Worst takeaway meal you've ever eaten?

ShatterAlan · 25-02-2021 9:59am

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.

Namaste. It's excellent.

ShatterAlan · 25-02-2021 10:37am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Same. And it's very easy to create nice Chinese food at home using a few simple ingredients.
Once you have the right sauces, it's not hard.

+1

It's so easy to make Chinese style pepper-steak with onions.
Cut strips of beef/steak and throw into the wok/frying pan and just brown them then take them out and set aside. Next roughly chop a red and green bell pepper and a large onion and throw into the wok (with some oil) and fry them for a couple of minutes.

Mix equal parts of soya sauce and rice wine (about a shot glass each). Throw the beef back in with the peppers/onions, jack up the heat, arrange it all in a pile in the middle of the wok and pour on the sauce mixture. Let the alcohol in the rice wine burn off (about 10 seconds) then reduce heat and let the whole thing simmer. Bang. Pepper steak with onions that would put any Chinese takeaway to shame.

Serve with rice or noodles.

jamesbere · 25-02-2021 10:52am

Worst takeaway for me was a place I order a double cheeseburger from. Brought it home open the wrapping to find my burger was burgerless. Two buns and a slice of cheese. I didnt even bother going back, just fried a few sausages and put them in the bun instead.

ShatterAlan · 25-02-2021 11:23am

Had some experiences.

Two places that spring to mind are White Castle and Jack in the Box in Long Island, New York. Now I'm fond of eating what could be described as muck after a feed of beer. These two places take the cake. Got burger and chips from Jacks. We took one or two bites in the car park. The second you bit into it and chewed you could feel your belly start to protest. We wound up pelting each other with this crap rather than eating it. Yes we were all wasted.
White Castle does taste ok, again when you're locked, but the next day you're on the pot thunder-dumping.
Domino's pizza in Ireland is dire. Also in Amsterdam got a noodle box from a place called Wok to Walk. The noodles were slimy. I managed to hold it down but the girlfriend spewed the lot up.

igCorcaigh · 25-02-2021 11:28am

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Also in Amsterdam got a noodle box from a place called Wok to Walk.

I had noodles in Amsterdam too, which consisted of duck bones, noodles and water. Tasted of nothing, which was probably a blessing.

Church on Tuesday · 25-02-2021 12:52pm

kegg wrote: »

If you got food in one and found it awful,
why did you bother going to the other?

I wanted to do the whole tour.

PARlance · 25-02-2021 1:48pm

forzacalcio wrote: »

About 15 years ago there was a burger van outside coppers, after a night out and a feed of drink I grabbed a burger from here. He handed it over without one of those "burger bags". I asked him for a bag, he handed me a Tesco bag. I ate half of it, brought the other half back to the hotel to eat when I got back and fell asleep. Woke up 6 hours later and the burger on my pillow and it was horrendous. God knows what I caught from that burger that night.

Have had a few similar experiences with Coppers, without the burger.

poisonated · 25-02-2021 2:02pm

I had a yucky burrito n Amsterdam . Yes I said yucky.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 25-02-2021 2:08pm

Honestly cant ever remember getting a take away that ended up in the bin for being inedible or tasting terrible etc

Probably the worst might have been slightly cold or greasy but I cant actually remember any (even though i'm sure there probably were)

IrishLad90 · 25-02-2021 2:40pm

PARlance wrote: »

Have had a few similar experiences with Coppers, without the burger.

Haha i think the OP yo this reads the same way to you as me

igCorcaigh · 25-02-2021 2:47pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Honestly cant ever remember getting a take away that ended up in the bin for being inedible or tasting terrible etc

Probably the worst might have been slightly cold or greasy but I cant actually remember any (even though i'm sure there probably were)

Raw chicken kebab was probably the only thing I binned.

Sgt Hartman · 25-02-2021 5:08pm

I remembered a place opened up about 10 years ago on William Street Limerick across the road from Boots. It was an Asian all you can eat buffet. I tried it once and I never went back again. They didn't use any proper cuts of meat or chicken, it was just all bones. The place didn't last very long

There's a similar Asian buffet currently open in Marlborough Street Dublin. No actual cuts of meat, just bones and offal. It's rubbish.

Gregor Samsa · 25-02-2021 5:34pm

Fitz* wrote: »

But the worst has to a street food vendor that served chicken noodles. I was served an actual fried chicken heart. I could see the aortas and all. Put me right off eating any more of the dish.

I had chicken heart in one of those Brazilian BBQs in Prague, the ones that don't tell you they have a salad buffet and just keep on bringing out meat after meat after meat on a big metal stick, and when they get to the end of the meats, they start back at the beginning again, until you break out in the meat sweats and turn over your little disk to the red side that says "no more!".

The chicken hearts weren't particularly nice, but they are a thing.

kegg · 25-02-2021 5:41pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I wanted to do the whole tour.

Haha sure why not. You must try blue thunder in foxford then. Decent food.

PhilOssophy · 25-02-2021 5:45pm

There used to be a chip shop just up the road and across the road from Tramco in Rathmines back in the day - ugh, I remember the awful taste the next morning. Yuck, and yet we kept going there. I have no idea of the name.

25-02-2021 6:00pm

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.

J. Marston · 25-02-2021 6:18pm

Was curious what taco fries tasted like so ordered them one night from Apache. Awful.

fryup · 25-02-2021 6:23pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

There used to be a chip shop just up the road and across the road from Tramco in Rathmines back in the day - ugh, I remember the awful taste the next morning. Yuck, and yet we kept going there. I have no idea of the name.

was it a chinese? by any chance

EmmetSpiceland · 25-02-2021 6:43pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

There used to be a chip shop just up the road and across the road from Tramco in Rathmines back in the day - ugh, I remember the awful taste the next morning. Yuck, and yet we kept going there. I have no idea of the name.

Porta Via?

For Forks Sake · 25-02-2021 9:32pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

There used to be a chip shop just up the road and across the road from Tramco in Rathmines back in the day - ugh, I remember the awful taste the next morning. Yuck, and yet we kept going there. I have no idea of the name.

Tiny place? Think it was Porta Via

EmmetSpiceland · 25-02-2021 9:49pm

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Tiny place? Think it was Porta Via

Chips always tasted of fish.

jippo nolan · 25-02-2021 10:17pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Chips always tasted of fish.

Two for the price of one!

Odhinn · 25-02-2021 10:20pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

There used to be a chip shop just up the road and across the road from Tramco in Rathmines back in the day - ugh, I remember the awful taste the next morning. Yuck, and yet we kept going there. I have no idea of the name.

What year(s)?

PerryB78 · 25-02-2021 10:33pm

Odhinn wrote: »

What year(s)?

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

yamaha4life · 25-02-2021 10:39pm

Was reading this post for giggles yesterday and i saw kfc crop up a few times and ye jinxed me. i hadnt had it in ages and my local kfc is usually very good.

Went and got it yesterday was starving and it was horrendous chicken in the burger like an old boot, tough and rubbery.

Had serious afters from it wont be having that again anytime soon

barbara anne · 25-02-2021 10:43pm

Never liked it.

Notdeco · 26-02-2021 12:14am

barbara anne wrote: »

Never liked it.

Never liked what?

Looks like you are trying to boost your posts, most don't make sense.

Jacob13 · 26-02-2021 1:09am

DENIS'S KEBAB Enniscorthy . Jasas the donor KEBAB a big load of soggy mush . Soggy lettuce some white onions, soggy rubber done meat stale bread ,garlic sauce like milk

Rows Grower · 26-02-2021 1:26am

I got a thin and crispy pizza in Castleisland one time about 6 years ago and it was like eating perfectly cooked meat and cheese off a roundy porcelain tile. No idea how they managed it.

I was in a hurry and was that hungry I ate the lot.

bassy · 26-02-2021 1:27am

Rows Grower wrote: »

I got a thin and crispy pizza in Castleisland one time about 6 years ago and it was like eating perfectly cooked meat and cheese off a roundy porcelain tile. No idea how they managed it.

I was in a hurry and was that hungry I ate the lot.

can,t bate the venison rows

Rows Grower · 26-02-2021 1:29am

bassy wrote: »

can,t bate the venison rows

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

circadian · 26-02-2021 1:34am

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 · 26-02-2021 1:38am

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 · 26-02-2021 1:49am

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 · 26-02-2021 2:10am

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 · 26-02-2021 2:17am

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 · 26-02-2021 2:29am

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 · 26-02-2021 2:35am

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 · 26-02-2021 9:37am

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 · 26-02-2021 10:37am

Porta Via, that's the place. Yuck.

ShatterAlan · 26-02-2021 12:43pm

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 · 26-02-2021 11:15pm

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 · 26-02-2021 11:21pm

Down at Dino’s bar & grill.

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

Odhinn · 26-02-2021 11:23pm

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 · 27-02-2021 9:01am

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

Ash.J.Williams · 27-02-2021 9:04am

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 · 27-02-2021 9:05am

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 · 27-02-2021 9:08am

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

bnt · 27-02-2021 12:50pm

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 · 27-02-2021 12:57pm

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 😅

Worst takeaway meal you've ever eaten?

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