The worst food I ever had to eat

A colleague, who ran an hotel asked me there for lunch. My starter was pate. There was blood on the plate.

I just remember gristle!!
I've probably tasted worse but we were forced to eat those horrible school dinners.

Crocodile? I tried it, but not to my taste at all but DH ate it.
DH was given fish eyes when he was in the Far East somewhere, he wasn't told what they were until after he ate them.

A big lump of Yeoman instant mash potatoes with a tin of chicken soup poured over the top. I hated the instant mashes that came out in the 70s they tasted disgusting. No effort was made to make it e even remotely edible.My mum used to be at work so my nasty dad would make horrible meals we hated then force us to eat them because he blamed us for our mum having to work. His spending all the money at the pub didn't help.
I used to literally heave I hated it so much. Still couldn't eat it now.

DH and I were invited to Sunday lunch with some relatives of his he’d not seen for a great many years. They served conger eel which was a very strange choice to give virtual strangers. Neither of us could touch it and they seemed quite put out.

sodapop yes agree Andouillette. There is an episode of Rick Stein where he's eating Andouillette at the same restaurant my French neighbours took me to to try it. He seems to enjoy it I couldn't get it into my mouth, the smell was too much and I cna handle smelly cheese but Andouillette was on a whole other level.

School journey-breakfast tinned tomatoes with skins on. Told teacher I couldn’t eat them so she stood over me and forced me to eat them. Unfortunately they came back up with force 10 minutes later all over the table!

Iwasfirstclarinet

They weren't dustbin.
They were churns.
But if you'd never gone out of the City as a child, then you wouldn't have known the difference!
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A bit nasty

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sodapop yes agree Andouillette. There is an episode of Rick Stein where he's eating Andouillette at the same restaurant my French neighbours took me to to try it. He seems to enjoy it I couldn't get it into my mouth, the smell was too much and I cna handle smelly cheese but Andouillette was on a whole other level.

Yes I saw that programme and had to turn away, the look of them was enough 🤮

Are you sure the dinners were delivered in bins, IWasFirstClarinet?
Ours were cooked on the premises but perhaps I'm older than you!

There were bins in the kitchens, they were for any leftovers (unless we were forced to eat them, yuk) which went for pig swill. The dinners were revolting anyway! Nothing like my Mum's lovely meals.

My mum worked in the kitchen of my primary school where meals were cooked on site. I loved school dinners because my mum had cooked them! She even managed to sneak me a bit extra of my favourite things.

School meals that weren’t cooked on the premises were cooked and dispatched from a central kitchen in catering size containers…….some were cylindrical and some were rectangular like huge baking tins. Yes, the cylindrical ones looked like dustbins.
Once they arrived at the designated school they were placed in the heat trolleys until mealtime.

DS1's Japanese in laws took us to a top restaurant in Osaka. The food was mostly lovely - apart from the chunk of whale (a bit like chewing a pencil rubber) and the very thinly sliced horse meat. They were both beyond me.

I hated tongue sandwiches too.

Jellied eel. Revolting.

They sure looked like dustbins to me at the tender age of ten or so. But I will accept "churns" as you are probably right there. Catering size containers ditto.
I lived on the very edge of town and I played in woods and fields as a child but do not recall seeing any churns there. Conkers, cows, cowslips and the occasional hedgehog, yes.
As to age, I may well be younger than you, but as I shall be 90 next year the odds are against it I suspect.
I must say that I enjoy the list of all the horrid things that people either forced down, hid at the table, or simply refused! I think I came off lucky!

School dinners were cooked on the premises and not inedible although the custard and sago made me heave just to look at them. Fortunately, we were allowed to pass on things we didn't like, but no substitute provided (obviously). School milk - ugh - again I would donate mine. These days it's much more humane in the school lunch area, at least in my gcs' schools where there were menus available a week in advance!

Like others, sea slugs and the like in high class restaurants in China and the Far East when on business and being 'treated' - stomach begins to protest at the mere sight. And closer to home the big no-no for me is goats' cheese and shepherd's pie as my very sensitive nose can actually smell the goat and the lamb from which these meals came.

Many years ago and Asian friend invited me to lunch. She made stuffed heart which had still got tubes visible. I was almost vegetarian at the time and I found it revolting!

IWasFirstClarinet

They sure looked like dustbins to me at the tender age of ten or so. But I will accept "churns" as you are probably right there. Catering size containers ditto.
I lived on the very edge of town and I played in woods and fields as a child but do not recall seeing any churns there. Conkers, cows, cowslips and the occasional hedgehog, yes.
As to age, I may well be younger than you, but as I shall be 90 next year the odds are against it I suspect.
I must say that I enjoy the list of all the horrid things that people either forced down, hid at the table, or simply refused! I think I came off lucky!

Oh, you are older than me 😁

I remember being told to eat everyone's leftovers at school dinners by the HT because, as prefect, I should have made sure everyone ate everything on their plates. I was 10 at the time.
She was a nasty woman.

I have always hated fat on meat, and at our tiny village school we were not allowed to leave the table until all plates were completely cleared. One day we had some sort of ham salad and my piece of ham had a thick piece of fat attached which I had cut off and left. I was made to sit at the table and tried many times to swallow the fat but every time I did I would retch and couldn’t swallow it. I sat there until it was home time. I was four. I still can’t eat fat.

I used to love school dinners but I remember once in primary school I remember a dinner lady insisted that I ate a bowl of strawberry blamange sic. She stood over me while I did it . I promptly puked the lot up all over her 😂. She never encouraged me to eat anything again .

I once had to eat a curry that was so hot it could have started a house fire. I am sure that there was nothing wrong with it per se but it not only burned my mouth but my entire digestive tract felt as though it had been curried for several days after.

My memories of school dinners are entirely positive. I particularly loved school custard and still wish I could duplicate it. The food was all cooked on the premises and was far superior to what today’s children are served. I think I was very fortunate.

I remember meat and potato pie with tough dry pastry, horrible! I can still smell it.

Being made to stand in the corner at infant school because I refused to eat beetroot which had “bled” all over the plate. I still don’t like beetroot.