Reply to: Foreign Food Horrors

[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!

[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!

[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.

[norrahe]

I think cloggy food is horror enough.

[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.

[darmstadt]

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

[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.

[mudskipper]

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

[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...

[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!

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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]

"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