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What is the Worst Meal You Ever Ate?

Posted on April 15th, 2008 9:57am by Nancy Nichols
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We are vomiting here.

23 Comments to “What is the Worst Meal You Ever Ate?”

Trent @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am

Worst meal or worst dining experience?
Nancy Nichols @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:18 am

meal. food. professionally prepared.
James @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:26 am

As a rule of thumb, I don’t eat anywhere with “golden” in the title.
Brett @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am

James, I believe that’s technically considered “drinking”…
Nancy Nichols @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am

WHATEVER, dude. I see the dots going out, you see them going in. Use your imagination. Just answer the question.
Rawlins @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:44 am

The worst meal ’special’ I ever got at a respected restaurant (not cheap and since closed) in the Oak Lawn area was hand delivered to our table by the gracious chef of renown. It was a fish special. The fish filets were ‘fishy’ smelly and undercooked to boot, served over a bed of tastelessly beyond-bland potato something that was spilling from a prefab ‘cone’ of whole grain something like an anti-Christ horn of plenty. Both the restaurateur and the chef beamed as I tasted their offering. I literally had to excuse myself, gagged in the restroom, and folded the ’special’ into a pilfered cloth dinner napkin which I rolled up and placed into my trench coat pocket and served to my neighbor’s dog that barked all night as a ‘I hate you’ piece offering. PS: The runner up worst meal was ironically also fish, a decade ago at Stephen Pyle’s brief fling-that-flung Knox Street nighttime $$$depository ‘Aquaknox’.
Nancy Nichols @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:54 am

Rawlins, spill the beans on the place.
dmacfar139 @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:54 am

dinner on China Air … but i only drank the beer.
Brett @ April 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am

@Nancy - I was referring to James and his avoidance of Golden things - as in showers. Too juvenile? Sorry.
Nancy Nichols @ April 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am

Right over what is left of my head. Ha!
Rawlins @ April 15th, 2008 at 11:26 am

Nancy, I can’t ’spill the beans’ because to vomit and tell is never gentlemanly.
BLM @ April 15th, 2008 at 11:44 am

This pains me to admit this — but the worst meal I’ve eaten recently came from Snuffers. What happened to their cheese fries? Ten years ago they were crispy with plenty of cheese. Now, they are greasy, soggy and covered slightly with cheese.
houston @ April 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am

where it is now.
Herrera’s.
used to be great but has gone down hill
with menu and POOR service, etc and the pricing
is UP.
oh well, there is still other TexMex.
James @ April 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Allow me to clarify with these examples-

Golden Egg roll
Golden Corral
Goldie’s
Golden Empress
“Golden Arches” -Ok that one is a stretch.
vceleste @ April 15th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Uncle Julios in N. Dallas the tortilla soup is disgusting.
DM @ April 15th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Mine is …

Baylor University,
Penland Hall Cafe,
chicken-fried-chicken, peas and mashed potatoes.

Eight hours later, I thought I’d never eat food again… ever, ever.
James @ April 15th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Agree with Uncle Julios…Bloody fajitas! Nasty! I don’t understand the draw to that place.
MIssing Dots @ April 15th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Crab and Sushi Smorgasbord at May’s Spa on Stemmons.
dave little @ April 15th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

i had the rod dreher tacos at luckys. made my heart black.
Sick right now @ April 15th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Funny thing happened to me. I ate lunch at Maggianos NP. Now I’m in the bathroom being visceraly purged of the nasty lasagna I didn’t even finish.

I’m tapping this on my iPhone. I’ve had too Manu close calls to risk being anywhere but on the john.
Spamboy @ April 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Easy. When I flew Lufthansa from New Delhi to Dallas via Frankfurt, I made the mistake of eating the business class meal of veal terrine with fresh goat cheese, celery, carrots, and arugula oil. For the thirteen hours I was over the Atlantic, I was filling up every available barf bag. I lost five pounds as a result of that meal.
yuck @ April 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

Worst meal ever: Olive Garden. Why do the aging family members insist on going there?
Uncle Julio’s is awful, too.
There’s so much good food in Texas. I just don’t understand how these places survive.
Daniel @ April 16th, 2008 at 10:16 am

Uncle Julio’s is Mexican food that’s truly worthy of Cleveland. It even has the caricature Mexican as its mascot. I suspect the phrase Food Fun n Friends appears somewhere on their menu, but I don’t intend to find out for sure.

Also miserable: Good Eats. And god help the Dixie House Lakewood — I want me to want it, I need me to need it, but I’m begging them to pull their shingle down.