Food is an extremely important part of our lives. Not only is it necessary to our survival, but it can also be a source of great joy. There’s nothing like the warm and fuzzy feeling you get from sharing a delicious meal with loved ones. And there are few ways to better understand a culture than to embrace their culinary traditions and devour their cuisine.
But there are two sides to every coin. And while food can bring us plenty of happiness, it can also greatly disturb us. That’s where cursed food comes in. Bored Panda has scoured the internet and compiled photos of some of the most unsettling culinary disasters below. We’ll warn you right now, pandas, that you probably don’t want to look at this list while eating lunch. But if you’re confident that you have a strong stomach, go right ahead. And bon appétit!
#1 A Friend Took This Picture Of Their Coworker’s Breakfast
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#2 My Husband Cooked A Giant Meatball Stuffed With Spaghetti
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#3 Sliced Homemade Sourdough Bread Topped With Creamy Light Brie Cheese. Preheat Oven To 350 And Bake For 11 Hours. Enjoy
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#4 This Is My Mom’s Overnight Egg Sugar Water Soup In A Frying Pan
In the night, she “poached” the egg in a frying pan; the eggs stay in the water, she adds sugar (sugar, less sugar, sweet white powder for diabetes) in the water. After we got out of bed, she fed those to my stepdad.
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#5 Friend Sent A Photo Of His Meal, What Is That?
That dude eats the most horrifying-looking food in history.
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#6 My Jalapeño Poppers Look Disgusting
Didn’t taste that good either.
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#7 My Fiancées Idea Of A Tasty Lunch. Chicken Nuggets, Gravy, And Ketchup In A Giant Yorkshire Pudding
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#8 Peanut Butter And Onion Sandwich I Had For Breakfast
I’ve been calling it my Spongebob sandwich.
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#9 Accidentally Made Alien Food
Rice noodle stir fry with shrimp and red cabbage. Couldn’t look at it, but everybody had seconds.
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#10 Stargazy Pie
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#11 My Husband Insisted This Chicken Was Perceftly Cooked
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#12 Food Fail
My attempt at a vegan cheesecake. Followed recipe… what clear gelatinous monster is this?
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#13 The Night My Husband Made Burgers For The First Time. He Set Off The Fire Alarm 4 Times
Y’all wanna come over for dinner?
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#14 Caprese Salad I Purchased From A Pizza Place. I Should Have Checked The Review First
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#15 Tried Creating A New Pasta Shape And Ended Pasta Suitable For A Halloween Party
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#16 Mom Made Breakfast
Apparently made with leaves/veggies outside that are good for you. She doesn’t get why I found it odd.
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#17 The Food I Was Served At The Emergency Metabolic Unit For Being Severely Malnourished
That block is tofu :(((…I’m not even vegan, I’m just lactose intolerant. I like tofu, but when it’s prepared, not just…raw.
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#18 Cucumber Kimchi Hotdog, Anyone?
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#19 My Dad Literally Eats This Every Morning
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#20 A Handful Of Jam Served On A Plate At An Upscale Restaurant
I mean, I’m pretty sure they were using a glove to do that, but when it arrived, it looked so… unappealing.
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#21 Came Home To A Very Smoky House. Knocked On My Brother’s Door Asking If He Was Cooking Something, And I Heard Him Pause For A Second Before Saying, “Oh F**k”
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#22 My Boyfriend Requested A Cursed Hedgehog Cake For His 30th Birthday
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#23 Hotel In Türkiye, A Cursed Lamb
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#24 My Dinner From Whole Foods
I was very excited to have dinner; I didn’t need to make myself tonight. Took a bite and thought it was oddly cold. Cut that open, and it was RAW. Hope I don’t get food po***ning.
I’m calling tomorrow and raising hell.
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#25 Hospital Food Never Fails
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#26 Pizza I Received Last Night
It’s supposed to be truffle cream with mushrooms and straciatella. Almost puked when I received it, but it was delicious.
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#27 Tacos In A Waffle Cone. My Husband Is Very Proud Of His Invention. His Taste Buds Are Wrong
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#28 My Parents Want To Cut Down On Carbs So My Mum Made A Sponge Cake Using Spinach Instead Of Flour. My Dad Decided To Decorate It With Low Fat Mayo, Mustard, Ketchup And Salsa Golf
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#29 Wife’s Lunch: Plain Unseasoned Fried Oysters With Buckwheat
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#30 The Quotes Around “Corn Dog” Are Doing A Lot Of Heavy Lifting. Candy Corn Melted Around A Chicken Dog (Since I Don’t Eat Pork)
I know this isn’t a new idea but I had to do my own independent research. Conclusion? Weird and too crunchy.
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#31 Chocodilla Kit Kat. Taco Bell, Lisbon, Portugal
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#32 Ran Out Of Shot Glasses For My Jello Shots
It was really bland, a bit of lime and vodka flavour from the jello, but that’s it.
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#33 My Husband’s Wrap – Peanut Butter, Applesauce Fruit Cup And Jujubes
Jujubes on tortilla? Believe it or not, jail.
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#34 What The Hell Is This?
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#35 This Is How My Dad Eats His Salad
Mmm ranch on ranch on ranch on ranch on ranch. “You have to let me mix it up first!”
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#36 Went To My In-Laws For Dinner And This Is The Chicken They Served
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#37 Ladies And Gentlemen I Present To You: Full English Breakfast, In A Loaf
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#38 This May Be The Worst Looking Dish I’ve Ever Made. Tastes Amazing
I tried to make soup but the seaweed completely fell apart and turned into this algae like sediment that turns green when stirred and looks inedible when settled. Salmon chunks. Genuinely it tastes good but i really am in awe of how bad it looks. This is a new low even for me.
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#39 That’s Why You Never Order Pizza With Avocado
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#40 Breakfast Burrito But I Didn’t Have Bacon So I Used Pork Ramen
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#41 Weird And Horrifying Kind Of Food, But I Guess It’s The Restaurant’s Best Seller
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#42 My Partner Sent Me This Photo Of Their Dinner. Is This A Red Flag? Yes, That’s Caramel Corn
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#43 Oh, Are We Doing Cursed Birthday Cakes?
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#44 Yum
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#45 My Wife Asked For Bacon, What Is This?
From Dunkin’ Donuts.
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#46 I Fail At Spelling Missouri, But They Fail At Mexican Food. Las Cazuelas, MO
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#47 Dairy Queen Poutine
Yeah, I knew what I was getting myself into, but by god they topped themselves with this one. It’s all congealed together yet it’s still hot.
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#48 Father Made What He Called “Onion Soup”
He put cinnamon in stew once.
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#49 Bruschetta In Bed From My Boyfriend
Chunks of turkey meat in cream with yellow tomatoes and celery. This was a dish with rice yesterday, but the rice ran out. So today this is… This.
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#50 Old Guy I Worked With Mixes Peanuts With His Coca-Cola Apparently This Is An Old Country Thing
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#51 My Friend’s 25 Dollar Gluten Free Vegan Pizza
This was the pizza my friend got yesterday at the booth next to tacotarian. She said the sauce was literally just ketchup.
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#52 First Time Buying At A Local Restaurant Called “Food And Love”, Ordered A Four Cheese Pizza And This Is What They Delivered
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#53 Girlfriend Is Sick, So I Made “Peter Pan Food”
Mashed potatoes with blue food colouring added in, with some cooked spinach on top (to make it more cursed). Surprisingly? Delicious.
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#54 Made German Chocolate Cake From Scratch. Tastes Better Than It Looks
It is delicious! And yes, looks like horse vomit.
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#55 My Boyfriend Was So Disgusted By This That He Refused To Kiss Me After I Ate It
100% not pregnant, just hungry for pickles.
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#56 My Kids Wanted To Do A “Chopped” Challenge For Dinner Last Night. Never Again
Normal sliced wheat bread made into French toast with extra cinnamon and vanilla. Fruity pebbles, Bananas that have been sliced and microwaved first with maple syrup, Crushed potato chips drizzled with strawberry jam.
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#57 Under A Tight Deadline, I Had To Stop Everything To Post My Wife’s Dinner
It is made with the leftover water after boiling some dark purple potatoes. There is also “textured vegetable protein” which is some vegan soy stuff.
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#58 My Wife Made Chicken Pesto Genovese Tonight For Dinner
Tasted great! Looked better once it was completely cooked… the pesto and chicken juices definitely gave it a smokers lung vibe.
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#59 My Friend Ordered The Black Garlic “Detox” Ramen. She Received A Bowl Of Activated Charcoal Broth That Dyed All The Pork Gray After A Few Minutes
Grabbed lunch with my friend at a random ramen place. She ordered the black garlic “detox” ramen thinking the word “detox” referred to garlic’s health benefits. They brought out a bowl of activated charcoal broth; the menu didn’t even mention charcoal as an ingredient. She ended up getting an upset stomach a few hours later.
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#60 Apparently My Lunch Is Gross
Tinned mussels, blackberries and red kidney beans.
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#61 My Grandpa Doesn’t Like To Waste Any Food, Even If It’s My 10-Year-Old Brother’s Cereal
He combines whatever leftovers are in the fridge with rice and eats it.
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#62 This Was An $18 Caesar Salad
The lettuce was literally grilled! They used crushed graham crackers instead of croutons and pretty much poured the dressing on a pile of baby lettuce, some of which was brown. Imagine? It was $18!
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#63 A Cake Baked Inside Of A Pumpkin
It was draining onto the dessert table… I’m sorry in advance for your nightmares.
My wife’s granny took a giant scoop of it and threw it away to make sure the person who brought it wasn’t discouraged.
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#64 2 Michelin Star Restaurant Had This On Instagram
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#65 My Husband Made Me Eat Squidward For Breakfast
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#66 Girl Dinner. 10:30 At Night
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#67 Instant Ramen With Garlic, Chili Oil, Black Olives, And Vienna Sausages, Fresh From The Can
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#68 My Friend Made A Walter The Dog Cake. It Disturbs Me Greatly
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#69 The Orange Juice Moistened Donut Is Really Good, Actually
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#70 I Can Assure You That My Boyfriend And I Are Relatively Great Cooks, But For Some Reason We Keep Failing Miserably At Homemade Pizza
She’s topped with pesto, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, and artichokes! This photo was taken midway through, also adding some feta.
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#71 Cooking Burgers Failed
It’s inedible, 100% not happening.
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#72 My Husband Eats This Every Once In A While, I Think It Looks Like It Belongs Here But What Is Your Opinion?
He had “no time” to mix it because he was hungry.
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#73 I Was Making Thai Basil Chicken, Then I Turned Around For A Minute, And My Brother Put Blue Food Dye In It. He’s 19
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#74 Americans, Are You Okay?
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#75 A Local Restaurant Is Selling These Empanadas
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#76 My Cat Was Meowing For This Like It Was Her Wet Food
Just a Canadian with some twisted taste tastebuds.
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#77 My Coworker Made Sour Cream And Onion Pringles Cake. Oh God Why
Definitely an A for effort! Minus several million for good taste.
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#78 Baked Beans In Rice Paper
Bite sized packets of baked beans. Didn’t taste bad at all, but it was… a little weird.
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#79 Made The Pasta From Elf A Year Ago. It Was Absolutely Disgusting
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#80 Sushi German Style – My Own Creation For You To Roast
Sushi German Style is a Sushi Roll filled with “Mett” and freshly cut onions (white or red doesn’t matter), topped off with freshly ground black pepper. “Mett” is a traditional German food item. Basically, it’s ground pork and it’s usually eaten on a white breadroll with onions, salt, and pepper. And yes, we even eat that for breakfast.
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#81 Hotel Offered Us Takeaway Breakfast Of Pastries And Coffees For Very Early Checkout. Opened Bag To Find This Sandwich
I’m assuming the behaviour of my kids led to this. We did also get an egg mayo sandwich, a pomegranate, a passion fruit and about twelve apples, so?
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#82 Date Said Her Favorite Food Was Blue Cheese Pizza. I Guess I Misunderstood Where The Emphasis Was Supposed To Be
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#83 Friend Made A Vegan Cake For Vegan Friend’s Birthday. Both The Hot Dogs And Jelly Are Fully Plant Based Substitutes
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#84 Peanut Butter And Jelly Deviled Eggs For Valentine’s Day
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#85 My Boyfriend’s High Concoction, Peanut Butter On A Burger
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#86 Aldi Sardines, Tom Yum Ramen And A Hot Dog Bun. It Was Surprisingly Delicious. I Left All The Bones In For Calcium And Crunch
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#87 Aluminium Foil Melted Into My Dinner. I Was Reheating My Stuffed Cabbage Leftovers And Somehow The Foil Melted Into My Food
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#88 Steamed Turkey Patty (Never Again)
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#89 Pre-Cooked A Meal For Three Nights, Let It Cool, And Then Found These Eggs Before Storing It
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#90 Abomination Of A Neapolitan Pizza
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#91 One Of My Failed Attempts At Indian Food. Aloo Gobi With Rice
I just cant get the taste right. And the youtube video said to add the cauliflower 10min after the potato but I got frozen cauliflower so I put it in together and the cauliflower disintegrated.
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#92 I Can Cook, I Can Bake… But When Pastry Work Is Concerned… I Always Fail
Like my title said… I can bake cakes, cookies, bread, and so on, but when it comes to pastry work, such as folding and working with dough, I fail miserably. Taste is delicious, but the looks is super ugly!! By the way, it’s chicken potato curry puffs. The last image is the fillings. Not my 1st attempt! Many times already!
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#93 Asked My Boyfriend To Bake The Croissants For Our Dinner
These are american canned crescent rolls for all you europeans out there.
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#94 My Wife’s Flight Got Delayed For Over 12 Hours, So The Airline Is Supposed To Provide Food For The Passengers, And That’s What They’re Treating Them To
The airline has also provided lodgings – a hotel that ran out of blankets.
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#95 My Friends Think That My Meal Of Cold Pasta, Mayo And Raisins Is Absolutely Disgusting. Its My Favourite Meal
The best part about this is that my dad is a semi-retired (award-winning) chef who cooks for me pretty much every night. His disappointment in me is immeasurable.
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