Worst food experiences?

[Mouthwash]

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)

I'd guess not.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I once had an inordinate amount of Southern Comfort and prayed to the porcelain gods the next morning. I still can't even stand the smell of it.

 

[Zelig]

I once had an inordinate amount of Southern Comfort and prayed to the porcelain gods the next morning. I still can't even stand the smell of it.

Is that a food? "Southern Comfort" sounds like a nickname for meth.

 

[Mouthwash]

He needs to try Los Pollos Hermanos.

 

[Commodore]

I had fish while meeting with one of my sources in Iraq. It was delicious, but I had food poisoning for about a week afterwards. That was the sickest I have ever been in my entire life.

 

[Mouthwash]

Forget cereal with water. I have experienced matzah brei.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Strawberry pierogies

That sounds utterly revolting.

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.

Why on earth would you actually pay for that? A complaint to the management should have been what they got.


My worst experience has to be when I had gall bladder surgery about 12 years ago. I ended up having to stay overnight, so I didn't get to fill out the meal card for the next day. What they gave me to eat consisted of a piece of bread absolutely smothered in some gravy-type mess. Just perfect for someone whose gall bladder had just been removed!

When I asked for something else, they said there wasn't anything. I told them I'd take anything - so that's how I ended up with dry cereal to munch on. They were willing to give me coffee, though - in spite of my telling them I don't drink that foul stuff.

 

[Quackers]

Went to France on holiday as a young lad. We went to some pizzeria for lunch. I picked up a slice of pizza and suddenly two huge blue bottle flies flew out from under the pizza. It doesn't sound bad, but in that moment i completely lost my appetite. I didn't have a bite after that. Traumatic.

 

[Darkflight]

4 years ago or so I opened a pack of crabsticks that had gone bad and as soon as I started chewing I knew I had messed up. I haven't eaten crabsticks since.