I'm from central Iowa...

I kid. Central Iowa has some great food, as documented in the various odes to pork tenderloins. No offense meant.

Pig cheeks complete with 5 o'clock shadow?

Any moles w/that hair?

I think it's safe to say this thread needs fewer pictures.

PIGMON,

Is that a cruller with hair?

Thems looks like snoots!

Heh...here's an idea for a new topic: "What is THAT a picture of!?"

seitan, really weird aftertaste

Hair and food are never a good combo...could anyone prove me otherwise?

Despite the title of this thread, I sincerely hope you didn't actually EAT that.

Now, me, I prefer my fried snout without the nose hair...unless they take the time and care to braid it.

Easily , the most disgusting overall BBQ establishment I've ever been to...ANYWHERE (by a country mile, actually).

Luckyguy wrote:Despite the title of this thread, I sincerely hope you didn't actually EAT that.

Took a nip of a hairless piece...tasted like old chicharron.


Jim's Rib Haven
531 24th St
Rock Island, IL
(309) 786-8084

I ate there a while back (to or from La Quercia for my podcast). My food was shaved, but nothing to get excited about.

TCouch wrote:I'm with you Sweet Salty and MHays. Burger King fries. Covered with some questionable bad tasting coating. Yecch!

I basically stopped going to BK after they debuted the fries years ago. They are vile!

The Corned Beef and Pastrami Hash at Eleven City Diner. Too finely ground; I'm not even sure it's corned beef or pastrami (sawdust?)
Very bland. Far from "The Best I've Ever Had" as they claim. Throw in terrible customer service and it's definitely among the worst.

Barbacoa burrito at La Pasadita. Repulsive. Impossible to keep down. Inedible. No excuses. Never again.

Everything ordered from Sarpino's (in Elmwood Park, I think) last night in a moment of desperation at a late hour with little desire to cook and my normal delivery choices already closed on a Sunday night. Pizza was overly doughy and didn't have enough sauce. Garlic sticks were just there. But the buffalo wings - oh god, the buffalo wings. I had a vague sense of deja vu at first bite, and it finally hit me why as I began a second wing - they were exactly the same as some frozen wings I'd had years ago (purchased either from the Jewel, or Market Day, I cannot recall which for sure). Exactly the same not-quite buffalo sauce, exactly the same overly fattiness of the chicken, and exactly the same gelatinous quality taken on by the sauce as it cooled.

Sarpino's may not have bought those wings from the same retailer I did years ago, but they certainly get them from the same supplier. And they're just as bad as they were when I bought them frozen way back when and baked them in the oven for the suggested cooking time. Just plain terrible.

tatterdemalion wrote:

That looks very much greasily unappealing...and the uppermost of that forkful seems to be screaming in horror.

What exactly is that a picture of? I can't imagine that's actually fries swimming in grease. It actually looks like fries covered in syrup. In either case, it's repulsive.

Looks like some sort of crispy noodle with duck sauce...blech

A large pizza from House of Pizza in Brunswick, ME.

The singularly most god-awful pizza I have ever tasted, fresh or frozen, in my entire life.

A terrible, bready, flavorless crust was topped with the most flavor-absent "tomato" sauce, cheese, and assorted toppings (all standard, mind you), that I have every come across. It was the only pizza I have every actually had to salt (fairly liberally) to even choke down.

I am confident that I could make a product 10x better with a boboli crust and generic brand supermarket toppings. The frozen Tombstone I ate a few weeks later was miles above this pizza, flavor-wise.

Gnocchi alla Romana at Pizza D.O.C. The gnocchi was very grainy, perhaps undercooked . . . I'm not quite sure. And the tomato sauce didn't help as it was way too sweet.

scanz wrote:

tatterdemalion wrote:

That looks very much greasily unappealing...and the uppermost of that forkful seems to be screaming in horror.

Perhaps worse than "greasily unappealing," unfortunately.

Seamus wrote:What exactly is that a picture of? I can't imagine that's actually fries swimming in grease. It actually looks like fries covered in syrup. In either case, it's repulsive.

You should see the movie.

nicinchic wrote:Looks like some sort of crispy noodle with duck sauce...blech

Pretty darn close, though I'm sorry if you have any basis in experience for making this excellent guess.

tatterdemalion, are you going to reveal the identity of this foul forkful?

There's guess the restaurant and now guess the icky food ...
Can't wait to find out what that may be.

Regards,

Chow mein sandwich



I would feel sorry for anybody who'd have to eat this and the stubbly snouts above in the span of a week.

Macaroni & Cheese pizza at a place called CiCi's Pizza. It's a pizza buffet. Apparently it's a chain.

Sonic burger and tator tots in the St. Louis area.

Vitesse98 wrote:Barbacoa burrito at La Pasadita. Repulsive. Impossible to keep down. Inedible. No excuses. Never again.

What a coincidence, that describes my experience at La Pasadita today as well, if you sub "lengua" for "barbacoa".