The cheapest, nastiest, most horrible food you've experienced - Page 1
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author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 09:10:44 am
content: Since people are posting about the ugliest car and given that I'm a huge fan ofStuart Ashen'schannel, I'd love to know about the weird and horrible processed foods in your country.I personally tend to steer clear of anything canned, shrink-wrapped or highly processed (with some exceptions) and with the abundance of cheap, fresh produce in Australian supermarkets, you'd have to be coconuts to buy any of that other crap.The worst stuff I eat regularly would be Bánh mì (Vietnamese pork rolls). They contain two "mystery meats" which I'd rather not question, one beingVietnamese sausagesliced thinly. But they are so good, especially first thing in the morning and with extra chilli - AUD$4.00 from a good bakery gets you a nice filling breakfast.This is the video that got me hooked on Ashen's food videos, he has a brilliant way of articulating out of date or just poor quality food...

author: brucehoult
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 09:34:00 am
content: The worst I've actually *eaten*?On New Year's day 1999 when I was visiting the USA, driving through eastern Washington State, we couldn't find anything open at lunch time in some town (Yakima?) except a Taco Bell. My god, it was foul.Fortunately, at the next town where we were hungry we found an open Dennys. That felt like a big step up.

author: Avacee
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 09:36:24 am
content: Cheese in America - especially the yellow chemically saturated slice of plastic that comes with a Big Mac.Meat in America - especially the brown chemically saturated slice of plastic that comes with a Big Mac.I actually had a second Big Mac several days later because I couldn't believe the first one was so awful but it merely confirmed that McDonald's USA is really a chemical company.In fact - I'm not even sure Big Mac's should be in this thread as I'm not sure they qualified as food.And to be fair I did experience the other end of the spectrum at a german restaurant in Virginia which had the most amazing meats dishes imaginableAnd Big Mac's in Argentina = WOW!.. prime steak from a local ranch with no chemicalsEdit: Anyone else here remember Jamie Oliver and "Pink Slime"?

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 09:37:24 am
content: Quote from: brucehoult on September 11, 2017, 09:34:00 amOr come across.I don't imagine Americans actually *eat* this stuff... Surely it's just a novelty...

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 09:55:49 am
content: Worst food: soya meatMost disgusting thing that I did not dare to eat: Insect burger, raw fish (aka sushi),Most disqusting thing that I eat and enjoy: Bifi salami snack knock-offWorst drink: Budweiser tie with K?bányai Instant Sickness and "once i accidentally put salt in my cafe instead of sugar".

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 10:05:44 am
content: Quote from: NANDBlog on September 11, 2017, 09:55:49 amAwww, you are missing out. I'm not a huge "seafood person" myself but Sushi (or Sashimi) is among my favourite food. My best friend was like you, swore he'd never eat it, since trying it drunk one night, he has loved it ever since. Especially with soy and proper wasabi paste (not that horseradish stuff with food colouring).

author: gonzo_the_great
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 10:08:49 am
content: Do you mean that there is anything else, worse than a 'Pot Noodle'?

author: brucehoult
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 10:13:55 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on September 11, 2017, 10:05:44 amEven in Japan, 95+% of "wasabi" is actually horseradish&mustard. The real stuff is super expensive, and has to be grated within 15 minutes of consumption.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 10:18:47 am
content: Quote from: brucehoult on September 11, 2017, 10:13:55 amYep, it's chemical compounds are pretty volatile. They lose their piquancy quickly one the root is cut/grated.You can find it fresh in Australia where it's grown in cooler climates (mostly in Tasmania and Canberra) but it's not super-common.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 10:26:27 am
content: Quote from: gonzo_the_great on September 11, 2017, 10:08:49 amIn the spirit of this thread and being pro pot noodle, you need to try the Itsu Chicken Udon Noodle in a pot. Worms (soggy noodles) and slugs (quorn lumps) in a soup of spicy boiled dog shit. You'll be begging for a pot noodle again after that.https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Itsu-Chicken-Udon-Noodles/319519011That is simply the worst thing I've ever eaten. It was VILE. I've eaten goats testicles and pickled fermented fish if that's any comparison.Most American supermarket food and chain restaurant stuff is nearly as bad from experience.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 10:58:42 am
content: Quote from: bd139 on September 11, 2017, 10:26:27 amCode:Noodles (79%): Wheat Flour, Water, Lactic Acid, Corn Oil, Salt, Soup Paste (21%): British Chicken Stock Base (25%) (Cooked British Chicken Meat (50%), Yeast Extract, Salt, Chicken Fat, Dried Vegetables (Leek, Onion), Sugar, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Black Pepper, Sage), Roast Onion Puree, Tomato Puree, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Garlic Puree, Ginger Puree, Sunflower Oil, Ground Spices (Coriander, Cumin, Turmeric, Chilli, Cinnamon, Cardamon), Dried Tomato, Spirit Vinegar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Yeast Extract, Water, Skimmed Milk Powder, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Lactic Acid, Coriander Leaf, Fenugreek, Rosemary Extract, Dried Vegetables & Tofu sachet: Tofu (Soya Beans, Maltose, Starch (Potato, Tapioca), Firming Agent: Calcium Sulfate), Wakame Seaweed, Spring Onion.Surprising lack ofE-numbers. But what the hell is "British Chicken" ?!

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 11:27:06 am
content: It's chicken, except when it's slaughtered they soak it in tea for a few hours.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 11:33:26 am
content: Quote from: bd139 on September 11, 2017, 11:27:06 amSounds moist. :-)

author: RGB255_0_0
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 11:36:50 am
content: TunaSpamMushroomPot Noodle isn't the worst snack in a pot food going.

author: Lord of nothing
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 11:56:23 am
content: QuoteI would say it depend on the National Law what kind of ingredient must be declared.The worst food ever? US 3rd Party MRE.(MRE * )

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 12:00:04 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on September 11, 2017, 10:05:44 amEleven courses of Sushi in Taiwan. Lots of the courses were components of a fish that I didn't even recognise - and some I wish I hadn't.Apparently averyexpensive meal (our CEO was over there from the US at the same time), but totally wasted on my English palate.There wasn't even any pudding to settle it down!EDIT: Sorry, I failed the "Cheapest" test.

author: Lord of nothing
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 12:01:13 pm
content: I got the best Sushi i ever had in Japan from the local supermarket.

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 01:39:01 pm
content: You guys know sushi can have worms right? Even if it has been frozen, you're still eating dead worms...just think about that next time you eat anything raw.

author: Lord of nothing
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 01:43:23 pm
content: the are natural. Better than US Food who is genetic manipulate stuff have in.And other stuff who can harm the health.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 03:30:20 pm
content: Quote from: Cyberdragon on September 11, 2017, 01:39:01 pmI prefer my worms cooked!

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 03:44:05 pm
content: Back in the early 1970s, I spent some time in the UK.The fast food there was seriously dire.----Aussies, Yanks, Kiwis, & Canucks would get together & whinge about it.Even English Fish 'n' Chips wasn't as good as I expected----the quality in Scotland was far better.In Southampton, there was a roadside burger van I sometimes attended.The burger "patties" were slices off a sort of big sausage, the onions were half cooked, & the buns soft.I once drove 70miles to London to buy KFC, but it was a bit cold, & served with chips, which I found weird.( KFC in Oz didn't do chips back then)From what I've heard, fast food has improved out of sight in the UK since those far off days.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 03:50:00 pm
content: Couldn't agree more. It hasn't improved. British food is dire generally. Bland, tasteless, overcooked crap covered in gravy and shit. The humble roast dinner is one of the biggest offenders being a ritual rather than a meal. The success of the foreign restaurant and takeaway is testament to how shit it actually is.Yes I'm a whinging pomAlthough I'm not too proud to say my guilty pleasure is a KFC Fillet Box meal.

author: Connoiseur
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 03:52:02 pm
content: Porotta (also spelt as parotta, parantha etc.) Chicken made by some guy like this

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 03:53:44 pm
content: I've seen that before.To be honest any food you get from a country who's entire hygiene system is based on eating with one hand and wiping your arse with the other one doesn't inspire much confidence in me.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 04:00:00 pm
content: Deep in the heart of poor parts of Mexico. What we called "dogmeat" tortas. Cooked on the spot over waste oil fires by street venders who had washed their hands and equipment at least once in the last decade. The meat was whatever they could catch. Roof rat. Lizards. Real rats. Whatever. Chopped into tiny bits to disguise origin and spiced with best local peppers for both flavor and disguise.When you are young and hungry you will eat anything.

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 06:10:47 pm
content: Chocolate covered bananas, and the bananas had gone soft and brown inside.That experience put me off them for life.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 06:39:06 pm
content: Pizza margherita in france had an olive in the middle.AN OLIVE

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 06:42:30 pm
content: jokes aside, italian food cooked by brits, french and germans aside... one of the worst things i ever ate was crispy bacon i once had for breakfast in arizona. seriously, how can you eat that thing? a brown-reddish crust that may resemble bacon (but only because i have tv that tells me it should be bacon) with no taste other than charcoal.and beef jerky too. horrible.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 07:05:04 pm
content: Pineapple. Used to eat it till I spent 3 months in training in the military, where the Mess hall had gotten a large ( as in 40 tons) shipment of them in. Thus we had a typical menu for the day being :Breakfast.Pineapple chunks in the cereal, pineapple chunks in the scrambled eggs, ditto in the bacon ( or worse in the canned sausage surprise! they did 3 days a week), same in the soggy toast, same in the spread for said soggy toast. sliced pieces on the oats. Juice was, you guessed correctly, pineapple juice, freshly ( same week) made in the large mincer. Coffee has little decorations of the cursed things in the powder, and the milk, due to being in the same fridge, and using the same urns as well, tasted of it. the tables were decorated with them as well, and there were lots of decor there.Lunch.Take out sandwich, containing bread, the spread from breakfast ( complete with the smell), and whatever they had around, all tasting of pineapple, plus a fruit slice of pineapple.Dinner, same decor as breakfast, but you had pineapple flavoured dessert, and fruit cocktail consisting of pineapple and possibly an apple chunk or two per serving tray. All served with that lovely aroma.Local KFC did a roaring trade from us, except for the one item that nobody ever bought, the Hawaiian burger, which they never sold to us.They also got 40 tons of oranges, which we, as free labour, were told to pack in pockets for distribution elsewhere. Still like oranges though.Aside from pineapple I did not eat the mystery meat, as I knew, from having a neighbour who was a military chef, just what went into each batch.Did quite like the liver though, even if most people there would not eat it at all, that was one thing they almost always got right, and it was always served nicely done. Another good thing was the chicken a la landmine, which was always good. Corned meat was great as well, in almost every form, but when they mixed it with the canned sausage ( our nickname for it is not printable here) it was best avoided.

author: joseph nicholas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 07:05:54 pm
content: The stuff they serve in Hawaii, its called "Poi". Tastes and looks like wall paper paste.

author: Vtile
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 07:23:34 pm
content: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/M%C3%A4mmi-2.jpgThat is actually good, like a beer concentrate.Worst food: FDF tin can veggie MRE.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 07:35:22 pm
content: Quote from: Vtile on September 11, 2017, 07:23:34 pmWas this part of a 7 day ration pack, which was the size of 4 slices of bread, and which also contained 10 tea bags as well, along with 10 fuel pellets to "cook' your meals over. Remember a MRE is really good when you are hungry, just depends how hungry you have to be before it is good, and if you can find anything else ( like birds, rats, mice, dogs, cats, mopani worms, termites, old boots) to eat first. Only good thing is that a 20 year old MRE tastes the same as a brand new one, and still is better tasting than the meal from the golden arches.

author: Vtile
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 07:40:50 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on September 11, 2017, 07:35:22 pmThey said that it keeps you from dying from hunger, but I doubt if anyone can keep it inside long enough.Luckily it were inside only in one ratio bag assortment.Couldn't eat chicken for a few years after service trip. Uh... yak. They have to had that 30 metric tons for cheap. Also the meat soup without meat were interesting as some miserable cook in supply division managed to spill the firts patch to ground and only what they had left were potatoes, salt and water. .. Ah, now I remember the potatoes with meat in first weeks, some jerk put to my meshkit (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Bundeswehr_Feldessgeschirr_2.JPG) so big potatoe that there were no room for meat and the potatoe only had about half of an inch edible layer on top, core had some deformation.

author: Assafl
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 08:19:10 pm
content: Right now jellyfish is taxing my palate.Unfortunately I have a rule that for me to disqualify a food I have to try at 4 times at four different restaurants who are praised for preparing the ingredient/dish.That Said - I really dislike vegan meat substitutes. Calling it a burger begs for disappointment. Call it a saitan croquet and maybe it'll disappoint less. Tofu is great as tofu. Not as a steak.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 09:17:27 pm
content: Quote from: Assafl on September 11, 2017, 08:19:10 pmUghh, been there too.Don't pass up the Limpets.

author: igendel
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 09:38:42 pm
content: One time I got a local "just pour hot water into this plastic cup and wait" thing, I think it was called "Noodles with mushroom sauce". Everyone knows these products are horrible but I had no choice, under the special circumstances it was either that or nothing.So when the time came I followed the instructions, poured the hot water, stirred as much as I could, waited, and gave it a go. It was the saltiest, most industrial-flavored, most tongue-numbing thing I have ever tasted. I actually resorted to picking the noodles out and washing them, there's only so much salt and Monosodium Glutamate even a hungry man can take.And then, as I approached the bottom of the cup, I saw there a huge lump of the powdered "sauce". Apparently I didn't stir it enough, and only about a third of the stuff actually dissolve in the water.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2017, 10:39:54 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on September 11, 2017, 10:58:42 amIt's six foot tall, has a Scottish accent, and currently has its beady eye coquettishly pointed atyou.I'd run if I was you old chap. Fast. Now.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2017, 01:08:44 am
content: American so-called apple pie.

author: helius
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2017, 02:07:29 am
content: Quote from: Monkeh on September 12, 2017, 01:08:44 amI assume it was some factory oversugared product? I think those are bad everywhere.My personal animus is for terrible pizza, which is unfortunately too common. Pizza Hut must be among the worst: I'm convinced their "Mozzarella" is mostly lard.QuoteIncidentally Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are both owned by the samecorporate parent.A parent that instills a fear and loathing of its cooking.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2017, 02:08:38 am
content: Quote from: helius on September 12, 2017, 02:07:29 amApple pie is meant to be tart, not sweet. But yes, this was one of the truly horrific all sugar types.

author: helius
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2017, 02:12:25 am
content: Quote from: Monkeh on September 12, 2017, 02:08:38 amSome regions of the US (like the South) are known for making everything shockingly sweet, from tea to desserts. The amounts of sugar in recipe books are predictably twice what is really needed. It may have to do with the climate. (Mexico is also known for super-sweet foods)

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2017, 02:14:57 am
content: Quote from: helius on September 12, 2017, 02:12:25 amWell, I was in NC. The barbecue made up for the apple pie.

author: helius
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2017, 02:19:53 am
content: Has anyone here triedBalut? Something about it seems so appealing (or horrifying?)