Worst takeaway meal you've ever eaten?

Rows Grower

bassy wrote: »

can,t bate the venison rows

Pretty much every meal I had in my life bate that pizza.

circadian

Wheelers in Derry is by far the worst place I've ever eaten in. I've been all over the world and seen all sorts of **** at street markets but I have never seen anything that shows the complete disregard or single **** given for the customer.

Burgers are like two bricks encasing a piece of burnt polystyrene.

The chips are soggy. Not oil soggy. Water soggy.

I could hand the fish fillets to the kids they could use them as toy swords they're so rubbery

The milkshakes used to be half decent, no idea what they're like now.

Surreptitious

One night in cork Northside got a cheese burger and chips. The guy was mid 40s and new he didn't have a clue. I was there 25 mins waiting. Brutal. The food was cold and I had to drive home with it. He never toasted the bun or melted the cheese, the chips were cold and soggy. It was inedible. How difficult is it to make a simple burger and chips with the right stuff laid out in front of you.
Then in Frankfurt I got a kebab with some gristle and sauce. I'd eat anything but this was beyond bad I literally couldn't eat it.

Rows Grower

Surreptitious wrote: »

One night in cork Northside got a cheese burger and chips. The guy was mid 40s and new he didn't have a clue. I was there 25 mins waiting. Brutal. The food was cold and I had to drive home with it. He never toasted the bun or melted the cheese, the chips were cold and soggy. It was inedible. How difficult is it to make a simple burger and chips with the right stuff laid out in front of you.
Then in Frankfurt I got a kebab with some gristle and sauce. I'd eat anything but this was beyond bad I literally couldn't eat it.

Most likely a southsider that was given his P45 that night.

Surreptitious

Rows Grower wrote: »

Most likely a southsider that was given his P45 that night.

He was foreign national with little English and looked terrified. He was completely out of his depth. The queue was getting longer and the food was getting worse.

bassy

Surreptitious wrote: »

He was foreign national with little English and looked terrified. He was completely out of his depth. The queue was getting longer and the food was getting worse.

disgruntled customers in the que so badly wanted there food,but little did the know till later ehh.

Surreptitious

bassy wrote: »

disgruntled customers in the que so badly wanted there food,but little did the know till later ehh.

It was bad. It was stone cold by the time I got home so it wasn't cooked through enough to maintain heat.

bassy

Surreptitious wrote: »

It was bad. It was stone cold by the time I got home so it wasn't cooked through enough to maintain heat.

puke :mad:

fryup

Surreptitious wrote: »

It was bad. It was stone cold by the time I got home so it wasn't cooked through enough to maintain heat.

pop in under the grill for 5 min, thats what i usually do esp for fish & chips helps dry out the grease for one thing

PhilOssophy

Porta Via, that's the place. Yuck.

ShatterAlan

6541 wrote: »

Walking back to the hotel after a big night in Benidorm, the sun was up and the morning workers were getting busy. I stopped at this hatch and ordered a burger. I should have known by the way the local Spanish man looked at me, it was a kind of look that said, are you actually ordering a burger from me at six in the morning and I don't really care about nonsense like trip advisor reviews !

I got food poisoning, I spent the next few days on the bowel. To this day I haven't gotten over it.

Freudian slip?

IrishLad90

McDs today.. Ordered the grand mac meal with nuggets and instead a delivery arrives with cold quater pounder and selects... Absolute devastation in the lad90 household...

Bobblehats

Down at Dino’s bar & grill.

The burgers are now dressed to kill... bun burnt to bits and all!

Odhinn

PerryB78 wrote: »

Yeah porta via, early noughties it was there. Everything from kebabs to BLT's, wouldn't touch the place sober

I was thinking it was Buffalo Bills (right next to the Rathmines Inn). It's a dominoes now.

smilerf

When I used live In Dublin Leo Burdocks on Lower Liffey St was nasty

Ash.J.Williams

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.

No there wasn’t

Gael23

A Chinese that has thankfully since closed. There was so much grease in the food the bottom fell out of the bag before I got home

The chan chan man

A deep fried pizza in carlow one night. That was about 15 years ago and my stomach still turns at the thought.

bnt

There's a Chinese "street food" place near Dublin centre that IIRC specialises in Duck - it might even be called "Duck" - and when I went there you could choose duck on the bone, or off the bone for a couple more €. I ordered on the bone to save money, and wished I hadn't. It was more bone than duck, and I was genuinely concerned I might miss a bone and choke. Never went back.

PS: I already posted about a trip to Denver in which I got to experience Taco Bell ... on the same trip I also found possibly the best burger & fries I've ever had, at a place called Fatburger in the Highlands Ranch suburb of Denver. I know they're just a franchise operation, like Five guys, but maybe they were just having a good day.

con___manx1

Mimon wrote: »

Over 20 years ago went to a booth selling Indian food in the worst part of San Francisco.

Still can't figure it out but they had only a chicken dish on the menu which consisted of a chicken leg in a polystyrene tub sitting in a watery curry sauce, no rice or anything.

Must have been a cover to distribute drugs or something??

Went in the bin after I opened the tub.

I bet you were in the tenderloin area of San Fran.
If you were that probly wasn't even chicken 😅

PhilOssophy

IrishLad90 wrote: »

McDs today.. Ordered the grand mac meal with nuggets and instead a delivery arrives with cold quater pounder and selects... Absolute devastation in the lad90 household...

McD's is tolerable if it is eaten the minute it is cooked, I can't imagine it being nice by the time it gets to a delivery

Crocodile Booze

PhilOssophy wrote: »

McD's is tolerable if it is eaten the minute it is cooked, I can't imagine it being nice by the time it gets to a delivery

Yeah , McDonald's food travels about as well as Maria Bailey's sincerity..

B.A._Baracus

I worked with a guy who got a chicken burger from a takeaway here in Dublin in 2015. He got food poisoning and had to take a few days off. Even when he came back he looked in bits.

He said he was on the toilet and had a basin on his lap and at one point "it was coming out from both ends" :pac:

Mental.

Beechwoodspark

Surreptitious wrote: »

He was foreign national with little English and looked terrified. He was completely out of his depth. The queue was getting longer and the food was getting worse.

Have had that experience before in a chipper in naas.

New non national fella working there, had very little English - had to point at the menu and explain slowly what I wanted

I’ll never forget the permanently terrified look on him

Ordered chips and a quarter pounder off him

Took ages. At least 20 mins. He was having problems with the grill etc etc

All the while People coming in and ordering more and he was getting ever more confused and mixed up.

During all this he was Arguing with another lad in the back who was making pizzas

When he actually served me the bag of food I was relieved just to be getting out of there it was such an ordeal and stressful just being there.

Chips - luke warm and were not fully cooked - dirt

Burger - burger itself burned to a char on one side and almost raw on the other. Cheese not melted. No onions. Whole thing Doused in a burger sauce (way too much) buns not toasted. To summarise it was muck and ended up mostly in the bin.

That was just about the last time I went there having gone regularly for years with no issue.

The previous owner Eddie was a legend but he retired and it was sold on to this shower of clowns

It closed up and reopened a number of times since

Chewy (totally uncooked) chicken wings "cooked" over a barrel on Gloucester Road in Bristol many years back.

I was afraid to spit it out because the cook looked like Lennox Lewis

griffin100

PhilOssophy wrote: »

McD's is tolerable if it is eaten the minute it is cooked, I can't imagine it being nice by the time it gets to a delivery

I used to work with a guy who was beyond miserly. He never put more than €5 worth of petrol in his car in case it got nicked - that sort of miserly. He used to live with a load of Spanish students who worked in McDonalds. They used to bring him unsold Big Macs home after their night shift and he’s keep them in the fridge and eat them days later.

Mister Vain

griffin100 wrote: »

I used to work with a guy who was beyond miserly. He never put more than €5 worth of petrol in his car in case it got nicked - that sort of miserly. He used to live with a load of Spanish students who worked in McDonalds. They used to bring him unsold Big Macs home after their night shift and he’s keep them in the fridge and eat them days later.

A bit like the guy buying a tin of baked beans on Tuesday so he can have a bubble bath on Wednesday.

biko

Got food poisoning from a Chinese place in Galway 10 years ago.
Lost half a stone over two days.
Thought I would die there on the bathroom floor.

Looked fabulously skinny after.

mariaalice

The chan chan man wrote: »

A deep fried pizza in carlow one night. That was about 15 years ago and my stomach still turns at the thought.

How could anyone deep fry a pizza? I am intrigued

hadepsx

I remember having a chicken baggette from abrakebabra when I was a young lad on my first day of holiday, down the sunny South East. Got terrible food poisoning and spent the next 4 days alternating between the bed and the toilet. Holiday, and my bum-hole, was ruined!!!!