Lowest grade restaurant you ever ate at?

[ChrisGlass]

Here in Los Angeles County, all places that serve food must place in the window a letter rating by the Health Board.
99% are 'A'
Seeing a B is like a rare occurance, usually KFCs and Taco Bells.

I've heard of a mexican sit-down place that got a C.

What's the lowest you'd go? I mean, I ate at a KFC that had a B and didn't shit blood, so I consider that a win.

[Zhukov]

Something tells me that most answers will be McDonalds or KFC.

[Evil Robot]

I was in Chicago a few years ago when I got a burger at a place called "the red lantern". I was almost done when I thought I had hit one of those "hard pieces" in the the ground beef. It turned out to be a big 1" piece of gravel (quartz I believe) that the lettuce had grown around and became stuck between two leaves. If the cook had bothered to wash the lettuce he would have spotted it, but he didn't.

[Fathom Zero]

I've eaten at places without ratings, some in places where you probably had to.

Out here in Oklahoma, though, you just have what amounts to a "PASS" rating behind the counter.

[Pentegarn]

Any TeeJay's in Columbus (drunks at 3AM swear by it)

[Tadao]

Along time ago I was walking out of a Chinese restaurant and noticed it had a C. It didn't matter. All I see now are A's in LA and I think the system is no longer working.

[Zhukov]

I've never seen that sort of system anywhere I have eaten. If you are too low to be classed as respectable and healthy I think they just close you down.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Along time ago I was walking out of a Chinese restaurant and noticed it had a C. It didn't matter. All I see now are A's in LA and I think the system is no longer working.

I've been to a Bhinese restaurant.

[Dimnos]

The Roach Coach!

http://www.polarinertia.com/jan06/images/taco/taco01.jpg

[Angryhydralisk]

I've seen a restaurant score a 100% and was graded a B, once.

[Evil Robot]

NO BOWL, STICK STICK.

[ChrisGlass]

NO BOWL, STICK STICK.
Mountain Dew or Crab Juice.

[Kitsa]

There was a chinese buffet near my college that was horrifying. I remember seeing a bowl of raw chicken left out under a buffet heatlamp because the guy carrying it to the kitchen got distracted and went off to do something else. I've had noodles with a rubberband in them (they must have the noodles bunched with rubberbands and tossed the whole works in...extra nice to think about when you have a latex allergy). I saw a little girl pick her nose, put her finger up the spout of the soft-serve dispenser, and then lick her finger.

There are very few chinese buffets I'd eat at, and when I do I mainly stick to steamed rice and jello cubes.

Our most popular mexican restaurant got shut down a few years ago because a kitchen person didn't wash their hands and spread some sort of exotic poop disease all over town. Thing was, their food is incredible, so they didn't suffer a bit...just reopened and kept on going. On weekends you can't even get in the door. But then, the place is probably the cleanest and safest ever, when they have to worry about followup visits from the health inspector.

[Colonel Flagg]

The Roach Coach!

http://www.polarinertia.com/jan06/images/taco/taco01.jpg

In Grad School I had chinese from a truck outside the chem building. About 1/3 the way into my fried rice, I discovered the true meaning of "subgum".

That was the last meal I had from that vehicle. :x

[Zhukov]

There is only one Mexican restaurant here and it's 'proper'. Bookings essential etc.

I want a cheap Mexican place where I can get nice food for cheap, and fast.

Obviously I don't want it to breach any health guidelines either.

[Angryhydralisk]

There was a chinese buffet near my college that was horrifying. I remember seeing a bowl of raw chicken left out under a buffet heatlamp because the guy carrying it to the kitchen got distracted and went off to do something else. I've had noodles with a rubberband in them (they must have the noodles bunched with rubberbands and tossed the whole works in...extra nice to think about when you have a latex allergy). I saw a little girl pick her nose, put her finger up the spout of the soft-serve dispenser, and then lick her finger.

There are very few chinese buffets I'd eat at, and when I do I mainly stick to steamed rice and jello cubes.

Our most popular mexican restaurant got shut down a few years ago because a kitchen person didn't wash their hands and spread some sort of exotic poop disease all over town. Thing was, their food is incredible, so they didn't suffer a bit...just reopened and kept on going. On weekends you can't even get in the door. But then, the place is probably the cleanest and safest ever, when they have to worry about followup visits from the health inspector.

Funny. I had this dream last night that I found a pair of headphones in some noodles and the owner kept insisting I eat his fish and shrimp when I was demanding a refund over and over.

[Terra]

There is only one Mexican restaurant here and it's 'proper'. Bookings essential etc.

I want a cheap Mexican place where I can get nice food for cheap, and fast.

Obviously I don't want it to breach any health guidelines either.

Yeah well you're practically going to have to. "Cheap and fast" in Mexican food is almost synonymous with "Montezuma's Revenge."

[Tadao]

GOD DAM YOU'RE A WIMP!

[Kitsa]

we have a mexican grocery near here where you put your two bucks on the counter, go around the back and they hand you a taco out the back door.

my dad has been brave enough. Me, no chance in hell.

[SLjimbolian]

We went to a Hardee's in Delaware one time just for the hell of it while coming home from vacation. Bad fucking mistake.

Oh, although I've never been there because of common sense, there's a restaurant in my town that serves both Mexican and Chinese food. Something about those two cuisines in the same place doesn't sound right.

[Zhukov]

we have a mexican grocery near here where you put your two bucks on the counter, go around the back and they hand you a taco out the back door.

my dad has been brave enough. Me, no chance in hell.

:lol



Also, Chinese and Mexican at the same time? Somebody thought that was a brilliant idea at some stage, and I sort of warily respect them for that.

[Terra]

They all cook the same stray dogs.

[Fathom Zero]

http://kogibbq.com/

How about Korean and Mexican? I think I've posted it before, but this joint is state of the art. I saw the inside of their truck once. High tech stuff, mang.

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1248/newcraigdog1.jpg

My mouth is watering right now and I'm really fucking hungry.

[jhonnyD2]

delicious photo the last one... i ll get a bite ...

[Wiffles]

does eating at a delapidated roadside stall in a third-world country count? cause i tried it while on vacation ^.^;
didnt give me any indigestion tho

[Babs]

sounds like a requiem for a tape worm

[Terra]

does eating at a delapidated roadside stall in a third-world country count? cause i tried it while on vacation ^.^;
didnt give me any indigestion tho

In a third world country a dilapidated roadside stall is the apex of critter cuisine.

[Kitsunexus]

If you have never eaten a warm tuna fish sandwich in an pre-owned 70's RV "bathroom" with a semi-full holding tank, consider yourself lucky. >_<

[Zhukov]

I tried some Haggis from a stall in Glasgow, it was bad. The stall was actually owned and run by a Tasmanian, which was weird.

Vegetarian Haggis is delicious, but it's just hot potatoes and onions, really.

[Kitsunexus]

I tried some Haggis from a stall in Glasgow, it was bad. The stall was actually owned and run by a Tasmanian, which was weird.

Vegetarian Haggis is delicious, but it's just hot potatoes and onions, really.


Was it "The Worst Toilet In Scotland"? :)

[Fathom Zero]

But damn, do I love me some king rib. Jesus, that's nasty.

[Grislygus]

Haggis is nothing more than a glorified sausage ball involving oats, liver, and heart, and is no worse than black pudding is to Americans

[Grislygus]

blood SAUSAGE, now that shits tasty

[Zhukov]

I can't eat blood sausage. Never have, probably never will.

[The Leader]

What's black pudding?

[Terra]

Isn't it something that has to do with nasty meat products?

[Kitsa]

Blood, glorious blood.

One thing I absolutely would not ever be able to eat...and this isn't even a meat product...is huitlacoche.

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000344.php

Mildewed corn. Nummy num num.

[Terra]

:lol The first time he ever paid for an infection!!

[Grislygus]

What's black pudding? Now that I look it up, it's apparently the exact same thing as blood sausage (which I like), not at all what I thought it was... some years ago I was served something called "black pudding" at a self-styled 'Brazilian' restaurant run by first generation Italian Americans and their parents. I always took them at their word that it was black pudding, but according to a cursory search on Wikipedia it was NOT. God only knows what it was.

Which is horrifying, because the gritty lump of substance that I was served in that restaurant definitely had blood as an ingredient. It was served alongside this giant platter with a wide meat selection and sheep's brains, all of which were fucking delicious; though I'm still not sure how the restaurant qualified as "Brazilian".





And now I notice that somehow I've gotten close to the actual conversation topic.

What the fuck?

[Grislygus]

God I wish that restaurant was still open :(


They had an old guy playing a piano in the lobby back in the day. Now it's a nickle and dime sushi place







I'm fucking depressed now, man, I we gave that old guy a huge tip when we visited for my older cousin's graduation dinner, he was awesome

[The Leader]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[Chojin]

probably the 'independent caterers' at every school i've gone to

[DougClayton4231]

I got one of the lunch ladies' chin hairs in my lunch in middle school. Does that count?

[shekk]

we have a mexican grocery near here where you put your two bucks on the counter, go around the back and they hand you a taco out the back door.

my dad has been brave enough. Me, no chance in hell.

i too have a mexican meat market right around the corner. you dont have to go around to the back to get a taco lol, but they do have some wild shit there. headcheese(brains), cow tongue, lips etc . all of which can be put on a taco served with cilantro which covers up any flavor.

btw why are you guys eating in the bathroom?

[Terra]

btw why are you guys eating in the bathroom?

Probably the next stop after eating that shit. Just cutting corners.

[Colonel Flagg]

Haggis is nothing more than a glorified sausage ball involving oats, liver, and heart, and is no worse than black pudding is to Americans

Haggis = Scrapple made out of sheep.

It's not bad, actually.

[Terra]

What is a scrapple??

[Colonel Flagg]

Haggis, made from pigs. :posh

EDIT: OK, my apologies, I'm being obstructive. Scrapple is what's left over from pigs after you've used about as much as you can from the cuts you want. The "scraps" are then fed into a grinder and puréed. Corn meal or starch is added for texture, and salt and spices to taste.

I've known about it since forever, as it's a staple of the "Pennsylvania Dutch" or Amish/Mennonite sects of Lancaster county - about 50 miles west of Philadelphia. I'm guessing they have a similar "pork by-product" in other enclaves, such as those in Iowa, Ohio and North Carolina.

Slice it thin and fry it up until it's crisp, and it's actually quite tasty.

[Terra]

Oh. Like chorizo, then.

BTW I love the note in your edit. :)

[Kitsa]

Yes, there is much scrapple around here.

When I was a kid, it sounded to me like something delicious made from little scraps of apple. Boy was that a nasty surprise.

[Dimnos]

chorizo

:orgasm :orgasm :orgasm :orgasm :orgasm :orgasm :orgasm :orgasm :orgasm

[darkvare]

i've eaten in places that pretty much are just a living room with a stove and so far i haven't rejected doing it

[Fathom Zero]

Ditto, man. Though, there are less of them here.

[ZeldaQueen]

I guess for me it'd be the Sbarros at my local mall's food court. I didn't think it was too bad, but apparently it was shut down for violating health codes.

My parents once at a place where the waitress quit and walked out before they even finished their meals. They also ate at a restaurant in Boston where the waitresses are told to be rude to you. My dad claimed that he talked back to their waitress when she started up and she smacked him. It's one of my life's goals to eat at that restaurant.

[Wintermute]

Hole in the wall restaurant in an alley in Hangzhou China. After I started eating my tomato and egg I noticed there was a dog turd on the floor.

[Kitsa]

lol

In France and I think I vaguely remember Italy too, dogs just come into restaurants with their owners and sit down. Didn't see any dog turds, though.

My dad used to go to Taiwan on business all the time and said that he once saw a street vendor throwing live eels into a pot of boiling water. He said the eels would try to slither out and the guy would throw them back in. My dad found a McDonald's and that's all he ate for like 2 months...came back all waxy and sick, but he wanted nothing to do with the eels.

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

I once went to a strip club on the Quebec border that served food.

The place had stained green and yellow shag carpeting everywhere including the top of the bar. Our waitress served us with a cigarette with three inches of ash hanging from her lip and an old trachea scar across her neck. Right after dropping off our order she shambled onto the makeshift stage - really just a step up (also covered in shag) - where she actually fed a quarter into the jukebox set up there and stated 'dancing'.

My carny buddies and I bailed shortly after she revealed fresh caesarean scars.

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

I also went to a place in rural South Korea, just outside Jeonju, that specialized in dog. I left the place after the owner insisted that I pick which one of the thin, caged dingo-like dogs I wanted him to beat and then butcher for my consumption. I wanted to try dog - and eventually did - but that experience was just a little to intense for a Sunday brunch.

The place also had a dirt floor, as I recall.

[Wintermute]

The food in Taiwan is excellent. Just don't look in the kitchen.

[Tadao]

GREASY KITCHEN, TASTY FIXINS

[iluvmilk]

:bestthread

In India they call them "thutu kadda". Outside kitchens. I ate a dosa and fried eggs. And honestly they were the BEST eggs and dosa I've ever tasted. And it looked clean too despite all the pollution and unhygenic places there