Describe the worst food you have ever been served in a restaurant

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There used to be a place called "Topsy's" in San Diego, which had horrible prefabricated diner food like leftovers from Dennys. The apple pie was in a cardboard box - no wait, that's actually the crust! The desultory waitress would just put the plate in front of you without even looking or saying anything. It was like the perfect place to go just after you committed a murder.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

1. I was served a cup of coffee with lipstick on the cup.

When I sent it back, it was obvious I didn't get a new cup, but she very poorly wiped off the lipstick, so now the cup was of smeared lipstick. I just got up and left, then spoke to the manager who gave me a coupon for a free meal. Like I'd ever eat there again. :eyes: The place closed years ago though thankfully.

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4. I still don't get how women can stand the taste and smell of lipstick. It

is the worst-tasting thing I have ever tasted - it's like grease. And yet women put it on their lips, and expect their husband or boyfriend to kiss them, and get it on themselves. Yuck! And that restaurant sounds like it deserved to go out of business.

[Skittles]

21. you are correct bob, it is disgusting

don't even get me started on when they are wearing it on their teeth or the fact that if your teeth aren't bright white, nasty-ass lipstick will highlight that effect very well

[elehhhhna]

2. Canned everything "turkey dinner" at Mary's in Beecher, Wisconsin

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. We went to a wonderful greek-style seafood place for their Easter buffet.

And what did they serve on their buffet?

French toast, ham, and turkey, and stuffing.

And while it wasn't inedible, it was merely mediocre; but more importantly, it was totally NOT what we expected from AN UPSCALE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT.

[idgiehkt]

5. something they said was from a pig, but it looked liked calimari

calimari grosses me out. I just wanted to know what it was. They said it was pork. I thought long and hard about it, because it looked like the only part it could be was the hiney hole.

[Orangepeel]

11. were you in the south? maybe it was chitlins

pig intestines, stewed and then deep fried. they look kind of like calamari.

[idgiehkt]

13. in the south at a chinese restaurant

I wasn't going to eat it, i was just curious what it was cause somehow it ended up on my plate. Maybe you are right...but it was a chinese buffet.

[Joe Fields]

6. A Texas Tom's chili burger put me in the hospital many years ago,

with a severe case of food poisoning.

[skygazer]

7. A piece of Boston cream pie

That had MOLD in it! And the worst part was, it wasn't obvious until I took the first bite. It tasted odd and so I cut into it further and discovered green spots inside. :puke:

I've never been able to eat Boston cream pie since.

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18. Eeew! You should have said, "I ordered Boston Cream Pie, not Boston Green

Pie"

[skygazer]

20. Well, I did complain about it

And they offered me ..... another piece of pie! Eeewwww!!! I wish I could remember the name of the place - I believe it's (not surprisingly) no longer there.

[Squeech]

8. Because you demanded it

I once took a tour of China-- eighty people total, filling two buses-- and the dining experience was typically that they'd herd the lot of us into enterprises that were called restaurants, seat us at tables of eight or ten, and just bring us out bowlfuls of seemingly random stuff. Most of it was recognizably "Chinese food" we'd see in restaurants here, but some of it wasn't.

At one place, our places at table already contained these little bowls containing what looked like wet shredded rubber bands. I tried it, and it *tasted* like wet shredded rubber bands, doused with vinegar and sprinkled with white pepper. The then Mrs. Squeech and I were the only people at our table even to taste it. Our English-speaking guide eventually got up and hollered, in her best top sergeant voice, "YES, IT'S JELLYFISH!"

Second prize probably has to go to this meal I had somewhere in Utah when I hitchhiked across the country back in the '70s. Everything came out of a can, and was apparently additionally salted, and cooked into mushiness.

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9. That reminds me of a few horrible food experiences in China

I asked my hosts to take me to a place where ordinary citizens eat, not fancy restaurants for tourists. The took me to a waterfront row of shacks on the edge of the Gulf on Tonkin, in the city of Beihai, and we walked into one of them. On the way in, you pass a bunch of aquariums and you pick out what you want to eat - yes, you point to the poor critter swimming around and say, "I want that." Then they cook it for you and bring it to you. Everything was presented still in its original shells - nothing was prepared ready-to-eat as in the U.S. Nothing tasted good to me and I think I might have embarrassed the hosts by eating so little of it. After that I stuck to the hotel food which was much better. I have to say that Hong Kong had some really excellent buffets, though, far superior to buffet-style restaurants in the U.S.

[auntAgonist]

10. my first time at Cracker Barrel

a couple of years ago. Chicken and dumplings. GROSS. doughy little lumps in lukewarm pasty tasting 'gravy' with little pieces of chicken in it.

I've hesitated to go back there again. My son had chicken fried steak there and really enjoyed it.:shrug: He's a 'boy' he'll eat anything :)

aA
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[LibDemAlways]

12. Well I'm sure it wasn't intended to be

part of the meal, but I ordered a salad at a country club restaurant my sister-in-law lives near in Las Vegas (it was her treat and her choice) and what was unearthed after a couple of forkfuls but a dead grasshopper. The waitress was very apologetic and offered to bring something else, but by then I just wanted out of there.

Had a live bug crawl out of a salad once at California Pizza Kitchen in Santa Barbara, too.

Geez, you'd think restaurants would be a bit more careful about washing the lettuce.

[Robb]

15. I worked at an upscale restaurant for a spell there

...not a bad gig, but I'm glad I'm beyond it. One evening one of the prep guys was washing an enormous bag of fresh basil when out pops a Huuuuuuuge praying mantis! :wow:

So the chef thought it was super cool, and put it in a glass with a little mesh lid on it so he could look at it during the night. At one point he turned his back, and I naturally replaced the mantis cup with an identical, empty one with the mesh lid peeled halfway back.

O, the hilarity whilst he panicked and looked in every chafing dish. :D

[LibDemAlways]

17. That's funny. At the least the restaurant was

upscale and took pains to separate the insects from the food. When my husband was a teenager he worked for a while at a McDonalds. One hot summer night a bunch of gnats found their way in and were getting into the food. My husband was a fry cook and was throwing out fries left and right that had gnats on them. The manager came over and ordered him to bag the fries as is arguing that "People will just think it's pepper." My husband handed over his apron and quit on the spot.

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19. That's a great story - the people at bitterwaitress.com woud love it

[Skittles]

22. you ROCK Robb!!!

those are the truly funny kind of practical jokes. I like your chef too - a praying mantis is a fascinating thing to watch!

[Robb]

23. He was a good guy

One evening he gave me hell about a super-short haircut I got that day... "Hey Robb, when you shippin' out again?" every time I came back.

Finally I turned in a ticket that just said "Fuck you, chef. Love, Robb."

I visited last week. He's still got it framed above one of the ranges. :D

[murielm99]

14. I went to a local Mexican restaurant

that was actually a good place. I had eaten there several times and enjoyed the food. The last time, and I do mean the last, there was a dead cricket in my arroz con pollo.

They went out of business. Now, they are a bar where everyone likes to drink and fight. The cops are there all the time.

[QuestionAll...]

16. hot turkey sandwich at Country Kitchen.

many years ago.
The 'gravy' was a white lumpy mass of uncooked flour.

Can I have another helping of gravy. can u open another can of lumps, please?

[pscot]

24. I once ordered something in a place in Munich

that I though was lamb stew. Turned out to be sheep lungs. I was about a third of the way through when I noticed the white, tubelike things floating around in the bowl.

[Maccagirl]

25. On a tour of the British Isles

we were "treated" to haggis at Prestonfield House in Edinburgh. It looked like burnt meaf loaf and tasted worse.