My most horrible food mistake so far...

[throbscottle]

Well, my first one, as a teenager, was thinking putting marmite in coffee might be nice... Nope!
My second one, recently, was accidentally making tea with the descaling water from the kettle, full of citric acid and dissolved limescale. Truly horrible.

This evening, I found something worse than these. Worse even, than if these things in some nightmare scenario, were combined!

Ready?

Rancid ramen. (You know ramen, those instant noodles that come with a packet of mysterious but nonetheless delicious powder)

Apparently my nose doesn't detect "rancid" and only registers it as "a bit stale". Not that I checked in the first place - why would I? So the noodles were only a year past their best before date as I found after the event. Not something that would normally bother me.

So I'm munching away, thinking, these really do seem rather on the stale side. I must have eaten half the bowl before I decided that actually they had a horrible chemical taste and seemed to be burning my tongue slightly and I could not bring myself to eat any more. So the remainder went in the bin. I like a fried egg with my noodles. Even the egg had become inedible!

Well I've eaten crisps, prunes, Gorgonzola, various biscuits, drunk strong coffee, eaten more biscuits, shortbread, and it must be 4 or 5 hours after the event and I can still taste it! Even worse, I keep getting er, "reminders" every so often. And I know I'm not going to sleep well after that coffee...

So take it from me, don't ever eat rancid ramen! You will regret it, I promise. Even more than your other bad food mistakes.

 

[treeturner123]

Horrible Food Mistakes

Both are many years ago and perpetrated by my late father. Both occurred when my late mother was in hospital for a long period. The mistakes were:-

1 - My father thought it would be nice to bake a cake to take in to her. We had an old (even then, in the1950's) gas cooker. He cooked the cake for the stated number of minutes and, being of a non-practical bent, simply turned it upside down onto the cooling tray. It had a crust but the still uncooked molten centre made it's presence known and the whole thing disappeared through the cooling grid. It made a lovely pattern!

2 - As it was summer, we sook Strawberries and Cream in to the hospital. Cream in a vacuum flask, sugar in a glass jar. It was only when my mother dipped the first berry into the cream then the sugar that the truth dawned - Dad had put salt in instead of caster sugar!

Strangely enough, the same thing happened at a pre-Christmas lunch at a well respected restaurant in Cheltenham. Out came the Xmas Puds, already covered with brandy sauce. I was one of the first to tuck in!! Very salty brandy sauce is not ever going to catch on. I can still taste it in my imagination!!

Phil

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Last week my wife cooked a nice piece of pork with a large spoonful of cayenne instead of tomato powder.

 

[selectortone]

Tripe. Just...don't.

 

[selectortone]

Also: American Hershey chocolate bars. They taste like vomit. I thought I had a bad one so I tried another... nope - vomit.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Tripe. Just...don't.

It was my grandfather's favourite ............................... and he was a slaughterman.

 

[Geoff_S]

Tripe. Just...don't.

You’re right. Add whelks to the list

 

[Phil Pascoe]

My two favourite pet hates? Oysters and Champagne.

 

[Spectric]

Tripe. Just...don't.

Yes why even a carnivore would eat the internals from some animal is truly horrific, but at the same time people eat chicken feet, that is just as weird.

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

I've done survival training with the military.
After a week with very little food, permanently cold, soaked to the skin and being chased by a trained "hunter force", at night, and knowing how empty the energy tanks are, I'm pretty sure I'd eat rancid ramen and thank you for it afterwards!
Maybe!