Saddest "meal" you've ever eaten.
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WickedLaharl
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just kidding cuz frying up bologna bowls was awesome as a kid
This isn't nearly as sad as most of the "meals" in this thread, but my wife thinks that one of my former bachelor meals is laughably depressing. I baked a tray of frozen french fries and chicken nuggets, then dumped them into a bowl and ate them at my desk. It was my Saturday staple.
riskybusinesstomcruise
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I too am a victim of the budget ramen + ketchup combo. Extra sadness points the more days in a row that its the only thing you can afford for dinner. Thats being said I ain't got shit on this :
johnny_park
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This whole thread reminds me of that scene in True Detective where Marty is sitting alone in front of the tv eating a microwave dinner.
daninthemix
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Tuna liquified in a blender. Gave me a sore throat.
This is a classic example of not being sure why it's so funny.
why would anyone do this to themselves
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
The sad part is.. that was sad, but hardly as sad as it gets.
thoseAREmySHOES
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Hahahaha, what the fuck
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
The saddest meal I've had in recent memory would be a bologna sandwich consisting of 2 slices of bologna, miracle whip, and white bread. Probably had worse in college.
That's a sad meal, but some of the ones in this thread are down right depressing.
That's a sad meal, but some of the ones in this thread are down right depressing.
H.Protagonist
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Haha. I mean, I've eaten worse, but it was one of those moments where it just hits you how shitty stuff is. I think if you qualify it that way, those stale bagels are only one of several truly 'sad' meals so far in this thread.
I also agree that you should get extra sadness points for having to eat the same thing over and over again like an endless loop of shame and tears. Besada's stolen chili, the rice and ketchup packets, every poor bastard that's had to choke down dry ramen noodles day in and day out to make it... ;_;
Magna_Mixalis
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I've done this, although since I'm a man of refined taste, I mixed in some tabasco and a can of corn kernels I found buried in the back of my cupboard...
Banjotanooki
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I remember in elementary school when they ran out of everything else, they always brought these out ;_;
HOLY CRAP, this takes me back, lol. I remember loathing the sight of these.
Only shame.
Darren870
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New Years Eve this year. My gf and I were in Popayan, Colombia. Our first New Years together.
Turns out Colombians don't really celebrate New Years publicly, its more of a family holiday. Fair enough we thought we would go out to a bar, play some pool and get a meal. Wrong!
2 Restaurants were open in total. An italian place run by a European. The queue to get in for a meal was about 2 hours. Very small place and everyone knew that it would be the only place open before us. We also had just eaten there the night before too....
The other restaurant. An imitation KFC that was much much worse. Though they served beer (the one plus).
We get there at 9:55 pm, 5 mins before closing. We didn't even know it was open and thought we would have to join the 2 hour queue but we stumbled onto it after roaming the empty streets for an hour.
Can we have spicy chicken please? No
Can we have fried chicken? No
Grilled? No
Anything? Yes a burger.
We then proceeded to have the worst burger of our lives. It felt like it had been cooked about 3 hours before hand, was cold, and hard. Worse then anything I've ever had and that mcdonalds could ever put out. At least we had our beer though...
As we were finishing our AMAZING meal a small girl came running past us and then proceeded to throw up on our feet. No one helped her of course.
We then went back to the room and passed out like 30 mins later. Missed our first new years together and had the saddest & worst meal of either of our lives. Least we had that...!
Turns out Colombians don't really celebrate New Years publicly, its more of a family holiday. Fair enough we thought we would go out to a bar, play some pool and get a meal. Wrong!
2 Restaurants were open in total. An italian place run by a European. The queue to get in for a meal was about 2 hours. Very small place and everyone knew that it would be the only place open before us. We also had just eaten there the night before too....
The other restaurant. An imitation KFC that was much much worse. Though they served beer (the one plus).
We get there at 9:55 pm, 5 mins before closing. We didn't even know it was open and thought we would have to join the 2 hour queue but we stumbled onto it after roaming the empty streets for an hour.
Can we have spicy chicken please? No
Can we have fried chicken? No
Grilled? No
Anything? Yes a burger.
We then proceeded to have the worst burger of our lives. It felt like it had been cooked about 3 hours before hand, was cold, and hard. Worse then anything I've ever had and that mcdonalds could ever put out. At least we had our beer though...
As we were finishing our AMAZING meal a small girl came running past us and then proceeded to throw up on our feet. No one helped her of course.
We then went back to the room and passed out like 30 mins later. Missed our first new years together and had the saddest & worst meal of either of our lives. Least we had that...!
Massive Duck. C.M.
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I imagined that whole scene as Frank Miller art
Wheat flour straight from the bag. After a while my mouth was so dry, that I mixed it with water. It helped.
Don't eat only raw garlic to an empty stomach. Hurts like hell. Better to not eat at all.
One day I had only onions and they were pretty good as I put vinegar, mustard, oil, salt and pepper on them. Stomach didn't like that meal so much either.
Don't eat only raw garlic to an empty stomach. Hurts like hell. Better to not eat at all.
One day I had only onions and they were pretty good as I put vinegar, mustard, oil, salt and pepper on them. Stomach didn't like that meal so much either.
So close to first post. So close.
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
You totally made the right choice in buying the M1 Garand before the Hungry Man.
SquiddyCracker
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Once, when I was really poor, I just ate ketchup and mustard.
Aesius
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A Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell that tasted and smelled like vomit. It made me vomit too. I'm pretty sure it actually had vomit on it.
Saddest meal I ever made myself was a sandwich that consisted of two pieces of stale white bread and two slightly old/questionable slices of off-brand American cheese.
Saddest meal I ever made myself was a sandwich that consisted of two pieces of stale white bread and two slightly old/questionable slices of off-brand American cheese.
Man, one time I was towing the line of having no cash and made baked beans with rice. Staple food special, never again. Also that's nowhere near as bad as some stuff mentioned in this thread. One time I tried plain noodles (packet without the flavour sachet) with maple syrup. One bite and threw them away.
Some combinations confuse me, like popcorn and water? Why not just eat the popcorn?
Some combinations confuse me, like popcorn and water? Why not just eat the popcorn?
Dragoon X Omega
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I remember in elementary school when they ran out of everything else, they always brought these out ;_;
oh god I forgot about those. we had them for our grade school field trip.
Jeff Albertson
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I've had a lot of Tesco Everyday Value crap, but the low point has to be
SPAM Spread
It was 25p in B&M and all I had in the house was old Ryvita.
SPAM
'Spread'
Oh god why
I used to love paste sandwiches as a kid which lets be honest is terrible but this is a step further
Spam on a barbie is awesome though
I was living in Pennsylvania, dead broke and moving home to Arizona in about a week. In my pantry all I had was white rice, and in my fridge all I had was ranch dressing. So I ate White rice and ranch dressing for about a week.
EDIT: Second place was eating at a place in PA called Pechin's, which was kind of like Wal-mart before there was such a thing as Wal-mart. They had Hamburgers for $0.20 an Cheeseburgers for $0.25. And believe me, they were horribly overpriced.
EDIT: Second place was eating at a place in PA called Pechin's, which was kind of like Wal-mart before there was such a thing as Wal-mart. They had Hamburgers for $0.20 an Cheeseburgers for $0.25. And believe me, they were horribly overpriced.
Fudgepuppy
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I buy canned chili con carne and mix it with a can of ravioli.
Actually it's pretty tasty, but still somewhat sad.
Actually it's pretty tasty, but still somewhat sad.
johnny_park
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What's wrong with baked beans? That's some good stuff. Unless you're talking about a. Different kind of baked beans.
Exterminieren
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This is art.
If you can get past the notion that you're technically eating garbage, there's good food to be had!
For me its this:
Not my pic, but it was pretty much what I was given in jail. I mean, I've had worse-tasting things in my life, but being handed a tray that looks like this really brings home that 'you did something wrong' feeling.
zeopower6
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I've had a lot of Tesco Everyday Value crap, but the low point has to be
SPAM Spread
It was 25p in B&M and all I had in the house was old Ryvita.
SPAM
'Spread'
You could probably make a nice musubi hybrid with that though ;_;
Dark Octave
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OP could have waited for a microwave if he had more than 30-minutes to kill for lunch.
I didn't eat it but a friend's girl cooked him a dinner with nothing but sides and no meat/protein. He was pretty pissed off.
I didn't eat it but a friend's girl cooked him a dinner with nothing but sides and no meat/protein. He was pretty pissed off.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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I don't think they're mixing the popcorn into the water
zeopower6
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Sides are the best part of a holiday meal imo.
OriginalNameGuy
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Empty pantry
One dollar and eight cents to my name
Walked to the convenience store(didn't have a car) and bought a .99 cent ham sandwich
One dollar and eight cents to my name
Walked to the convenience store(didn't have a car) and bought a .99 cent ham sandwich
Dark Octave
Banned
I agree, but it's like a house with no floor or roof.
It wasn't really that it was baked beans being the problem, I love baked beans as much as the next englishman, it's most that it was just so damn boring to eat and was really just a "oh fuck I let myself become really poor this semester" kind of moment.
Shit. How did I not think of that?
The Technomancer
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I was really hungry back in January and it was fucking freezing out and I didn't have anything around so I just ate two bags of microwave popcorn for dinner
Yeah, I didn't feel so good
Yeah, I didn't feel so good
eternaLightness
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I remember a few years ago, things got really tough and all I had was some white rice, two eggs and a couple flour tortillas. I boiled the rice, scrambled the eggs, and warmed the tortillas and made "tacos" out of it.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
That's some real struggle right there.
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