Foreign Food Horrors

[Gittins Gal]

Following on from my post on the street food thread, I thought it would be inneresting to hear people's gastronomic horror stories from their travels.


I've already mentioned my rat taco but another experience that makes me chuckle comes from a rather straight laced girl with whom I used to work.

Imagine one of those squeaky clean couples who are obsessed with hygiene to an OCD level.

Well, that's this couple.

So they go to India (!). On their first day in Calcutta(!) they
spot a chai wallah and decide to have a cuppa. Declining the paper cups into which he's about to decant their hot beverages, they delve into their backpacks and produce 2 plastic cups that they'd brought with them, giving each a good wipe with alcohol gel first.

They then hand the cups over to the wallah who then proceeds to strain the tea from the urn strapped to his back through the filthy vest that he was wearing into their 2 mugs.

ISTR they stayed in India for 24 hours before heading off to New Zealand.

[saptastic]

"Imagine one of those squeaky clean couples who are obsessed with hygiene to an OCD level".

"So they go to India...."

[Gittins Gal]

"Imagine one of those squeaky clean couples who are obsessed with hygiene to an OCD level".

"So they go to India...."

You don't have to be a genius

[TykeMerc]

You don't have to be a genius

You don't have to make up bollocks either, but you do. Pathological liar.

[Gittins Gal]

You don't have to make up bollocks either, but you do. Pathological liar.

Is there any particular reason you jump on every single one of my posts to insult me?

Is there any reason you leave me rep calling me "Lying Scum"?

I can't think of any other than you must be a deeply unpleasant person.

[Mich the Tester]

They then hand the cups over to the wallah who then proceeds to strain the tea from the urn strapped to his back through the filthy vest that he was wearing into their 2 mugs.

Am I the only one here thinking Cyberman--> Chutney Spoon moment?

[OwlHoot]

Following on from my post on the street food thread, I thought it would be inneresting to hear people's gastronomic horror stories from their travels.

She's done it again - "inneresting"

One of my gastronomic horror stories is asking for some fish and chips many years ago in Brixton, and then noticing that the young woman dishing them up had a large cut on her hand which was bleeding onto the chips.

[original PM]

Is there any particular reason you jump on every single one of my posts to insult me?

Is there any reason you leave me rep calling me "Lying Scum"?

I can't think of any other than you must be a deeply unpleasant person.

It's a fair point there is no need for TykeMerc to be so agressive.

I mean it's general and if you want to come on hear and spout tulip go for it....

you should expect some light hearted ribbing and a bit of fun

you should not expect personal abuse for a pretty lame thread which may or may not be made up about sh!tty hygiene in indian!

[Gittins Gal]

It's a fair point there is no need for TykeMerc to be so agressive.

I mean it's general and if you want to come on hear and spout tulip go for it....

you should expect some light hearted ribbing and a bit of fun

you should not expect personal abuse for a pretty lame thread which may or may not be made up about sh!tty hygiene in indian!

Oh well, he's on Iggy now along with FA...

[mudskipper]

"All hope abandon ye who enner here. Seriously."