Worst takeaway meal you've ever eaten?

PhilOssophy

IrishLad90 wrote: »

McDs today.. Ordered the grand mac meal with nuggets and instead a delivery arrives with cold quater pounder and selects... Absolute devastation in the lad90 household...

McD's is tolerable if it is eaten the minute it is cooked, I can't imagine it being nice by the time it gets to a delivery

Crocodile Booze

PhilOssophy wrote: »

McD's is tolerable if it is eaten the minute it is cooked, I can't imagine it being nice by the time it gets to a delivery

Yeah , McDonald's food travels about as well as Maria Bailey's sincerity..

B.A._Baracus

I worked with a guy who got a chicken burger from a takeaway here in Dublin in 2015. He got food poisoning and had to take a few days off. Even when he came back he looked in bits.

He said he was on the toilet and had a basin on his lap and at one point "it was coming out from both ends" :pac:

Mental.

Beechwoodspark

Surreptitious wrote: »

He was foreign national with little English and looked terrified. He was completely out of his depth. The queue was getting longer and the food was getting worse.

Have had that experience before in a chipper in naas.

New non national fella working there, had very little English - had to point at the menu and explain slowly what I wanted

I’ll never forget the permanently terrified look on him

Ordered chips and a quarter pounder off him

Took ages. At least 20 mins. He was having problems with the grill etc etc

All the while People coming in and ordering more and he was getting ever more confused and mixed up.

During all this he was Arguing with another lad in the back who was making pizzas

When he actually served me the bag of food I was relieved just to be getting out of there it was such an ordeal and stressful just being there.

Chips - luke warm and were not fully cooked - dirt

Burger - burger itself burned to a char on one side and almost raw on the other. Cheese not melted. No onions. Whole thing Doused in a burger sauce (way too much) buns not toasted. To summarise it was muck and ended up mostly in the bin.

That was just about the last time I went there having gone regularly for years with no issue.

The previous owner Eddie was a legend but he retired and it was sold on to this shower of clowns

It closed up and reopened a number of times since

Chewy (totally uncooked) chicken wings "cooked" over a barrel on Gloucester Road in Bristol many years back.

I was afraid to spit it out because the cook looked like Lennox Lewis

griffin100

PhilOssophy wrote: »

McD's is tolerable if it is eaten the minute it is cooked, I can't imagine it being nice by the time it gets to a delivery

I used to work with a guy who was beyond miserly. He never put more than €5 worth of petrol in his car in case it got nicked - that sort of miserly. He used to live with a load of Spanish students who worked in McDonalds. They used to bring him unsold Big Macs home after their night shift and he’s keep them in the fridge and eat them days later.

Mister Vain

griffin100 wrote: »

I used to work with a guy who was beyond miserly. He never put more than €5 worth of petrol in his car in case it got nicked - that sort of miserly. He used to live with a load of Spanish students who worked in McDonalds. They used to bring him unsold Big Macs home after their night shift and he’s keep them in the fridge and eat them days later.

A bit like the guy buying a tin of baked beans on Tuesday so he can have a bubble bath on Wednesday.

biko

Got food poisoning from a Chinese place in Galway 10 years ago.
Lost half a stone over two days.
Thought I would die there on the bathroom floor.

Looked fabulously skinny after.

mariaalice

The chan chan man wrote: »

A deep fried pizza in carlow one night. That was about 15 years ago and my stomach still turns at the thought.

How could anyone deep fry a pizza? I am intrigued

hadepsx

I remember having a chicken baggette from abrakebabra when I was a young lad on my first day of holiday, down the sunny South East. Got terrible food poisoning and spent the next 4 days alternating between the bed and the toilet. Holiday, and my bum-hole, was ruined!!!!

blackwhite

Muahahaha wrote: »

That Indian in Smithfield was shut down for a couple of days by the FSAI a few years back. Not sure if it is still there but at the time everyone was shocked as it put out some great food.

As for KFCs here, they always appear very badly run. Ive passed the one in Blanch and there is actual smells of filthy oil coming from their ventilation systems and stinking up the whole area around it. Also their chip portions must be the smallest of anywhere, I once counted 16 chips in their tiny bags which is a joke. KFCs in the UK seem to be a lot busier than here and generally better run.

I dont think theres any chain takeaway in Ireland doing really great fried chicken. Supermacs and Italian chippers are often very greasy. Mad Egg near the opposite the Bleeding Horse on Camden St do great fried chicken but theyve only the one location in Dublin.

They opened in Dundrum back in 2019 as well.

FlubberJones

Last year we decided on a take away, since it was "the thing to do at the start of the lockdown"... ordered pizza online, it took nearly 90 minutes and was the saddest thing I'd seen in a long time, three straggles of anchovies and 4 prawns that were cut in half to make eight prawn "pieces" on a bed of such thin tomato sauce it was pink ... took months before we got back to ordering a take away again... not pizza

Archeron

Got delivery once from a kebab place in co kildare, wouldnt be my top choice normally, but it was the last place still delivering. The chips were big fat undercooked wet white pasty yokes, and they had gone cold in delivery. When I poured the bag out on the plate, they fell out in one solid cold wet lump and stayed the in the same shape as the bag. The kebab looked like it was filled with toasted skin flaps and wobbly orange pus and had a distinct smell of sweat of it.

Porklife

Archeron wrote: »

Got delivery once from a kebab place in co kildare, wouldnt be my top choice normally, but it was the last place still delivering. The chips were big fat undercooked wet white pasty yokes, and they had gone cold in delivery. When I poured the bag out on the plate, they fell out in one solid cold wet lump and stayed the in the same shape as the bag. The kebab looked like it was filled with toasted skin flaps and wobbly orange pus and had a distinct smell of sweat of it.

Your description is brilliant! The visual I have is really funny :pac:

igCorcaigh

Archeron wrote: »

Got delivery once from a kebab place in co kildare, wouldnt be my top choice normally, but it was the last place still delivering. The chips were big fat undercooked wet white pasty yokes, and they had gone cold in delivery. When I poured the bag out on the plate, they fell out in one solid cold wet lump and stayed the in the same shape as the bag. The kebab looked like it was filled with toasted skin flaps and wobbly orange pus and had a distinct smell of sweat of it.

Yeah, but you ate it, didn't you?

Archeron

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Yeah, but you ate it, didn't you?

I peeled one chip off the cold gelatinous lump, and spit it out as soon as I tasted it, was like licking a dish sponge dipped in cold fish flavored grease. I then went to bed in a mega huff because I was starving and because I was in someone else's house at 3am I couldn't really just stick something in the oven

Surreptitious

Archeron wrote: »

Got delivery once from a kebab place in co kildare, wouldnt be my top choice normally, but it was the last place still delivering. The chips were big fat undercooked wet white pasty yokes, and they had gone cold in delivery. When I poured the bag out on the plate, they fell out in one solid cold wet lump and stayed the in the same shape as the bag. The kebab looked like it was filled with toasted skin flaps and wobbly orange pus and had a distinct smell of sweat of it.

I'm actually gagging

storker

When living in Rathmines year ago I went to a local chipper one night for something to bring home for myself and the OH. I was hungry and was tempted to tuck into some of my fried chicken while walking home in the dark, but decided to wait. When I got home and bit into a chicken piece some blood spurted out and landed on my arm. I guessed the chicken had been frozen and not thawed properly. At least with the lights on I spotted it and the chicken went in the bin. I was grateful that I hadn't tried walking home in the dark.

A couple of weeks later I was passing by the chipper on a Thursday night and it was closed. I guess the health inspectors had paid them a visit.

S_D

Theres a place in bray that I ordered from loads... was forced to close down there for a while due to the state of it.... it re opened... and I ordered from it again. I'm a little ashamed but they decent take away. Might be disgusting cooking conditions but listen, im willing to turn a blind eye sometimes haha

Church on Tuesday

Scuts McEggyfarts wrote: »

That place called 'Hot Chilli' or something like that? That's not a bad little kebab spot at all!



Mayonnaise is such vile filth that I think I'd rather have chicken pus on my burger.



Namaste. That place is the absolute tits, even if it looks like a dump. They're daily specials are unreal value. They do lovely big portions of biryani too, and their tandoori mixed platter is amazing. I won't hear a bad word said about.



Burdocks gets a lot of love, but any time I've had the fish from there it's full of bones. Beshoffs definitely gets my vote too.



I got food there after a major night out in Westport a few years back and thoroughly enjoyed my burger and curry chips. I was absolutely bollixed drunk through.

That mostly helps if you have to eat there.

George White

S_D wrote: »

Theres a place in bray that I ordered from loads... was forced to close down there for a while due to the state of it.... it re opened... and I ordered from it again. I'm a little ashamed but they decent take away. Might be disgusting cooking conditions but listen, im willing to turn a blind eye sometimes haha

Which one in Bray?