What is your worst food experience?

Mine would be in a french restaurant, they served me a almost warm drink (soft drink) and a chewy steak, i ended up leaving my table and not paying for it as it was just uneatable, what was your worst experience so far?

(yes it can also be things like OJ and toothpaste taste)

@Iszdope: wow, never get shoarma for the street xD!

@Iszdope: food poisoning word!

@Iszdope: try getting food poisoning for spicy curry, you will cry!

The chow hall for the last half of my deployment. I swear to god there were fingernails in my chicken alfredo.

@plageus900: ok that is even more disgusting as disgusting!

Vacation in Berlin right before Christmas.. Eat in a restaurant... Tasted delicious, however I also got food poisoned or something from it. Vomited some 6 times or so in the next 24 hours. First time in the security control at the airport. Luckily it was quite obvious that I wasn't feeling well so before I vomited they had handed me something to vomit into... To bad it was just too small.

@horgen: haha, atleast they tried, right?

Yeah they tried. I feel bad for the janitor who cleaned up the mess. It was roller coaster that day. I vomit, and feel fine. Over the next 2 hours I get worse and worse again. Vomit again and so I feel fine again. Repeat a few more times. Of course there had to be a large group of police officers looking for drug smugglers at the airport in Norway when we got there... Luckily they didn't stop me... I probably looked like someone trying to smuggle stuff by having it inside me, and something went wrong.

@horgen: lol, i think they saw the food xD

In-flight airline food.

I've traveled and traveled and traveled via airlines, dating back to when I was a kid. I'd say that on well over half of those flights, the food was terrible.

It's come to the point that I stick with just the snack and maybe not even that. I stick with canned drink.

Bought some taco shells that ended up being 3 years old, gave me food poisoning.

I see you're not the "rare dracula" of the table,neither am I,it's gross isn't it,should've had raw oceanic fish instead...for me personally,my worst foodie experience goes to some market dishes at Beijing years ago...god awful is that they sold bugs the size of an child's fist on a skewer,gives me the creeps to see or eat one,in compensation,I prefer starfish,soy sauce-steamed worms,and snakes served with liquor or tea.

I also have to add silkworm pupa back in Seoul, South Korea. Tried it once. Never tried it again.

Reading through this thread I realise I've never had that bad of an experience with food =P

@jun_aka_pekto: I also had that back when I finished hiking a mountain,it's tasty nonetheless...to me those silkworms are like mushrooms,best served warm,I happen to finish about 2 medium cups of it

I tried Scrapple once.

Once.

Most disgusting shite I ever ate in my life. Tastes like the cook swept the floor in the kitchen and threw it on the grill with a little oil.

Flan.

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If France is like Germany, that's simply how they serve their soft drinks - at room temperature. Same for beer.

Oh God, this is it for me, too. My brother in law is from New Jersey and it's one of his favorite foods. I couldn't finish it.

Haha. Around here, Hispanics sell flan on the corner. I can't imagine anyone buying it from an "unknown" source like that.

It probably wasn't rotavirus, was probably E.coli or Salmonella poisoning.

Rotavirus usually occurs in young kids/toddlers

Was at this great pizza place. eating some amazing pizza.

Then i got full. i wanted to keep eating it, but i couldnt .

it was horrible.

I got food poisoning in Punta Cana. I was in intense pain, crapping blood, throwing up blood, I thought I was going to die.

I can safely say I've never had a bad meal, I always do my research before I go out to eat. If we're talking fast-food restaurants then I got a Big Mac once upon a time, and the bread was so hard that I nearly broke my front teeth biting into it.

If I was in a Survivorman situation. I'd probably enjoy silkworm pupa. But, we had bulgogi, pot stickers, chapchae, ramen, and kimchi as the main meal. The silkworm pupa was just an appetizer.

Survivorman. I love his show. You know he eats the worst stuff.

I had a bite of a veggie burger once.

Once.

@SOedipus: "I got food poisoning in Punta Cana. I was in intense pain, crapping blood, throwing up blood, I thought I was going to die."

Back in 2001, my stomach was in intense pain. Felt like my sides was about to burst open. Worst feeling/pain ever. I don't remember throwing up blood or food but the doctor said it was food poisoning.

I got food poisoning from Burger King when I was a small child. I was really young so I remember very little of it but I do remember having needles poked into me and my mom having it too after eating the rest of my meal.

I took my daughter on a "food trip" where we went to eat different things and found stores that sold odd things like python meat and such. One place she wanted to try was an Ethiopian restaurant. The food was as it should be ..... I just didn't care for it AT ALL.

@TheHighWind: really?

@aryianna: "One place she wanted to try was an Ethiopian restaurant. The food was as it should be ..... I just didn't care for it AT ALL."

I had an Ethiopian friend and the dishes I had felt it had no taste.

I thought that would happen to me when I accompanied my wife to the Philippines. I didn't get any food poisoning at all from eating street food. I would guess it's because everything is well-done (or deep-fried) over there and all street foods are fresh off the hot oil/grill.

What are you two going on about? I love flan, can't imagine it being someone's worst food experience.

Many of the dishes were explained to us to be very spicy but I can't handle the spice. She got something that was extremely spicy but loved that part of it. For me it was the "bread" type thing you're supposed to eat it with. It was gray and spongy and had a sour taste to it.

@aryianna:

Indian food is still the worst thing I've had to this day. Haven't worked up the courage to go back to the place.

Can of tuna gave me food poisoning. I lost 15 pounds in 12 hours between violent and explosive vomiting and diarrhea. I puked more in that amount of time than the rest of my life combined.

Back when I was still in college I ate in the cafeteria one time and got some rice soup of some sort. I spend the next 4 hours lying fetal position in my bed with terrible stomach pain. Had to miss classes because of it. It was awful..

@PSP107:

The problem I would have with that is things are touch (gag) I couldn't eat it purely based on that. Now if things were separated with some space, some of it looks rather pleasing.

Being a swede, surströming. It's wellknown to be the worst dish that people eat on a regular basis. Most people usually just leaves the room when you open the can and never come back.

@aryianna:

Don't be fool by the look as the taste might not sit your needs. =(

In my young and foolish days I bought a hot dog off a street vendor while I was backpacking in Mexico. Luckily I had thrown a bottle of kaopectate in my bag before I left. I had to drank the entire bottle before I finally could get off the john.

Chicken from Church's. It's way too greasy for me.