As purplegoanna said - they were pretty good once but not so good anymore.
nzhel,
Nov 29, 4:05am
Mashed potatoes mashed in the water they were boiled in complete with a large black rotten bit in the middle. If you tipped the plate up they ran down the plate - have never liked mashed potatoes since (served at a neighbour's place). Being made to sit at the table until I'd eaten the now cold and boiled to death silverbeet - something else I've never eaten to this day!
laser51,
Nov 29, 9:09pm
Not a meal but DH and I were invited to have coffee with someone we had recently met, all was going well till I got to the end of my coffee and looked in the cup I had just drained and sawwhat looked like the remnants of a chicken noodle cup of soup, must have been in there for a while as the noodles hadn't even softened, gross
clareo,
Oct 18, 8:15am
Yep - KFC - I had some last weekend - probably hadn't had it for about 8 years and now I know why!
msj23,
Oct 18, 8:22am
This sounds like that monty python skit where palin and Idle try and outdo each other with how poor they were
punkinthefirst,
Oct 18, 10:40am
An "Island dinner" on Norfolk Island my Mum and I went to. I know that Islands out in the Pacific are abit short of ingredients, but EVERY course had bananas featured in one form or another - from baked with fish to a banana sponge pudding. (And all were vile!) Took me a long time to eat bananas again after that!
usualsuspect,
Oct 18, 12:28pm
robbies in kaikoura.never ever again.the meat was like an old boot.it was genuinely the worst i have ever had anywhere.i will never eat at a robbies again EVER
ankmika,
Oct 18, 11:11pm
Hubbys old flat mate cooked a meal for us once and it was revolting.Fruit salad with mayonnaise in it (The mayo had curdled in the fruit juice. I think she was trying to make a waldorf salad)and she had tipped it all over rice, sliced brussel sprouts and silverside it was sooo revolting. I didn't want to be rude so I forced myself to eat it.blerk makes me feel sick just thinking about it.
sarahb5,
Oct 19, 12:16am
School dinners in the UK - apart from the roasts pretty much everything else was inedible.They once trialled some sort of soya meat replacement and asked us to comment on the days we thought it had been used - that was easy because there was no gristle or fat in the "meat replacement".
Other than that, my MILs oven-baked steak takes some beating - in fact, you could probably beat someone with it and cause them serious injury - served with her cabbage boiled to transparency and over-salted.Oh dear - I love her dearly but cooking is not her forte!
When my then boyfriend (now husband) was working away he phoned and said he was sick of eating in restaurants, he was a meat and 3 veg type of guy, so I thought I would make a nice casserole in my new crock pot, I put everything in and then thought oh I should put in some seasonings, so added mixed herbs, salt, pepper and nutmeg, DONT try it, it was so yuk we couldn’t eat it and ended up going out for tea.LOL
3jtrader,
Oct 19, 3:02am
I went to visit a friend and her mother convinced me to stay for dinner-we had cold marmite toast topped with overcooked mushy 2-minute noodles that had no flavoring added.
rainrain1,
Oct 19, 4:34am
One Winters day, a pub in South Dunedin lunchtime, we ordered the bar fish meal and got that packet crumbed fish placed underneath yesterdays fried mashed spud with mixed packet vegetables.It was the coldest day ever, and the drinkers were all huddled around this piddly fire, it was soooo cold, we couldn't get warm, and were really looking forward to our meal.Holy cow yuck!
kiwiscrapper1,
Oct 19, 6:59am
"Seafood chowder" last sunday at days bay pavilion, it tasted like they had used a can of watties vege soup as a base and just added a bag of fish bits, everything was tough and the 'fish bit' had bones, the little prawns I chewed and chewed and ended up spitting out and I didnt bother with the calamari, it was a tomatoey base rather than creamy like the beautiful chowder in SanFrancisco! It was horrible and I left a lot more than ate I was waiting for them to ask why I didnt eat it but they didnt so its a place I wont be revisiting!
baalamb,
Oct 19, 7:16am
About 30 years ago - went to my aunt's house for dinner with my parents. Before we even got inside the house we were greeted by a revolting meaty smell. Served up some kind of a grey-looking greasy stew - which tasted even worse than it smelled. Turned out it was a venison stew - unfortunately Aunt -known to be frugal -had decided to use the kidneys as well. Refused to even consider trying venison again for about 20 years - and was amazed that it actually tasted beautiful - and didnt stink!
lektrik,
Oct 19, 7:29am
I know what you mean! I had that white meal in Pukekohe maternity hospital in 1993! cauli, fish, spud, bread, banana. I too described it as "white"
mkbooks,
Oct 19, 7:51am
We went to a cafe with friends,in Otaki once,ordered lasagne-came served with chips! we couldn't stop laughing, + it's still a joke amongst our group
gaspodetwd,
Oct 19, 8:05am
Fruit salad - apples, bananas, fresh peach, strawberries, honeydew melon, grapes, pears and fresh pineapple. Served with Heinz salad cream already mixed in.
deus701,
Oct 19, 8:05am
silverbeet cabbage soup.made by my gf during my younger days in uni. It was a trade off between my physical needs and sustenance needs.so i decided to shut up n drink it lol
kuaka,
Oct 19, 8:25am
Oh, and then there was the time years ago when first hubby and I travelled overnight from Hamilton to Wellington by train, and had breakfast at Wellington Railway Station.The menu was quite limited as you would expect (this was about 1974 or 75), and I couldn't get over how everyone was sitting eating chips for breakfast.We ordered - I actually forget exactly what we ordered (I remember savoury mince was on the menu) but everything came with chips regardless.Can't say I've ever had chips for breakfast before or since, well not at 7am anyway.
kiwiscrapper1,
Oct 19, 9:05am
Hospital food again.in 1970's when we had babies we stayed in hosp for 7-10 days or until you knew what to do! We ate in our room for a couple of days and then we had to go to the dining room to socialise, one night everything was white -cant remember what it was - but everyone hated it and all our food was left on the plate, I remember saying we better be careful it will come back the next day as lunch, well the next day we got 'soup' and it looked just like the night before dinner mashed up and liquified with milk added, when we saw it we all cracked up laughing and still couldn't eat it.
jennyfenny1,
Oct 20, 3:58am
one of my worst meals was something i cooked for myself! haha when i was a kid i was always keen on baking and cooking, and did pretty well for the most part, but when things went wrong i still felt like i should eat it anyway. maybe a pride thing haha; like throwing it away was accepting defeat! so one time (i would have been around 8 years old) i remember having my heartset on pasta with a cheese sauce. the pasta was easy, the roux for the sauce! not so much. i ended up with a thick, dough-like ball of "sauce" that just tasted like flour. no amount of milk and furious stirring would turn it in to something pourable so i just ate it like that: plain pasta with a heavy, doughy flour/butter/milk ball on top. haha
zirconium,
Oct 20, 7:47am
My poor dad has just spent 10 days in north shore hospital. Ate everything they gave him, it was MUCH better than he gets at home. The worst meals i've had have all been from my mother, and there is a long list of memorably bad ones. Bless her, cooking is not her thing. :)
sossie1,
Oct 20, 7:49am
my mums ex boyfriend told us he could make the best curry around.
it was mince (which he didn't brown first), a tin of baked beans, and curry powder, all simmered together.
Mum was mortified
kevymtnz,
Oct 20, 7:51am
McCrap burgers
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