Worst takeaway meal you've ever eaten?

km991148

Every single fish & chips from any of the ITICA chippers.

Frozen or pre battered muck.

Ubbquittious

Fish and chips in Dan's takeaway Dunmanway

Piore rotten

tommybrees

KFC in limerick consistently hits the 1 out of 5 star mark

retalivity

Crash Bang Wall wrote: »

Little kebab pace outside DIT Aungier Street......I was hammered and the kebab was rotten, so it must have been bad

The place a few doors up from boojum? Yeah i can vouch for the crappiness of that spot. Got a kebab out of it sober years ago and was sick as a dog after.

Also further up the road in the coombe, there's 2 side by side that are rough - italian chipper and pizza/kebab/curry spot.

mojesius

Breakfast at a festival a couple of years ago. It was one of them campsite vans that opened 24/7, serving burgers/chips at night and breakfast baps and coffee in the morning.

The sausage was grey, rasher was white and rubbery with the congealed fat and the egg was that powdered scrambled ****e. Topped off with a raw hash brown, a flurry of cold beans and a bit of stale sliced pan, all accompanied by a swarm of enraged starving wasps and a bad hangover.

I miss festivals though!

Yurt2

On the other side of the coin, there's an Indian take-away at the top of Smithfield square near the Cobblestone pub that looks like it should be shut down on sight by health inspectors. Mind-blowingly good curry though - best I've had in Ireland.

Church on Tuesday

KFC.


Any KFC anywhere really.

Larbre34

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

KFC.


Any KFC anywhere really.

Jesus yeah. Grim af. Been in one twice in my life, once when I was a kid and once about 5 years ago out of curiosity to see had anything changed. Nope.

I can't understand why people wouldn't just get fried chicken from a good local chipper, nicer and probably cheaper.

scudzilla

Was working in Barrow St one Christmas Eve about 10yrs ago, was on the night shift, colleague and i got a chinese, had it about 8pm and at 11pm he had to call an ambulance for me, thought i was dying, ambulance man said he'd never seen food poisoning so bad and come on so quick.

By the time i got home next morning, via a trip to A& E, I was in bed for 4 straight days, couldn't eat, any water i drank came straight back out.

So yeah, worst by far was a chinese in Ringsend, even the smell of a chinese put me off for years

mojesius

scudzilla wrote: »

Was working in Barrow St one Christmas Eve about 10yrs ago, was on the night shift, colleague and i got a chinese, had it about 8pm and at 11pm he had to call an ambulance for me, thought i was dying, ambulance man said he'd never seen food poisoning so bad and come on so quick.

By the time i got home next morning, via a trip to A& E, I was in bed for 4 straight days, couldn't eat, any water i drank came straight back out.

So yeah, worst by far was a chinese in Ringsend, even the smell of a chinese put me off for years

Sounds horrific.
Very apt username though!

fussyonion

I got a chicken curry from a Chinese about 15 years ago and the chicken had the texture of a sponge, there were slices of onion with the peel still intact and the sauce smelt like the bin lorry on bin day.
I've avoided Chineses since. I hear the chicken is velveted, hence the bounciness, so I'll avoid 'em all.

fussyonion

Larbre34 wrote: »

Jesus yeah. Grim af. Been in one twice in my life, once when I was a kid and once about 5 years ago out of curiosity to see had anything changed. Nope.

I can't understand why people wouldn't just get fried chicken from a good local chipper, nicer and probably cheaper.

Funny I was only saying last night that the fried chicken from my local chipper is so much nicer than KFC.
I find KFC very greasy and the meat's not very tender

Crash Bang Wall

retalivity wrote: »

The place a few doors up from boojum? Yeah i can vouch for the crappiness of that spot. Got a kebab out of it sober years ago and was sick as a dog after.

Also further up the road in the coombe, there's 2 side by side that are rough - italian chipper and pizza/kebab/curry spot.

Havent been there in a while, but its on the corner opposite the steps into the college

fryup

scudzilla wrote: »

So yeah, worst by far was a chinese in Ringsend, even the smell of a chinese put me off for years

how apt

Lollipops23

My local Chinese in Kinsealy- had myself some prawn toast as a treat. Was never so ill (both ends). Have never been able to bring myself to revisit the place.

Aceandstuff

A curry chip from Abrakebabra. It wasn't curry, it was some sort of translucent grey PVA glue. I couldn't bring myself to eat it, straight in the bin. Never again.

Feisar

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

You've made me think hard about this. Over 50 years of eating takeaways, here and abroad, I've never had one that I didn't give a decent go or had one which gave me the scutts. Lucky I guess. Most disappointing would be Dominos Pizza. Flabby raw-doughy ****e.

I've a agree, I've eaten so muck in my time but never got sick from it. Worse food poisoning I got I gave to myself.

I got a kebab in London once from a takeaway called "The Best".

I spent the night puking it up.

pawdee

I had a shockingly bad Indian takeaway in Killarney a couple of years ago. I can't even describe how bad it was. I'm actually lost for words. I once heard of someone getting a chicken burger and thinking there was something a bit off about the mayonnaise. Turns out it wasn't mayonnaise at all. The chicken had a cyst and when the guy bit it it burst and pus came out. I suppose it doesn't get much worse that that?

Dyr

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Dominos is awful

Apache very very bad too and v v expensive for what it is

If you're on the Northside or out around Dun Laoghaire Firehouse do great pizza, its pricey but it beats muck like Apache and Dominos into a cocked hat

sullivlo

I ordered from one of the new takeaways that popped up in the locality. I had previously struck gold with one and I thought that another would give me similar results.

I can't remember the name of it. It was advertised as Tex-Mex and had a menu of standard mexican fare - burritos, nachos, etc - and also a "Mexican Pizza" which I ordered. Every single piece of food was disgusting. It was poorly cooked (cold in the middle) pre-packaged food. Not even the good quality pizza from Lidl, the 2-for-1 frozen ones. It was a not-to-be-repeated experiment.

Dyr

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

KFC.


Any KFC anywhere really.

I never ever got what people see in that place, the stuff is pure muck


Lowest I've gone is at the end of a heavy session in Greece we came across a guy selling gyros in the street who had finished up for the night so me and a mate did a deal and bought all the leftover meat he had, we sat in a doorway eating a tray full of unidentifiable meat that had probably been cooked that morning.

In fairness, didnt get a dose of the rum n butters but felt as ropey as **** the next day

IrishLad90

Yurt! wrote: »

On the other side of the coin, there's an Indian take-away at the top of Smithfield square near the Cobblestone pub that looks like it should be shut down on sight by health inspectors. Mind-blowingly good curry though - best I've had in Ireland.

Ive eaten from those guys when i was working on the square.. The mystery special is genuinely good and not as dodgy as the sign suggests

randd1

Got a taco chip in an Abra in Enniscorthy years ago. They used to boil the mince instead of frying it. Basically, I got a taco/mincewater soup with wet chips and lumps of cheese in a tub.

Being very drunk I took a few bites.

I think I vomited 3/4 times by the time I got back to the hotel, and then destroyed the hotel toilet for the rest of the night.

I haven't been to Enniscorthy since.

fryup

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

KFC.

Any KFC anywhere really.

they're very much hit & miss

it seems to me that head office aren't doing enough QC on the franchise's out there esp in this country

bnt

Taco Bell in Denver, after I’d been to a hockey game downtown while on a business trip. Of course I had to repeat my order four times, not being American, then took my tacos back to the hotel ... when Americans bitch about Taco Bell, I think I get it now. I didn’t order Veggie, so if that was meat, I didn’t recognise what kind. I didn’t get sick, that’s something.

doublejobbing 2

pawdee wrote: »

I had a shockingly bad Indian takeaway in Killarney a couple of years ago. I can't even describe how bad it was. I'm actually lost for words. I once heard of someone getting a chicken burger and thinking there was something a bit off about the mayonnaise. Turns out it wasn't mayonnaise at all. The chicken had a cyst and when the guy bit it it burst and pus came out. I suppose it doesn't get much worse that that?

Hellrazer wrote: »

There was a chipper in the 90s where I lived that was slicing up cans of dog and cat food for their burgers ie taking the cans off and frying the meat.
Thing is the queues used to be out the door for the burgers. They really were the nicest burgers Ive ever tasted - that is until I discovered what it was.

Then there was also a chinese caught with a pigeon trap on the roof shut down as well - I had eaten a few "chicken" curries out of that one aswell.

Feel like I'm in the school yard in 1997 reading this nonsense. Next yil be telling me Marilyn Manson was in the Wonder Years and had rib surgery so he could blow his own knob.

The dog food scheme sounds ridiculously more expensive than buying bulk meat from a supplier. The pigeon trap sounds like more trouble than it would be worth.

A running theme with these urban legends of using wild animals, domestic pets and other strange sources is that they are all usually more expensive and time consuming than just buying regular meat.



edit- knew I'd heard the chicken burger one before.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chicken-sandwich-tumor/

Probably showing my age a bit here but there was a "chain" of three take aways in Dublin some time ago. Dundrum Drumcondra and Raheny if my memory is working. Called "Some Like it Hot".

They could consistently produce some of the worst approximations of food I have ever had in my life. While Abrakebabra can produce some awful things - and that "Eddies" thing that is not really Eddie rockets but produces half the portion sized for three times the price is truely the most current awful thing I know of - none will ever reach the horror of "Some like it hot" for me.

doublejobbing 2

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Supermacs bring this out every Christmas and it probably wins an award for the most unlike the photo product ever served.

Wasn't awful tasting but flat all the same.

neris

Pizza from a well known American franchise chain few years ago. Woke up during the night letting loose at both ends and spent the next 2 days unable to keep any liquids in.