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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Burnt foodWhy do some people think burnt food is a treat? I was playing a gig once, and was fed stovies* at the interval. The woman doing the serving scraped a pile from the bottom of the pan and gave it to me with a smile and said something to the effect that I would enjoy it because of the 'lovely burnt bits'.
I gave it back to her (politely, mind) and asked for some without burnt bits, as I hate food which has been charred beyond recognition. She was most offended at my refusal.
*For the uninitiated, the fine Scottish dish of stovies consists of potatoes, onions, some sort of meat (sometimes corned beef or sausages, but more usually beef) and lots of saturated fat, all stewed in a pot until palatable. Think condensed potato soup, just greasier.
On a side note, I once witnessed the stovie cook helping herself to several mouthfuls out of the pot with the spoon she then used to serve everyone else's. I didn't have any that night!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 22 May 2007, 11:01,
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