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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On leaving homeWhen I first left home and before I learned to cook, I lived with an old girlfriend and her gay (male) mate.
None of us had lived away from home before and although we could cook a little, it was much easier to just get stoned all the time and eat whatever we had in.
Nic, my ex, lived on boiled pasta with salt and pepper.
Tim lived on pot noodles
I had the most varied of diets, tomato puree on bread and dipped in olive oil.
This probably would have been fine for a day or so. We did it for three months and it only came to an end when my girlfriend visited and cooked as a roast with all the trimmings. I swear that each one of us was sick afterwards as we hadn't had any vitimins for months.
We were all pale and thin, pretty much heroin chic (quite fashionable at the time).
There were lots of leftovers from the roast so for the next couple of days we ate well and started to feel normal again. We resolved that we needed to cook properly and eat a decent meal at least once a day.
It was during this stage that I discovered, whilst experimenting, that sweet & sour caper stir-fry is not only a no no, it can make a demure girl projectile vomit by smell alone.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 20:40, Reply)
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