Foreign Food Horrors

[xoggoth]

Nastiest thing (given my irrational love of little animals) was a dish I had in Portugal, basically just a boiled baby goat, backbone, ribs etc.

Oh yes and a "Mexican" dish made by a Scottish chap in Edinburgh. Frozen in the middle and the taste was so ghastly I couldn't touch Mexican food for about a year afterwards.

PS Does Scottish food count as foreign? It may do soon.

[darmstadt]

I once had some American food and it gave me splatty bottom very quickly. I believe it was called Big Mac...

[Dactylion]

<snip> inneresting <snip>

<mildly amusing>

Why? Why? Why? Do you persist with the stupid affectation? There is no reasonable excuse to continue with daffodiling, tulipy inneresting except to annoy.

The mildly amusing bit was mildly amusing in a Wilmslow-esque way.

[norrahe]

I think cloggy food is horror enough.

[Sysman]

I once had some American food and it gave me splatty bottom very quickly. I believe it was called Big Mac...

The last time I had a Big Mac it went straight through me.

And I could smell the grease that had come through with it.

That was a dozen or so years ago and I haven't touched one since.

[Sysman]

I think cloggy food is horror enough.

Oh the horrors!

Two mistakes that I cannot forget:

• a selection of stuff from a coin operated "hot food" machine in a bakery window. Foul, greasy, couldn't finish it.
• something bought at a Frites van. It looked like battered fish and I thought it might go well with me chips, but it must have been sitting there drying out for a week because it had the consistency of cardboard.

There was also the hotel I was in for the first two months. A decent looking selection on the menu, but they used the same sauce base for every single dish. Absolutely no fresh veg, just a square inch or so of lettuce and a few shreds of grated carrot, presumably for the colour, because there wasn't enough of either to provide any meaningful nutrition.

The local Shwarma joint was visited often!

[stek]

A half time meat pie at Goodison Park, League Cup Semi, second leg, Everton went through with a 3-2 win.

I knew as soon as I ate that pie I was gonna be ill, three weeks off work, terrible stomach!

1986 ish? Could google but CBA, feel sick!