Loaf of stale bread with a thin layer of cooking oil under the moonlight (because no electricity) and no water to pass it (because no water)
That was the highlight of that week for me and many others in the socialist paradise of our country for many years
In terms of food quality or emotional setting?
Either or. Or both.
Fish and potato dinners in the Norwegian Kingsguard army camp. I despised all fish meals for the next 7 years, I couldn’t stomach the smell of them. Poor fish didn’t deserve getting killed for such a fate.
A bowl of microwaved frozen peas. More than once.
Few of my weird kids eat frozen peas for a snack
Honestly, frozen peas (heated) pair well with Mac and cheese. Maybe sad, but delicious especially with sriracha.
Nah, that ain’t sad, I straight up made this the other night because it’s comfort food for when I’m being lazy. Got my bowls and posted up in front of the TV and watched cartoons, best meal of the week.
I grew up very poor in Greece, and my mom used to give us a slice of bread that had poured white sugar on it, and… olive oil. It was many years later that I realized that these were deconstructed donuts.
Well, if we’re doing crappy food and unhappy circumstances I have a few.
One was when my brother and I were in our late teens and lived alone, and spent all our money on alcohol and drugs. We’d buy 2-3 whoppers on dollar Whopper day, which was fine. In between though occasionally I wanted some food, so I’d deep fry batter made out of flour (nothing else) in a saucepan and eat it with ketchup.
When I was in 4th grade, one time I had been arguing with my mother and stomped off. Hours later she said dinner was ready. I came and one of the dishes was something like mashed potatoes. I asked, is this mashed potatoes? She said NO, it’s mashed TURNIPS. I figured she was being sarcastic. I grabbed some mashed potatoes and when I tried them I was AAAAAGH wtf is this! Oh. It was mashed turnips.
Then there’s all the bizarre things I’ve eaten in light of having Celiac disease and Type 1 Diabetes, such as a hot dog with raw cabbage and Tabasco sauce for breakfast. I also lived in my car mainly at campsites for 2-3 years, so I’d eat stuff like roasted chicken from a mason jar, straight out of the cooler with a pickle and a jalapeno.
Rice with a raw egg mixed in… Tasted bad and I felt sorry for everyone evolved with the ingredients so I ate it anyways. this was when I experimented a lot as a kid so just a sad meal for my taste buds.
You had tamago kake gohan minus the soy sauce. I like it, but I understand how the raw egg texture can be off-putting.
Yea I remember the texture as the problem and the lack of taste but I was maybe 9 so I don’t remember exactly why it was so difficult to eat haha. Some soya and herbs would maybe have saved it for me
In college I’d make my ‘special potato stew’ which was a pack of ramen and a pack of instant potatoes
Went to visit my gf in college once a few hours away. On the way back I put every penny I had into my gas tank in hopes it would be enough and it barely was. While at the gas station I mixed some ketchup packets, salt, and hot water for “tomato soup” because it was all free.
Nice ingenuity. How was it?
Not good. Just watery ketchup. But it was a hell of a lot better than nothing. It did help that I snagged a few packs of crackers for texture.
I remember it well. My student loan payments had just started, and we were already struggling to make ends meet. My lunch every day at work for a week was a pack of instant ramen and an expired multivitamin. That first meal absolutely crushed me. I like ramen every so often, but having to eat it out of necessity really changes everything. After the income based repayment finally kicked in after a few weeks, I was able to upgrade to a $1 pack of tuna and some crackers.
I am not looking forward to October.
Oh you’ve just reminded me of my saddest meal, when I had no money. All I had was dried pasta, half a jar of pickled onions, a tin of baked beans (British ones not sweet) and one crust of a loaf of bread. Cool, I can do baked beans on toast. Toasted the bread, heated the beans in a pan. As I took the pan off the heat the handle and the pan decided to take that moment to part ways, and pan and beans fell to the floor. Floor was filthy, and we had a rat issue as well as a pet cat, so scraping the beans up wasn’t an option. I cried. I was so hungry Ended up cooking the pasta and putting some pickled onions on. Tried to eat it, couldn’t, cried some more, and then went to a friend’s house to beg to be fed.
I can’t actually eat instant noodles now because I survived on them back then. Used to be able to get 10 packs for £1 in a shop near me, and I probably ate them at least once a day.
A half of a can of green beans eaten right from the can. It was my dinner one night.
I had to do an elimination diet before testing for food allergies. For two weeks I had a cup of rice for all three meals a day. Now I really like rice but on one of these days I had to attend a working catered lunch with some coworkers. It was incredibly embarrassing eating my small cup of rice in this meeting while all my coworkers had an amazing catered lunch. I got a whole lot of “you’re really committed to your diet” comments.
All you can do is tell them “Thanks, I might die if I don’t follow it.”
it depends on whose perspective.
i had rice and mayo for dinner once. just a bowl of rice with a huge dollop of Japanese Kewpie mayo on top.
my gf thought it was the saddest thing ever, i thought it was delicious.
I don’t remember what I ate but it was an expensive fine restaurant. I walked straight to Burger King from there because I was so freaking hungry. The portion sizes there were ridiculous.
c/sadfood
