Saddest "meal" you've ever eaten.

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aett said:
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.
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That sounds like a good meal to me.
 
On my deployment in Iraq, I was on a pay mission to some tiny cob in the middle of nowhere. We got in late, around 10 at night and were hungry and as hell. The food we got was several untoasted pieces of white bread, lukewarm canned chili, a bottle of water and a little packet of peach tea crystal lite powder. Most depressing meal ever xD
 
As a kid, when we would get down to our last bit of foodstamps, we would make potato chip sandwiches.
White bread and potato chips.
 
Seanspeed said:
If you can get past the notion that you're technically eating garbage, there's good food to be had!

For me its this:

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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.
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Thats that shit you see in cartoons and stuff of very plain and nasty looking food but I never thought it was real, jesus.
 
SBH said:
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.
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This is crazy, but this reminds me.

I eat quaker quick oats "raw" out of the container. I think it's pretty damn good. The texture transformation that happens in the mouth is amazing.
 
I can't compete with some of these posts but probably my saddest meal was one summer in middle school. Went bowling with some friends and had a good time. For lunch the other guys got a pretty gross looking hamburger so I decided to get a chicken sandwich. Took one bite and realized there was no chicken involved, it was basically fried breading on a bun. Took a second bite and almost threw up. The really sad part was that was my last $5 after paying for the bowling so I couldn't get anything else, even fries. I would've been better off getting a candy bar and spending the rest on Mortal Kombat II.
 
I actually have a picture of the saddest meal ever. I was in a rush and this was all I could think of to take with me to work. Warm generic cream soda and microwaved ramen. Dat instagram filter

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I once didn't have any food at home except some bouillon cubes. Made soup on boiled water, the cubes and some pepper. Didn't even have bread to eat with it.
 
Skinpop said:
I once didn't have any food at home except some bouillon cubes. Made soup on boiled water, the cubes and some pepper. Didn't even have bread to eat with it.
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I used to do that a lot too except with powdered gravy packets. I'd get lucky sometimes and my roommate would have discarded shit (like raw onions from her hamburger) that I could throw in to make it more like soup.
 
SBH said:
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.
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I've had onion sandwiches. Thick slices of raw onion between slices of white bread with some mustard.
 
I bought six cans of salmon from Aldi. I was short on time and money, but wanted fish. I'd had canned salmon before, from other stores, and it resembled canned chicken, cut into cubes.

When I opened the first can I had to slap it a few times for the jelly to loosen and ooze out. It plopped on my table and retained its shape. It smelled like cheap dog food. If I didn't eat it, I'd go hungry until lunch the next day. So in I dug.

I described it later as "eating a crime scene," and I hold to that. It was as if someone had taken a whole fish, skin and bones and all, and forced it into a can until it fit. It tasted like several things, none of them salmon.

To this day I don't know if it was actually human food. Either way, I would up throwing out the other cans after being refused a refund.

RIP canned flesh, whatever you were.

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Crunched said:
I bought six cans of salmon from Aldi. I was short on time and money, but wanted fish. I'd had canned salmon before, from other stores, and it resembled canned chicken, cut into cubes.

When I opened the first can I had to slap it a few times for the jelly to loosen and ooze out. It plopped on my table and retained its shape. It smelled like cheap dog food. If I didn't eat it, I'd go hungry until lunch the next day. So in I dug.

I described it later as "eating a crime scene," and I hold to that. It was as if someone had taken a whole fish, skin and bones and all, and forced it into a can until it fit. It tasted like several things, none of them salmon.

To this day I don't know if it was actually human food. Either way, I would up throwing out the other cans after being refused a refund.

RIP canned flesh, whatever you were.
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Reminded of another one. The meal itself wasn't the sad part really, just the situation.

It was thanksgiving when I was going to college. Stuck in the dorms while most everyone goes home for the holidays. Go to the cafeteria, pretty much empty. Get a tray of their thanksgiving type stuff. I sit down, and if it isn't depressing enough. Celine Dion's "All by Myself" starts playing over the radio in the cafeteria.

Sad fucking meal that was.
 
Crunched said:
I bought six cans of salmon from Aldi. I was short on time and money, but wanted fish. I'd had canned salmon before, from other stores, and it resembled canned chicken, cut into cubes.

When I opened the first can I had to slap it a few times for the jelly to loosen and ooze out. It plopped on my table and retained its shape. It smelled like cheap dog food. If I didn't eat it, I'd go hungry until lunch the next day. So in I dug.

I described it later as "eating a crime scene," and I hold to that. It was as if someone had taken a whole fish, skin and bones and all, and forced it into a can until it fit. It tasted like several things, none of them salmon.

To this day I don't know if it was actually human food. Either way, I would up throwing out the other cans after being refused a refund.

RIP canned flesh, whatever you were.
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Hahahahahaha, oh man. The picture really brings it home.

As for me, nothing too gruesome. Just some chips from a vending machine after midnight because I was on call and I was too busy until after the cafeteria had closed. Gosh, I hated call.
 
Machine said:
I've had onion sandwiches. Thick slices of raw onion between slices of white bread with some mustard.
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The difference is the bread. One of my favorite things to eat is raw beef on rye bread with raw onions. I put black pepper, salt and soy on the beef and let in marinate with the onions under plastic wrap in the fridge. I also like onion and tomato salad. Only onions with vinegar and spices just hurt my empty stomach after, so that is why I had to mention it.

But really, many of these don't seem so bad. The prison food has many things and doesn't look that horrible to me. Popcorn for dinner I can relate to.

When I didn't have any money, I used to eat rice with butter. That would be the dinner everyday for a week. Had to eat it with putting water in my mouth to get it down at the end of these weeks. I also used to eat every other or third day at times. You learn to cope, but seeing pictures now I was so thin then. Maybe that's why I see many of these as good meals.
 
Well, right now I only have ~120 pounds until I find a job, so I'm eating a lot of spaghetti with nothing and white rice with nothing ;_;
 
Step 1: Fill a tall glass 3/4 full with Pepsi
Step 2: Add white cheddar popcorn to glass until almost overflowing
Step 3: Eat soggy popcorn from glass with fingers
Step 4: Repeat step 2 and 3

When the bag is done drink up that cloudy mess!
 
Worst was probably when I was marching in this parade. Got up at midnight so I could be at the place I needed to be by one, spent around three to four hours rehearsing in the freezing cold and then we were due to have breakfast at five or so and the breakfast was... ice cold keish, Fritos, asparagus, and diet Coke. They also had coffee, but I couldn't bring myself to attempt that shit. And all the chips were gone by the time I got there.

I hate keish, especially ice cold, and am not a fan of ice cold asparagus either... but I ate it anyways.
 
Alcoremortis said:
Worst was probably when I was marching in this parade. Got up at midnight so I could be at the place I needed to be by one, spent around three to four hours rehearsing in the freezing cold and then we were due to have breakfast at five or so and the breakfast was... ice cold keish, Fritos, asparagus, and diet Coke. They also had coffee, but I couldn't bring myself to attempt that shit. And all the chips were gone by the time I got there.

I hate keish, especially ice cold, and am not a fan of ice cold asparagus either... but I ate it anyways.
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Change that coke to water and get rid of the Fritos and I'm totally down for that. Love quiche.
 
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