Crap meals outI'd chosen to take my in-laws to one of my favourite restaurants, only to discover it had changed hands the week before. We waited half an hour to get menus. The waitress broke the cork in the wine we ordered. She got our order wrong. The food was luke-warm, mine was overcooked, the rest was undercooked. After waiting another 40 minutes for the last course, we were told that we couldn't have any as the chef had "forgotten to de-frost the puddings".
Let's just say they didn't get a tip. Tell us of your crap meals out.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 14:22)
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Halls FoodUniversity halls of residence food is awful, as I'm sure many a student will agree. In all fairness, it wasn't bad every single day, just most of them - all of it lukewarm, potatoes with everything (pasta and chips, anyone?) and at least one of the options containing "grey sauce" (so called because it was greyish and had no distinctive flavour whatsoever...). Specialities included "pig pasta" (we think it was supposed to be carbonara, but it had huge chunks of ham floating in the aforementioned grey sauce) and "glue pudding" (some sort of sponge that was never cooked properly and was rather sticky and glue like in the centre).
But the best offerings were the ones that the kitchen staff named themselves. There was label next to a dish of brown stuff labelling it 'meat biryani'. Upon asking what sort of meat it was, we were told "it is meat". When questioning what sort of fish was hidden in the deep fried greasy lump they were being served, my corridor-mate was told "fish. White fish. Chips?".
And, one night, a mate asked "what flavour is the ice-cream?" since it was a sort of yellowy colour and she didn't know if it was banana or vanilla. The answer? "Yellow." "Yes, I can see that, but it vanilla or banana?" "It is yellow."
And we found flies in the vinegar in the first term. They were still there when we left at the end of the year. Yummy.
(, Fri 28 Apr 2006, 13:26, Reply)
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