Terrible foodBack when I was a student, we had a "clear out the fridge" party. Everyone brought what they had left and the idea was to make a big meal out of it.
The stew/casserole/whatever was going surprisingly well until someone added the tin of mackerel in tomato sauce they'd been hoarding all year.
What's the worst thing you've ever cooked or eaten? Who's the worst cook you've encountered?
[and yes, we've asked this before, but way, way back before we had the fancy QOTW pages]
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chthonic, Thu 17 May 2007, 10:23)
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The first meal I cooked for myself after leaving homewas pretty bad; I liked roast chicken but there was no way I was going to try that as food poisoning would be inevitable, so I decided just to have the stuffing. I peeled some potatoes and put them on to boil, made up the stuffing following the recipe, realised I hadn't switched the oven on so did that, waited 10 minutes for it to get up to temperature, worked out that the hissing noise I could hear from the sofa (where I was waiting for the oven) was the potatoes I'd forgotten all about boiling over, turned the potatoes down a bit, put the stuffing in and left it all for another 30 minutes for the stuffing to cook.
I'd totally forgotten to put the peas on so decided I didn't need them. After 45 minutes boiling, the potatoes were more of a tasteless sludge with lumps in while the stuffing was lovely and crispy and black on the outside while remaining wet and gooey on the inside. I went as far as trying a couple of mouthfuls as this was the first time I'd cooked my own dinner away from home and it was every bit as good as it sounds.
Then I ordered a pizza and bought my first cookery book the next day.
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S tr app y, Thu 17 May 2007, 14:24,
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