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Lou_C Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:09 PM
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What's the worse thing that you have eaten in a Restaurant or Fast Food
Edited on Sat May-29-04 03:11 PM by Lou_C
A friend of mine treated me to lunch at the airport and I had a bowl of chili that cost $8.00 dollars.

It was so bad that it had a crust on it from sitting out for a while and the brand was Hormel. It came with the worse corn bread that I have ever eaten in my entire life and it had a few shavings of cheese and onions on top that you could smell across the room.

I took one bite of it and started to heave and my friend tasted it and asked for the money back but the waitress said that she needed a supervisor to do the void but the supervisor never showed up.

:puke:
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:13 PM
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1. Anything cooked that came from McDonald's
I tried eating McDonald's first in 1955-the hamburger made me throw up. Tried Chicken McNuggets when they came out decades later-heaved. The only thing I can keep down is the cookies and the frozen yogurt.
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Lou_C Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:20 PM
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3. I hate McDonald's
The only thing that I can keep down is the frozen yogurt and the soda pop.

I use to like the fish sandwich and fries but not anymore.
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:23 PM
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5. The Fish sandwich is really just deck scum.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:15 PM
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2. San Francisco State University Dining Center, early 1970s
I nicknamed this place the Donner Memorial Grill. We dormies had to buy a food purchase plan.

During my time there, a week-long national boycott of meat took place to protest high prices. When one of my fellow dormies sat down across the table from me one evening during that week with a plate of beef, I asked if she was not supporting the boycott. "I'm boycotting meat," she said, "but I don't extend that to soybean meal."
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:21 PM
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4. Squirrels Pantry in Pagosa Springs, Co
I ordered a 28 oz Porterhouse Med-rare, and got a 15 or so oz T-bone so well done it was closer to jerky. My sister's soup (supposedly green chile chicken) was served to her cold and looking like some mucus/jello cross. One of the kids was served a mostly frozen hamburger patty (scary!!!). The salad bar had been taken down - 1 hr prior to closing - and there was quite a bit of complaint when we asked to have our salads. They brought it all out in plastic storage containers on a dolly.

My sister and I had both spent time waitressing in our youths, and made the most out of a bad situation. Returned the gross stuff, and got more drinks - at least they figured out how to do those right!!

This place is 2 or so blocks from our vacation home - I wish it was worth a shit.
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:33 PM
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6. The White Castle At Queens and Woodhaven Blvds in Queens, NY
Edited on Sat May-29-04 03:42 PM by Rationality
That was worse than dog food, and to this day I regret taking my mother over there (we were on the run and just wanted something quick on our way to Midtown). Seriously, the bun and the "burger" blended together like mush and slime. It was horrible. Absolutely, horrible!

Edit: Actually, it wasn't at that corner. It's a few blocks east, near the Queens Center Mall. I'm singling the store out because I used to eat over as a kid and sometimes I even go to Krystals (its clone in Florida), and never did they come out as nasty as these.
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Lou_C Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:39 PM
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7. Have you ever been to Blimpies in the City?
Edited on Sat May-29-04 03:51 PM by Lou_C
We went to Blimpies late at night and I had a Tuna Sub and on the way back home to the Island I started to feel diarrhea pains and I couldn't find a gas station. It was a horrible experience that I will never forget and if you haven't tried holding diarrhea back well let me tell you it's impossible.

:puke:
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:47 PM
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10. In NY? Actually no, though I used to work at a Blimpies in Florida
Edited on Sat May-29-04 03:52 PM by Rationality
Never saw a Blimpies anywhere in NYC, even though I usually stay in Queens and Brooklyn with family. I used to work at a Blimpies right here in Gainesville though... I never dared to try those tuna subs. If I'm going to go there, I'd order a Philly. Then again, if I was within three miles of Chinatown, why not go there if you have a little money to burn?

BTW, also, the people running the Wendy's at Woodhaven Blvd. and Metropolitan Avenue are scammers. During that same outing, I ordered a medium Frosty, and the bastard gives me a small cup placed inside a medium, with the frosty spread so it hid the small cup inside. I walked back in there and told the manager that I was a tad smarter than that and I pointed to the guy that gave me the frosty. Of course, he lied saying I ordered a small. Convienently, they didn't give me the reciept... I still got my medium, but that just pissed me off. How cheap can you get when you have to do that?
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Lou_C Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:53 PM
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12. I am talking 20 years ago
It's been a while and it was by the Mud Club and nothing else was open.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 05:31 PM
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21. The White Castle on UNion Turnpike...
in Kew Gardens was the place we went for fried clam sandwiches when we wnated to skip school the next day.

The resulting explosions from both ends horrified our mothers.

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Servo300 Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:41 PM
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8. White Castle burgers
Disgusting!

:argh:
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:53 PM
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11. It's all the White Castles now?
I guess they gone downhill since I left 2nd grade...
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:42 PM
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9. A huge glob of congealed fat in a taco
And it wasnt taco bell, it was Del Taco...
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 03:55 PM
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13. Chicken at Panda Express
It looked cooked. It smelled cooked. But after biting into it--it wasn't cooked.
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Deb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 04:10 PM
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14. My husband's order of Prime Rib
It came looking like a piece of gray bloody flesh, on the side was a bowl of nasty water with bits of unknowns floating in it. We asked the waitress what the water was. She told us it was the au jus. The restaurant had BOILED the meat and the au jus was the leftover water. hahahaha

Once I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich, the cook forgot and left the plastic wrap on the slice of cheese.

The last time pizza we ordered had a hair baked into it.

We don't go out to eat very often at all, if it's going to be crappy, we seem to be the ones that get it.








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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 04:14 PM
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15. Ten years ago, a semi-raw burger at Wendy's. One bite is all it took. nt
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 04:27 PM
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16. Yesterday...
a friend and I ate at one of those Rice Bowl places. Vile.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 04:47 PM
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17. Anything that comes from a fast food joint is awful.
nt
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 05:21 PM
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18. There was a chicken joint...
Edited on Sat May-29-04 05:24 PM by TreasonousBastard
somewhere around the Somerville Circle that gave me what seemed like last week's chicken (or pigeon, seagull...) fried in the same rancid oil as the fish. Was a few miles down Rte 206 when I started eating it, so no point in going back to get my 5 bucks back. Even the fries were inedible.

Many years ago, I was in the Port Authority bus terminal and got a bowl of ice cream somewhere in there. Halfway through it, I found fingernail clippings.
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Lou_C Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 05:27 PM
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20. Are you sure they weren't toenail clippings?
:puke: :puke: (Double Puke)
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 07:20 PM
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24. I'nm not sure...
they were even human.
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belladonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 05:26 PM
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19. A Krystal burger
A long time ago, when I lived in Florida. What the hell are those things made of anyway? :puke:
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cally Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 05:33 PM
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22. Old chips and salsa
I didn't know they were old, however. I was visiting a friend in LA and we drove up the coast. We ate at a place looking over the water. Turns out this was the first weekend they had opened since the year before and served the food from the previous year. We both got terrible food poisoning. I've never been so sick in my life. Turns out that about 30 people got food poisoning from those chips. Some had to be hospitalized. :puke:
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St. Jarvitude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 06:05 PM
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23. Got a chicken head at this Italian place
It wasn't authentic Italian food. more like a non-chainular Olive Garden. I ordered broiled chicken or something, and I got what they called "a breast" and "a wing". The "breast" was 100% dark meat and was obviously a thigh. The "wing" on the other hand ... well, let's just say I saw a beak and an eye staring me in the face. :puke:

Needless to say, I didn't patronize that establishment again in the six months it stayed in business after that incident.
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Lou_C Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 07:56 PM
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26. I hope that you didn't pay for that
I would have :puke:
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 07:41 PM
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25. IN the CN tower
worst cesar salad ever...cost like 15 buck too
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 10:49 PM
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27. Another New York experience
Edited on Sat May-29-04 11:04 PM by Rationality
Also on Woodhaven Blvd in Queens NY, only this time a few blocks south of the L.I.Expressway, in Rego Park. One of those small, independent corner grocery stores with the full fruit display on the curb. Forgot the name of it, but I bought a half-gallon of 2% milk. Took it home. Opened and poored. It came clunking out, spluttering into the cup like some kind of bleached sludge. And I paid about three dollars for that too! The nerve of those bastards!

Then there's the C-Town at Jamacia Avenue and 98th Street in Woodhaven (neighborhood, not street for the un-initiated). One of those 2-liter diet sodas had some kind of long, hairy object in it. I never knew what that thing was but to think: I could've drank that! :scared:
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 10:54 PM
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28. Sounds like the moral of all your stories is never to eat in Queens!
I myself never go to Queens.
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-29-04 11:06 PM
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29. Well not everything in Queens is bad
Some of the pizzerias on Jamacia (sp?) Avenue in Woodhaven are one of the best in the world (I'm not saying that lightly either). Carlos and Two Guys particularly. The ices in some of the others are also better than anything I had here in Florida. You just have to know where to go though.
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GingerSnaps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 01:51 AM
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30. A club sandwich at Bakers Square
I ended up doing time in the hospital for one week.
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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 02:47 AM
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31. Chasen's Chili
in 1983, I took my then girlfriend to Chasen's in Beverly Hills for Chilli and banana cream pie, the dinner cost over $100 and the chili was the most overrated crap I ever ate.
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 05:19 AM
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32. Anything at the Bellagio in Las Vegas
I tried the overpriced, fancy buffet twice and it was much worse than the $3 buffets I remember from my early Vegas days in the '80s. Pure cardboard.

Two weeks ago I took the girl I'm dating to the Cantonese restaurant at the Bellagio. The view was terrific, overlooking the water show, but both of us agreed the $100+ meal could not have been more mediocre or disappointing.

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