WORST, unedible dish(es) you've had at restaurant / party

This one immediately comes to mind.  It was a restaurant, maybe a chain, called Kelly's Tavern.  On the menu they had 'fresh soups daily' and we asked what was the soup of the day.  It was baked potato soup.  We both ordered it.

When it arrived it was grey.  It was just a grey blob of potato soup that had obviously been in the pot for at least 2 days and repeatedly heated, maybe even microwaved.  We stuck in the spoon and it just stood up straight.  Absolutely horrible.

We called the waitress over and told her it did not appear to be fresh.  She just apologized and took it away.

I can't think of a time when I got a really bad meal at a restaurant, or anywhere else for that matter. The only thing that comes to mind is when we went to a relative's house for lunch. She said we were having pumpkin soup which is my favorite. When I make it, it is really thick and full of flavour. This soup was watery and bland. I was so disappointed.

I have been the provider of a bad meal..... The first time that DD's boyfriend came for dinner I cooked chicken schnitzel with basil cream sauce. Halfway through his meal, DD noticed that her boyfriend's chicken was raw in the middle. He didn't want to offend me so he said "That's ok, I'll eat it like this." Ah, no you won't, I don't want to hospitalise you on your first visit! He's never let me live that down.

As a military spouse, I've sat through many a rubber chicken dinner. I don't ever expect the food to be great--I got for the company and to support the event of the day.

DH was at Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) and it was the Christmas party. In their defense, the caterers probably had a few hundred people to serve. Our meals came and they were stone cold. I'm pretty sure it was all cooked, but all the meals were in big racks-probably 50 meals to a rack and like I said, probably 200-300 people to feed. And the banquet hall was really, really cold as well. Probably why the racks of food (which were not heated racks) were cold as well. We asked for our meals to be heated, really just expecting them to be microwaved. The waiter stuck his finger in my mashed potatoes, said yup, it's cold, and took several meals from our table back to the kitchen. On the way, I saw him stop and serve another table THOSE SAME MEALS, including my meal that had already been tasted and "finger tested." We stopped at some fast food place on the way home from that event!

The Class did end up getting back some money from the event and we put that toward graduation events. We still laugh about that night!

Just last weekend we were with friends in Dallas for the Oklahoma-Texas game. We were pretty wiped out when we returned to the hotel after the game, so we decided just to walk across the street and eat at a Japanese restaurant.

None of our food was particularly good, which was particularly disappointing because we were hungry and the food wasn't cheap. The worst thing though was the steak my friend ordered after being assured by our waiter that the steak was "excellent."

The steak the waiter brought out was only slightly thicker than my cell phone and literally looked like a piece of leather. Our waiter never should have set that dish before my friend. He didn't touch it and the waiter never asked why when he cleared our plates.

My friend didn't bother to complain because we just all wanted to get out of there. The couple sitting across from us were drunk and loud and at one point she climbed onto his lap and started gyrating. I was afraid she was going to get pregnant right before my eyes!

We won't be returning to that restaurant.

At a friend's house for a BBQ, he made tofu dogs. I don't know what the deal was, but they were like rubber. You couldn't break thru the casing. Eventually the kids started playing with them. They bounced! It was fun playing with them. Because of the hotdog shape they bounced in super erratic ways.

J

Squadron Thanksgiving feast. There was a foil roasting pan of what was allegedly stuffing but honestly looked like dog food. It was revolting.

I like this thread and I'm glad it's been brought back up!

Mine was at a steak house with DH. We were sharing a piece of ice cream pie, but it tasted like raw garlic. The waitress didn't believe us -- we kept telling her to just smell it. It knocked you over. Told them that they really should use a clean knife to slice desserts. All they had to do was apologize and take the inedible dessert off the bill, but they wouldn't. Instead they lost me as a customer, and I told that story a whole bunch of times and added it to their yelp review. I would have gone back -- the steak was great. Dumbasses.

DH and I went to a wedding in a fancy schmancy country club located in So. California. I know the bride real well and they spent some big bucks at this place for the reception.

They had only one choice for the sit down dinner - chicken. At our table you either got an undercooked piece or one that was so dry it fell off the bones in crumbs.

No returning it - the waiter politely told us, they didn't have enough to replace. It was bad - I got an undercooked piece and just chose to eat the sides which were not great either. I felt bad for them because the guests were all talking about how bad the food was.

We went to a newish diner in our area of MD, reminiscent of my youth in NY, where we spent a lot of time hanging out and eating breakfasts at the diner. Wanting to recapture a bit of vintage diner atmosphere, I ordered pancakes, home fries, and an order of bacon, extra crispy. First of all, it took forevah! for our order to come out; next, there was no bacon, so the waitress went back to get it; next, not only were the pancakes cold, they were hard and crunchy. So, I called the waitress over (who still hadn't brought the bacon) explained the problem, and asked her to replace the crunchy, Frisbee pancakes. She looked at me like I had two heads; "ohhhhh," she says, "I thought it was so weird that you wanted extra crispy pancakes!!" Oh. my. God!!

At this point, she's falling all over herself trying to figure out what I really want to eat, and I'm just wanting to get out of there and go find food somewhere else. Needless to say, we never went back to that diner and shortly afterwards, they closed. I can understand why. And, I never did get my damn bacon, extra crispy or otherwise!!