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| So, on a different note; what's the worst dinner you ever fixed? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 7 2010, 11:35 AM (312 Views) | |
| RosemaryTwo | Apr 7 2010, 11:35 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think I'm eatin' mine right now (leftovers anyway). Some sorta stir fry with whole wheat linguine and pan-fried tofu. Sliced carrots are too thick and the sauce is just one notch above non-existent in taste. Whew -- what was I thinking? I followed a recipe and all, but geez, this is bad. Edited by RosemaryTwo, Apr 7 2010, 11:36 AM.
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| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| brenda | Apr 7 2010, 11:36 AM Post #2 |
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Too many years' worth to remember.
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| apple | Apr 7 2010, 11:42 AM Post #3 |
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one of the angels
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i had 3 roommates in college and we agreed to share cooking and eating.. i fixed turkey legs and potatoes my first time.. it was gawdawful.. absolutely horrid. |
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| Axtremus | Apr 7 2010, 11:44 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Chips Ahoy! chocolate chip cookies boiled in ramen noodle soup. |
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| apple | Apr 7 2010, 11:48 AM Post #5 |
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one of the angels
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oh.. i forgot about the dinner I fixed for AX it was the worst.. i had no ingredients and i made these pink noodles. (he was so very gracious).. ha ha ha |
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| big al | Apr 7 2010, 11:50 AM Post #6 |
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Bull-Carp
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Bangers (mutton sausages) in Australia. We tried them while we were still in a temporary apartment before we found a house to rent. Made mashed potatoes and sauerkraut to accompany them. No one - not me, not my wife, not any of our children, could stomach them. Threw the whole lot in the garbage and went out to eat. I like almost any variety of sausage or worst, but those things were simply vile. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Axtremus | Apr 7 2010, 11:54 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Just to be clear, Apple served me delicious red ginger noodles for dinner. The "Chips Ahoy! chocolate chip cookies boiled in ramen noodle soup" referenced in my previous post in this thread is what I fixed myself for dinner many years before I know any of you people.
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 7 2010, 11:59 AM Post #8 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I fixed a microwave spinach souffle one time that was so bad.. Lauren was like 4, and I am STILL hearing about that misbegotten dish on a regular basis. It has become part of our family lore. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| apple | Apr 7 2010, 12:11 PM Post #9 |
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one of the angels
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i made a ton of professional mistakes. When i was first starting out i was in charge of the kitchen after lunch and someone ordered a fruit plate. The rule was 'we are never out of anything.. make do!' so there was virtually no fruit except a slice of cantaloupe, a sad strawberry and lemons and limes. i cut the lemons and limes into slices, dipped them in sugar, arranged the strawberry and cantaloupe on lettuce and sent it out. bad mistake.. the food critic for the star was the one who ordered it.. I got in soooooooooo much trouble. Thankfully she was pretty good friends with the owner and didn't write a bad review. once i made about 350 chocolate mousses with salt rather than sugar for a dinner for some politician - John Ashcroft.. he was so sweet to me, even tho he realized i had done it. another time, I made hummus at home and left the house with the garbanzo beans cooking on my stove. I came home 7 hours later to the fire department in front of my apartment.. oh, they caused a lot of smoke. (that was right when i met mr. apple too) Edited by apple, Apr 7 2010, 12:13 PM.
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| VPG | Apr 7 2010, 12:38 PM Post #10 |
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Pisa-Carp
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I'm sorry, I just can't seem to remember ever making a bad meal. Unless you want to count the time I was making a cheese and cream and eggs sauce and it was too hot when I put the raw eggs in and they scrambled. Over Pasta it sucked.
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I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK! "People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971 | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Apr 7 2010, 01:07 PM Post #11 |
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Funny stuff people!!! |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| sue | Apr 7 2010, 01:10 PM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Oh gosh, I'm going to have to think about this. I've created quite a few clunkers in my 50 years. but the worst, hmmm...... |
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| Free Rider | Apr 7 2010, 03:54 PM Post #13 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Hunger is the best sauce. If you're really, really hungry and the food is so awful you can't eat it...THAT's a bad meal! While I was in college I was camping in Maine right next to the N. branch of the Penobscot river....we were kayaking the Ripogenus Gorge, camping out and running different parts of the river all week. The trip was down to the last night, I was running low on food supplies, I had "butter buds" which were some kind of granules that tasted like butter. I also had some pasta and some peanut butter. Using river water (my water bottles were just about done) I tried cooking the pasta but I didn't use enough water and it all absorbed and got all gloopy, a little burned, too. I poured the butter buds on the pasta and salted it like crazy, then just because I had some, I put in a few scoops of peanut butter. Voila! The worst meal in the universe had been created. There was plenty leftover, that's for sure. It tasted like wallpaper paste.
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 7 2010, 04:05 PM Post #14 |
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Camping meals don't count. If they're not fresh caught brook trout sauteed in fine butter they are without a doubt miserable and not fit for human consumption. Not modern humans anyway. Probably better than humans ate for millions of years, but... |
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| Kincaid | Apr 7 2010, 04:22 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Shad roe. |
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| Kincaid | Apr 7 2010, 04:23 PM Post #16 |
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You're my hero! My wife doesn't even like great leftovers. Even some of the kind that I like better as leftovers than the first time around. |
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| Kincaid | Apr 7 2010, 04:25 PM Post #17 |
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Really? Why? That did remind me of the time I was going to have Grape Nuts cereal and didn't realize that the "milk jug" was grapefruit juice. Being the poor student living off campus that year, I dutifully ate it. |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 7 2010, 04:27 PM Post #18 |
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I don't know about the worst, but tonight I had leftover sauteed chicken, a baked potato, turnip greens with diced turnips. All good. But I also had a couple glasses of C.G. diArie zinfandel. This is the guy who invented Captain Crunch. True story. His wine was sublime. Edit: OK, I finished the bottle. It was good enough to wish for another. Edited by Mikhailoh, Apr 7 2010, 04:35 PM.
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| apple | Apr 7 2010, 04:29 PM Post #19 |
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one of the angels
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i remember being starving and looking in the fridge and only finding radishes and butter. i sliced and sauteed them.. had a little beer.. they were excellent. |
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| Kincaid | Apr 7 2010, 04:35 PM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Baking story: When I was a young teen I liked to make cookies and cakes. Made snickerdoodles once (I'd done it before) but this time I screwed up on the flour. They didn't melt down into a cookie shape - they stayed little balls. Biting into one was like eating dust. I think I could have ground them up and make them back into flour with no one the wiser. |
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| RosemaryTwo | Apr 7 2010, 04:43 PM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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This thread in general is making me laugh. I can see the equation in everyone's mind -- well, this is going to taste awful, but I'm really hungry and it probably won't make me sick..... |
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| Horace | Apr 7 2010, 06:11 PM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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When my sister was a young teenager she got an idea to cook a steak. She didn't know exactly how though. When I walked in the kitchen, she was boiling it. |
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| Red Rice | Apr 7 2010, 07:00 PM Post #23 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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She must be British. Worst meal I ever had was a half a head of raw cabbage. Eaten in a doorway on a freezing cold night. Don't remember much about the rest of the evening, but I do remember that. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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It tasted like wallpaper paste.

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