Costco’s Korean noodles in black bean sauce. There’s nothing offensive about them, exactly, but there’s nothing good about them, either.
Actually, we’ve thrown away every prepared dish we’ve ever bought from Costco. Which is why we stopped buying them.
Sounds like somebody tried to be British and failed.
Brussel Sprouts. I just knew they were a childhood phobia, Nope, they’re gross.
Marie Callendar’s Chili Pot Pie. The crust had a weird lime taste that I couldn’t stand.
Leinenkugel’s Harvest Patch Shandy. An awful, awful pumpkin brew. Had to pour that one out.
Annie’s Pea B&J Pockets. With my wife’s nut allergy my son eats SunButter all the time. He tried these made with golden pea butter and refused to eat them. I took a bit of one and then threw the whole box away. Nasty.
A Dairy Queen soft serve cone. Our DQ is seasonal and seems to be getting rid of old inventory by using expired dairy mix. An ice cream cone made with spoiled milk will ruin your day.
roasted fart!
About 6 months ago. I don’t eat a lot of frozen microwave meals but I keep some in the freezer for those times when I just need to eat something quick without much fuss. I tried something new, a cajun flavored meal in a bowl. Shrimp something or other. It was absolutely inedible. The shrimp were tiny, in a thin soup with some rice. It had an overpowering taste of burnt rubber. I might have taken a second bite before pitching it. It hadn’t been in the freezer long so I don’t think it went bad, it was just awful. I’m pretty cheap when it comes to food and it takes a lot to get me to throw something away.
Things have changed in China, and not all for the better. Prior to Xi’s anti-corruption crackdown “conspicuous consumption” was part and parcel of celebrating Deng’s Glorious Richness. I’ve heard several reliable anecdotes about ordering 4 family-sized portions minimum per diner (yes, that means up to 12 portions on the table per seat). It would also be the height of gaucheness to have doggy bags, so everything gets tossed at the end of the night. Couple that with the fact that the Chinese have a well known propensity for physical violence over who gets the honor of paying the bill and you get a real cluster.
:dubious: Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble, but conspicuous consumption isn’t uniquely American (notwithstanding the fact that the Potlatch (aka ‘Potluck’) originated in the PNW). Arguably, the only exceptionalism being displayed in American restaurants are economies of scale and a propensity to “accidentally the whole thing.”
It would most certainly be something that I did not anticipate containing melted cheese, but did anyway. Either I ordered it without, and it came with, and I was distracted and forgot to check before biting; or it was something that is not typically made with melted cheese, but in this case it was–and inside so it couldn’t be detected.
You can’t be too careful.
Bee Gee:
OK, I got it now - the bad brand was “Jaffa Salads” guacamole, and looking at their ingredients list and comparing it to a better brand, I’m guessing that the real culprit is their use of lemon juice instead of lime juice. Other possible candidates are poblano and tomatillo, which they include but the other does not. But I definitely think it’s the sourness of the lemon that made me dislike it.
A coworker brought us in some cotton candy grapes to try. I spit the one I tried out and then apologized, but I wasn’t swallowing that awful thing.
A co-worker brought in packaged kale chips to share. They were cheese flavored.
Mmmmm, cheeeeese. Right?
No.
They tasted like crusty dumpster scrapings.
My co-workers still comment now and then and laugh at the face I made.
mmm
ETA: sorry, misread the OP. Probably these snack chips my dad brought home. Blech.
The Secret Flavor Doritos a few years back. It turned out the secret flavor was Mt Dew. It would have been disgustingly sour, except that the sour flavor was masked by even more disgusting sweetness. Neither of which flavors has any business on a corn chip in the first place.
Though, technically, I didn’t throw them out. I brought them in to the office with a warning label, and I gather that some of the other grad students ate them.
Potluck at work.
A lady brought in a very nice looking fruit salad.
Took a piece, and spit it out.
She greatly enjoys her spices, and she coated the watermelon pieces with ground red pepper/paprika.
I thought I was going to die.
I make a smoothie of a frozen banana, peel and all. If I gave you one, you’d never know the peel was in there.
Human goats never have any trouble finding something acceptable on the menu. If people are that fussy about their food, imagine what they are like about important stuff.
Grabbed some packs Skittles as a lark to make a political funny with some friends, and an extra one for just me. They were the “sour” version I grabbed by mistake. Ugh. Into the trash they went. Didn’t even inflict them on the friends.
My company had a new vendor wanting to install vending machines of sandwiches, etc. So they came in and cooked up all of their offerings for us. Even expertly cooked (and not just microwaved) I couldn’t eat more than one bite. Even the fruit was nasty.
I bought a cookie at a food court the other day and it was completely inedible. I’m not sure how you go so wrong with a chocolate chip cookie, but they completely missed the mark.
There’s a huge excluded middle between being too fussy and eating some of the things you claim to have eaten on these boards.
Besides, it’s my life. I don’t want to waste it eating disgusting food. I don’t mind feeling a little hungry. It won’t kill me.