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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Noix de pétonclesI (unfortunately) lived in the not so beautiful city of Strasbourg as a student a few years ago. It was a horrendously expensive and unbelievably miserable seven months. Thankfully this abject misery was was occasionally punctuated by dinner at the delightfully named "flunch", which was like the bastard son of little chef and wimpy, but was about the only place I could afford to eat. I wasn't so hot on the delicate nuances of the French language with regard to food vocab, so I relied largely on my ability to see and smell. One day, feeling adventurous on my long-overdue visit to flunch, I thought I'd really go to town and give the specials board a once over. I decided on the noix de pétoncles au vin. It turned out to be a mixed of very fishy spongy nuggets and some sort of leathery flesh in a viscous sauce that smelled decidedly "special". I managed one small mouthful, but the second the taste and texture of the second was so bad that I vomited down my nose on my way to the toilet and had to leave the restaurant as soon as I emerged. That was was the last time I visited flunch, and upon conducting some basic research I found out that it was a hideously over-cooked mix of horse steak, scallops and wine. I'll be giving that one a wide berth in the future.
(, Tue 22 May 2007, 20:15, Reply)
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