Worst Meals

We had a team lunch today and somehow the discussion went onto the topic of the worst food/ culinary experiences we have faced.

The first one to share her experience was Z, it relates to the time she was just learning how to cook. One day after labouring in the kitchen for hours, she presented the burnt hideous looking mess to her parents for tasting.

She asked her dad, "Do you think I need to put anything else, to enhance the taste?". 

Her Dad replied, "I think you should put this dish in the dustbin, where it belongs!"

The next one pertains to my cousin, at that time she was newly married and had invited us to visit her at her new home. We arrived and after the grand tour of her beautiful home, she said, she had a treat for us as she had personally baked a Bread Pudding. We trooped into the kitchen and to be honest the pudding looked so inviting, that all of us literally fought for the biggest piece. My brother got the biggest piece and was gloating over his windfall... that is until the first spoonful went into his mouth. The expression on his face was priceless, If only I had a camera and could capture the expression on his face. Bread Pudding as we all know is made with bread, eggs, milk and vanilla essence. I think she forgot the vanilla essence, for the pudding tasted only of runny eggs and an eggy taste in anything can kill your hunger pangs in less than a few milliseconds. How we shoved the pudding down our throats can actually provide fodder for another post. After that all invitations for dinner/ lunch at her place were politely shot down for a few years.

The final one was again shared by Z, it relates to her aunt, who is the worst cook imaginable (I'm wondering if the bad cook streak runs in the family), and when she cooks non-vegetarian food, it is safest to declare "Oh, too bad, I'm so sorry, but I'm vegetarian today" or better still "I'm fasting". Hehe, the perks of being a Hindu and having 33 crore gods to choose from, you can pick any day to fast or  be a vegetarian. 

Anyway I digress, So one day they were at her aunt's place and she served a very dodgy looking and a 1000 times worse tasting fish. They nibbled at it for a while and her sister decided that some action needs to be taken. She asked her aunt if she could have some salt and the minute her aunt had left the room to fetch the Salt Shaker from the kitchen, she picked the fish and flung it straight out the OPEN WINDOW. When asked later "What if the fish had hit a passerby?" she replied that she found the idea of facing an irate passerby hit by the flying fish far more tolerable than forcing that monstrosity on her taste buds.