Eaten anything horrible lately?
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On the way home from France in the summer, stopped at Ouistreham early so went into the cafe for a nosebag.
Ordered what I thought was a veal steak thing. Turned out to be beef kidney in a cream sauce. I absolutely HATE offal of any kind. It arrived, I was retching just looking at it approaching on the plate.
Feeling queasy just thinking about it.
Ordered what I thought was a veal steak thing. Turned out to be beef kidney in a cream sauce. I absolutely HATE offal of any kind. It arrived, I was retching just looking at it approaching on the plate.
Feeling queasy just thinking about it.
In a pub in North Wales two months ago I ordered pie and chips as it seemed safe. First they gave our order to the wrong table, who were students so ate it anyway. 
So we chased it up, and eventually it arrived. The chips were dark brown, but simultaneously soggy and under done. And the pie pastry was white. 
So we chased it up, and eventually it arrived. The chips were dark brown, but simultaneously soggy and under done. And the pie pastry was white. LunarOne said:
Yes, Kale.
The only time I'm eating kale again is if the last edible things on the Earth are slugs and kale. And we've run out of slugs.
Add coconut oil.The only time I'm eating kale again is if the last edible things on the Earth are slugs and kale. And we've run out of slugs.
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Jordie Barretts sock said:
On the way home from France in the summer, stopped at Ouistreham early so went into the cafe for a nosebag.
Ordered what I thought was a veal steak thing. Turned out to be beef kidney in a cream sauce
Rid de veau - veal sweetbreads? My absolute favourite thing, ate that in the same part of the world last weekOrdered what I thought was a veal steak thing. Turned out to be beef kidney in a cream sauce
mikef said:
Jordie Barretts sock said:
On the way home from France in the summer, stopped at Ouistreham early so went into the cafe for a nosebag.
Ordered what I thought was a veal steak thing. Turned out to be beef kidney in a cream sauce
Rid de veau - veal sweetbreads? My absolute favourite thing, ate that in the same part of the world last weekOrdered what I thought was a veal steak thing. Turned out to be beef kidney in a cream sauce
mikef said:
Although could also have been veal kidneys, rognons de veau, which are often served in a cream and mustard sauce
Mind you, in Normandy the OP should have been eating andouille, definitely not the thing if you’re not big on offal
I have some of that in the fridge. I work from home but I'm spending next week at the office in Paris. I'm already plotting how best to bring back as many lovely cheeses and meat products as I can, considering I'm flying.Mind you, in Normandy the OP should have been eating andouille, definitely not the thing if you’re not big on offal
Maroilles cheese and Tete de cochon high on my list...
Jordie Barretts sock said:
France Feeling queasy just thinking about it.
Similar thing happend to me in Reims in the summer. Evening meal out sat at a pavement restaurant after a day sampling champers. Everyone at the table were served some lovely looking and smelling dishes and all was fine until mine arrived. I didn't fancy anything too fancy so ordered sausage, chips and salad. The sausage was the most horrible tasting and smelling thing I have ever ordered. About the size and shape of a caibatta but full of offal and what I can only guess was intestines that may or may not have been cooked; it was disgusting. Feeling queasy just thinking about it.A bit of googling afterwoods led me to this site, the author gives a much better account of how awful this dish is.
Chittering Sausage:- https://bikegeekgarden.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/ch...
mikef said:
Mind you, in Normandy the OP should have been eating andouille, definitely not the thing if you’re not big on offal
Much further south than Normandy, but we ordered this for lunch once as it sounded nice, and indeed tasted pretty good - until my OH made the mistake of googling it ...............I still managed to finish most of it as I managed to "think" past it.
(also, I had paid for it and am Scottish)
I've noticed over the past year or so that supermarket own brand stuff has taken a massive dive in taste/quality.
Notably :
Steak and minced beef pies - contents just full of gravy and the 2 pieces of actual "steak" are just some disgusting jelly/fat/chewy mess, or in the case of the mince, full of bone shards.
Corned beef - full of bone shards and layers of disgusting white fat, chunks of gristle.
Anything "Woodside Farms" in Tesco meat aisles - "meat" that even a dog would turn its nose up at. Absolutely rancid, flavourless crap pumped to the rafters with water to maximise the price per kg weight, and full of fat and gristle.
I also continue to be perplexed how my local chippy, Oakenshaw Fisheries on the outskirts of Bradford, continues to have a long line of people waiting outside to be served whenever they're open, when they serve up the most disgusting fish and chips I've ever had! The amount of grease that comes with them has to be seen to be believed. As soon as they cool a little, the fish and every chip is plastered with quarter inch layer of grease and 3 days later the roof of your mouth still has a film of grease on it.
They don't even smell good when you're waiting outside - just a horrible stale/burnt fat smell, and yet they have a ton of 5* reviews. I don't understand how!
And closing off with a Mexico specific one! Cilantro! In Yucatán State they put this s
t on fking EVERYTHING. Unless you specifically tell them not to, everything you order will come tasting of soap. It's disgusting and I would fully support a movement to kill it all with fire across the entire planet to completely eradicate it. 
Notably :
Steak and minced beef pies - contents just full of gravy and the 2 pieces of actual "steak" are just some disgusting jelly/fat/chewy mess, or in the case of the mince, full of bone shards.
Corned beef - full of bone shards and layers of disgusting white fat, chunks of gristle.
Anything "Woodside Farms" in Tesco meat aisles - "meat" that even a dog would turn its nose up at. Absolutely rancid, flavourless crap pumped to the rafters with water to maximise the price per kg weight, and full of fat and gristle.
I also continue to be perplexed how my local chippy, Oakenshaw Fisheries on the outskirts of Bradford, continues to have a long line of people waiting outside to be served whenever they're open, when they serve up the most disgusting fish and chips I've ever had! The amount of grease that comes with them has to be seen to be believed. As soon as they cool a little, the fish and every chip is plastered with quarter inch layer of grease and 3 days later the roof of your mouth still has a film of grease on it.
They don't even smell good when you're waiting outside - just a horrible stale/burnt fat smell, and yet they have a ton of 5* reviews. I don't understand how!And closing off with a Mexico specific one! Cilantro!
In Yucatán State they put this st on fking EVERYTHING. Unless you specifically tell them not to, everything you order will come tasting of soap. It's disgusting and I would fully support a movement to kill it all with fire across the entire planet to completely eradicate it. mikef said:
Although could also have been veal kidneys, rognons de veau, which are often served in a cream and mustard sauce
Mind you, in Normandy the OP should have been eating andouille, definitely not the thing if you’re not big on offal
Yeah it was this.Mind you, in Normandy the OP should have been eating andouille, definitely not the thing if you’re not big on offal
And you're all going to Hell for posting pictures of other...stuff.
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