Worst restaurant experience?

Went to subway for an oven roasted chicken sub. I ate about half of it.. then I looked down to take my next bite and there was a dead fly in my sub!!!! If I had bitten on even a ml more I would have been eating fly! It was so horrible and I was so grossed out I cried! Havent been able to eat a sub since!

Live caterpillar uncovered while eating a salad.

If nothing else, I figure it meant the salad fixings were fresh.

Edited to add that it's probably best that most people don't have a clue what goes on some of restaurant kitchens.

Subway, when they lean over your sandwich to get ingredients from bins and their gross, disgusting aprons drag across your sub. I wonder if they wear their aprons in the bathroom. I don't eat subway because of this and their meat is that pressed and formed conglomeration.

Bob Evans, in another state. Waitress was named Carol, I'll never forget her. Her teeth were rotten, she had a big wad of snuff in her mouth, and she sprayed spit whenever she talked, all I could think of was the disgusting tooth rot and tobacco she was spitting all over my food when she was passing our food out and asking who had what. She also had black dirt crusted under her fingernails. I didn't eat my food.

When tornadoes went through Alabama and Georgia 2-3 years ago in the spring. I was driving to Florida with my girls and we were in Georgia. We had been looking forward to Bojangles. We stopped at Bojangles near Ringold Georgia, and were stuck in that restaurant as tornadoes went by. It was a terrible experience and I looked around at the interesting array of patrons and seriously thought my girls and I were going to die with these people. The tornadoes actually did tear down a restaurant and part of a hotel not far from where we were, there was a loss of lives as well.

Two experiences for me -

One was at a chain pub. A woman fell down the stairs very drunk. I had to step over her to get past. My friend went to get the manager & they preceded to bodily drag her back to her table. I ordered a steak (very well done) it turned up raw. Fortunately the blood was some what mopped up by my salad. Cut the steak open to reveal a massive web of fat through it.

2nd was on holiday. This guy with 4 teeth who was drinking beer at 8am went to wake his wife up to cook our breakfasts. She came down in her dressing gown & nightie to cook our food. The breakfast looked disgusting & swimming in oil/fats. We though we could at least eat the toast & jam, but we then noticed their dog tied up near us covered in ****e :sick:

Maybe it's just a pet peeve, but I hate it when someone is mopping the floor when I am trying to eat, and then they leave their dirty gray bucket with greasy gray water and giant mop head near my table. I just lose my appetite.

I found 2 big blow-flies in my overcooked beans...
Another time a slug crawled out my salad :noway: .

Personally my boyfriend is a bit of a foodie so we've tried the fancy and the filthy; Have had everything from raw meat, getting COMPLETELY the wrong meal, flies in drinks.. and HORRIBLE service! I'm pretty forgiving and understand 'bad days' working in the industry myself, you get some nasty customers, but there is no excuse to be out and out rude to customers right off the bat!

Perhaps we are a little more up on health and safety in the UK, because I've never really had any issues. I once had a caterpillar in my salad in a pub, but the salad was clean so I assume the caterpillar was too big to get washed through the sieve.

The worst experiences I've had with food have been outside of the UK. I went on a cruise this year (American cruise line company) and despite the ship giving everyone hand sanitiser at every door to cafes/restaurants I saw many disgusting people purposefully try and go around them and sneak past when they were serving other people, or wipe the sanitiser on their clothing/let it slide to the floor rather than actually using it.

I then saw lots of people using their hands at the buffet. This was all while there was a warning out on noro virus.

A few weeks ago I was in holland in a nice hotel, being on a diet I decided to try the vegetarian option, a walnut & avocado salad followed by a roasted veggie pie which sounded very nice.

The menu was in English so the waiter had no excuse to mix my order up, he served me first with a fish salad...I'd have been really annoyed if I had actually been a vegetarian. He noticed and took it back, next I got my salad with Avacado that we actually saw the chef slice, but was rock hard and inedible, how a chef could be so incompetent I don't know, the waiter didn't seem bothered when I told him.

The main course was similarly bad,soggy pastry on top of some bland watery courgette and peppers. I guess it serves me right for thinking a Hotel could serve a decent veggie meal!

Not gross, but I remember waiting 1.5 hour for our dessert to arrive in a pizzeria in Oxford when I was 8!

And I met a family friend who worked in the health department once. He inspected kitchens (in France). And told us stories... It was disgusting and fascinating.

We were in a Mexico at a border town, at the time my husband had been living in central Mexico for months and really wanted Italian food. We found an Italian buffet the first bad sign was it was empty so that shouldve told us something. My husband and his grandmother served themselves first then i went to get my food. I was at the time also trying to eat healthy so after i got some pasta i piled up on fruit. I saw what i thought was a small roach but then figured it was my imagination. I looked again and yes it was a roach, as a matter of fact there were several roaches all over the fruit. Then they proceded to make their way over to the pasta and , pizza etc . I walk over to the table and my husband and his grandmother have already eaten a plate of food. He sees my look and right away asks what was wrong . So i tell him , there were roaches all over the watermelon. He tells me (im sure trying to make himself feel better for eating roach infested food) oh im sure they were the seeds, you know watermelon has seeds brenda.... When he saw i was serious he got up went and looked and saw roaches too... we got up and left. couldnt even complain to anyone since after we paid the only person working the place was no where to be seen!