[Closed] Disappointments in food - share your tales of woe

Any cornflakes other than Kellogg's.

I was looking forward to some lively celery soup for lunch, but it just tasted like veggie stock with a few lumps in the bottom.

mmm can't beat lively celery soup - except someone round here keeps throwing it all away before it gets eaten...

And Jam bo no-one ever looked forward to non-Kellogs cornflakes.

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Pretentious hole, Serving not particularly stand out "Italian food"...

Are you sure it was celery soup and not just "soaking water"?

Anyway, on the subject of chocolate. Belgian chocolate. What's that all about? It's not luxury, it's sweet and sickly.

The other day, I ordered a Mexican burger from Wetherspoons...I got 5 onion rings instead of 6.

Greggs have stopped doing steak and cheese rolls. Apparently they were 'seasonal' just for the run up to christmas. Going back to normal sausage rolls seems like such a comedown.

But the counselling is coming along well. I'm definitely making progress. With any luck, and with Gods help, I'll be off the medication before too long

#prayforbinners

"savoury cheese" sandwich fillings, you know, the one with grated cheese, onion and mayo all mixed together.

Cheese and onion sandwich with a bit of mayo? Lovely.

"Savoury Cheese" - awful, makes me feel sick. What's that all about.

[i]#prayforbinners[/i]

Developing OAS and not being able to eat raw apples and fresh hazelnuts. Bloody loved hazelnuts too.

#prayforbinners - Won't someone think of binners!

Any breakfast cereal.

Meatballs- good.
Sandwiches- good.

Subway meatball sub? Grim.

Also, Maynard wine gums compared to supermarket own brand ones.

And liquorice sports mix.

Onion bhaji scotch egg.

So wrong on many levels and then tasted even worse. Some kind of experiment (or joke) by the local scotch egg place as I was asked for feedback when I went back.

http://www.hackescher-hof.de/

Last time I ever listen to a restaurant recommendation in a guidebook.

Manchester House, in er, Manchester.

This restaurant went attempted to get a Michelin star. I ordered a Steak, medium rare. It came overcooked, cold and tasteless. Even the mash it came with was cold.

Im a grateful person and i have seen poverty in my lifetime but when im paying this sort of hard earned, I expect it to be significantly better than what i am capable of myself, not worse.

Subway [s]meatball sub[/s]? Grim.

Hotel muesli. Only Lidl's blue will do.

Roasted chestnuts.

The second worst thing you can put in your mouth.

#prayforbinners is on Twitter. Let's get it trending.

Baxters Cream of Chicken soup.

My colleague has not one, but two freshly made chicken and brie wholemeal bagels.

I have just taken a squashed ham and cucumber roll out of my bag.

Not only am I disappointed with myself, I am struggling to hide my food envy.

olives

I was disappointed, on my return from Hathersage the other day, to discover I'd just missed out on this [b]Salted Caramel Cake[/b] (as recommended by JonEdwards):
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Well I haven't brought any sandwiches in today so it's a trip over the road. To Greggs or Waitrose though?

I ordered a battered Halloumi burger from a cafe in Cornwall.
It arrived and I proceeded to eat my chips and salad, get them out of the way before the main event, and then I came to taste the delicious halloumi.
There was no halloumi!!! 😯

They reckon it may have slipped out of the batter in the fryer, so basically I had a batter burger...
I took it back naturally.

Another great disappointment was this...

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Can't say I could tell the difference except in price. 🙄

Harry Ramsdens. Probably the worst fish and chips I've ever had in my life, not to mention the 'service'. How can they claim they're the best, says who exactly???

It was a claim they could make once upon a time - in Guiseley.

Only Lidl's blue will do

I'm a green man.

Love's restaurant in Birmingham. Not bad, but disappointing. Michelin starred prices for good but in no way excellent food and service. A shame as I always try to support local restaurants but I shall not be going back to this one.

Disappointed by the wifes wobbly bits, bought about by her eating too much cake.

vondally - Member

olives

I hear your pain brother. Periodically I pretend I'm middle class and try olives, yet again. Every time my face immediately wrinkles up in disgust. They are absolutely rank! I'm starting to suspect that they're actually snobby little things, they sense my northern working-classness and react against it by oozing out a putrid taste. Like a bloody sea cucumber being attacked by a conga eel. Bastards!

If only I had a steak and cheese roll to take away the foul taste? 😥

Shop bought cake, it's rubbish, so I just make my own now. BUT i needs/wants the recipe to the Salted Caramel Cake above, wow that look lovely.

Olives are wonderful. Especially stuffed with garlic or chilli.

Olives are wonderful. Especially stuffed with garlic or chilli.

Rustlers microwave burgers.

Pot Noodle. I am surprised it is even classed as a food.

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Jaffa Cakes. Always feel I should like them, everyone else seems to. I buy them from time to time and feel disappointed.

Anyway I'm informed (by Greggs) steak and cheese rolls are still available. If they're not in your local tweet @GreggstheBakers #prayforbinners

Nice one slowoldman.

Or should I say [b]HALLELUJAH BROTHER!!![/b] The power of prayer eh? 😀

The Cellarium restaurant in Westminster Abbey. Booked because the views on the balcony are supposed to be excellent,
Got there and the balcony was closed for no apparent reason. I didnt make any fuss, just accepted it and ordered food. Then the food was flung at me by someone too cool to be working there. It looked and tasted like it was scraped out the bottom of a tin. Shite.

Only Lidl's blue will do

I'm a green man.

Eww, no no no, too sweet! The green bag is languishing at the back of the cupboard among the 15 blue ones.

Baked beans, something has happened and they are no longer as tasty as they once were. A blandness has occurred.

Dorset cereals muesli, lovely box filled with old hamster cage spoils. Huzzah for Lidl.

Dorset Cereals are responsible for my £5000 dental bill 👿
"Disappointed" is not the word I'd use for them

[quote=binners]attacked by a conga eel
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It was the missus' 40th. We went for dinner @marcus Wareing at the Berkeley (posh hotel in Knightsbridge ).
The cocktails were good,as was the food.but NOT amazing.the service was excellent to be fair.
For four people the bill wasn't far off the cost of a nice bike.
I was so disappointed .
We did have a good crack so it wasn't all bad. 😉