Saddest "meal" you've ever eaten.

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H.Protagonist said:
Reading this kinda made me want to cry. I know that feeling so bad, Borg. It's a shitty meal and a shitty brownie, but when the only joy in even a shitty meal dies on the floor it's like the world just took one last petty swipe at your dignity.

Those were lean years to be sure. I've certainly eaten worse in the name of hunger, but when you find yourself at night behind a shitty chain store digging through their garbage because you can't face going home and have nothing else it just... yeah. I think I did cry in that parking lot as I ate a stale everything bagel. Just felt really shitty right then.

But, as MazeHaze said, they do tend to dump perfectly edible goods. It was just soul-crushing as a whole.

Twenties... the dumpster years. ;_;
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Dude, I want to give you a hug so bad. I'm sorry you ever had to go through that :(
 
The first night I moved into my current place, I didn't have a ton of food, and I lacked the cash to get delivery. I did, however - have bacon, eggs, milk, and a Cosco-sized box of Bisquick. So I decided to make some breakfast for dinner.

The issue with this, is that my roommate had decided to only bring cast-iron pans. I'd never used one before - so I turned the heat up fairly high, flopped in some bacon, then started mixing up my pancake mix. While in the process of whisking up the pancakes, I turn around to see the bacon effectively charred. I give it a quick flip, and start pouring pancakes into the second hot pan. As you can imagine, everything turned up with a decent layer of charcoal (cast-iron holds heat exceedingly well. You're supposed to turn it up mid-high, get it hot, then decrease the temperature. I skipped the last step). I scrambled some eggs in the bacon pan, which gathered all of the char. Since the pancakes were still raw in the middle, I tossed them & grabbed a Costco muffin to supplement. This is also where I realize every plate in the house is dirty, so I ate the burned breakfast off of an IKEA Tupperware lid.

Did not feel very hopeful about my prospects of living on my own at that exact moment for a multitude of reasons.
 
In my twenties. I had a period of having no money. Lived off porridge oats (with water) and mash and beans for 3 months. I lost a 14lb a month for 3 months. 42lb in total. Every meal was a sad meal. I thought I was going to stave to death.

Fun times.
 
cyberheater said:
In my twenties. I had a period of having no money. Lived off porridge oats (with water) and mash and beans for 3 months. I lost a 14lb a month for 3 months. 42lb in total. Every meal was a sad meal. I thought I was going to stave to death.

Fun times.
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Damn, son. You should write a diet book.
 
Nothing too bad for me

After an operation I had a horrifically sore throat from the tube they put down my neck, so had a bowl of Smash miced with bacon bits

Recently had a bowl of Sainsbury's egg-fried rice mixed with Sweet Chili dipping sauce.
 
I made salmon cakes with some Aldi canned salmon the other night. That stuff is legit. Probably supposed to cook it though...
 
I don't think I ever had a bad meal before. If I have. I'm probably blocking it out of my memory.

Thank god my mom is a wonderful cook, without her, I wouldn't even know what to do. God bless her.

And I don't think I ever read a thread that make me laugh and want to cry the very next post before.

I hope you Gaf who were struggling to get by are now doing much better. No one deserve to be that poor ever.
 
SolVanderlyn said:
Alright, there are two clear answers to this:

Alone, probably this:

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Another time, I was at a friend's house and he gave me the sorriest excuse for a burger I'd ever seen. No buns, just a burnt, soggy patty on a plate that I had to eat with a fork. It tasted really weird. Halfway through my "meal" he exclaims that he's been taking vacuum sealed food from the dumpster in order to save money, and that this particular burger patty was from one of his dumpster excursions.

Somehow, I'm still alive. I didn't even get sick.
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Any concentrated, frozen fruit juice with that?

I'm stuck in a basement, sitting on a tricycle, girl gettin' on my nerves....
 
A cookie.

Years ago I went on a long overnight bus trip. We where told that the bus would stop a few times at some food places and since i wasn't particularly hungry, i skipped dinner and decided to eat something later.

After a few hours of travel the bus stopped somewhere in the middle of nowhere on a mountain at a ''restaurant''. It was insanely crowded because a lot of busses took their stop at the place. There where big lines in front of the bathrooms, and they turned out to be the grossest, dirties bathrooms i'd ever seen, without soap or towels. I honestly wouldn't be surprised it they where not cleaned in months..

Since we where really hungry we still decided to go see what they had to offer. The whole place was greasy with sticky, dirty chairs and tables. They only sold burgers and some dish with chicken. Now, i don't eat that stuff, and, considering the hygiene state of the place my partner decided not to get any food either. But we where cold and thought it probably wouldn't do that much harm to at least get a cup of coffee. They where served in paper cups so it felt kind of clean after all.

Well, the overpriced coffee arrived, together with a cookie and a sticky sugar shaker. And i kid you not, there was a fucking living fly in the damn shaker. When we mentioned that to the waiter, he smiled and told us it's not a biggie, with the awesome comment: ''It's our housefly :D!''.
I really was hungry and cold, so i drank my surprisingly ok tasting coffee sugarless, and .. i ate the cookie :(.

From then on i always make sure i have food and drinks with me when i go on long bus travels though :P
 
I can't even properly describe one of the worst meals I ate. I actually forgot what it was called. Some sort of meat substance that looks and smells exactly like cat food. I never tasted cat food but I'm sure it taste better than this shit. It was kind of similar to the spam spread someone posted earlier.
My sister cooked this for me and my brothers. Except that she completely half-assed it and served it basically cold. I could not even finish it as hard as I tried and as hungry as I was. I actually almost threw up. I hope to never eat anything like it again. I swear it was like rotten cat food. I was pissed at my sister back then for barely cooking it but I understand now she was probably frustrated having been left to feed and care for her younger brothers with barely anything to feed us. I don't like thinking about it honestly. Those were hard times.
 
This one time me and another GAF member were hanging out and we got a freezer pizza from the store. And I guess we didn't know that the pizza was actually not frozen and that it had thawed out.. So we put it in the oven but it was like bending and stuff.. And it wasn't cooking properly.. But we decided to try it anyway.. And we ate a few pieces of it, but we decided eventually that it was wayyyy too gross and probably too raw for us to eat anyway.. I definitely got sick from eating it.

And I found our photo of it, actually. This is what it looked like when it came out of the oven:
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I actually feel nauseous just looking at it ;___;
 
^ That along with the canned slob of fish are two of the most vile things I have seen here.

WinoMcCougarstein said:
Cereal with water instead of milk when I was broke in college.
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Fruits Loops has enough sugar to make that cold water tastes rather good. :)

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WAT? Don't look at me like that. It's a perfectly serviceable breakfast.
 
That "pizza" comes straight out of Carcosa. Shit is terrifying. If you ate the whole thing it would probably drive you insane.
 
Soka said:
Opened a can of tuna. Drained out the water. Put a Kraft cheese single on the tuna (while it was still in the can) and ate it with a fork and washed it down with a glass of tap water.

Makes a surprisingly good low-carb snack though. Maybe would be better with real cheese. I remember sitting on our shitty couch in our shitty rental house in a shitty neighborhood as I ate that sad, depressing meal.
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Yea, I've had that a few times as a proper snack when doing a low-carb diet. I did put it in a bowl and microwaved it to melt the cheese, though. Its surprisingly good.

Wag said:
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You ate that tumbleweed?
 
Replicant said:
^ That along with the canned slob of fish are two of the most vile things I have seen here.
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I'm sorry to do that to your eyes ;___; I was hoping someone else could understand my pain! haha.

EdmondD said:
That "pizza" comes straight out of Carcosa. Shit is terrifying. If you ate the whole thing it would probably drive you insane.
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LOL!! We got through I think about half of it, and then we were finally like "yeah this tastes like raw dough and sour dicks.. let's stop..."

AcridMeat said:
I can't believe you ate pizza the hut's shit.
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It may look (sort of) like pizza, but it's still excrement from the deep bowels of pizza hell.
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Tbh, I can't believe it either ;_;. I learned that day, though, that freezer pizza that isn't frozen doesn't cook properly.. For reasons beyond my control. LOL!
 
nothing too bad, the worst I've had is either stale bread with eggs or cup ramen with frozen veggies. Both of which are very edible
 
I had boiled onion once. Not the most exciting meal.

Also, in old East Germany, as a kid I ordered some "safe" meal: hot dog and coke. What I got was some white, thick, sausage thingy, some angry sauerkraut and a Stalin variety of Coke.
 
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Pretty sad by itself, but then I found out the george foreman had stopped working so I couldn't toast it.

Though I'm pretty sure the saddest lunches I have on a regular basis are the $2 can of coke zero and chocolate bar "combo" I get from the University computing lunch room charity bins.
 
One time I ate easy mac with luke warm water.
It was all I had and I couldn't go out anywhere to grab some food. Needless to say it was a pretty depressing day, Noodles were crunchy the water was orange with clumps and whatever the powder that is in it beforehand was just chlling in there as well.
 
My "struggle" meals were usually hot dog sandwiches. Nothing really outlandish or hilarious.

When my mom cooked anything less than an extravagant meal, my brother always called them "depression dinners".
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Kritz said:
Pretty sad by itself, but then I found out the george foreman had stopped working so I couldn't toast it.

Though I'm pretty sure the saddest lunches I have on a regular basis are the $2 can of coke zero and chocolate bar "combo" I get from the University computing lunch room charity bins.
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You have a stove top? Put them directly on the heating element. That's how cubans roast green and red peppers.
 
When I was 19 I move into a house with two friends. We were all pretty broke in order to meet the rent but then I got a new job - that paid six weeks in arrears. Whilst waiting for that first pay packet I ended up with about £40 to live on for the month. Thinking about it now, there's plenty I could do with it, but at the time I used to smoke 15 cigarettes a day and in my mind that

I ate pasta and butter for a month.
 
Log4Girlz said:
You have a stove top? Put them directly on the heating element. That's how cubans roast green and red peppers.
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Would you believe that the ignite for the gas stove short circuits the entire house? Cuz I should really pay someone to look at that.

bjaelke said:
This is a £4 cheese & chips meal sold at Stevenage Football Club.
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can you pay extra to get them to not put on that nasty lookin' cheese flap
 
Seanspeed said:
You ate that tumbleweed?
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Eat a rose head once when I was feeling depressed. Saw it in a glass vase and started a munchin' - a petal here, a petal there and then finally the long 15 minute existential chew.

Sad meals are more about the circumstance than the food itself, that said I once went on a diet of crackers and coke for a month.

If you're yellow and you're pale
And the doc thinks you're unwell
Go ly dow for a while with a rose.

After crackers and some coke
It won't really seem that gross
And the petals even add to the charm

Add some flavor to the mix
Of this existential yarn
And now you got a good thing going.

So while you're chewing and a munchin'
And the taste is really somethin'
Play a little sad trombone.
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The oven was broken so I ate a frozen pizza without putting it in the oven first. I just waited untill is was soft.
Had a belly ache afterwards.
 
Bought a bottle of milk after a long night of little sleep and chugged it down without thinking. As I finished I realized it tasted pretty sour and had weird chunks. The worst part was I was too tired to care at the time.
 
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vending machine at work had them and i was in a hurry (also, machine only accepted change and 0.8 € was all i had, so i couldn't afford anything else)
 
I can't even call it a sad meal after reading some of these but I remember having nothing but some rice with chopped hot dogs in between paychecks.

Actually I lied, those meals weren't sad at all because I had some motherfucking sriracha sauce handy. Also I think I was pretty stoked to get a pound of "meat" for a dollar.
 
I'm a little disappointed no one has posted a picture of toothpaste yet.

I've been giggling at that pepperoni toast since this morning.
 
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