What is the worst side dish you ever tasted, or at least witnessed??

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Just for fun this morning, what is the absolute worst culinary disaster (with or without eggs) that you ever personally tasted (to your utter disgust) or saw someone attempt to serve, but your better judgment served you well by not sampling it?

This could be from a family gathering (Thanksgiving dinners are notorious for bad favorite recipes) to an Office potluck gone terribly, terribly wrong.

My wife and I would like to submit the moulded (as opposed to molded...) jello salad that a co-worker brought to an office party, and insisted on chatting endlessly about how to make it. It had three ingredients:

Lime Jello

Tuna fish (in oil, that's important...)

Green peas

I'm not sure of the actual proportions or procedures because we were all trying to keep the hysterical laughter under control, but I can tell you that when you serve this "salad", as it begins to melt on the plate, the residual oil from the tuna fish forms a spreading slick across the green watery surface in the most disturbing culinary way imaginable. The aroma is just wrong too, and I'll leave it at that...

Julia Child once said that you should never admit to a mistake in the kitchen that nobody witnessed you make, so often that philosophy comes into play here as well...

Bon appetit, and who's next??

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Stuffing on Thanksgiving, It looked great, but when you ate it, It was sweet and it was like eating a suger cube, yuk
 
A squash casserole I made this past T-day!! I got the recipe from a magazine and I think they left out some key ingredients or something! It was hard and crunchy and WAAAAY too salty. Yuck! And I foolishly did not test taste it before serving it!
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Won't make that mistake again.
 
When I was younger, my mom got her very first blender.... and a recipe book...

JIFFY CARROTS

now back then my dad won't let you leave the table until your food WAS GONE!!!

Back to the JIFFY CARROTS... I don't know how mom fixed them, but when you took a fork full from the mound of orange it tasted like sand. My dad is saying "eat you dinner"..."but dad it's awful"... you didn't talk back to dad!!!

Then he took a bite...The look on his face was priceless and he proceeded to hide his carrots with his porkchop bones... man it was nasty stuff. My dad made my mom throw away that book...LOL

and I didn't have to eat it...!

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EVERYTHING they serve at the local restaurants here. Who ever told any of these people they should open a restaurant should be shot.

How hard is it to make a grilled cheese? French fries?
If I say "no meat" with my breakfast- why do you fry everything in bacon grease?
You know it's sad when you pull out of a restaurant parking lot and go directly to McDonalds because everyone has to get sick in their bathroom.

They can't blame the economy on all the store & restaurant closings around here- it's just terrible food.
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Our neighborhood has a block party every year. A local guy donates the meat to BBQ and each person in the neighborhood brings a side dish. So we're there and DH has piled some salad on his plate. I look over and notice a hair in his salad so go to pull it out for him, only as I start pulling on it, the salad starts to part and out comes this huge hairball! My DH is not that fussy and often eats things I wouldn't but the sight of this even turned his stomach and he had to look for a way to dispose of his salad (not wanting to offend its maker but also not knowing which neighbor brought that salad)!
 
When we were kids, my younger sister decided one day that she was going to impress my Dad by making his favorite lemon meringue pie.

She got busy in the kitchen right after school and was also busy yammering on the phone while she was cooking, and neglected to add the 2 cups of sugar that the pie filling called for, but added all of the lemon juice.

My Dad was all excited after dinner that night and proud of my sister, and he was beaming when she served him his piece of pie. He took one bite, and it looked like his head shrank to the size of a peach pit before he reflexively and explosively expelled that bite of pie. Thank God it was soft filling, because if there had been any nuts in it he probably would have killed one of us right there at the dinner table, the velocity of the filling being just under the speed of sound...Dad had quite a muzzle velocity when he wanted to, and it was truly entertaining to witness.

My poor sister has never lived that one down, even though she really is quite an accomplished cook, now.

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I made a box of hamburger helper a few years ago, and we were eating then dh finds a hair he is setting there poking through it and made into the noodles was red hair, I dont have red hair no one here does and every single noodle was full of hair. then once we bought a red barron pizza brought it home and i baked them didnt pay attention til dh went to take a bite and i made him stop there was hair all over the pizza and it was not hair from your head it looked like pubic hair the whole pizza was covered under the toppings with what looked like pubic hair!!! I have never thrown up so much in my life dh even threw up we took it back to the store and they asked if I wanted a different pizza and I said no I wanted my money back and i got mame we cant do that cause you baked it. you will have to contact the company. we have never eaten red barron pizza again and I wont and i dont buy hamburger helper either i make my own now without the red hair. oh another time we got a little ceasers pizza that had the cheese wrapper from the cheese cooked into the pizza
 

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