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So I americium beauteous definite we've each been there, you're sitting astatine someone's meal table, staring astatine a sheet of nutrient you wouldn't usually interaction due to the fact that it's conscionable not good. But erstwhile a friend, household member, SO, oregon big has gone retired of their mode to navigator for you, saying "ummm... nary thanks" tin consciousness downright rude. So you smile, instrumentality a bite, and anticipation your look doesn't springiness you away, oregon let's beryllium real, that it doesn't travel backmost up!!!
Recently, redditor unknown_guy02 truly wanted to cognize astir those foods erstwhile they asked: "What was the worst nutrient you ate astatine somebody's location retired of politeness?"
Needless to say, the thread rapidly blew up with hundreds of replies. Here are immoderate of the apical and champion — and by "best," we mean genuinely atrocious — stories astir the worst things radical person eaten astatine idiosyncratic else's house:
1. "I erstwhile choked down immoderate ace salty crockery astatine a friend’s location conscionable to beryllium nice, felt similar I was drinking the ocean!"
2. "A vegan Thanksgiving, but it wasn’t prepared well. Everything had the consistency and spirit of a bedewed loaf of bread."
3. "An acquaintance of excavation was served sauerkraut lasagna astatine a friend's place."
4. "When we archetypal moved successful unneurotic with my partner, I watched successful fearfulness arsenic helium made a 'grilled cheese,' which was: Toast bread, use food to toast, microwave to melt the cheese, past devour the abomination. Apparently, this is besides however his household made 'tuna melts.'"
5. "Former mother-in-law cooked turkey until the nutrient pulled backmost from the drumsticks into a hard, reddish ball, and the wishbone exposed astir halfway down. She was not going to service until the past kid showed up for Thanksgiving. No 1 was successful a hurry, arsenic her cooking was bad. It was turkey jerky. Also, cooked frozen greenish beans astatine a rolling boil for 30 minutes (mush). In a erstwhile year, she cooked the turkey successful a roasting container until it collapsed into a heap. Literally, the thorax cavity gave up. Do not miss household meals astatine her house. Not 1 bit."
7. "I ate French toast that was conscionable toasted breadstuff (done successful a toaster) with syrup. Nothing was dipped successful egg. Nothing was grilled. It was conscionable toasted breadstuff and syrup. I deliberation I americium inactive a spot traumatized!"
8. "I dated a feline successful college, and helium invited maine implicit to his parents' for meal due to the fact that 'My ma is making my all-time favorite!' It was baked ziti. How atrocious could it be? UNSEASONED GROUND TURKEY mixed with jarred herb condiment mixed with h2o ('so determination is capable sauce!'), and unsalted/overcooked ziti, topped with... drumroll please... SLICES OF AMERICAN CHEESE. Baked successful the oven and served. My God. I’ll ne'er hide that monstrosity oregon however awkward it was to instrumentality a 'polite bite' and propulsion the remainder around, feigning a abrupt unwellness for the remainder of dinner."
9. "Burned pizza. The crust was achromatic for real. I would NEVER service that."
10. "I'll devour beauteous overmuch everything enactment successful beforehand of maine (my parents didn't tolerate picky eaters), and determination are lone a mates of times successful 62 years that I couldn't devour something. One was spaghetti and condiment cooked (using the word charitably) successful a microwave. Yes, we're talking earthy spaghetti noodles cooked successful sauce, successful a microwave!"
11. "A person made stuffed shells. I was excited to effort them due to the fact that she was ever a truly bully cook. Her look was…unique. They had mayo successful them. I’ve ne'er had thing truthful horrid. I managed to devour 1 earlier saying I was afloat from a large lunch."
12. "I went to a enactment astatine a friend's location erstwhile I was successful my aboriginal 20s. They thought shrimp cocktail was made from earthy shrimp. I did not devour it. Some radical did. I'm amazed nary 1 got violently sick from that."
13. "I was 'rewarded' with chickenhearted hearts, livers, and gizzards aft helping my high-school person shovel retired their parents' goat barn."
14. "Cuttlefish successful pureed greenish peas. MIL is nasty."
15. "Baloney crockery sandwiches with homemade chickenhearted noodle soup. Baloney crockery (nuff said), and the crockery was watery, and the vegetables were not afloat cooked. Served by my beloved MIL."
16. "Scrap crockery my ex's grandad made. Essentially conscionable leftovers with excessively overmuch ail and turned into a crockery with chunks of the leftover nutrient inside, perfectly vile, but they each ate it similar it was the champion happening ever 🤢."
17. "Insanely undercooked chickenhearted and those angel cakes you sweetener with strawberries, but they utilized brackish by mistake."
18. "Blackened (burnt) turkey 1 Thanksgiving. Thank goodness the mashed potatoes and gravy were not prepared by the hostess, arsenic they made tiny bits of turkey swallowable. Even the dogs refused the turkey. And nary 1 took seconds."
19. "When I was a kid, my parents and I went to sojourn distant household successful a distant agrarian area. They asked maine if I wanted cookies and milk, truthful I said, 'Of course.' The cookies were OK, but the beverage was consecutive retired of a cattle and tasted similar cattle poo smells. From the archetypal sip, I hated it. But my parents raised maine to beryllium polite, truthful I drank it."
21. "My grandma utilized to marque 'buttermilk chicken.' It was virtually unseasoned chickenhearted tegument on, afloat covered successful buttermilk, and enactment successful the oven. The chickenhearted nutrient was someway adust each time, but bully God, the skin, it was similar a soggy, rubbery furniture of congealed fat. I've ne'er experienced thing other similar it — 10/10 can't recommend. I had to devour it due to the fact that of nutrient insecurity arsenic a kid, but damn, you could not get maine to devour that skin, nary substance however bare I was."
22. "I secretly referred to it arsenic 'The Nothing Casserole.' It seemed to dwell of atom and I conjecture food oregon something, but immoderate they mixed in, it was incredibly bland too, and to maine it virtually tasted similar nothing. What's worse is that different radical eating it were like, 'This worldly is addictive.'"
23. "A person of excavation hosted a dinner. She made a vegetarian lasagna. It was a jar of acold Prego, Kraft Parmesan, and oven-ready noodles. The apical noodles were inactive crunchy, and the mediate was virtually cold. I had astir 3 bites, and past told her I was full."
24. "My friend’s hubby made her a peculiar meal for her day and invited conscionable 3 of her champion friends. I smiled and ate each wound of the saltiest steak, lobster, rice, and greenish beans I’ve ever had successful my life. I drank similar 3 glasses of h2o conscionable astatine dinner. I thanked them and past didn’t devour brackish for a week."
25. "Mashed potatoes (the flaky benignant from a box) with A LOT of earthy garlic, astir earthy greenish beans, and immoderate meat, the texture of a sole. Gave maine nutrient poisoning too."
26. "I person a large person who is the worst navigator I person ever known. I went circular for meal and was fixed a vessel of sausage and beans that wouldn’t person looked retired of spot successful a 19th-century penal colony. You cognize the expression, 'This looks similar s*it?' This, LITERALLY, looked similar a vessel of it. I person ever cooked aft this encounter."
27. And lastly, "Dehydrated food heads."
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