Alien Breakfast
The worst meal I've ever eaten was at an "Irish" pub in Calais.

My girlfriend and I and a couple of friends had gone over on a wine run, and one of the friends hadn't eaten anything before going, so was whining about being hungry. We were in one of those French megamalls that no French people go to - they're strictly for tourists only. I said: "Well, wherever we eat, the food's going to be horrible, so let's just cut the middleman and go to MacD's." The friend said: "I didn't come to France to eat in a Macdonald's!" So we went to this authentic French "Irish" bar, which had an offer of a "Full English Breakfast" with a free pint. Well, the pint was 1/2 litre, which wasn't so bad, but the breakfast...

It was as if aliens had tried to reconstruct a full English breakfast, working only from photographs and things you could find in tins.

The 'sausages' were cold frankfurters - very high in sawdust content.
The 'bacon' was microwaved spam.
The 'eggs' were a hard to identify cold yellow mess, swimming in a green and grainy grease.
The 'baked beans' were simply white haricot beans in watered down ketchup. KETCHUP!

I'm not really getting across the sheer awfulness of it - I still feel nauseated just thinking about it, and it was ten years ago.

Bloody French.
(suckfake Frisky biscuits, Sat 28 May 2011, 11:15, Reply)