The worst food I ever had to eat

~Elusive butterfly we were told the same thing. I was in primary 1 (Reception I think it is now) and I was waiting to go in to have my tonsils removed. It was mince and tatties, which I hated, but I wasn't feeling well and I told the teacher who was there and she stood over me wouldn't let me leave until I'd finished it because children were starving. However, it was just down when I vomited all over her court shoes and burst into tears saying 'I told you I didn't feel well'. One of my outstanding moments at school!

At GS we had a kitchen on the premises which produced excellent meals. I still remember the lemon meringue pie.

At primary school our school milk was removed due to a radiation leak at Sellafield nuclear plant. We were given Horlicks tablets as a substitute. I still hate Horlicks

our local before they closed they served a curry which was just disgusting

An unfortunate stay in a Russian hospital!! Breakfast was a nasty colour gruel, lunch was a watery fish soup with the heads still in it and a finger of dry bread, evenings was another gruel - just a different colour. The local Russian patients were expected to provide their own crockery and cutlery - obviously as an emergency admission these were provided for me! It was a huge teaching hospital and the Staff, none of whom spoke English, were very kind - but everything was SO old fashioned!!

I was vegetarian before it was a thing and I can remember at school being served grated cheese everyday with whatever else was on the menu - mashed potato, rice, cabbage, the occasional lettuce leaf. I suppose I should be grateful they didn’t force me to eat the mince or stew.

I'm in the U.S. and my parents used to host Super Bowl parties. All. the guests brought food to share. It was mainly family and we have some great cooks in our family. However, a friend of my sister's managed to invite himself.He was known for mooching. He had concocted a "soup" using packaged Ramen noodles and other questionable ingredients with no seasoning whatsoever. We all pretended to be eating it but couldn't get past a tiny sip.Wouldn't you know it, Mr.Mooch pigged out on all the other food!

Both primary and secondary school meals were enjoyable. Some I enjoyed more than others but none bad. Can't recall anyone having issues at meal times. All meals made on site, perhaps the smell from the kitchens encouraged our appetite.

I absolutely loved school dinners. Sometimes we were allowed to go up for 'seconds' and I was always in the queue. Not only was Mum a dreadful cook she also hated cooking. Meals were served with a big slice of resentment. Us kids were constantly hungry. Luckily we had dogs and their food was kept elsewhere so we took to eating those dog biscuits shaped like a bone. The black ones were my favourite. I think the only thing I wouldnt eat as a kid was prunes with custard. The custard used to curdle and I couldnt face it.

I was at school in Waterloo, Liverpool. We too had meals from a central kitchen. The worst was what we called glue stew. If we had a sympathetic prefect at the head of the table doing the dishing up, she would give us a spoonful of gravy that we'd spread round the plate to look as if we'd eaten a plateful. We also likened the flat Yorkshire pudding to dunlopillow.

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I was vegetarian before it was a thing and I can remember at school being served grated cheese everyday with whatever else was on the menu - mashed potato, rice, cabbage, the occasional lettuce leaf. I suppose I should be grateful they didn’t force me to eat the mince or stew.

The Headmistress at my junior school have stood over you and tried to make you eat it. She tried to make me eat everyone's leftovers but I preferred to be hit with a ruler instead of eating them.

We had to walk from our junior school to another for our school dinners. It took about 10 minutes each way. The menu rotated every 3 weeks. Once every 3 weeks the most awful undercooked egg flan appeared. Added to it instead of cheese were lump of very fatty raw streaky bacon.It was disgusting.. The first time we had it I was sick on the walk back, the second time I was sick and also on the third. After that I was at long last excused from eating it.

Schools mash potato was vile, no milk or butter added and served in an ice cream scoop full of lumps, yuk !
Also we were force fed the cabbage, someone would stand over us to make sure we ate it and now I have an aversion to it, shame.
The other food that almost made me puke was tripe whilst in Spain , gross 😝

Frey Bentos "Just Chicken" pie. Sixteen percent chicken and eighty four percent mucus. Disgusting.

School lunches were okay (1950s) but I'm easy going with food usually, tripe being the exception. Durian fruit smells like drains and that should be enough warning to avoid it!

Yes.
I have been to three hotels over the years in South Goa, Egypt and Morocco with Mercury Travel,,Thomas Cook and Airtours.

All expensive and claimed to be 4 stars. Food was atrocious slop. Not fit for pigs Worse holidays l have
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Lunches at my secondary school were awful. I particularly remember liver floating in watery gravy - yuk.
One day in my first year, my best friend and I were called to the deputy head's office after school. We went with great trepidation as we had no idea what we had done wrong. When we arrived we found a table laid with the remains of our lemon meringue pies that we had both left at lunchtime, we were told that we would stay there until we'd eaten them. Of course we were not going to eat them so we eyed a large vase on the windowsill and for some reason we decided to put the pastry in it and the filling under our armpits inside out blazers, not the other way round. You can imagine the state of our clothes when we got home!

I only had two school meals, first was a salad with an oily sardine, I wretched and someone one stood over me trying to make me eat it. I didn't and got lines to do, second rock hard liver and onions with overlooked cabbage, again the same but this time had detention and a letter to my mother. It was agreed No point sending me so I X and homeland had a sandwich. Never touched a salad or liver and onions most of my life. I eventualy tried a salad at my daughters, lovely and crunchy, different sides with it to my liking when in my 60's, now I love it.

Local couscous in the Gambia. I swear it was dirt/gravel scooped up from the ground.

My school dinners tasted ok but I went down with hepatitis one summer as did another girl in my class. The illness lasted for weeks and weeks through the summer holidays, I ended up weighing less than 7 stone.

Infant school was prepared elsewhere, Secondary school they were very good, good nourishing food we all needed because in those days we were much more active
We had rude names like stodge, frog spawn and jungle juice but we ate it with relish, there was no choice, take or leave it.

Primary school carmarthenshire in 50's - fab food
Primary school cornwall in 60's - fab food
Comprehensive school Cornwall 60's - not bad
Comprehensive school Pembrokeshire late 60's - lovely
I was a lucky kid!!!!

I was in Uzbekistan last year (re posts above) and have to say that the food was fab. I don’t eat red meat and everything I was given was delicious.

Ladybridgerton I have just seen your post about your brother. What an appalling - and terribly sad - thing to happen.

I was a very easygoing child and very rarely complained about any food. However, we went to a distant relative one day for lunch. She served a roast dinner (nice) but with Oxo gravy (which I just can't bear) followed by sweet macaroni milk pudding (which I also couldn't stomach). So I ate virtually nothing, mum was very embarrassed and no doubt our host thought I was a spoilt brat.

A friend of mine went on holiday to Malaysia last year and had been recommended to try a particular area that sold exceptionally good street food. One of the vendors had a menu written only in the local dialect and friend couldn't make head nor tail of what foods were on offer so, she randomly chose something because the pictured dish looked OK. When it arrived it was quite clearly a plate of cooked frogs. She lost quite a bit of weight on that holiday!

I must have been lucky with all the schools I went as dinners were great. I have things I can't eat. My DH loves avocado but I don't eat it. One day I asked him if I could try it. First mouthful, "that's nice", second "I don't know why I don't like it" third mouthful and I made a hasty retreat to return the avocado... It doesn't like me!