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

[LovinMyPeeps]

My mother, ever fond of her crockpot, threw together a pot of pea soup and went to work with anticipation of some of us coming over for dinner later. Only problem was, she forgot the peas... so when we all got there here were these carrots, ham and onion chunks floating around in slightly off colored water... to this day we remind her how fond we are of her "river water soup".

 

[DuckLady]

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[cassie]

Mr. P's Frozen Pizza. Bought it on sale. Even the dogs wouldn't eat it and my dogs will eat just about anything. I don't know if they still make it but the stuff was dreadful.

 

[Kansaseq]

Capers

 

[silkiechicken]

So there is a member of do I dare say family which prepared some hot dogs of the cheap variety... we're used to the kosher all beef costco hotdogs.... well, my mom took a bite, decided to give some to the fish we called "meat fish" because he would eat any type of meat, he sucked it in, and after two sucks, promptly spit it out and swam away. My mom felt like throwing up and discarded the rest of the "meat". If the meat fish would not eat the meat... something was wrong, really wrong. And that meat fish LOVED the costco hot dogs....

 

[verity]

Many years ago we went to Richmond for the 'family Thanksgiving' -- my husband's stepmother was/is an awful cook -- -- but she does try -- she had set the most beautiful table -- fresh flowers, calligraphy on the place cards, silver napkin rings, linen napkins, etched crystal wine glasses -- 'the works' ---

When she brought in the turkey it looked gorgeous -- BUT. she had only 'cooked it til it was brown' -- maybe a half an hour??!!

With a great flourish, Father-In-Law makes the first slice -- pink, bloody juice oozed out -- Liz (stepmother) exclaims, 'Oh, look that will be perfect to put over the mashed potatoes.'

At that very moment I became (and still am!) a VEGETARIAN!!!

The rest of the family kept slipping off into the kitchen to dispose of their turkey-parts -- and I didn't even let our little dog have a bite of it --

I still shudder to think of it --

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

I tried to choke down some of this nasty stuff once...I'm prolly gonna butcher the name...Tibouli?

The gal who made it was just raving about it and she was all nom nom nom and I was like blech!

Aside from that, anything with onions is disgusting, but can usually be made in a nondisgusting way by preparing it sans onions.

 

[debilorrah]

Purge before reading:

My dear stepdaughter decided to make dinner one night. She took shredded cheese and some corn tortillas and made rollups. Then she proceeded to pour tomato soup mixed with sour cream on top. Hobo enchildadas.

To this day I will not allow her in the kitchen without supervision.

 

[rnoyster]

My ex SIL invited everyone for Thanksgiving dinner shortly after she and my brother married. Everything looked fantastic for the dinner. When my brother carried the turkey in for her everyone thought that it was beautiful. When everyone sat to eat we all started on the turkey. It was horrible! It had this really funny, kind of burnt taste to it! When we went to dig the stuffing out of the bird the paper bag of the turkey parts was still in the cavity! She told us that the bird had already been stuffed at the store, so she sisn't have to do it! Needless to say, she never did live that one down!

 

[The Chicken Lady]

An unnamed distant relative brought a jar of canned beets to a family reunion once. My mom was helping to set up the food, and noticed that the expiration date written on the jar of beets was...five years prior.

She came up to me and whispered, "Don't eat the beets!"

At another family gathering, another relative announced that she had made the potato salad in her BATHTUB because she didn't have a big enough bowl.

The horror was legendary. Luckily, I hadn't eaten any of it.

I don't understand how I can possibly be related to people like this.