The worst meal I ever had was...

The first meeting with my in-laws before I was married: They cooked something I lovingly refer to as "tidepool soup." It had tentacles, squooshy gray things, heads with eyeballs...all manner of things from the sea. I think they were either trying to scare me away or impress me with their mad gourmet skills. I ate a lot of bread that night and picked through the mess and ate the things I thought were probably just shrimp.

They certainly made an impression on me that night. Who the h#ll serves up scary *kitten* like that the very first time they meet someone? Crazy, sadistic people, that's who. :devil:

ETA: His mother had asked him what kinds I foods I liked a couple of weeks in advance of the dinner. He thought she was being thoughtful to ask my preferences. He told her I liked pretty much anything BUT seafood. So she makes "tidepool soup." She's diabolical, I tell you!

The cook at one of our local resturants talked me into trying his new creation. Chicken fried steak with a Jalapeno gravy. I could taste it for 2 days.:sick:

Plain soy naturade protein powder in a cup of water after a workout. I didn't realize it was unflavored. It tasted like raw flour. In fact I'm pretty sure it could substitute as flour. Almost choked up that one! Didn't have any other options as I was in my car and not about to blow it on fast food.

Liver with cream sauce. Looked ike roadkill.

many many many many years ago my husband went hunting and came home w/a pheasant...I was barely in my 20's and didn't have a clue...thought it looked like chicken so I shake n baked it.....not the best choice, it was like eating toothpicks. we ordered pizza that nite...and he never went hunting again (turns out he only wounded the animal and couldn't bring himself to kill it, someone else in the group had to do that...)

Omg this brought tears to my eyes...shake n bake...:laugh:

my moms cauliflower with mayo and mustard topped with cheese and baked. EWWWWWW

"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.

We used TVP in chili all the time (until we became concerned with GMOs and quit using TVP). The thing is, it's tasteless, so if you add it to perfect veggie chili, you need to add more spices and herbs to make it work.

I now use buckwheat in chili sometimes. I have this awesome buckwheat chili recipe...

But since this is a thread about the worst meal we've ever had, and since I'm writing here, maybe I should think what that was... hmmmmm... Nothing comes to mind. Probably squash and brussel sprouts when I was a kid, except I like squash now and will eat brussel sprouts if they are fixed the right way (roasted all the way!).

ETA: When I think of it, I'll post it.

deep fried cockroaches and water beetles...apparently its common snack fare in thailand, and being a foolish tourist I decided to be adventurous.

I'll never get over the feeling of little insect legs on my tongue. Gag.

This one might be a win for the worst. GAG :sick:

The one where I found an animal claw in my burrito, which happened twice. Once in a frozen one, the other at Chipotle.

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....

Some of these stories are making me thankful for that raw lasagna I thought was so awful...

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!

This was my brother. He would sit at the table all night rather than eat whatever it was. I would choke it down and go to bed. LOL

Iguana food swimming in raspberry vinaigrette with tomatoes and radishes.
I don't know what the Iguana food was, some sort of green or lettuce that must have been half rotten...so slimy.
"Desiree I made this salad especially for you. ESPECIALLY FOR YOU, " said my cousin's grandpa, setting the bowl down in front of me.

My sister's attempt to make lamb chops...I felt like I was eating human flesh :sick:

I have a local kebab shop called king kebab house. I tried their 1 pounder quadruple tower burger with a huge portion of cheesy fries. The joke was that my friend and I used to always complain that big meals practically knocked us out, but other people always seemed fine eating their meals. That shows how little I really knew or cared for nutrition at the time.

My sister's attempt to make lamb chops...I felt like I was eating human flesh :sick:

lmao!!! Gross!

I lived in a group home for about a year when I was a teenager. Institution food is NOT pleasant - every meal was dreadful.