We drove from Illinois to Florida and stopped at a local chain in Alabama along the way called Milo's. It had great reviews and people said you had to get the burger with the special sauce or whatever it was called. Let me tell you that this "burger" was very reminiscent of my grade school lunches when they would serve "Salisbury steak with gravy" in the little paper containers that you had to pinch the corner to peel the film off and eat. Now while usually this would be a lesson in how terrible us school lunches are, this is more of a lesson in how bad the food in Alabama is in that the local people think that this is good enough food to pay someone real money for it.
A kind of Indian grill in Basel (Switzerland). It was rated 4.8 stars on google maps but I failed to notice that all the reviews were made by German/Swiss-German peoples (we come from the French and Italian parts of the country with a French and Italian food culture).
The hella expensive meat platter was undercooked and served with a ketchup and mayonnaise mix. Ketchup and mayo at an Indian place ! They also made us pay 2 francs for a glass of tap water when we had their most expensive dish and a bottle of wine. Fuck them, and fuck those tasteless German speaking reviewers.
All my worst food experiences happened in the German part of Switzerland so now I’m super cautious of what I eat when I travel there.
(Swiss)Germans are completely mad about food.
It's their culture to complain about everything, except food. All they care about is that it's as bland as possible and has big portions. If you manage that, they'll give you five stars every time.
I spent 3 years living in Germany, and not only can you not get anything spicy for love nor money, they also don't use herbs. It just blows my mind. They're physically so close to France and Italy, but the food is so far away.
Oh god you just described my neighbour. He tells me about this restaurant he was. Was it any good? The steak was huge. But was it any good? It was very reasonable priced.
As a german, i'd say i would absolutely love variety, herbs, spices and taste in my food. But they just don't really offer it.
In my city there about 15 greek restaurants selling humongous potions of meat with fries, a few döner places and a few italian places. Thats it. What would i give for anything else...
Probably the Indian restaurant in downtown. I love Indian food, and there's so many other delicious places to eat I have no idea how this place is still open. The one time I went it was so dirty I could see the dirt on the bathroom door from a distance. The food was spiceless, bland, and generally tasted like trying to make American flavored Indian food. I, and everyone I've talked to who's eaten there, got food poisoning afterward.
It's almost comically bad. I'm convinced it's a front for some other operation because this place has been open for years.
A long john silvers that hadn't changed their fry oil in way too long. I couldn't stand to be in the building let alone eat their food.
*Long Johns, for those that don't have them, is a fast food seafood restaurant. Position them well below McDonalds when it comes to quality of food and expectations.
Chain seafood restaurants absolutely fucking terrify me because it feels so easy for me to get so fucking ill. I know that, rationally, Chicken is probably a much more effective disease vector but I have really fucking been burned by seafood in the past.
Don’t forget the second-rate LJS: Captain D’s
Ride that Captain's D and end up with diarrhea.
Oh, no. I think I've seen one in Kansas City maybe? And Illinois. Midwesternish chain?
They definitely had a "bad decisions made here" vibe.
Chipotle. I don't understand why anyone likes cold burritos.
We were in Croatia once at a beautiful little restaurant at the beach. The food was fine except it was completely cold when it was brought to our table. Not warm, not lukewarm, I mean cold. Sat on the counter over an hour cold.
Road stop where a kid was spraying the tables down inside with fly spray.
It was a local restaurant run by a shady businessman who’s known for running less than good quality restaurants. Whatever, I figured, it was cheap and close to my house.
Except me and my family were served rotten meat when we ate there. The manager only wanted to give us a 20% discount. Like hell I’m paying for rotten food. Never again.
Went to a steak and ale bar, asked for a medium rare and my partner asked for a medium.
Mine came out blue and hers was rare....I was like wow these are undercooked, sent them back...
They literally just microwaved the plate, salad and all.....
Never went back, told a bunch of people to avoid the place.
Casa Bonita - before Trey Parker and Matt Stone buying it. The atmosphere was great, but the food was like prison grade Taco Bell. Except for the sopapillas. Those are dope.
But yeah, the food was so bad that you were forced to order before you could get in. Because they knew otherwise people wouldn't eat.
With that being said, now that they've redone the restaurant, I've been on the wait list for 2 years now and just got picked today. So hopefully it's better now. Will know shortly.
We'll need a follow up please
Gonna be a while. They sent a list of available dates going out a few months. It feels like booking a theater ticket. Probably will be looking to go in September.
Adding 2nd reply here as I remembered the kebab place where I projectile vomited into my hands while running to the bathroom after eating a couple of bites. Nope.
I once hallucinated after being poisoned by lunch from a Torta truck in Mexico, somewhere south of Monterrey. I was in a cinder block shitter a mile down the road until the sun went down that day.
Oh, and for some reason, literally every ihop I've ever been to has smelled like sewer, had terrible service, and has food that tasted a day old. They can't all be like that right?
I once hallucinated after being poisoned by lunch from a Torta truck in Mexico, somewhere south of Monterrey. I was in a cinder block shitter a mile down the road until the sun went down that day.
You forgot to add an important detail here - did the meal taste good?
I'm asking because I also got quite sick in Mexico, but always found the food to be excellent in terms of flavour.
Oh hell yes it was amazing.
Very interesting. I've been going to Mexico, mostly one town, for over 15 years and ive only ever gotten sick once.
The IHOP by my place is pretty bad too. Not very clean, food tastes off.
I should put this in the funny date stories thread maybe but when I was younger, my friend and I tried to go on a date, just to see (turned out no, we were just friends, still are 35 years on) and ordered soup at a restaurant.
We had the worst waiter EVER. He said the soup was dried out but he could ask them to put some water in it, made it sound so unappetizing when we wouldn't have even known, I mean it's soup, right? I can't remember all the other bad descriptions, but he was just not cut out for the job. The food was fine when it arrived, even after his attempt to downplay it. Just the waiter was the worst.
Ryan's Buffet. They got shut down for having over 1,750 dead rats in their kitchen, and raw sewage in the basement.
There was one where I used to live called the Roost. They were infamous for being so slow you could watch the Titanic before getting your food. They also had squaredancing sessions next to the dining part that you could watch. They're out of business now though.
Also, Chuck E. Cheese had the worst pizza.
