Worst takeaway meal you've ever eaten?

Lewis_Benson

The fact that the takeaway business is booming át the moment got me thinking, what's the worst you've ever had?

I once got a "donor" kebab somewhere along the quays in Dublin about 20 years ago.

I'm not sure what the donor meat was exactly, but it was like rubber and tasted like gone off beef.

The pitta bread was like a slice of cardboard and the sauces and salad must have been sitting for days...
Needless to say it probabaly ended up in the liffey.

Eggs For Dinner

You've made me think hard about this. Over 50 years of eating takeaways, here and abroad, I've never had one that I didn't give a decent go or had one which gave me the scutts. Lucky I guess. Most disappointing would be Dominos Pizza. Flabby raw-doughy ****e.

dan1895

Had an Indian about ten years ago and most of the chicken was either black or brown. The place has been closed on a number of occasions due to not been up to scratch health and safety wise.

Yurt2

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

You've made me think hard about this. Over 50 years of eating takeaways, here and abroad, I've never had one that I didn't give a decent go or had one which gave me the scutts. Lucky I guess. Most disappointing would be Dominos Pizza. Flabby raw-doughy ****e.

Dominos is sh*te. It's shocking expensive as well.

Beechwoodspark

Dominos is awful

Apache very very bad too and v v expensive for what it is

Wanderer2010

Himylain Herring.

Eoinbmw

When KFC in the Cresent shopping center Limerick originally opened must be 15 years ago I was all excited at the time :P !
Whatever it was it was deffo not chicken!
Have not chanced a KFC since!

Tails142

Ah jaysus dominos isn't that bad, worst pizza I ever got was from some place on the seafront in Kilkee, cost €4.50 and I can't even describe how ****e it was, only took a few bites and I was absolutely starving.

Have had a couple of bad takeaway experiences down there, the place is either a ghost town or absolutely bombed with people, queued for about an hour in a chipper, absolutely packed, staff obviously pissed off, got back to the house to eat it and the sausage which had been deep fried was still frozen in the middle, youch

Had a burger from a place overlooking the beach in Dunmore East, fancy restaurant style place and I kid you not, the burger was a Big Al's Big Eat and they still wanted 15 quid for it

2lazytogetup

Dominoes was terrible. Got enticed by a voucher code in a flyer through the door. Voucher code didn't even work.

Pizza so bad. So salty that kids kept asking for glasses of water through the night.

Pauliedragon

Anyone here who's been to Sydney will probably have eaten a kebab from a place next door to a pub called scruffy murphys which is the most well known Irish pub over there. Lets just say the toilet got a good workout the next morning.:)

Mimon

Over 20 years ago went to a booth selling Indian food in the worst part of San Francisco.

Still can't figure it out but they had only a chicken dish on the menu which consisted of a chicken leg in a polystyrene tub sitting in a watery curry sauce, no rice or anything.

Must have been a cover to distribute drugs or something??

Went in the bin after I opened the tub.

2lazytogetup

Tails142 wrote: »

Ah jaysus dominos isn't that bad, worst pizza I ever got was from some place on the seafront in Kilkee, cost €4.50 and I can't even describe how ****e it was, only took a few bites and I was absolutely starving.

Have had a couple of bad takeaway experiences down there, the place is either a ghost town or absolutely bombed with people, queued for about an hour in a chipper, absolutely packed, staff obviously pissed off, got back to the house to eat it and the sausage which had been deep fried was still frozen in the middle, youch

Had a burger from a place overlooking the beach in Dunmore East, fancy restaurant style place and I kid you not, the burger was a Big Al's Big Eat and they still wanted 15 quid for it

I know that bar/restaurant overlooking Dunmore East and totally agree. Owner or manager there was the meanest person I've ever met.

Sgt Hartman

Tails142 wrote: »

Ah jaysus dominos isn't that bad, worst pizza I ever got was from some place on the seafront in Kilkee, cost €4.50 and I can't even describe how ****e it was, only took a few bites and I was absolutely starving.

Have had a couple of bad takeaway experiences down there, the place is either a ghost town or absolutely bombed with people, queued for about an hour in a chipper, absolutely packed, staff obviously pissed off, got back to the house to eat it and the sausage which had been deep fried was still frozen in the middle, youch

Had a burger from a place overlooking the beach in Dunmore East, fancy restaurant style place and I kid you not, the burger was a Big Al's Big Eat and they still wanted 15 quid for it

It must be gone at least 20 years now but The Cherry Tree in Kilkee was probably the grottiest takeaway I was ever in. The place was run down and filthy.

Doctors room ghost

Had a Wendy’s takeaway in New York once.
It was pure and utter sh1te.
I’d say a starved badger wouldn’t eat it.

CosmicFool

Eoinbmw wrote: »

When KFC in the Cresent shopping center Limerick originally opened must be 15 years ago I was all excited at the time :P !
Whatever it was it was deffo not chicken!
Have not chanced a KFC since!

It's still ****

Hellrazer

There was a chipper in the 90s where I lived that was slicing up cans of dog and cat food for their burgers ie taking the cans off and frying the meat.
Thing is the queues used to be out the door for the burgers. They really were the nicest burgers Ive ever tasted - that is until I discovered what it was.

Then there was also a chinese caught with a pigeon trap on the roof shut down as well - I had eaten a few "chicken" curries out of that one aswell.

Mr. CooL ICE

The Dominos/Apache is almost kinda moot, considering how many branches there are. I've gotten good and bad from both depending on where I got them from. My local Dominos is best avoided, but the one near where I last lived was great.

Worst I've had was the "house burger" (or something like that) from a Romayos a few years ago. It was awful. Standard burger and bun with a slice of rubbery bacon. The burger box was swimming in what I assume was watery bottled cheese. Had a few bites and threw it away and had toast instead.

Corvo

Worst - Taco Fries from Abra while sober

Best - Taco Fries from the same Abra while sloshed

Mimon

Hellrazer wrote: »

There was a chipper in the 90s where I lived that was slicing up cans of dog and cat food for their burgers ie taking the cans off and frying the meat.
Thing is the queues used to be out the door for the burgers. They really were the nicest burgers Ive ever tasted - that is until I discovered what it was.

Then there was also a chinese caught with a pigeon trap on the roof shut down as well - I had eaten a few "chicken" curries out of that one aswell.

Yeh, when the Chinese opened in my hometown there was a rumour that they were paying a local farmer to raise goats to supply it. Was total BS aswell.

Mr. CooL ICE

Corvo wrote: »

Worst - Taco Fries from Abra while sober

Good call, actually. Once had the misfortune of choosing this over a chicken fillet roll from the spar next door when I had 30 minutes to kill. Worst decision ever.

Mimon

Local Chinese is not terrible, just very bland. Not paying takeaway prices when I could rustle up something tastier myself.

The other one in the town has had issues with the health dept. and has terrible reviews so never tried it.

OicheMhaira

Deep Fried Curly Wurly in Edinbugh - in garlic and beer batter for added unpleasantness.

Corvo

OicheMhaira wrote: »

Deep Fried Curly Wurly in Edinbugh - in garlic and beer batter for added unpleasantness.

Oh god we have a winner

razorblunt

OicheMhaira wrote: »

Deep Fried Curly Wurly in Edinbugh - in garlic and beer batter for added unpleasantness.

You deserve that.





Should have picked the Deep Fried Mars bar!

Capt'n Midnight

Pizza that tasted like the smell of old dish cloth

beertons

Ate a hairy burger @Witness in Fairyhouse. Oh to be young and carefree again.

Snotty

US takeaways in general are terrible, don't ever eat in a Popeyes, it was absolutely vile.

Worst I ever had in Ireland was a Mcdonalds breakfast thing, egg bacon muffin, felt sick for hours after eating it

Tiredteach

Made the mistake of trying Apache pizza last year. Still can taste it. Worst pizza I’ve ever had.

Mad_maxx

Lewis_Benson wrote: »

The fact that the takeaway business is booming át the moment got me thinking, what's the worst you've ever had?

I once got a "donor" kebab somewhere along the quays in Dublin about 20 years ago.

I'm not sure what the donor meat was exactly, but it was like rubber and tasted like gone off beef.

The pitta bread was like a slice of cardboard and the sauces and salad must have been sitting for days...
Needless to say it probabaly ended up in the liffey.

ordered a curry chips in a take away one friday night about twenty years ago , was rarely ever in this joint but was passing through

back out to the car , opened the lid , instead of curry , they either used paint or someone emptied the contents of their nose on to the chips , pure green

went back in and threw it on the counter

" you didnt get that here " shouts one of the staff , to which i shouted

"get me another chips before i have health and safety on you before the night is done "

a more level headed member of staff profusely apologized

Feisar

beertons wrote: »

Ate a hairy burger @Witness in Fairyhouse. Oh to be young and carefree again.

I’d say it was like battery acid on the third day.

Crash Bang Wall

Little kebab pace outside DIT Aungier Street......I was hammered and the kebab was rotten, so it must have been bad

km991148

Every single fish & chips from any of the ITICA chippers.

Frozen or pre battered muck.

Ubbquittious

Fish and chips in Dan's takeaway Dunmanway

Piore rotten

KFC in limerick consistently hits the 1 out of 5 star mark

retalivity

Crash Bang Wall wrote: »

Little kebab pace outside DIT Aungier Street......I was hammered and the kebab was rotten, so it must have been bad

The place a few doors up from boojum? Yeah i can vouch for the crappiness of that spot. Got a kebab out of it sober years ago and was sick as a dog after.

Also further up the road in the coombe, there's 2 side by side that are rough - italian chipper and pizza/kebab/curry spot.

mojesius

Breakfast at a festival a couple of years ago. It was one of them campsite vans that opened 24/7, serving burgers/chips at night and breakfast baps and coffee in the morning.

The sausage was grey, rasher was white and rubbery with the congealed fat and the egg was that powdered scrambled ****e. Topped off with a raw hash brown, a flurry of cold beans and a bit of stale sliced pan, all accompanied by a swarm of enraged starving wasps and a bad hangover.

I miss festivals though!

Yurt2

On the other side of the coin, there's an Indian take-away at the top of Smithfield square near the Cobblestone pub that looks like it should be shut down on sight by health inspectors. Mind-blowingly good curry though - best I've had in Ireland.

Church on Tuesday

KFC.


Any KFC anywhere really.

Larbre34

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

KFC.


Any KFC anywhere really.

Jesus yeah. Grim af. Been in one twice in my life, once when I was a kid and once about 5 years ago out of curiosity to see had anything changed. Nope.

I can't understand why people wouldn't just get fried chicken from a good local chipper, nicer and probably cheaper.

scudzilla

Was working in Barrow St one Christmas Eve about 10yrs ago, was on the night shift, colleague and i got a chinese, had it about 8pm and at 11pm he had to call an ambulance for me, thought i was dying, ambulance man said he'd never seen food poisoning so bad and come on so quick.

By the time i got home next morning, via a trip to A& E, I was in bed for 4 straight days, couldn't eat, any water i drank came straight back out.

So yeah, worst by far was a chinese in Ringsend, even the smell of a chinese put me off for years

mojesius

scudzilla wrote: »

Was working in Barrow St one Christmas Eve about 10yrs ago, was on the night shift, colleague and i got a chinese, had it about 8pm and at 11pm he had to call an ambulance for me, thought i was dying, ambulance man said he'd never seen food poisoning so bad and come on so quick.

By the time i got home next morning, via a trip to A& E, I was in bed for 4 straight days, couldn't eat, any water i drank came straight back out.

So yeah, worst by far was a chinese in Ringsend, even the smell of a chinese put me off for years

Sounds horrific.
Very apt username though!

fussyonion

I got a chicken curry from a Chinese about 15 years ago and the chicken had the texture of a sponge, there were slices of onion with the peel still intact and the sauce smelt like the bin lorry on bin day.
I've avoided Chineses since. I hear the chicken is velveted, hence the bounciness, so I'll avoid 'em all.

fussyonion

Larbre34 wrote: »

Jesus yeah. Grim af. Been in one twice in my life, once when I was a kid and once about 5 years ago out of curiosity to see had anything changed. Nope.

I can't understand why people wouldn't just get fried chicken from a good local chipper, nicer and probably cheaper.

Funny I was only saying last night that the fried chicken from my local chipper is so much nicer than KFC.
I find KFC very greasy and the meat's not very tender

Crash Bang Wall

retalivity wrote: »

The place a few doors up from boojum? Yeah i can vouch for the crappiness of that spot. Got a kebab out of it sober years ago and was sick as a dog after.

Also further up the road in the coombe, there's 2 side by side that are rough - italian chipper and pizza/kebab/curry spot.

Havent been there in a while, but its on the corner opposite the steps into the college

fryup

scudzilla wrote: »

So yeah, worst by far was a chinese in Ringsend, even the smell of a chinese put me off for years

how apt

Lollipops23

My local Chinese in Kinsealy- had myself some prawn toast as a treat. Was never so ill (both ends). Have never been able to bring myself to revisit the place.

Aceandstuff

A curry chip from Abrakebabra. It wasn't curry, it was some sort of translucent grey PVA glue. I couldn't bring myself to eat it, straight in the bin. Never again.

Feisar

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

You've made me think hard about this. Over 50 years of eating takeaways, here and abroad, I've never had one that I didn't give a decent go or had one which gave me the scutts. Lucky I guess. Most disappointing would be Dominos Pizza. Flabby raw-doughy ****e.

I've a agree, I've eaten so muck in my time but never got sick from it. Worse food poisoning I got I gave to myself.

I got a kebab in London once from a takeaway called "The Best".

I spent the night puking it up.

pawdee

I had a shockingly bad Indian takeaway in Killarney a couple of years ago. I can't even describe how bad it was. I'm actually lost for words. I once heard of someone getting a chicken burger and thinking there was something a bit off about the mayonnaise. Turns out it wasn't mayonnaise at all. The chicken had a cyst and when the guy bit it it burst and pus came out. I suppose it doesn't get much worse that that?

Dyr

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Dominos is awful

Apache very very bad too and v v expensive for what it is

If you're on the Northside or out around Dun Laoghaire Firehouse do great pizza, its pricey but it beats muck like Apache and Dominos into a cocked hat