What's the nastiest thing you've ever been served at a restaurant?

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We went out for a quick bite today and I decided to go some place
new... they had 'stuffed mushroom caps' on the appetiser menu and it
sounded delicious - I don't know what I expected, but it sure wasn't
what showed up on the plate! DH tasted it before I did and practically
spat it out with a look of loathing on his face, followed by a huge
gulp of his soda... I thought he was being picky (he is sometimes) so
I tried too... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no trace whatsoever of the
advertised 'prosciutto, onions, celery and garlic'. Well, the garlic
was amply in evidence - there were about twenty-five cloves of the
stuff spread around on the plate. It was just grey soggy caps filled
with grey soggy BITTER goo.
This was the first plate of food that I've had absolutely no
hesitation in sending back to the kitchen - usually I pick at it and
eat what I can, but this time absolutely NOTHING on the plate was
salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
they were harder to mess up...

So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
 
Mark Thorson wrote:
>
> Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> >
> > So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> > unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
>
> Anthony Bourdain said for him it was this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl#Reactions

My son's girlfriend is part Icelandic and went there for the summer last
year and was served "rotten shark". She couldn't get it into her mouth.


My parents went to Denmark several times and had horror stories about
smoked eel. When I went there I gave it a try. I thought it was one of the
best things I had ever tasted.
 
Bummer about your 'shrooms. Hope your wings were better! When I was a
kid, my parents took us on a trip to Monterey. They took us out to a
nice restaurant one evening, and my sister & I ordered steamer clams,
which we had never had before. My mom warned us that they weren't like
the clams in chowder, but we persisted. When they were put in front of
us, I took one out of the shell and proceeded to cut it in half- bad
idea. There was no way in hell I was going to eat that! They were
probably delicious, but I don't remember eating more than the one I
cut. My parents weren't wealthy, so no wonder my mom was mad.
 
merryb wrote:
>
> Bummer about your 'shrooms. Hope your wings were better! When I was a
> kid, my parents took us on a trip to Monterey. They took us out to a
> nice restaurant one evening, and my sister & I ordered steamer clams,
> which we had never had before. My mom warned us that they weren't like
> the clams in chowder, but we persisted. When they were put in front of
> us, I took one out of the shell and proceeded to cut it in half- bad
> idea. There was no way in hell I was going to eat that! They were
> probably delicious, but I don't remember eating more than the one I
> cut. My parents weren't wealthy, so no wonder my mom was mad.


The first time I went to Paris there was a seafood restaurant near our
hotel that we passed every day and it looked pretty good, so we planned on
a splurge there for our last night. We ordered a "seafood platter" thinking
that it would be like a seafood platter we would get here, a selection of
things like Clams Casino, Oysters Rockerfeller, crab legs, shrimp,
scallops, calamari and maybe a piece of fish. What we got was a huge
platter of ice with a ring of oysters, and inside that a ring of clams,
then little piles of periwinkles and small shrimp like critter. The snails
and the shrimp were cooked. It was more raw molluscs that we were able to
handle. Note to self.... fruit du mer does not translate literally to
seafood platter.
 
"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email protected]> wrote

> salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
> something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
> I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
> they were harder to mess up...
>
> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?

Ugh. Well, the only thing that comes to mind right now is a time
I went to a 'mexican' restaurant. For whatever reason, I was under
the impression the food was good. Cute place, Irish name. I
ordered beef tacos. The beef was super dry crumbled & ground.
I can hardly describe it after the word inedible. It had the texture
and appearance of having sat out uncovered for a couple of days. I tried.
Couldn't eat it. Didn't want to send it back, it was one of those places
where the owner was sitting right there with the only other person in the
place, the waitress was his daughter, I just wanted out of there.

I tried to conceal the uneaten condition of my dinner, but how can
you hide a full plate of food? No worries, the waitress took my plate
away without comment. Maybe that happened a lot there.

Wonder if it's still in business.

nancy
 
Karen AKA Kajikit said...

> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?


Not the food so much as the entire experience. I stopped in at an Italian
restaurant that came highly recommended.

I walked in and aside from a couple at another table it was just me the
manager and a plump little waitress.

It was difficult to order because the waitress didn't speak English and
whatever I ordered the manager translated. I ordered the spaghetti and
meatballs and garlic bread. Without saying a word she left and put in my
order.

Next she brings out a basket of plain rolls. I said garlic bread and the
manager translated. She walked away and came back about 5 minutes later and
put a basket of garlic bread on the table, leaving the other basket sitting
there. And she left. I was kinda/sorta hoping to have my spaghetti WITH my
garlic bread.

About 15 minutes go by and finally my dish arrives and it's a giant platter
of luke warm spaghetti in a watery tomato sauce and two meatballs. I also
had to request parmesan cheese, which took another minute.

The whole time the waitress didn't say a word! I couldn't get over it.

I managed a mouthful and then just gave up, got up and left. The manager
just bowed out of my way and didn't say a word as I left.

It was certainly a Twilite Zone experience!

Andy
 
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:47:37 -0400, Karen AKA Kajikit
<[email protected]> wrote:

> what's the nastiest thing you've
>unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?

has to be the stuffed mushroom caps.
 
On Jul 3, 5:47?pm, Karen AKA Kajikit <[email protected]> wrote:
> We went out for a quick bite today and I decided to go some place
> new... they had 'stuffed mushroom caps' on the appetiser menu and it
> sounded delicious - I don't know what I expected, but it sure wasn't
> what showed up on the plate! DH tasted it before I did and practically
> spat it out with a look of loathing on his face, followed by a huge
> gulp of his soda... I thought he was being picky (he is sometimes) so
> I tried too... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no trace whatsoever of the
> advertised 'prosciutto, onions, celery and garlic'. Well, the garlic
> was amply in evidence - there were about twenty-five cloves of the
> stuff spread around on the plate. It was just grey soggy caps filled
> with grey soggy BITTER goo.
> This was the first plate of food that I've had absolutely no
> hesitation in sending back to the kitchen - usually I pick at it and
> eat what I can, but this time absolutely NOTHING on the plate was
> salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
> something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
> I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
> they were harder to mess up...
>
> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?

No question about this one, a complete lambs brain ... in Turkey.
Turkey has very good food, so I was a little surprised when the thing
I ordered from the menu turnes out to be a whole lambs brain...
chilled

Rosie
 
rosie wrote:
> On Jul 3, 5:47?pm, Karen AKA Kajikit <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>We went out for a quick bite today and I decided to go some place
>>new... they had 'stuffed mushroom caps' on the appetiser menu and it
>>sounded delicious - I don't know what I expected, but it sure wasn't
>>what showed up on the plate! DH tasted it before I did and practically
>>spat it out with a look of loathing on his face, followed by a huge
>>gulp of his soda... I thought he was being picky (he is sometimes) so
>>I tried too... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no trace whatsoever of the
>>advertised 'prosciutto, onions, celery and garlic'. Well, the garlic
>>was amply in evidence - there were about twenty-five cloves of the
>>stuff spread around on the plate. It was just grey soggy caps filled
>>with grey soggy BITTER goo.
>>This was the first plate of food that I've had absolutely no
>>hesitation in sending back to the kitchen - usually I pick at it and
>>eat what I can, but this time absolutely NOTHING on the plate was
>>salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
>>something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
>>I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
>>they were harder to mess up...
>>
>>So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
>>unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
>
>
> No question about this one, a complete lambs brain ... in Turkey.
> Turkey has very good food, so I was a little surprised when the thing
> I ordered from the menu turnes out to be a whole lambs brain...
> chilled
>
> Rosie
>
Actually I found them quite good. Rather like pickled cauliflower in
many respects. Had them in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Turkey.

George
 
Mussels. I ordered them and they were so fishy that I nearly puked when I
bit into one. I sent the whole order back, ordered sword fish and have
never eaten another mussel again.

"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> We went out for a quick bite today and I decided to go some place
> new... they had 'stuffed mushroom caps' on the appetiser menu and it
> sounded delicious - I don't know what I expected, but it sure wasn't
> what showed up on the plate! DH tasted it before I did and practically
> spat it out with a look of loathing on his face, followed by a huge
> gulp of his soda... I thought he was being picky (he is sometimes) so
> I tried too... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no trace whatsoever of the
> advertised 'prosciutto, onions, celery and garlic'. Well, the garlic
> was amply in evidence - there were about twenty-five cloves of the
> stuff spread around on the plate. It was just grey soggy caps filled
> with grey soggy BITTER goo.
> This was the first plate of food that I've had absolutely no
> hesitation in sending back to the kitchen - usually I pick at it and
> eat what I can, but this time absolutely NOTHING on the plate was
> salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
> something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
> I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
> they were harder to mess up...
>
> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
 
Mark Thorson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
>>
>> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
>> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
>
>Anthony Bourdain said for him it was this:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl#Reactions

Any recipe that includes the direction "bury in gravel
for 6 to 12 weeks" is just asking for critical opinion.

--Blair
 
"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

<snip>
>
> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?

I didn't actually order this. My daughter did. It was the macaroni and
cheese at Olive Garden. She tried a bite of it and began crying. Said it
had no flavor whatever and she was right. It was some overcooked macaroni
in a bland white sauce. Had no taste of cheese whatever. Pathetic.
 
"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> We went out for a quick bite today and I decided to go some place
> new... they had 'stuffed mushroom caps' on the appetiser menu and it
> sounded delicious - I don't know what I expected, but it sure wasn't
> what showed up on the plate! DH tasted it before I did and practically
> spat it out with a look of loathing on his face, followed by a huge
> gulp of his soda... I thought he was being picky (he is sometimes) so
> I tried too... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no trace whatsoever of the
> advertised 'prosciutto, onions, celery and garlic'. Well, the garlic
> was amply in evidence - there were about twenty-five cloves of the
> stuff spread around on the plate. It was just grey soggy caps filled
> with grey soggy BITTER goo.
> This was the first plate of food that I've had absolutely no
> hesitation in sending back to the kitchen - usually I pick at it and
> eat what I can, but this time absolutely NOTHING on the plate was
> salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
> something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
> I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
> they were harder to mess up...
>
> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?


Japanese food. Some of it can be so unbelievably hideous. For me it is a
toss-up between natto, which smells and tastes like vomit, or a dish made
from jellied fish eggs served in warm fish liver "crème" for lack of a
better word. I've only gagged once in a restaurant and that was it. I
damned near puked in my napkin.

As for natto, well be warned. If many Japanese hate it, you know it has to
be bad.

Paul
 
Blair P. Houghton wrote:

> Mark Thorson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> >>
> >> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> >> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
> >
> > Anthony Bourdain said for him it was this:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl#Reactions
>
> Any recipe that includes the direction "bury in gravel
> for 6 to 12 weeks" is just asking for critical opinion.
>
> --Blair

Balut! Kimchee!

--
-Gina in Italy

Favorite phrase of the day: Messiah-envy
 
Nancy Young wrote:

>
> "Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email protected]> wrote
>
> > salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
> > something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
> > I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
> > they were harder to mess up...
> >
> > So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> > unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
>
> Ugh. Well, the only thing that comes to mind right now is a time
> I went to a 'mexican' restaurant. For whatever reason, I was under
> the impression the food was good. Cute place, Irish name. I
> ordered beef tacos. The beef was super dry crumbled & ground.
> I can hardly describe it after the word inedible. It had the texture
> and appearance of having sat out uncovered for a couple of days. I
> tried. Couldn't eat it. Didn't want to send it back, it was one of
> those places where the owner was sitting right there with the only
> other person in the place, the waitress was his daughter, I just
> wanted out of there.
>
> I tried to conceal the uneaten condition of my dinner, but how can
> you hide a full plate of food? No worries, the waitress took my plate
> away without comment. Maybe that happened a lot there.
>
> Wonder if it's still in business.
>
> nancy

I wonder why an irish place would serve tacos? LOL

--
-Gina in Italy

Favorite phrase of the day: Messiah-envy
 
Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> We went out for a quick bite today and I decided to go some place
> new... they had 'stuffed mushroom caps' on the appetiser menu and it
> sounded delicious - I don't know what I expected, but it sure wasn't
> what showed up on the plate! DH tasted it before I did and practically
> spat it out with a look of loathing on his face, followed by a huge
> gulp of his soda... I thought he was being picky (he is sometimes) so
> I tried too... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no trace whatsoever of the
> advertised 'prosciutto, onions, celery and garlic'. Well, the garlic
> was amply in evidence - there were about twenty-five cloves of the
> stuff spread around on the plate. It was just grey soggy caps filled
> with grey soggy BITTER goo.
> This was the first plate of food that I've had absolutely no
> hesitation in sending back to the kitchen - usually I pick at it and
> eat what I can, but this time absolutely NOTHING on the plate was
> salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
> something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
> I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
> they were harder to mess up...
>
> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?

Pretty much anything served at Sonic. Granted I like tater tots and they
can manage those. But I don't like dried out burgers. We were on the road
and this small town had nothing else to offer, not even a McD's! We were
hungry. I wouldn't recommend anything from Sonic.

Jill
 
none wrote:

> Julie Bove wrote:
> >"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > <snip>
> > > So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> > > unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
> >
> > I didn't actually order this. My daughter did. It was the
> > macaroni and cheese at Olive Garden. She tried a bite of it and
> > began crying. Said it had no flavor whatever and she was right.
> > It was some overcooked macaroni in a bland white sauce. Had no
> > taste of cheese whatever. Pathetic.
> There may be good or even excellent Olive Garden restaurants, but the
> one in this town didn't inspire me to become a return customer. In
> fact, I gave the remaining value (well more than half) of my $40 gift
> card away to a coworker. The free food wasn't worth the drive across
> town.

I like it occasionally, but they shouldn't be allowed to call it
Italian...lol. I feel sorry for the poor schmucks that get transferred
here and expect to get olive garden type food out in town. Doesn't
exist.

--
-Gina in Italy

Favorite phrase of the day: Messiah-envy
 
Julie Bove wrote:
> "Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
> <snip>
>> So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
>> unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
>
> I didn't actually order this. My daughter did. It was the macaroni and
> cheese at Olive Garden. She tried a bite of it and began crying. Said it
> had no flavor whatever and she was right. It was some overcooked macaroni
> in a bland white sauce. Had no taste of cheese whatever. Pathetic.
>
>
There may be good or even excellent Olive Garden restaurants, but the
one in this town didn't inspire me to become a return customer. In fact,
I gave the remaining value (well more than half) of my $40 gift card
away to a coworker. The free food wasn't worth the drive across town.
 
Paul M. Cook wrote:

>
> "Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > We went out for a quick bite today and I decided to go some place
> > new... they had 'stuffed mushroom caps' on the appetiser menu and it
> > sounded delicious - I don't know what I expected, but it sure wasn't
> > what showed up on the plate! DH tasted it before I did and
> > practically spat it out with a look of loathing on his face,
> > followed by a huge gulp of his soda... I thought he was being picky
> > (he is sometimes) so I tried too... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no
> > trace whatsoever of the advertised 'prosciutto, onions, celery and
> > garlic'. Well, the garlic was amply in evidence - there were about
> > twenty-five cloves of the stuff spread around on the plate. It was
> > just grey soggy caps filled with grey soggy BITTER goo.
> > This was the first plate of food that I've had absolutely no
> > hesitation in sending back to the kitchen - usually I pick at it and
> > eat what I can, but this time absolutely NOTHING on the plate was
> > salvageable. I even sampled a second mushroom in case there had been
> > something wrong with the first one, but it was just as foul.
> > I sent back the mushrooms and ordered chicken wings instead, because
> > they were harder to mess up...
> >
> > So, that's my vent over with... what's the nastiest thing you've
> > unwittingly ordered/been served at a restaurant?
>
>
> Japanese food. Some of it can be so unbelievably hideous. For me it
> is a toss-up between natto, which smells and tastes like vomit, or a
> dish made from jellied fish eggs served in warm fish liver "crhme"
> for lack of a better word. I've only gagged once in a restaurant
> and that was it. I damned near puked in my napkin.
>
> As for natto, well be warned. If many Japanese hate it, you know it
> has to be bad.
>
> Paul

Yeah, when I lived in japan, I stuck to the chicken shacks and noodle
shops.

--
-Gina in Italy

Favorite phrase of the day: Messiah-envy
 
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