Florida, so maybe it's my nostalgia talking, haha.

Fish tacos....(I made terrible fish tacos)
I also had a fish fajita platter at a diner, it tasted funny took 3 bites got food posioning for 4 days from 3 bites of food. The place closed down 2 weeks later.

Yeah...ordering fish at a diner = not a good idea. Sorry to read about your food poisoning, ugh!

Two meals are stuck in my brain.

My Mum's curried sausages. Cheap nasty pork sausages, boiled so the fat comes out and the casing melts and creates a slimy sticky goo that has the consistency of snot (sorry), which is then flavoured with horrible chemical tasting 'Indian curry' powder that is not only a bright yellow/green shade (more snot similarity) but also adds a gritty texture. Truly revolting. Ate it a lot in my childhood - had one of those parents who made you stay at the table until you had eaten all your dinner so it was either a huge glass of water and choke it down, or a very late night . Believe me, eating cold curried sausages until midnight is no fun....

Oher one was in Turkey at a group lunch at the end of a bus tour during which the food at been routinely pretty bad. This was the pinnacle of the trip. . A huge pale grey/white lump of oily, boiled to death chicken, , skin still on plus a few feather stumps sticking out, that looked like a peice of human flesh. Accompanied by greasy boiled potates drowned in what tasted like engine oil and a pile of hard little not properly cooked frozen peas. I threw a big strop, as did quite a few others, and went over the road to a shop to buy crisps, chocolate bars and cakes instead. The joys of travelling.

Man do I remember my late nights spent at the kitchen table... Told my aunt once that I was NOT going to eat brussel sprouts because they were nasty. My punishment? Sitting at the kitchen table for hours trying to get them down. I'd never tried them but I did that night and they were nasty. Even worse when you tried to wash them down with super sweet tea. Ick!

We went to France for the day and got lost most of the time, drove around endlessly. Didn't eat all day.

Got on the ferry on the way home and went to the cafe on there, the food was disgusting, I don't even remember what it was supposed to be. It looked like vomit, I tried it but I couldn't eat it.

*shuddering* at the memory.

Wow. Some of these are agonizingly horrifying.

The worst meal I've ever had was actually in Cambodia, in a floating restaurant in the middle of Tonle Sap Lake. The menu wasn't very detailed (and only in Khmer, so I didn't understand most of it) but I ordered something that from what I could tell was called "Chicken and Vegetable dish". It was... possibly chicken? But I don't know of any chicken that has parts that look like what I was served. One ...object was, from all appearances, part of the esophagus. Not exactly appealing.