• toomanypancakes@lemmy.world
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    Probably the Indian restaurant in downtown. I love Indian food, and there’s so many other delicious places to eat I have no idea how this place is still open. The one time I went it was so dirty I could see the dirt on the bathroom door from a distance. The food was spiceless, bland, and generally tasted like trying to make American flavored Indian food. I, and everyone I’ve talked to who’s eaten there, got food poisoning afterward.

    It’s almost comically bad. I’m convinced it’s a front for some other operation because this place has been open for years.

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    Casa Bonita - before Trey Parker and Matt Stone buying it. The atmosphere was great, but the food was like prison grade Taco Bell. Except for the sopapillas. Those are dope.

    But yeah, the food was so bad that you were forced to order before you could get in. Because they knew otherwise people wouldn’t eat.

    With that being said, now that they’ve redone the restaurant, I’ve been on the wait list for 2 years now and just got picked today. So hopefully it’s better now. Will know shortly.

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    We were in Croatia once at a beautiful little restaurant at the beach. The food was fine except it was completely cold when it was brought to our table. Not warm, not lukewarm, I mean cold. Sat on the counter over an hour cold.

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    I once hallucinated after being poisoned by lunch from a Torta truck in Mexico, somewhere south of Monterrey. I was in a cinder block shitter a mile down the road until the sun went down that day.

    Oh, and for some reason, literally every ihop I’ve ever been to has smelled like sewer, had terrible service, and has food that tasted a day old. They can’t all be like that right?

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      I once hallucinated after being poisoned by lunch from a Torta truck in Mexico, somewhere south of Monterrey. I was in a cinder block shitter a mile down the road until the sun went down that day.

      You forgot to add an important detail here - did the meal taste good?

      I’m asking because I also got quite sick in Mexico, but always found the food to be excellent in terms of flavour.

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    Ryan’s Buffet. They got shut down for having over 1,750 dead rats in their kitchen, and raw sewage in the basement.

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    I should put this in the funny date stories thread maybe but when I was younger, my friend and I tried to go on a date, just to see (turned out no, we were just friends, still are 35 years on) and ordered soup at a restaurant.

    We had the worst waiter EVER. He said the soup was dried out but he could ask them to put some water in it, made it sound so unappetizing when we wouldn’t have even known, I mean it’s soup, right? I can’t remember all the other bad descriptions, but he was just not cut out for the job. The food was fine when it arrived, even after his attempt to downplay it. Just the waiter was the worst.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    There was one where I used to live called the Roost. They were infamous for being so slow you could watch the Titanic before getting your food. They also had squaredancing sessions next to the dining part that you could watch. They’re out of business now though.

    Also, Chuck E. Cheese had the worst pizza.