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over a year ago
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"Beetroot sandwich 
I think it was when I was in my teens and I threw it at my mum  "
I love pickled beetroot in a sandwich but has to have something with it like ham or chicken.
Was offered beetroot on a plate once at my friend's grannies' house. They raved about how she made lovely beetroot and I was on a phase of eating things like that straight from a jar so needless to say I was well pleased and took a massive bite only to find out it wasn't pickled just cooked and in water
The vinegar saves the humble but boring beet, lesson learned |
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"What was the food, where was it and what did you do about it?
Have a great day all.  "
Sauerkraut.
Have had it dished up a few times in Germany and Eastern Europe, I generally just say nothing and leave it now.
First time I literally soar it straight back out and threw the whole plateful of awfulness into the bin |
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Years ago I was in the TA on exercise in 4 ft of snow, Leek Training Area. Not eaten for 24 hrs, we were taken into a barn with upturned boxes on tables and there was noise from the boxes. Instructors lift the boxes and suddenly live chickens everywhere. There for us to catch and cook ourselves. |
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"Beetroot sandwich
I think it was when I was in my teens and I threw it at my mum
I love pickled beetroot in a sandwich but has to have something with it like ham or chicken.
Was offered beetroot on a plate once at my friend's grannies' house. They raved about how she made lovely beetroot and I was on a phase of eating things like that straight from a jar so needless to say I was well pleased and took a massive bite only to find out it wasn't pickled just cooked and in water
The vinegar saves the humble but boring beet, lesson learned"
Beetroot and mayo sandwich. Chefs kiss. |
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over a year ago
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"Went out for Christmas dinner one year with the family. I won't name the place, and the food was vile.
Everything was tasteless and dry."
We had that once as well. The roast potatoes were deep fried and disgusting |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
Friends of mine said I must go to Grindleford Station Café in the Peak District after a Wildcamp for breakfast as I’d love it, so we did.
They only do thick sliced white bread, no sourdough, not even whole grain. They refused to poach my eggs , fried only. Everything is deep fried in pig fat, even the baked beans were lubed up. Coffee was instant and shit, full fat milk only and then the climax , there’s this ice cream container full of white sugar (of course they don’t have brown sugar) and little plastic spoons that you use the drip into a cup for reuse and all lumpy coffee sugar from the last week.
What did I do? I laughed at the joke and made plans for revenge. I detoxed for a week once I got home |
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over a year ago
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"Andouillette sausage
On holiday as a teen, stopped in a tiny french village square for lunch.
The local pup ate very well that day.
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Oh gosh, this too. Also as a teen. |
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I once had the most awful Caesar Salad at Langan's Brasserie, London. Instead of using cos or romaine lettuce they used 'standard' iceberg lettuce which was rancid, insipid, saturated in water and foul with gristly chicken.
If you can't get a salad right...then...  |
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A pasta dish at a restaurant I don't remember where Bilton I think, the pasta was crunchy sauce like water and even worse the garlic bread was a crust of a loaf with garlic butter spread on and wasn't even warmed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I once had the most awful Caesar Salad at Langan's Brasserie, London. Instead of using cos or romaine lettuce they used 'standard' iceberg lettuce which was rancid, insipid, saturated in water and foul with gristly chicken.
If you can't get a salad right...then... "
Ohhhh you've just reminded me of one....
Caesar salad made with regular soft green lettuce wilting under a too generous plastering of garlic MAYO  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Tripe. In milk. Wtf. Most disgusting thing ever. "
My mum used to make tripe and onions in the pressure cooker in milk, the stench of it was enough to put my brother and I off for life. Even my dad wouldn’t eat or cook it & he was the main chef in the house. He used to say to mum “if you want it, you cook it” |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Things my grandma would serve up like tongue
(not disgusting as she was a fantastic cook, just more the generation gap)
Can we have a fav food thread next, I'm genuinely getting queasy  |
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"I once had the most awful Caesar Salad at Langan's Brasserie, London. Instead of using cos or romaine lettuce they used 'standard' iceberg lettuce which was rancid, insipid, saturated in water and foul with gristly chicken.
If you can't get a salad right...then...
Ohhhh you've just reminded me of one....
Caesar salad made with regular soft green lettuce wilting under a too generous plastering of garlic MAYO "
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Precisely. It's only 'Caesar Salad' in name if the constituents are anything but. And garlic mayo??  |
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"Things my grandma would serve up like tongue
(not disgusting as she was a fantastic cook, just more the generation gap)
Can we have a fav food thread next, I'm genuinely getting queasy "
Just started one as requested.  |
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I used to work at a chain italian restaurant when I first became a chef and the cabonara sauce from the central kitchen was some of the worst stuff I've tasted, super salty creamy and slightly sour tasting with dry hard lardons in it and mushy pasta.
I worked there a month before finding a new place to work. |
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"I once had the most awful Caesar Salad at Langan's Brasserie, London. Instead of using cos or romaine lettuce they used 'standard' iceberg lettuce which was rancid, insipid, saturated in water and foul with gristly chicken.
If you can't get a salad right...then...
Ohhhh you've just reminded me of one....
Caesar salad made with regular soft green lettuce wilting under a too generous plastering of garlic MAYO
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Precisely. It's only 'Caesar Salad' in name if the constituents are anything but. And garlic mayo?? "
Even my kebab shop can muster up a salad, the onions are my favourite bit. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I once had the most awful Caesar Salad at Langan's Brasserie, London. Instead of using cos or romaine lettuce they used 'standard' iceberg lettuce which was rancid, insipid, saturated in water and foul with gristly chicken.
If you can't get a salad right...then...
Ohhhh you've just reminded me of one....
Caesar salad made with regular soft green lettuce wilting under a too generous plastering of garlic MAYO
°
Precisely. It's only 'Caesar Salad' in name if the constituents are anything but. And garlic mayo?? "
It was vile |
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By *mma29Couple
over a year ago
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"Went out for Christmas dinner one year with the family. I won't name the place, and the food was vile.
Everything was tasteless and dry.
We had that once as well. The roast potatoes were deep fried and disgusting "
Its shocking how they can charge you decent money for it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hakarl, it's Icelandic fermented shark. When a shark gets washed up dead, they bury it and let it "mature" Smells like hair dye! You get a shot of Brenivin (moonshine) to wash the taste away |
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"What was the food, where was it and what did you do about it?
Have a great day all. "
Fish and chips in Blackpool
Absolutely dire!
Full of bones and swimming in grease.
Chips tasted like they were cooked a week ago and reheated.
Never again!!! |
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I like trying different stuff and even if I don't like it usually glad I tried. I was at a restaurant in Germany once and was served this thing that was meant to be like a speciality pate. It was pure fat, disgusting thing that I spat out and never to be revisited. The other one was dry spaghetti covered in caster sugar. Apparently some sort of desert type of thing. Also revolting to me. |
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Maybe not the worst, but I had a memorable experience with a curry I made. I have a pretty high tolerance for chili heat, but on this occasion was using Habaneros for the first time and used the same amount as I do with milder varieties. The result was epic, the guest could not eat their food. I did, and felt a burning sensation in my stomach for two days. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An independent restaurant in Cheltenham. Cajun chicken. Truly awful, like trying to eat curried sandpaper. I told them it was appalling and we just left I offered to pay for the drinks and starters, but they declined Never been back. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Beetroot sandwich
I think it was when I was in my teens and I threw it at my mum
I love pickled beetroot in a sandwich but has to have something with it like ham or chicken.
Was offered beetroot on a plate once at my friend's grannies' house. They raved about how she made lovely beetroot and I was on a phase of eating things like that straight from a jar so needless to say I was well pleased and took a massive bite only to find out it wasn't pickled just cooked and in water
The vinegar saves the humble but boring beet, lesson learned"
I'm sorry but I can never try it again. The trauma has lasted decades, you understand  |
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My husband once attempted to make a smoked trout and buckwheat salad. He burnt the caraway seeds and the resulting "meal" tasted of beetles (his description).
I politely tried to eat it. He took it off me and put it all in the bin. We went to the chip shop for dinner. |
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My husband had a Czech delicacy in March: a slice of tough beef in ikea gravy! Served with sliced raw onion and some lemon slices, on the side was a portion of jam!
Like all courses on one plate ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dodol. Its a sri lankan cake type thing
Is that the toffee type stuff or is that jaggery? "
Dodol the toffee like 'stuff' sounds like you are referring to Durian cake it is the foulest smelling stuff, apparently it tastes delicious but I've never been able to get past the smell yuk |
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In the late 90s i was near the top of a mountain in Japan, by the top cable car station, i had walked up myself, there was a row of vending machines, well there had to be as vending machines are everywhere in Japan selling nearly everything.
I'd learnt nothing about Japanese writing and relayed solely on pics for food, it was a roasting hot day and i used my last few coins to buy what i thought was a choc ice, wrong, it was a tube of ice cold processed squid, it was disgusting |
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By *rlandoMan
over a year ago
Lincolnshire |
after apologies and refusing a soup with a dumpling with little black tadpoles still swimming around in my bowl , My Korean host then went off to the kitchen to make me a sandwich , which was two pieces of bread with cold mash potatoe , I spent the rest of the evening craving a donner Kebab and looking at my watch ..... lol
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By *abluesbabyMan
over a year ago
Gibraltar/Cheshire/London |
A so called 'curry' in San Francisco.
You know those el cheapo frozen ready meal ones you can get that glow bright orange like a Ready Brek kid and taste of nothing. Well imagine one of those being marinated in cloudy dishwater for a couple of days and then heated to a couple of degrees above tepid.
My curry in Frisco was still way worse.
PS - I have had the pleasure of many curries in both Rusholme, Manchester and of course Bradford so appreciate I've been spoilt rotten |
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One went on a business trip to Taiwan and I got served freshly cooked fish.
It was definitely fresh, can confirm that.
The centre body was grilled to perfection. However, the still attached head and tail were still bright silver and moving flapping around like one of those Billy Bass wall things that were all the rage once upon a time.
I got off lightly. A colleague was once served LIVE baby dormouse in sweet n sour sauce in Vietnam |
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