SkimmerBob wrote:

There was not one "worst" meal, but we really hated the hamburgers baked(well done)on the cookie sheet in the oven. We had to put them on slices of bread because my mom wouldn't buy buns. Nevermind that the ketchup soaked thru immediately...the lucky one got the heels of the loaf!

oldsffan wrote:

The worst cook in my family was one of my grandmothers. She made something she called pork pot pie that was terrible. She would boil a pork roast in water and onion salt (lots of it) until it was a nasty gray color and was falling apart and then added strips of dough made with flour, lard and you guessed it more onion salt and continued the boiling process. What you got on your plate was a piece of gray tasteless meat with a salty, pasty, greasy gravy with lumps of doughy stuff.

retired logger wrote:

Years ago also as kids we were dirt poor. Mom came home with a large package of steaks. She fried them all up for supper, "yummy". Come to find out some time later. It was horse meat that she got a deal on.

corgi-traveler wrote:

Every time the "rotation" puts us at MIL's house for a holiday dinner seems like we have a new horror story. Last Thanksgiving we were looking for something in the fridge... came across "cool whip" with hairy gray mold, and some Parmesan cheese with a sell-by date of 2001. No, she wasn't just re-using the container, either!
When I help with a meal over there, I usually have to clean the kitchen before I start cooking. Ugh. Early on, DH gave me a lot of grief for eating before we'd go over there. Now he joins me.

Little Kopit wrote:

Well, my mother could make a cake mix cake flop.

Granted she had her really good dishes too. Nobody, but nobody ever matched her pumpkin pie. It was most unconventional. I never got that recipe .