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Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
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Originally Posted by eddie007
(Post 10206180)
Aha... You could be wrong there mate.... Most public hospitals you fill in the menu for what you want TOMORROW... Hence, whoever was in that bed yesterday ordered the Big gloopy pile of yellowy gunk.... You just inherit their choice....
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Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
I was in London, at an extremely expensive Japanese restaurant, and was enjoying the meal, until the 3rd course, which was what looked like a flower, but was in fact pickled octopus. I ate it, but extremely quickly had to dash for the toilet, and spent the next half hour throwing up. No one missed me until the 6th course (of 9) and then OH came to find me in a small heap on the floor, clutching the toilet like it was my best friend.
The journey home by tube was horrendous- I could barely walk, was sweating like mad and I kept retching into a bag. The other couple we were out with had a tremendous row after we left and stormed out- one missed his train and ended up in Hove rather than Brighton!! I could taste the octopus for days afterwards, and had terrible cramps and diarrhoea too. |
Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Originally Posted by carolinephillips
(Post 10206236)
I was in London, at an extremely expensive Japanese restaurant, and was enjoying the meal, until the 3rd course, which was what looked like a flower, but was in fact pickled octopus. I ate it, but extremely quickly had to dash for the toilet, and spent the next half hour throwing up. No one missed me until the 6th course (of 9) and then OH came to find me in a small heap on the floor, clutching the toilet like it was my best friend.
The journey home by tube was horrendous- I could barely walk, was sweating like mad and I kept retching into a bag. The other couple we were out with had a tremendous row after we left and stormed out- one missed his train and ended up in Hove rather than Brighton!! I could taste the octopus for days afterwards, and had terrible cramps and diarrhoea too. |
Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Mmmmm there have been a few but I think two of the worst have to be in Florida. One because it was a frozen meal that they defrosted and served it with warm white wine and the other because it was soooooo large it turned my stomach.
Had some shocking meals at people's houses but I can forgive that as I am a guest and not everyone can cook - it is about the company!! |
Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Tiddler had major jaw surgery, few days in ICU on drips, first day on a general ward, jaws banded together, face swollen, possibly 1mm gap between teeth and they served her a plate that held one ice cream scoop of solid mash, one of solid squash and one of something indeterminate. Good job I'd taken in yogurts although even they were a struggle.
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Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Originally Posted by carolinephillips
(Post 10206236)
I was in London, at an extremely expensive Japanese restaurant, and was enjoying the meal, until the 3rd course, which was what looked like a flower, but was in fact pickled octopus. I ate it, but extremely quickly had to dash for the toilet, and spent the next half hour throwing up. No one missed me until the 6th course (of 9) and then OH came to find me in a small heap on the floor, clutching the toilet like it was my best friend.
The journey home by tube was horrendous- I could barely walk, was sweating like mad and I kept retching into a bag. The other couple we were out with had a tremendous row after we left and stormed out- one missed his train and ended up in Hove rather than Brighton!! I could taste the octopus for days afterwards, and had terrible cramps and diarrhoea too. She ate one to be polite. |
Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Originally Posted by Japonica
(Post 10206502)
Maybe you needed the livelier version. My friend from uni lived in Korea for a few years and said dinner at her landlord's house one night included octopus legs, freshly removed from their owner, and still flipping around on the plate.
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Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Originally Posted by bcworld
(Post 10206572)
I saw a video on YouTube where what looked like a raw octopus was in a dish and then they poured soy sauce on it and it started waving its legs around...looked horrendous, but according to some of the comments its the sodium which causes the tissues to contract or summit...it's not actually signs of life. :confused:
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Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Originally Posted by bcworld
(Post 10206572)
I saw a video on YouTube where what looked like a raw octopus was in a dish and then they poured soy sauce on it and it started waving its legs around...looked horrendous, but according to some of the comments its the sodium which causes the tissues to contract or summit...it's not actually signs of life. :confused:
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Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
I don't know about a meal but we went to a cafe in Southport (UK) where we had the worst cup of tea and instant coffee ever! Two sips and we were out of there!!!
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Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
I am feeling decidedly queasy at the tales of wriggling octopus legs.....'scuse me a minute.......:sick:
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Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Originally Posted by Zen10
(Post 10205915)
Inspired by the thread about which state has the best food, I got thinking about the worst meal I've ever had (not home cooked...).
The culprit was a "chicken pie" in a pub in North Wales. We had waited ages and ages for the meal and when it arrived it was one of those "pies" I hate - i.e. slop with a piece of puff pastry floating about on the top of it. The chicken - Lord I hope it was chicken - was chewy and gristly and awful, and the whole thing was lukewarm. It was so vile that 11 years later I can still see it on the plate if I close my eyes. Its vileness was accentuated by the lasagna I ordered the following night from the pub over the road which was the nicest I've ever had. So, what was the most disgusting meal that has been delivered to your table? |
Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
This is a close call between a restaurant in Llanberis in NW Wales and aGreek restaurant in Paris.
The meal we had in Wales was a shocker. We were really hungry and there weren't many options / places open. I think we had a stew type thing and my god!!!!! This meal had SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much salt in it! It actually made you catch your breath and and burn your throat! I can only imagine that there was an accident with a salt pot on a shelf above the cooking pot and the chef didn't taste his food! The pudding was supposed to be ice cream, but was just cold cream with hard lumps of ice flakes in it! No flavour. In Paris we found a nice looking Greek restaurant that had a very eccentric waiter! He wrote your order on the paper table cover with a pen. We ordered moussaka but the egg plant was so bitter it was very hard to eat! |
Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
South of France, 2001.
A tepid meal. Complete muck. |
Re: The worst meal you've ever had.
Ordered a baked jacket spud in Maroochydore Plaza.
Some hideous price like $8 for a potato with cheese. Half ! a largish potato on the plate and after one bite discover its rotten, black and smelly. Took it back and the asswit owner accused me of eating it then returning it!!! Refused to refund money. I took the half spud, placed it on his till and gave it one mighty thump leaving more than $8 of mess:lol:. |
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