Worst food experiences?

[Antilogic]

Oh yeah. One time I lost at King's Cup and had to drink a mix of:

rum, pepsi, vodka, guinness, kahlua, and milk.

Also sufficient time had passed that the milk had sunk to the bottom of the cup and was beginning to curdle

bleh.

I was thinking the first two sounded all right, the third would make it really strong but still passable, but then it just got weird.

I went to KFC once.

I've only had potato pierogies though I could see how meat ones would be tasty. Strawberry is just mind boggling

I didn't even think people made sweet pierogies.



Accidentally salting or sweetening when you intended to do the opposite is terrible.

 

[BenitoChavez]

What is that thing? Fried chicken, eggs, bacon, and cheese? I can feel my arteries clogging just by looking at it.

 

[Antilogic]

It is God's Own Sandwich, the KFC Double Down.

 

[onejayhawk]

Canned clam chowder or creamed cauliflower. It's hard to choose.

J

 

[Narz]

Trying to eat a peach when there was nothing else at the beach with my friend as a kid. I don't know why but I find peaches absolutely repulsive (though I enjoy plums & pluots)

 

[warpus]

Strawberry is just mind boggling

It's a dessert. Apparently it's good, but I don't like strawberries.

We have dozens upon dozens of pierogi fillings in Poland. Strawberry is by no means the "weirdest" one.

@Warpus, potato pierogies are delicious too. What's wrong with you?

They are, but you should re-read my post.

 

[downtown]

I made pierogies for the first time a few days ago, and tried some potato ones. They weren't bad, but the cheese or the beef ones were best. My spinach ones tasted like crap, but that might be bc it was my first time.

When I was a missionary in California, I ate dinner at a Tongan family' house and ended up some expired mussels. Since everybody else was eating a ton, I felt obligated to eat a bunch too, even though I could kinda tell something was off, but I didn't want to be rude, so I chowed down...onyly to then expel the entire contents of my body over the next three days. #WELP

Octopus Row turned out to be pretty gross too, btw.

 

[warpus]

I made pierogies for the first time a few days ago, and tried some potato ones. They weren't bad, but the cheese or the beef ones were best. My spinach ones tasted like crap, but that might be bc it was my first time.

Beef pierogies sound intriguing. For some reason I've only ever had pork ones - that distinct pork taste just seems right. I wouldn't mind trying beef pierogies, that would probably be good.

As for spinach pierogies, I am going to have to err on the side of caution and proclaim april fools shenanigans.

When I was a missionary in California, I ate dinner at a Tongan family' house and ended up some expired mussels. Since everybody else was eating a ton, I felt obligated to eat a bunch too, even though I could kinda tell something was off, but I didn't want to be rude, so I chowed down...onyly to then expel the entire contents of my body over the next three days. #WELP

That "you have to eat because otherwise you'll offend people" thing can be dangerous. I had to stop visiting my Italian friend's house right after dinner for that reason.. and in that case I couldn't even say no if I wanted to. In Italian no means a little bit, and a little bit means 2 plates.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I'm actually not too fond of putting fruits in my pierogies, though that seems to be a favorite dish in Poland.

It's far from bad though, so I guess doesn't really belong in this thread.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

There's a restaurant in the St. Louis metro called 'Lottawatta Creek'. There thing is that they serve MEGA portions of everything. Having said that, more is not always better because while they serve a lot food, it's all garbage. Everything is bland and tastes like they pulled it out of a bucket full of water and slapped in the nuker. However, the first time I went there, I found the one item on their menu that was actually good - pork medallians with apple slices in a spicy brandy sauce. It was freaking amazing.

So I'd go occasionally just for that dish until the day came when they pulled it from the menu. So I ordered something else, as did my wife, and that's when we realized everything else there sucked old grampa balls. Such let down. Much suck.

 

[FriendlyFire]

McDonald's = vomit

 

[Synobun]

I agree with Warpus. I had only ever eaten beef and pork pierogies and one day I noticed a restaurant had a deal on their pierogies. I was excited, it had been years since I had them, and they were delish. I got a container of over 12 pierogies, and I immediately proceeded to chomp down and... potatoes. Meh. They're okay, but it's not meat, y'know?

Anyways, my own experience was perhaps a failure of those responsible for making the food rather than the food itself. A friend and I had decided to go to a restaurant on the highway that had been in business for a few years and hadn't closed down yet. Par for the course in my town is that a restaurant lasts for, at most, two years before changing owners or closing shop, so this was a pleasant surprise. If it had been in business for so long, it must mean it had good food, right?

Nope. It took 15 minutes for the waitress to take our order. Fine, not the longest we've waited (longest is 75 minutes!). We proceed to wait over an hour for our food while we were very hungry. No appetizers or bread or really anything was offered, so we sat at an empty table twiddling our thumbs for over 60 minutes. I think it ended up being about 80 before we got our plates.

The food looked... sub-par. We both ordered pork and mashed potatoes, with a side burger. Everything was half frozen. The pieces that weren't frozen tasted awful, like it had freezer burn. Everything was bad. The pork was inedible. The mashed potatoes... well... felt like stone. The burger was raw and the bread was stale.

We simply got up, paid, and left. That place did not get a repeat customer in us.

 

[Civ'ed]

So, when did this devolve into the pierogi thread?
My worst food experiences, to stay somewhat on topic, is the myriad of mashed potato products the Netherlands has brought into this world. With carrots, with sprouts, with everything, and it all tastes blech.

 

[carmen510]

I once went to a slum marketplace in Shanghai once and had some street food.

It was bad.

 

[Josu]

First time I ate artichokes it was in a restaurant being a kid. They were not boiled. They made me have nauseas and I had to vomit.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Octopus Row turned out to be pretty gross too, btw.

How could I forget the time we tried jellyfish. The smell was actually worse than the taste, but I still only took one bite.

 

[Hygro]

How could I forget the time we tried jellyfish. The smell was actually worse than the taste, but I still only took one bite.

Ah. That's right, you reminded me of my worst dining experience.


As a kid we went to a long dinner function eating all kinds of off-the-menu dishes somewhere in Oakland's Chinatown. I remember it feeling like a 7 course meal. Some of it was my being a finnicky kid and not eating the fish because its head was still attached and its eye was all freaky. But a lot of it just tasted awful.

The jellyfish legs were tolerable and kind of cool, I could eat a few bites.

There was one good part:
Giant mushrooms, the kind too big to easily fit in your mouth, yet they were so greasy you could swallow them whole.

 

[Akka]

If we discard accidentally eating rotten food, the single worst I ever experienced has to be alcohol. Seriously, this stuff makes me need to wash my mouth. It's just atrocious.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I once went to a slum marketplace in Shanghai once and had some street food.
It was bad.

Those are called fly restaurants for a reason.

 

[TheLastOne36]

McDonald's = vomit

Agreed. It makes my stomach churn.

In fact most fast food joints do. The only burger joint that doesn't is A&W and I've been a loyal customer since.

(Dunno if the Canadian A&W and American A&W are different quality wise, but the Canadian one is excellent at least)