We all have been there. You order a meal that is just so depressing, it hurts your soul. Food is supposed to be delicious and fun, not soggy and sad. It is just so upsetting when the meal you ordered comes and it’s not what you expected. It doesn’t look good, and it doesn’t taste good either. Sometimes a bad memory has to do with food as well. Quora users share the most depressing meal they have ever eaten.
The saddest lasagna ever:
“We went in to the hospital to have the baby, but unfortunately there were complications. My dearwife passed away the day after my son was born. That period during the first few months was the loneliest I’ve felt in my entire life. I took a year off of work to take care of my two boys.
But, it was the first few weeks that were the absolute toughest. It was then that I decided to pull out that lasagna and heat it up for dinner. My 4 year old loved it, and I usually did too. But this time I couldn’t eat it. I tried… but it was too difficult. I still remember looking at my plate through the tears in my eyes.Definitely, the most depressing meal I’ve ever eaten…”
Food for the poor:
“While I was really poor, one of those things was a 25-pound (~11 kg) bag of dehydrated refried beans which, presumably, had once been destined for trays of taco salad or bean dip. So I ate rehydrated refried beans, sometimes with hot sauce and sometimes plain, 3 meals a day, 7 days a week, until the bag was gone. It took a month, with the other people in the house helping. I’m not sure which of those meals was the most depressing…”
Plain Jane bread is not a dinner FYI:
” I was excited to get out and buy a kebab for dinner – the kebab shops were still open, because I lived in the centre of town, but it turned out I had no money. I dug around the back of the sofa and looked under beds, but I’d already cleaned these locations out. I thought ‘ah well, I’ll just have marmite on toast then’. Went into the kitchen. Opened the cupboard. No marmite. Opened the fridge. No butter. No anything, anywhere. Just bread. But I was huuunnggrryy. So I toasted a piece of bread and put it between two slices of bread. A toast sandwich. That was depressing.”
Ramen every night kind of budget:
“I sat there and ate my 21st bowl of Ramen, in silence. Every bite was harder to swallow than the last but my hunger wouldn’t allow me to let it go to waste. I shoveled it down and went to bed, waking up to a stomach ache that only went away when I got my paycheck and bought myself some fruit and vegetables.”
When Burger King brings back bad memories:
“My only sister passed away in a car accident a year before and it took my parents a lot of courage to send off their other baby bird so far away from the nest, the only home it has ever known. As soon as I registered at the university office, I was starving and had to eat something to keep me up. That was my first taste of a burger I think and it sucked. It doesn’t matter what the meal is, a lonely meal is always depressing.”