Worst Restaurant Food Experience

In My Humble Opinion
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What is the worst food experience you’ve ever had at a restaurant?

Here is mine (which isn’t that bad on retrospect):

Went to Pancho’s (all you can eat mex food) one night. I’ve been there before, and they generally have good food. But that night, I was eating a chili relleno (sp?) and after eating most of it, I notice in the bottom, a bunch of little worm-like objects. At this point my stomach flips over, and my saliva glands kick into high gear*. Upon closer inspection, I determine that, yes these are definite worms of some sort, having that characteristic ribbed skin, and kinda rubbery. They were pretty short. I think they were meal worms or something that probably got into their flour. Anyway, I immediately ran to the restroom, and proceeded to return my meal (I didn’t flush - ha!) I thought about bitching and making a scene, but didn’t feel like it. I just went straight home and took some Pepto Bismol to calm my stomach.

On retrospect, they probably wouldn’t have hurt me, and possibly added some flavor! :wink:

(* don’t know about you, but when I’m about to vomit, I start salivating excessively)

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Well, In My Humble Opinion (hint)

Finding part of a used bandaid in a pizza.

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There’s a location in East Lansing MI where in the past 15 years, there’s been at least 5 restaraunts. All failed. (the one that’s there now is still open, we don’t know why).

we’ve gone to it under several different names and had bad times each time. we think it’s an ancient burial ground or something. (the most recent incarnation, we went there, I asked if the item I wanted to order had bones in it or was it boneless chicken, he said “boneless”, it was 20 little wings… on bones… and the waiter came back to our table before our food and asked for his tip since he was leaving…)

Anyhow. it was while it was called “Chadwicks”. we came in, were seated. We ordered. we were told to “help ourselves to the soup and salad bar”. IN a large bowl were about 6 wilted brown items that once may have been lettuce, the other stuff there was all mixed together, the soup tureen had had a cloth napkin tied to the top of it, but some one had put it on upside down, so the ends of the napkin were dangling in the soup. we decided to forego the soup and salad bar.

they brought rolls out. harder than rocks. we couldn’t cut them open (with the mismatched silverware). we’d ordered an appetizer of mushroom caps stuffed with crab. The crab was SOOOOO dry (how dry was it?) that it poked us like toothpicks.

we wait for our main course. and wait. and wait. a full 30 minutes later, the server comes out and says that they were out of what I’d ordered. So,I had to pick some thing else out. I picked the swordfish. more time passes.

We assume that my SO’s meal was actually ready by the time they figured out they were out of mine, 'cause when they finally came out with it, his was cold and dry, mine had ice crystals still inside.

My SO asked for some matches or something with the address on it, the waiter said “oh, you’re looking for the address to complain, I don’t blame you, they’ll probably give you a free dinner”.

in unison, we said “What, HERE???” declined…

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I got indigestion once, followed by a painful thread movement.

Off to IMHO.

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I took ChiefScott to this great little restaurant at the Outer Banks. He orders a nice plate of steaming hot spaghetti. This plate is beautiful, piled high with delicious sauce. As I watch him eagerly dig in, he stops, looks at me and said, this taste like it came from a can… DAMN!!! I could have fixed that!!!

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SO this one time this woman my mom knows went to Bangcock w/her collie and she went to a resturaunt that she planned on eating at later and wanted to leave her dog there so she said “Can you take care of my dog?” so when she came back they gave her a meal as soon as she walked in and guess what…

it was her DOG

True story.

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When I was in university in Winnipeg, I stopped at a nearby restaurant for breakfast. I ordered a chicken omelette (chicken breast, cheese, green peppers, etc.), hash browns, and coffee.

The omelette comes, and I’m reading the newspaper and eating it (the omelette, that is), thinking, “Hmm, pretty chewy chicken. In fact, really chewy chicken. Almost like it was…” At this point I lift up the flap of egg and see the chicken breast, looking fine. I flip the chicken over, and see that they’ve only cooked one side of it. Raw chicken for breakfast. Yum yum.

Luckily, I have a pretty tough digestive system, so it never did make me sick. I’ve never had a chicken omelette since, though.

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I live in a small city in Alberta, Canada. I cannot verify this happened, but I can confirm that the entire kitchen staff was replaced. This sounds a lot like an UL to me though.

A rather attractive woman ordered some Chinese food from this place in town and after eating a bit noticed the sauce didn’t look or taste right. It somehow got out that the waiter masturbated and came into her meal.

Yuck

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PIPELINER - Ewwwwww, where the hell did you go, I must know so I never go there.
My mother has a business conference in Banff. The entree was grilled chicken. My mom cut hers open and blood pooled on her plate. Three other people at the table had the same thing happen.

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Poysyn: There’s a hotel kitty-corner to the Bay downtown (attached to the bus depot.) It was the restaurant in there (not the Sal’s in the depot, but the place in the hotel.)

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Was your mom’s friend Swiss? Here’s the Snopes take on your “true story”.

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on my son’s behalf…

He once was served, at Denny’s, Apple Pie a’la** mold**.

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Such a snopes.com moment!

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Aside from the time I got food poisining at a Toronto restaurant that I would love to name but probably shouldn’t seeing as I am scared of lawsuits and the mods here?.. :slight_smile:

I remember hitting a Chinese restaurant in Montreal with a friend and watching all the tables around us and that had arrived arrived after us get served, relax, pay, and leave before we even saw our main course. That was pretty bad. Needless to say, No Tip.

My parents had a similar experience recently when out with friends one night. Except when they complained to the Maitre D, they were told not to be rude and sit down, like waiting an hour for your meal should be expected…

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Poor Mrs. Kunilou. I think it’s a toss-up between the time she found a large chunk of metal in her pasta and the time she was eating chicken salad, and found an empty plastic bag labeled “chicken salad” at the bottom of it.

Other than poorly cooked food the only things I can relate are when I was 18 and taking my date to the prom, when the water glasses had just come out of the dishwasher and promptly exploded, drenching both of us. And there was the time the woman at the table next to ours started choking and I discovered I really did know how to perform the Heimlich maneuver.

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Roommate’s experience at ‘a large national Italian restaurant chain with the initials O.G.’:

Bit into a ravioli pillow (one of the appetizers) and got a chunk of wood caught between his teeth. The cook, the assistant manager and the manger were quite concerned, since the ravioli is premade and sent to the restaurants. They had to send a server to the grocery store for some dental floss; that finally loosened the wood. Needless to say, he has not/does not/will not order those again.

My not-quite-as-gross-as-the-bandaid-but-still-bad-food-experience story:

Eating shrimp with black beans at a (very nice upscale) Chinese restaurant, and breaking my tooth on a small rock disguised as a black bean (missed during the washing process).

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As a temporary cook in an alcoholic Detox clinic:
The regular cook wanted the weekend off, so I was hired for Sat and Sunday. Simple job because all of the patients or clients had sensitive stomachs. I fixed them a light breakfast, made them a rich but easily digestible stew for lunch and started to assemble their supper when I found a big tray of baked beans the cook had been serving them on Friday. It was mouldy. Not just one day mold, but that mold that comes after several days. He had been feeding them mouldy baked beans! I threw them out. On Monday, he complained that I had tossed out his beans. The administration asked me about it and I said why I had and I was employed by them for the following 3 weekends. I guess they gave him time off.

I bought a burger from BK one day while in a hurry from the drive through just before they closed. Down the road, I opened it up and took a bite to find that, while it tasted fine, it had an odd smell. I was hungry. I took another bite and finally recognized the scent, pulled over, spat out the mouthful, threw away the burger, rinsed my mouth out with soda and almost heaved. I knew I had recognized the scent!

Vagina! One of the girls had wiped the bun with her p***y!!

I’ve not been back to that place in years.

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That wouldn’t happen to be in Rochester, NY? Mom sent me an e-mail about three BK employees convicted on various charges - spraying Draino and floor cleaner on a burger, the female urinating on another burger patty, this done randomly over a period of several months. [Disgusting as it is, I’ll try to find the article link.]

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At an Indian restaurant in Seattle, I found a piece of steel buckshot in my lamb curry. Hardly horrible when considering other tales here, but it always did make me wonder how they killed the little lambie. Did someone sneak into a pen by the dark of night and just empty a shotgun into the crowd?

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but that spaghetti sucked big time.