Eating out: what was the worst meal ever served to you?

Gaer

Gaer

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New Mexico U.S.A.
I thought it was the cold hamburger patty stuffed inside a cold, crisp taco shell out of a box, that I received in a little town in Arizona. (supposed to be a taco)
No lettuce, no tomato, no cheese, no salsa, nothing!
but,
No!
Here, in New Mexico, i ordered a beef enchilada plate. haha! The waitress brought out a tiny, completely frozen enchilada on a plate. It was covered in ICE!
No rice or beans. nothing! I called the waitress over and she looked at it and said, "Oh, The cook is on drugs!"
All I could do was laugh!

Let's see if your story can beat that!
 

I was in a very small fly in only village on the Yukon River in Alaska. Just one "restaurant" with a single person working there. Not very good at best. One day we went in and the guy was falling down drunk. He invited us into his kitchen to fix ourselves whatever we wanted, no charge. The pickings were pretty slim, think I had a spam sandwich heated in the microwave.

He pointed out to us that the bible said we should rest on the 7th day, he was pretty sure he had worked at least that long so it was his god given day off. It was a Wednesday.

When he was more coherent if you asked him if something was good the standard answer was "it'll make a turd".

One of the few things he had a lot of was reindeer, I suspect locally procured caribou actually, the only good thing about it was that a meal could last for hours... before you finally gave up trying to chew it.

A restaurant to remember!
 
I was at a Holiday Inn in New Jersey on business, and went to dinner in their restaurant. It was not too crowded, and the waiter and the hostess were BS'ing. He finally took my order and brought my salad. He then came over and said they were sorry they were out of that entree. I sighed, and selected another entree. A few minutes later, he came back and was sorry, they were out of that one too. I sighed, and picked out a third entree. I finally came, and I took one bite, and found it was still frozen in the center.
I just got up and walked out at that point, and swore never to eat in a Holiday Inn restaurant again.
 

Sounds like the "taco bar" at a family style restaurant we stopped at, coming back from Montpelier, Vermont. A bin of finely ground beef(looked like some kind of meat soup, little spices), a container of grated cheddar cheese, maybe some shredded iceberg lettuce. There may have been a bottle of Tabasco there, I don't remember. Willing to bet there was catsup there too. Oh, and the disgusting hard shell tacos, the ones that break as soon as you touch them.
 
I had breakfast in a hotel in Miami. It was so bad that I left 2 cents for a tip.
Shortly after I left, my coworker came into the same dining room. When we talked about it later he said he never had such good service ever.
We agreed that someone got the hint.
 
Thought of another one. I was in Quito, Ecuador and had always been curious about guinea pigs as food. As most people know they have long been domestic animals and eaten in the Andes. The Spanish or local name is cuy.

I decided to find a place where I could get cuy, I had not seen it on the menu in any of the more touristy places so I asked a taxi driver to help me. Apparently cuy is not something served in the better restaurants in Ecuador. The taxi driver knew a place in a not real good part of town but I insisted so we went. They had a herd of guinea pigs running around so it looked right.

The cuys were skinned - heads, feet and some of the innards left on and in. The whole pigs were barbequed in full view of the tables. They were then quartered and served.

The meat was dark, greasy and tasted pretty bad. Kind of like eating something between a rat and a pet... Also ordered drank some chicha, a local favorite, a saliva-fermented yuca drink. Flew home the next day and my guts took a good 2 months to return to normal.

The neighbor's pet guinea pigs are now safe from me.
 
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Here a new Mexican food and fried chicken place opened a few months ago. I have been assured that the chicken is good, I wouldn't know because we were so anxious to try the Mexican food. I don't remember what I ordered but the refried beans were so thick they were probably fried so that was unusual, but they were so salty they were not edible. We haven't been back. We gave the other so called Mexican place, (the owner claims to be from Mexico) two chances, mainly because her beans were really good. The rest didn't cut it, and was very expensive.
 
One time I ordered a skinless boneless chicken breast dinner and when I went to cut into the chicken it was like a rock. I stabbed it a couple times with my fork, then picked it up and realized it was still frozen. I called the server over and told her the chicken was cold and hard and I believed it was frozen. She just laughed and said, "oh, come on, frozen?" So I picked it up and smacked it on the plate a couple times and she just said, "oh, my God!" and whisked it away. No charge for that dinner!
 
Fish & Chips ordered at a roadside fry place in St. Martins, New Brunswick Canada in 2020. Soaked in fry grease and extremely over cooked! It was so bad I took it back and got my $$ back then left (hungry).
Here's what it looked like :sick:
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The food was forgettable and overpriced, but the name of the restaurant in the Carolinas lured me in. The establishment was called (and I swear that I’m not making this up) Eat and Get the Hell Out. They even sold T-shirts emblazoned with that name! Well, we did exactly what the place’s name admonished, never to return…and I didn’t buy a T-shirt! 😸
 
There was a diner down the road. My ex & I stopped in for a quick bite. The waitress, who dressed more like she was working in a topless joint, took our order. They didn't have a cook, but one of the 'regulars' volunteered. You could smell the restroom. It had a red carpet, but it was mostly black. When we got our food, if you didn't like what you ordered, you could eat what the last users of the plate had. The dishes were crummy. We just paid and left. About two weeks later, there was a sign " Closed by order , Board of Health". It was for sale for years till they bulldozed it.
 
We had buffalo burgers in Tombstone AZ. Not very good.
I have seen ground buffalo meat in the super market in Florida but have not sampled it.
 
We were in a little town outside Melbourne Australia. On the tour, we only had about a half hour for lunch. Stopped at a pub that featured "Basket of shrimp and a beer". That sounded good, so I ordered it. Well, what came out was not fried, breaded shrimp, as I had expected, but cooked shrimp in the shell with the heads on. Since we had a limited time to eat, I ended up eating one while shelling the next one.

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