What's The Worst Meal A Family Member Has Cooked For You ? ?

[mayennaise]

Mine was my dear MIL who told us she was cooking a meat and potato pie for our tea after a five hour journey to get to her. We were starving and eagerly sat down on arrival to be greeted with lumps of tinned corned beef that had been warmed in water, topped by almost raw sliced spuds!! Yuk !! - she was quite pleased with it!
(My hubby was surrounded by blokes complaining about the food when he first joined the RN, he loved it, having been used to his mum's efforts for the previous 26 years!!)

[Zacs-Master]

My Grandma had a habit of feeding me Brawn sandwiches which had tiny remnants of bone in it. She also liked tripe as well.

[Mamyalynne]

I almost said Brawn too - then I remembered my Mum's first attempt at a curry, it was her usual stewed beef in oxo with onion and carrot and a huge tablespoon of curry powder thrown in at the end.

[boxtops]

Our worst meal was no meal at all, many years ago. We'd driven six hours to my parents to find that they'd already eaten, and there was no food in the house. We went to the pub and had a meat pie.

[EcclesCake]

Watery, lumpy, luke warm mash with a piece of steak that was cooked to death and like shoe leather with a side order of over cooked cauliflower.

I was about eight at the time and I still remember being polite and eating it.

[Mosaic]

Roast heart, when we were being 'minded' by a maiden aunt who had principles regarding childrens' nutrition, and thriftiness.

[tamborine]

Boiled pigs head & sauercraut by german BIL. The supposed delicacy, birds nest soup that was like a bowl of snot, by chinese SIL

[2sp_]

Roast goose one New Year's Day at Mr P's grandfather's.

We had re-heated mashed tatties, carrots and peas, the gravy was cold and the consistancy of porrige and Mr P's father broke a tooth on a bit of lead shot left in the bird.

I thought I was going to die from food poisoning or laughter.

[pastafreak]

The venison my soon-to-be mother in law served to her two sons and their girl friends. It stank to high heaven as it was cooking,and was worse on the plate. None of us ate it. I know its supposed to be hung,and may be 'whiffy',but this was enough to make a person gag. :-(

[Georgiesmum]

My mum was ill in bed once and my dad asked her what she would like to eat. She said she would love some scrambled egg. H e came back with some for her but she found it inedible. She said to him "How did you make the scrambled eggs dear?" He replied " Oh, in the usual way, beat up the eggs with milk and lots and lots of vinegar!" LOL

[Obiter]

My mother, who was an excellent cook, but who never liked unnecessary messing about, once told me that we would be having mince for tea. I asked her if she could make it with dumplings as she used to do when I was a child. She then went into the kitchen cupboard, removed a packet of suet and proceeded to make the dumplings. It was only on eating the first mouthful and retching that I discovered that the packet of suet had lain hidden in the cupboard for 19 years!

[Retrochic]

Before we married OH made a romantic dinner -we weren't living together at the time. I arrived was sat down and got half of a whole plaice, still on the bone -he cut it horizontally and I got the head -it kept looking at me with one eye - I found the other eye in the lumpy mash that accompanied it -seriously....Another time he was looking after the kids as I was working and gave them 'mixed grill' which consisted of fish fingers, pizza, fishcakes and some hash browns all cooked under the grill-they loved it. Hard to think now he serves up seared scallops with bacon on a bed of samphire, or duck cooked two ways -I'm still very wary about fish though.......

[rockyracoon]

My nan used to make us eat Brain's Faggots when we were kids, they were YAK.

[rockyracoon]

Lol Tambo, you just made me gag.

[Hopkirk]

When on a French exchange the mother told me the stew was 'tete de vache'.

To prove it she fished around and found the cow's nose.

[sherrardk]

Anything my MIL made, it was dull rank but the absolute worst was the delicious looking Victoria sponge filled with cream that was off - I'm gagging thinking about it.

[DTCwordfan]

a distant female cousin that we nicknamed 'scrotum' for her tendency to wear these two hairy spheroids on a necklace around her neck. Pasta (cook for 11 minutes) with tuna, samphire and tomatoes, pasta cooked for maybe 4 minutes, no cooking of the tuna (straight from the can and not fresh and seared), uncooked or maybe a minute on the samphire and, to finish it, raw toms.....

Luverly.

[Peaspeculiars]

I've just had Brains faggots for tea! They were lovely with mash and peas - they must've changed the recipe as I used to hate them too :o)
Worst meal was when my sister came home from first term at uni years ago, keen to show my parents that she had acquired good cooking acumen, she proceeded to rustle up garlic bread cooked in the plastic wrapper, crackers coated in pesto and cheese - grilled until black and a bean salad out of a tin - undrained of the brine - she was devastated that we refused to eat any of it, but cheered up when my dad popped to the chippy :o)

[Obiter]

I agree with Rocky about Brain's Faggots, but freshly mad faggots bought from your local porkshop were delicious. BTY, interesting word, faggot (or fagot), it has so many different meanings that depending where you are and to whom you are talking some comical misunderstandings may arise.

[Obiter]

For mad read made