Worst Meal You Were Forced to Eat???

Killit_and_Grillit

nolaegghead said:

Not to hijack this thread, but here's a typical Johnny Moore story (and this is true):

Johnny was hunting deer one day.  He shot one, tracked it down.  It was lying on the ground, still alive.  He jumped on its back and reached for his knife.  The deer started getting up, he's hanging on to the deer's rack, riding the deer.  In the scuffle, his hunting rifle, slung over his back, gets the barrel jammed into the dirt (30-06).  And it goes off, blowing out the breech.  He manages to get his hunting knife out and stabs the deer in the neck.

He had the deer mounted with a plaque where he named the deer "Rodeo", and the remains of the gun hanging below it.

He built his own shrimp boat and was a huge fan of coffee and Wild Turkey.  We used to go out and drop the boards, catch shrimp, then fish.

@nolaegghead this guy sounds like someone I would have loved to have known. He has all my friend credentials to have in common. 

-liked bourbon
-reckless hunting habits
-comfortable blowing things up
-owned boat
-wife can't cook for $hit   

Eoin

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Eoin said:

Baccala (reconstituted dried salt cod) near Venice - it's traditional, but most unpleasant. Business lunch with some Italian suppliers, one of the guys brought his kids and his son commented very loudly that I wasn't eating very quickly.

Deep fried chickens' feet. Not nice, but with HK customers at their local lunch haunt and they were good guys, so I ate up.

My God we had this served to us a few weeks ago in Venice by a very proud chef. He stood over us smiling like "you are going to love this- it's authentic to Venice"! I seriously gagged and spit in in my napkin. Then everyone else did too. He was so deflated- looked like he'd lost his puppy. The place was empty while all the other horrible touristy restaurants around it were bustling. He explained to us that he was committed to doing authentic Venetian food. I hugged him and wished him luck as we left. Worst bite of food I have ever had in my life

Yes, the locals love it. Around Venice the radicchio risotto is the best, a local speciality that is actually edible. Did you have a look around the surrounding area as well? Loads of places to visit on the plain and up in the mountains.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Eoin said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Eoin said:

Baccala (reconstituted dried salt cod) near Venice - it's traditional, but most unpleasant. Business lunch with some Italian suppliers, one of the guys brought his kids and his son commented very loudly that I wasn't eating very quickly.

Deep fried chickens' feet. Not nice, but with HK customers at their local lunch haunt and they were good guys, so I ate up.

My God we had this served to us a few weeks ago in Venice by a very proud chef. He stood over us smiling like "you are going to love this- it's authentic to Venice"! I seriously gagged and spit in in my napkin. Then everyone else did too. He was so deflated- looked like he'd lost his puppy. The place was empty while all the other horrible touristy restaurants around it were bustling. He explained to us that he was committed to doing authentic Venetian food. I hugged him and wished him luck as we left. Worst bite of food I have ever had in my life

Yes, the locals love it. Around Venice the radicchio risotto is the best, a local speciality that is actually edible. Did you have a look around the surrounding area as well? Loads of places to visit on the plain and up in the mountains.

We were only in Venice for 36 hours. Spent most of the trip in Tuscany and a little on and island in the the Amalfi Coast area. Venice was a shock after to the relative tranquility of Ischia and Tuscany. 

Proser

Wife and I were invited to some friends house for steaks. They told us they ate late so come prepared. I'm looking at 4 beautiful ribeyes for several hours when our host decided it was time to cook. He went to the trusty Weber and empties half of bag of charcoal and half a can of lighter fluid. Lit the fire and went and got the steaks. 5 minutes later I was pushing cut pieces of meat around my plate and hiding them under potatoes, salad, whatever was on my plate. When our host asked how I liked my steak, I told him

We havent been invited back

Eoin

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Eoin said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Eoin said:

Baccala (reconstituted dried salt cod) near Venice - it's traditional, but most unpleasant. Business lunch with some Italian suppliers, one of the guys brought his kids and his son commented very loudly that I wasn't eating very quickly.

Deep fried chickens' feet. Not nice, but with HK customers at their local lunch haunt and they were good guys, so I ate up.

My God we had this served to us a few weeks ago in Venice by a very proud chef. He stood over us smiling like "you are going to love this- it's authentic to Venice"! I seriously gagged and spit in in my napkin. Then everyone else did too. He was so deflated- looked like he'd lost his puppy. The place was empty while all the other horrible touristy restaurants around it were bustling. He explained to us that he was committed to doing authentic Venetian food. I hugged him and wished him luck as we left. Worst bite of food I have ever had in my life

Yes, the locals love it. Around Venice the radicchio risotto is the best, a local speciality that is actually edible. Did you have a look around the surrounding area as well? Loads of places to visit on the plain and up in the mountains.

We were only in Venice for 36 hours. Spent most of the trip in Tuscany and a little on and island in the the Amalfi Coast area. Venice was a shock after to the relative tranquility of Ischia and Tuscany. 

Once you get away from Venice itself, the crowds disappear. I have a few Italian suppliers - near Venice, Verona, Modena and Florence. It's a hard life sometimes.

RRP

My s-i-l SUPER dried out turkey at Thanksgiving. She always over cooks it on purpose and even gravy won't soften it! It is like chewing and swallowing balsa wood!

Killit_and_Grillit

@RRP I was wondering how long until someone talked about a terrible Turkey day. My grandmother used to do a stuffing that no man's gravy could rehydrate. 

@Proser my buddy has a gas grill that won't go past like 300*. 1+ inch thick filets cooked like 10 minutes and were still cold on the inside. 

There is no easy way to hide an uneaten steak. 

TN_Sister_State

Killit_and_Grillit said:

@RRP I was wondering how long until someone talked about a terrible Turkey day. My grandmother used to do a stuffing that no man's gravy could rehydrate. 

@Proser my buddy has a gas grill that won't go past like 300*. 1+ inch thick filets cooked like 10 minutes and were still cold on the inside. 

There is no easy way to hide an uneaten steak. 

Sounds like my grandma's turkey, she buys a smoked one then cooks it in the oven another few hours. This is basically it.....

Killit_and_Grillit

@TN_Sister_State

solution. 

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead said:

I was hanging out with a creole buddy.  We drove up to Abita Springs and stopped at his friend's house out in the country.  He and a few other guys had a big hunting lease up there and they were all tight, many of them lived in the area.

The friend's wife asked us if we'd like some gumbo.  I love gumbo, I said hell yeah.

So I got a hot steaming bowl of gumbo.  It was crunchy from all the little bones.  I asked my buddy what meat was in it.  He said l probably didn't want to know.  But if he had to guess, it was turtle, tree-rat, coon, gar, maybe some nutria, etc. 

I really didn't need to know that, but didn't taste like any gumbo I ever had.  I choked it down to be polite and turned green.

My buddy passed a few years after Katrina.  He just finished rebuilding his house.  RIP Clifton Johnny Moore  - You could make a movie about this guy's life.

I thought for sure you were going to mention that time you had @SGH's balls and puked all over the place when you found out what you'd eaten.

Botch

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Eoin said:

Baccala (reconstituted dried salt cod) near Venice - it's traditional, but most unpleasant. Business lunch with some Italian suppliers, one of the guys brought his kids and his son commented very loudly that I wasn't eating very quickly.

Deep fried chickens' feet. Not nice, but with HK customers at their local lunch haunt and they were good guys, so I ate up.

My God we had this served to us a few weeks ago in Venice by a very proud chef. He stood over us smiling like "you are going to love this- it's authentic to Venice"! I seriously gagged and spit in in my napkin. Then everyone else did too. He was so deflated- looked like he'd lost his puppy. The place was empty while all the other horrible touristy restaurants around it were bustling. He explained to us that he was committed to doing authentic Venetian food. I hugged him and wished him luck as we left. Worst bite of food I have ever had in my life

My dad used to buy salt cod, in a wooden box.  He wouldn't reconstitute it, just cut off thin shavings to eat with his end-of-the-day beer.  My sister's cat and dad didn't care for each other, but when dad was carving up that salty fish, she (the cat) would sit very close and pretty, until she got a piece of the cod.  

Sookie

Wow this goes back a lot of years (over 40 maybe??) but I would have to say it was at my best friends house when I was a child.  Her mom was not a very good cook, and to make matters worse they ate the EXACT same thing every week.  IE:  Monday was meatloaf, etc.  Her idea of "hamburgers" were unseasoned patties baked in the oven.  They would even have that hamburger "goo" on them when served.  It didn't take long to figure out why my friend wanted to come to my house for dinner.  My mom was an awesome cook

sumoconnell

My MIL makes menudo, you have to grow up on that stuff to like it.  I've had plenty of challenging food.. Bony pickled fish in Korea, pickled herring in Sweden, etc. I'd call those local eats.  

If I think of food that is supposed to be good, but wasn't done correctly, I'd go to a nasty steak tartar in Toulouse. Steak was off, no horseradish to offset, and a very fine grind. It was a sour nasty mess, but my sister's rehearsal dinner.  I crapped  for  3 days.  

lousubcap

I am blessed with the ability to relegate many to the forgotten abyss.  The mind is quite capable of erasing unpleasant and distasteful memories while keeping all the good stuff at the forefront. At least that's my story...  FWIW-

TN_Sister_State

sumoconnell said:

My MIL makes menudo, you have to grow up on that stuff to like it.  I've had plenty of challenging food.. Bony pickled fish in Korea, pickled herring in Sweden, etc. I'd call those local eats.  

If I think of food that is supposed to be good, but wasn't done correctly, I'd go to a nasty steak tartar in Toulouse. Steak was off, no horseradish to offset, and a very fine grind. It was a sour nasty mess, but my sister's rehearsal dinner.  I crapped  for  3 days.  

Well done menudo is freaking awesome just for the record. Now it can taste like a barn yard smells at times.

WeberWho

I can't thank my parents enough for making me eat all the stuff that was put in front of me as a kid. There's not a whole lot that I won't eat because of it. I remember hating lutefisk as a kid. I don't think my parents would have even made me try that but ended up having it at a family friends house. If I remember correctly it smelled horrible and tasted like a fishy Jello. I would actually like to try it again. I'm sure my palate has changed and would definitely try it again. I mean who doesn't want to eat lye?

Killit_and_Grillit

@WeberWho I didn't even know what lutefisk was until I saw it in the movie Frozen. 

Even then I had to Google it. 

WeberWho

Killit_and_Grillit said:

@WeberWho I didn't even know what lutefisk was until I saw it in the movie Frozen. 

Even then I had to Google it. 

Unfortunately it's a northern Minnesota thing. (Scandinavian folk) If you have to soak it in lye that kind of tells you something about the taste. I'd give it another try though. 

Botch

sumoconnell said:

My MIL makes menudo, you have to grow up on that stuff to like it.   

Not necessarily.  I grew up in a german/norwegian household but once stationed in Albuquerque I loved NM cooking, chiles, and menudo.  
 
On the other hand, I "grew up" on the above-mentioned lutefisk, and still can't get into it.  Anything that slips down your throat before you can swallow, ain't right.  

JRWhitee

My first Brisket 10 years ago, shoe leather would have been better!

buzzvol

sumoconnell said:

 I've had plenty of challenging food.. , pickled herring in Sweden, etc. 

Man, it's not Christmas Eve without sill.

JohnEggGio

My dear mother's creamed calves kidneys.  How she imagined a kid would eat that, I just don't know.

Space_City_Egger

Any time I go to a charity gala. 4-5 times a year its the worst wine with dried out meat. Beef, chicken or fish. No sauce to date has saved it.  50% of the time dessert is money. Thank god for liquor. 

Biggreenpharmacist

Killit_and_Grillit said:

nolaegghead said:

Not to hijack this thread, but here's a typical Johnny Moore story (and this is true):

Johnny was hunting deer one day.  He shot one, tracked it down.  It was lying on the ground, still alive.  He jumped on its back and reached for his knife.  The deer started getting up, he's hanging on to the deer's rack, riding the deer.  In the scuffle, his hunting rifle, slung over his back, gets the barrel jammed into the dirt (30-06).  And it goes off, blowing out the breech.  He manages to get his hunting knife out and stabs the deer in the neck.

He had the deer mounted with a plaque where he named the deer "Rodeo", and the remains of the gun hanging below it.

He built his own shrimp boat and was a huge fan of coffee and Wild Turkey.  We used to go out and drop the boards, catch shrimp, then fish.

@nolaegghead this guy sounds like someone I would have loved to have known. He has all my friend credentials to have in common. 

-liked bourbon
-reckless hunting habits
-comfortable blowing things up
-owned boat
-wife can't cook for $hit   

I'm right there with you. I've had more than one deer kick my ass. 

Eggcelsior

Botch said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Eoin said:

Baccala (reconstituted dried salt cod) near Venice - it's traditional, but most unpleasant. Business lunch with some Italian suppliers, one of the guys brought his kids and his son commented very loudly that I wasn't eating very quickly.

Deep fried chickens' feet. Not nice, but with HK customers at their local lunch haunt and they were good guys, so I ate up.

My God we had this served to us a few weeks ago in Venice by a very proud chef. He stood over us smiling like "you are going to love this- it's authentic to Venice"! I seriously gagged and spit in in my napkin. Then everyone else did too. He was so deflated- looked like he'd lost his puppy. The place was empty while all the other horrible touristy restaurants around it were bustling. He explained to us that he was committed to doing authentic Venetian food. I hugged him and wished him luck as we left. Worst bite of food I have ever had in my life

My dad used to buy salt cod, in a wooden box.  He wouldn't reconstitute it, just cut off thin shavings to eat with his end-of-the-day beer.  My sister's cat and dad didn't care for each other, but when dad was carving up that salty fish, she (the cat) would sit very close and pretty, until she got a piece of the cod.  

Salt cod is a specialty in Puerto Rico too. Bacaláo down there. Reconstitute it with a few changes of water and mix with some flour and milk. Fry and get super tasty bacalaitos.

Killit_and_Grillit

Space_City_Egger said:

Any time I go to a charity gala. 4-5 times a year its the worst wine with dried out meat. Beef, chicken or fish. No sauce to date has saved it.  50% of the time dessert is money. Thank god for liquor. 

@Space_City_Egger it takes a true culinary juggernaut to put out good food to the masses in quality. I have had my fair share of $hitty finger food and entrees.  My sister worked for a few years as a caterer after leaving as chef of a top notch restaurant. I swear that's where she blossomed from an artist to a kitchen warrior. 

And why rich people insult other rich people with Yellow Tail Shiraz is beyond me. 

Killit_and_Grillit

@Biggreenpharmacist I'm thinking we need to get an Egghead hunting trip formed up. (And I mean you and that mouse in your pocket...I already did the Egg to the Troops this year)

You think we can get a fall dove hunt and grill together on short notice?  I bet we could cart people to east TX or AR on short notice if we could find a sunflower field. 

DoubleEgger

How many of you would eat rabbit kidneys? This is was in Krakow Poland. 

JRWhitee

DoubleEgger said:

How many of you would eat rabbit kidneys? This is was in Krakow Poland. 

That is what it would look like when I finished!

jeffwit

For your information, rabbit kidneys taste better than rabbit liver. You can just trust me on that.