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We went to a place called La Siesta. Please tell me it's not a chain. They claimed they were renovating, but the plastic and curtains looked like they'd been hanging there a looooonnnng time. They didn't have enough chairs so my son sat in a decorative, dusty "throne." We ordered deluxe nachos - it was four chips in a circle with cheese whiz and a dot of salsa. The taco bar was disgusting and the kids had hot dogs and we skedaddled.
I know mole sauce is expected to be a little sweet, but I got an enchilada in El Paso once that pretty much had a Hershey bar melted on top.
I think my worst meal was at a Chinese restaurant in Dothan, Alabama. I ordered take out and they just scooped some stuff from the buffet and packaged it up for me. It was gross.
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There are some Thai restaurants in my neighborhood where I've figured out the one safe thing to get; everything else is just vile. Vile. Like reconstituted garbage.
I had pizza and gnocchi in Rome and Venice that was truly disgusting. Do they see Americans coming and say, "Bring out the shit?"
Tator Tot Hotdish cooked by an old girlfriend who became more (despite her cooking skills) and then went on to break my heart.
It's not me, but my ex-husband's mother once found maggots in her Wendy's hamburger...I occasionally eat school lunches and they still don't make any more sense than they used to. They taste worse, even, than when I was a kid - except at Catholic school - and for all the sturm und drang about improving them, they're not any healthier than they used to be. Last time I had one it was pizza with baked beans and corn.
My mother used to say "pizza is like sex. Even when it's bad, it's good." Well, that isn't strictly true.
Unfortunately, my very 1st Thanksgiving dinner in 1967. It was truly terrible. I tell everyone that husband #1 ate all my mistakes.
I had pizza in Rome that was only mediocre, too, LG.I can answer this question. About, oh, seventeen years ago, when my wife and I had just started dating, I drove with her and a couple friends to a college town in Indiana to see the Indigo Girls. We stopped at a Greek restaurant that didn't have many vegetarian options, so I got what was supposed to be an Asian noodle...thing...but was really pasta glued together and fried with vegetables. Gross. I could taste that for weeks.
Oatmeal or eggs because that was all that there was in the house for a month. Happy to say that will never happen again. We survived.
Cream of wheat which was all I could eat (and keep down) during the first 4 months of my pregnancy. I lost 10 pounds. To this day I cannot even stand the smell of it cooking never mind look and eat it. An unreasonable prejudice,I know but all mine.
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I was in upstate NY in the boonies about 6 years ago with my wife and we went to this "restaurant" we were told was all the rage. I ordered fettuccini alfredo and was served Noodle-Roni (no lie, I had it as a kid enough times to know) with the most watery sauce you can imagine. Turned out this place was so popular because there was no other place to eat for miles around and the customers didn't know the difference. Can't even remember what my wife had but I know she hated it, too. Truly disgusting.
Gatorman wrote: "I was in upstate NY in the boonies about 6 years ago with my wife and we went to this "restaurant" we were told was all the rage. I ordered fettuccini alfredo and was served Noodle-Roni (no lie, I..."I think I would prefer to cook and eat at home. That's why we do not go out to eat much. Most of the time I can make it better and cheaper and I know my hands and kitchen are clean.
You know what's funny? I can't for the life of me think of a worst meal. I've had bad dishes. I've been in lousy restaurants and had lousy takeout. I've sat through some awful-to-me meals at beachside seafood restaurants where I got hit with flying pieces of crab.Still, I think I've never had a meal bad enough to be memorable, only meals bad enough to be forgettable.
Sarah took the thoughts right out of my head. :)
BunWat wrote: "I have had some truly horrorific home cooked meals. At least in a restaurant you can decline to eat it. "Spaghetti" which was ground beef, not browned but stewed/sauteed to a light grey and then..."
OH!! Oh yeah. That made me remember the time I ordered fried chicken in a restaurant in Quincy, IL, and it was literally a chicken carcass... THE WHOOOOLE CARCASS rolled in flour and egg and deep fried... and it was THE most disgusting, tasteless thing I've ever seen or tried. I didn't even eat it. I even tried to pawn it off on my brother, who was a teenager at the time (and teenage boys will eat most anything), and he wouldn't eat it, either. Lesson learned: when ordering from a restaurant in Quincy, IL that boasts "BEST FRIED CHICKEN THIS SIDE OF THE MISSISSIPPI," it's best to stick with the club sandwich or a grilled cheese.
OK, you reminded me of one. With all respect to my wonderful and recently deceased 90 year old cousin Bess (actually my grandmother's cousin) the meal at her house where I was too polite to decline the "chicken chop suey" was absolutely harrowing. It was in some strange transient stage somewhere between solid and soup, and I had already been vegetarian for several years by then.Also, it was paired with slivovitz that I'm fairly sure she said had been bottled by her own grandmother.
there is a restaurant in Las Vegas claiming to be the best southern cooking cafe in town....I ate there or tried to but it was so bad I left most of it on the plate. The only thing they got right was the okra and it was just ok not great.
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"Spaghetti" which was ground beef, not browned but stewed/sauteed to a light..."
Food from mid-Illinois can be deeply, deeply disturbing.
*declares that from now on, this should be called the Diet Help thread* ;)
My worst meal was Tin Fish , the fish itself was undercooked and they charged me for the side salad I had THOUGHT "came with" the dinner since the place is freaking expensive ! Won't be going back there for a long time !
Looks like an interesting place if you have someone else paying for the meal, Natalie.
One night back in around 1979 - after the bars closed - we went to Mexican Fiesta. The joint was open until 4 a.m. on the weekends.
As I dug into the cole slaw that came with my botana, a gargantuan horse fly came crawling up from the bottom of the bowl.
But I did eat the botana. It was fantastic!
I also found a dead fly in my scrambled eggs at Harrah's in Reno, NV.
As I dug into the cole slaw that came with my botana, a gargantuan horse fly came crawling up from the bottom of the bowl.
But I did eat the botana. It was fantastic!
I also found a dead fly in my scrambled eggs at Harrah's in Reno, NV.
Oh, have we moved on to food horrors? I have three:1)I once ripped into a slice of challah from the Red Apple Supermarket on 89th & Broadway to find a roach baked into it.
2)Also, I ripped open a fruit leather only to find that it had been half devoured by a giant white maggot.
3)In college, I went on a date at the Cheesecake Factory, and brought half my piece of cake home with me. I went to my room only to find that my roommate's boyfriend had arrived and I was going to have to spend the night elsewhere. I went to a friend's dorm, dropped my little styrofoam container next to me, and went to sleep on her floor.
I woke up hungry, and reached for my cake. I ate a couple of bites before putting on my glasses...at which point I noticed it was teeming with ants.
Sarah Pi wrote: "Oh, have we moved on to food horrors? I have three:
1)I once ripped into a slice of challah from the Red Apple Supermarket on 89th & Broadway to find a roach baked into it.
2)Also, I ripped open..."
What's a fruit leather?
1)I once ripped into a slice of challah from the Red Apple Supermarket on 89th & Broadway to find a roach baked into it.
2)Also, I ripped open..."
What's a fruit leather?
My sister once found a booger - with a nose hair still in it - in a box of Amy Joy donuts.
No lie. I saw it.
No lie. I saw it.
i was afraid of lettuce when i was four, because i thought they all had cabbage butterflies in them.
Michele wrote: "Cream of wheat which was all I could eat (and keep down) during the first 4 months of my pregnancy. I lost 10 pounds. To this day I cannot even stand the smell of it cooking never mind look and eat..."
I feel your pain. Or at least my wife does. For the first four months she was pregnant with the twins, all she could keep down was warm Pepsi and saltine crackers, losing 15 pounds in the process. She was hooked up to an IV for several weeks and cursed me on a daily basis for getting her into it.
It wasn't my idea. I wanted to stop after one.
I feel your pain. Or at least my wife does. For the first four months she was pregnant with the twins, all she could keep down was warm Pepsi and saltine crackers, losing 15 pounds in the process. She was hooked up to an IV for several weeks and cursed me on a daily basis for getting her into it.
It wasn't my idea. I wanted to stop after one.
Clark wrote: "What's a fruit leather?"Around here it's like a homemade Fruit Roll-Up.
It was a health-food store fruit roll up.
Sarah Pi wrote: "It was a health-food store fruit roll up."With extra protein.
Jammies wrote: "Sarah Pi wrote: "It was a health-food store fruit roll up."With extra protein."
Alas, I didn't see it that way. I think we were on a family roadtrip at the time, and I nearly made my father drive off the road when I screamed.
The one and only time I got Domino's pizza it came with a bonus in it: a metal staple baked into the cheese.
That was my freshman year of college. I knew that pizza was a staple of the college diet, but that took it a little too far. (Thought I'd beat someone to the punchline.)
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I think one of my worst meals was at CiCi's Pizza, and I had it pretty recently. If you're not familiar with CiCi's Pizza, it's a $4.99 All-You-Can-Eat Pizza/Pasta/Salad buffet. Kids 3 and under eat free, I went to a lot of birthday parties there when I was younger. The one in my town (it closed 3 years ago) smelled like pee.
Well, my friends and I were going out to dinner, and I said, "I'm tired of deciding. you guys pick." So they wanted a pizza buffet, alright, I'm down. We try Pizza Hut, but their buffet was closed, so CiCis was our next ticket. It's like, 9PM, by the way. Now, CiCi's isn't the absolute worst thing in the world, but you have low expectations walking in the door. But it's $4.99 buffet, we're broke, we're college students. Hey, whatever.
So we get there, first the MANAGER is yaking away on a personal call, someone else rings us up. When I walked in the door, I noticed that the customers have on their jackets 'cause it's FREEZING. So we sit.
I've never seen kids look so sad to be eating pizza.
Let's start with the salad. There were two types: lettuce and tomatoes drowned in olive oil or lettuce and tomatoes drowned in ranch dressing. The pasta was overcooked noodles and straight-from-the-can sauce. The breadsticks were super soft, and they were the kind where if you don't eat them straight from the oven, they get brick-hard in two minutes.
The pizza - ah. The spinach pizza was okay, the sauces was weird. There was one pizza that was essentially barbeque sauce on bread. Hot sauce and chicken on bread. One of my friends had this pizza that was like, paper thin and burnt. When the pepperoni came out, it was gone in 5 seconds 'cause that's the only thing that was kinda okay.
oh, and the dessert. My other friend was kinda excited about Cici's 'cause the last one she went to was pretty good, she said, but I've never known CiCi's to be good. She was super duper excited about the cinnamon rolls, and she almost knocked down two kids to be first in line. I don't understand how rolls can be burnt on the bottom, but they're undercooked everywhere else. It was just warm dough with icing on top.
We're not even going to talk about my relationship with the toilet that night.