DH and I were in Plattsburgh NY two days ago and went into a diner and I ordered a slice of "homemade banana cream pie", and it was without a doubt the most disgusting foodstuff ever. It was a huge block of pinkish plasticine smelled like industrial caulking , I (who can find all pies edible) was dumbstruck...it was just the most horrible thing I have ever been served. Have you had any real awful things served on a plate/ What when where?

Yucko! I wonder how that pie was created?

Well, as a matter of fact, just last night, I had the worst crabcake on record at Crabby Bob's Crab Shack, or something like that, after I picked up Den at the airport. I had to take Pepto Bismol caplets this morning. I guess I shouldn't have eaten it, but I was hungry.

Had a really abysmal creme brulee in a fancy restaurant here in San Diego. I actually sent it back to the kitchen, and told them it was the worst I'd ever had. The waiter was stunned, but was gracious about it.

Pink banana cream pie? That is certainly...novel.

I've been served some pretty awful things. I once ordered a salmon steak in a nice restaurant, and the fish itself seemed excellent--but without warning they had smothered it with the most vile, gooey stuff, which they called "red onion marmalade." I tried to scrape it off, but the sweet-sulphur taste had permeated the salmon. Ugh...I can still taste that stuff.

In Vancouver BC, DH and I ate in a pricey place that billed itself as serving traditional Native American foods. Most of the dishes were fine if bland--but I ordered some kind of roe, which I expected to be raw. Instead it had been (I think) steamed, so it was as dense and rubbery as a pencil eraser, only with less flavor. It squeaked against my teeth

Click to view attachmentMany times, hairs included. One of the worst experiences I ever had, was when I attended a 'meeting' of sorts at a pizza joint, was crazy enough to order tacos, and was served what appeared to be pan scrapings. Not a morsel of hamburger, or whatever . . . to be found. When I confronted the waitress, she said 'I don't make this !@@#. I just serve it . . . '

On our recent Carib cruise, something called foie gras fig jam with toast. Let's just say the Chef's ambition far outstripped his abilities on this one.

By the way, almost always the very tempting desserts in NYC diners and delis (revolving slowly in their cases) turn out to be dull and uninteresting. The presentation is much better than the bite.

I had a bad pizza from a cute little diner outside of Lake Placid, NY once. We had eaten there for breakfast and lunch, it was great, they advertised pizza delivery to our nearby motel. One bite and I spat it out. It looked and smelled all right, but it was truly inedible. And I eat anything pizza-related - the worst cheapie frozen, even Chef Boyardee you make from a box. I never met a pizza I didn't like, until that day. This was unbelievably bad, and I can't say why. Maybe they used fake cheese, or some weird tomato sauce. How can you ruin a pizza? It's like ruining a peanut butter sandwich.

We had friends join us a couple days later and tried again. It wasn't just me, no one liked it.

It's been awhile (and one of the many reasons I prefer to cook instead of going out) but we stopped at a small, well written up, restaurant one evening and I saw clams on the menu. OH DEAR. I think they should have been called rubber bands. They were, not only dearly expensive, but oh, so ...so...so...horribly yucky to eat. Thankfully, these were appetizers and I still had a dinner to look forward to (edible, but nothing to write home about).
We've never been back there again ;-)

When I first came to the Bay Area from New York, ordered a veggie pizza "Cali style" came topped with sprouts and lemon slices cooked!

That's just gross.

There's a very ambitious restaurant in NYC that serves innovative creations and combinations, in the manner of Ferran Adria of El Bulli in Spain. Foams, strawberries with sea urchin roe, that kind of thing.

No one can convince me that I wasn't served a bowl of dishwater.

Pink bananna cream pie? I would have sent it back!

Worst restaurant meal was a mini pizza I ordered that arrived with a shard of glass on top! I not only sent it back, but ordered something completely different. I was afraid they would just pick off the glass and serve the same pizza to me again! Who knows if there were other smaller shards of glass on the pizza under some of the toppings? And this was on my birthday, not a good sign:-(

Well, I think I just had one of the worst things I've ever eaten today. I know it serves me right for trying to eat prepackaged food out of a box, but it was supposed to be a vegetarian kung pao noodle dish. Brand name is Simply Asian. My God it was awful. I took two bites and threw it out. Not only did it look like diarrhea, it tasted like vomit. Just from the two bites I took I've been feeling ill for 3 hours. GAG.

A date and I went to an authenic mexican restaurant. No one spoke much english and the menu was in Spanish (which we couldn't decipher!) we ordered the special...chilis rellenos. I was thinking they would be like my Mom's stuffed green peppers. Wrong...these were green chilis covered in some sort of sweet dough (tasted like a donut) and had copious amounts of greasy cheese inside the dough and then there was the slimy, somewhat stringy green chili. My date and I both were very disappointed. Ate a little and both felt rather sick afterwards. =( Guess I like my Mexican food a bit americanized!

At a local restaurant, one of the specials was barbecued brisket. I don't see brisket often on menus and I love it, so I was seduced.

Turns out that their conception of "barbecued brisket" was corned beef with barbecue sauce slathered on it! Ugh!

You really have been having a bad week. Pink? Ugh.

I guess I'm lucky that most of the 'bad' food I've had has been simply bland or overcooked.

The only thing that springs to mind was some sort of unfortunate 'Asian' salad. Looked okay, and the ingredients looked lovely, but the sauce tasted like vomit. Ugh. I sent it back, and told them I just didn't want anything else to eat, I was that grossed out.

Turns out it was a new manager's first day, so naturally she freaked a bit, but really did understand that I just wasn't going to trust them to serve me any more 'food'.

At a pretentious Paris seafood restaurant, Le Table du Lucullus, I was served a very strange tasting puree as an accompaniment to my sea bass.

It was bitter, nasty and rather fascinating. I had taken five bites before asking the waiter what it was, and she did not know either. The the chef popped out of the kitchen and told me he had roasted limes slowly for a few hours and then pureed them with olive oil. It killed the wine and whatever else I ate that night.

I suppose it could have been worse, like pureed crab gills or a salad made of carrot leaves.