Most Memorable Lousy Dish or Food you've Eaten? (restaurant, hamburgers, frozen)

[Nanny Goat]

We were in Florida in a hotel and ordered a pizza. Now, how bad can a pizza be? It was a Cuban food menu so we ordered a Cuban pizza. Sounded good. I ate 2 bites and could not eat a bit more. I am not a fussy eater & can usually find a redeeming quality about most plates. This was like, literally, eating a piece of cardboard, hardly any sauce or cheese either. We laugh about it now.

[jasper12]

It is difficult for me to find food I won't eat....but...awhile back, I had an eggroll, made with hamburger. It was the oddest thing I have ever had. Sort of like hamburger beef stew, with five spice seasoning, wrapped in an egg roll wrapper and fried. I suppose it is an acquired taste. I wanted to retch. The soup was even worse, Egg Drop Soup, with so much cornstarch, it was like glutinous paste, with frozen vegetable mix in it, and bright yellow food coloring. It gets better...the shrimp Kung Pow, the shrimp were not cleaned...and it was covered with brown sauce that reminded me of Hienz beef gravy.

Chinese food...Montana style. Don't ask.

[SeaOfGrass]

I had some sort of Asian-style soup at a restaurant once. It looked like someone had just steeped a dirty sock in some water, and I don't imagine the taste was far from that either. No matter what I added to it -- salt, pepper, hot sauce, soy sauce -- I just could not detect a hint of any kind of flavor. I almost got tennis elbow. It was almost magical. No matter what I put into it, the flavor would. not. change.

The bad part is, this place happens to be my dad's favorite restaurant.

[aquietpath]

I was invited to a meal where the hostess served some type of thin gravy, with hardboiled egg pieces and chunks of unidentified meat floating in it. It tasted like raunchy raw egg.

I'm not a picky eater at all, but I couldn't eat more than one bite. And she is a fabulous cook, with the exception of that one dish.

[D. Scott]

A combination arcade/restaurant. Ordered chicken and pasta. Was like a microwaved TV dinner, Only lower quality. Hands down, the worst ever meal I have had. If it was offered to a dog, the dog would have run away from home. Having gone to many restaurants over the years it was the only "bad' meal I have had fortunately.

[GINGERSNAP1963]

Oh I'm so sorry Upstate Nancy. Usually around the tourist areas in Florida the food is really, really BAD. Reason is that they don't need repeat customers. My husband and I will typically search for restaurants outside of a tourist area when we travel but sometimes its just not convenient to do that, especially when we're tired after a long day. Too bad, Cuban pizza sounds like it could have been really good.

Anyway, the very worst food I have ever tried to eat was a soft shell crab sushi roll. I am a real sushi lover too. In fact I often joke that I should have been a grizzly bear because of how much I love raw salmon. But this soft shell crab roll was so disgusting I honestly prefer to spare you of the horrific details. Just imagine what a crab might taste like - inside and raw. Blue, slimy and warm for starters and I'll stop there so as not to nauseate you. It was a tempura roll so I had wrongly assumed the inside of the crab would be cooked. Yikes, nope.

[124c41]

We ordered hamburgers and fries at a place in Utah, and first bite of the hamburger, I almost spit it out. Fry sauce all over the burger. Fry sauce, I think is ketchup, and Mayonnaise mixed together. Something like that. I might be wrong because frankly, I can't stand it, and could really care less how it's made. Learned after that to specify, " No Fry Sauce!"

[shadowcatcher]

I have eaten some, shall we say "exotic" cuisine, especially in the service. The weirdest and nastiest thing was in Honduras while in the Army. A Honderian soldier was going to treat us to a local delicacy, deep fried tarantulas. They tasted like chewy, crunchy mud.

[DontLookPhoto]

Originally Posted by jasper12

It is difficult for me to find food I won't eat
Chinese food...Montana style. Don't ask.

I'm just the opposite I have trouble finding food that tastes good to me.
As far as Chinese food in Montana goes there is a good place just south of Whitefish and Missoula has at least two that seem good. We usually go to "The China Buffet" it's a good deal and most of the food is quite good.
I've eaten at restaurants in "China Towns" all over the west coast and my dear old mum grew up in China so we are a little bit picky.
One of the Chinese eateries in Shelby isn't bad.

Now back to topic, One of the worst food I ever had was at one of the Hilton Hotel's Blue Canyon Grill. It was a thanksgiving Dinner Buffet. Yuck it was the worst Thanksgiving dinner I ever had.

I think the best meals I ever had was at The Brigantine on Shelter Island in San Diego.
Funny that one of my favorite sea-foods is a relative of the cockroach !!!

[SeaOfGrass]

These descriptions are making me sick!