This Twitter Account Is Dedicated To Food Fails That Are True Culinary Crimes, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones
InterviewWe’ve all been there. You’re excited to make the recipe, so you sort out the mise en place and employ your confidence and skills to start cooking. You can already taste the mouth-watering bites and imagine all the ways you’ll get to show this delicacy off to friends and family. One thing you may forget, however, is just how fine the line is between a crispy, juicy, heavenly yum and utterly disgusting yuck. Your hand slipped. Or you managed to leave your delicious creation in the oven and accidentally fall asleep. The result? A kitchen disaster of epic proportions.
Believe it or not, you're not the only one to experience these tragic blunders, as there are plenty of horrendous-looking food items out there, from restaurants to supermarkets. Thankfully, there's a whole Twitter account dedicated to the bad, the ugly, and downright messed up food. Not only does it serve as a source of pure entertainment, but also as a confidence boost that might make you feel like a Michelin-star chef.
Below, we wrapped up a collection of some of the nastiest and weirdly shaped artifacts to share with you all. So continue scrolling, but proceed with caution: these pictures have a way of ruining your appetite. Keep reading to also find our interview with James, the creator of the page. Then be sure to upvote the pictures you loved to hate most and let us know what you think about them in the comments!
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Seriously! I picked the wrong post to read while eating a late night snack 🤢
Load More Replies...Even worse than the appearance is the nasty schlorking sound it makes when you shake it out of the can. 🤢
I'm expecting my baby in a few weeks and I wasn't prepared for this picture. Thanks BP
well, having been down at the business end, birth does kinda look like that, just more "colourful"
Load More Replies...Canned chicken is deboned and ready to cook. Rinse it in the strainer, add it to your soup, rice, casserole, salad. Despite the fact that the picture was meant to disgust, Sweet Sue's is one of the better brands. For a disabled person, canned chicken is FAR easier than fresh, and leaves less washing up. It tastes just fine.
I would agree if the can didn't say, "fully cooked."
Load More Replies...It's just jelly. When cooked, it is nearly as good as a fresh one. Had this as a kid sometimes.
Chicken Fricassee… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fricassee
Load More Replies...It does not look that bad when its cooked. A raw chicken does never look good.
Already exists. Can buy thanksgiving/christmas dinner in a tin. Meat and all the trimmings included.
Load More Replies...as disgusting as this sounds and looks i have had one of these during a time when i was on rough times and used a food pantry. it's like an over boiled chicken. flavor, from what i remember, was fair. not good for much except in a casserole, stew, or soup.
really? how is this comment offensive? downvotes gets people banned. If you disagree with the comment, just ignore it.
Load More Replies...can't see what was offensive about your comment, so I upvoted you.
Load More Replies...This is a gag by Alan Wagner. He's Truewagner on Instagram and is very funny.
Thank you! Most important comment here, a no votes?! I gotcha potato!
Load More Replies...And there's a fork taped to the side. What fresh hell is this?
Load More Replies...So I have to use the ketchup method, pat on the back and poke around with a fork until something comes out.?
This has to be some sort of sick joke. Please tell me it’s a joke? Please?
We got in touch with the creator of this Twitter account, James, who was super excited to chat with us about the journey of his project. Apparently, he started the page in late July to share some of the weird food creations he came across on Twitter and Reddit. "I love seeing a meal that’s so weird and messed up, it just makes my jaw drop, I find that so funny," James told Bored Panda. "Its growth has been really awesome to watch."
His social media project features heaps of ghastly-looking food items that have grabbed the attention of many Twitter users since its creation. At the time of writing, the account has amassed over 270k devoted fans by celebrating the ugly beauty of horrible food that can be found virtually anywhere. The creator is very open and blunt with his content. Truthfully, the humor is so straightforward that we can’t even mention the full name (thank you, stop words!)
The success of this project has inspired James to create a sister account featuring odd, bizarre, and downright entertaining examples of cars ever found online. If you'd like to check out some of James' masterfully curated photos that capture the essence of what stupidity on wheels looks like, you can find this Twitter account right here.
Looks like a plateful of w*****s in various stages of decomposition and putrefaction. With lettuce.
This is accouly something I eat alot as a child, you should taste it. Its just amazing! Try it with rice. 🤗 Its like sweat and sour. 😄
Load More Replies...Upvoted your comment to offset the shitty troll that's downvoting people
Load More Replies...I love this, we eat this in the 90's with rice. Childhood memories. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Serve this and it will be that last party that people RSVP to.
Load More Replies...What's this doing here? It's not a fail, it's actually well done. It's only a fail if you call this "Christmas dinner",then yeah, big fail
Looks gruesome, but it's just presentation. The food itself at least doesn't have any strange ingredients.
This one is great. I wonder what they used for the teeth. white corn?
Looks a lot like white corn to me. I like the mushroom ears.
Load More Replies...Part of the reason I don’t like fish (aside from the several bouts of food poisoning I have had from various types of fish and seafood—-just don’t eat it anymore) is that I just don’t like my food looking at me from the plate. Doesn’t even matter if it’s eyes are only green olives.
"Tastes like chicken" is said about a lot of things from reptiles to human flesh.
Load More Replies...Considering what’s on the label, the additional fact that it’s wrapped in foil so you can’t see what’s inside concerns me as well.
It’s safe to say that when it comes to the draw of the account in question, the weirdness is definitely part of the appeal. From cookies with spam filling to hotdog and pickle meat jelly, the page highlights some fascinating and equally frightening moments in food history that can turn our stomachs inside out and prevent us from eating for the foreseeable future.
When asked about his followers, James told us, "The foodie community is incredible! It’s great that so many other people find this stuff as entertaining as I do." The founder of the page also noted he faces only a few challenges when looking after the group. "The community helps make managing the page super easy. People can submit their finds to the Twitter page or in our Discord server, so there’s always great content in the pipeline."
Thank you. But why on earth are those teeth in there??
Load More Replies...If you've ever seen gator teeth you know they don't curve like this. Def not gator.
OMG!!!! I can hear the screams all over the world of people opening this tin!!!!!
Roses are red, curry is blue. Get away with this s**t or I'll throw it at you
You’ll be running like Sonic straight to the toilet.
Honestly, If you like warmish spaghetti the next day like I do, they are great
Load More Replies...From the looks of it, this is like a frittata di maccheroni, just baked in a donut shape. This ought to be really yummy.
I wonder if they make it like this so they can deep fry spaghetti and meatballs. On a side note, this is only offensive if you are expecting it to be a doughnut/ flavor. If you think of it like baked spaghetti in a convenient shape then it's not so bad.
Mmmmm, spaghetti 🍝 donut…ahhhhghh…(drool)
Load More Replies...We were also curious to know what makes James decide whether an image is worth sharing or not. "If a picture makes me go 'what the hell?' or just kind of leaves me staring at it in awe and confusion, it’s usually a good fit. I try to pass on things that seem intentionally wasteful, like something made for the purpose of taking a picture and then thrown in the trash."
But minus a stick because I know my dogs drop it anyway - lacking opposing claws or something.
Load More Replies...to be honest, I can't see anything thing wrong here. Clear chicken broth, shredded chicken with a sprinkling of veggies
oh god, i just dawned on me, they might not be frozen... they could be jellied
Load More Replies...So that's just Polish galareta ....on a stick. Guess what I'm making for next family gathering.
Chicken soup is a standard when you're ill and ice lollies will help you cool down if you have a fever, those look like a two birds with one stone idea😂
It wouldn't be frozen, just gelatine. we do something similar here, only in larger and more vegetable (but pork not chicken) and believe it or not, it's delicious.
Same! I believe it's a rather common dish in some cultures
Load More Replies...Looks like it mutated and now has teeth. (Yes, I know it’s the cheese, but it looks like the inside of a small animal’s mouth.)
When faced with a bear attack, I would have no trouble in sacrificing this to throw at the bear!
Hopefully the bear knows how to open the can, because if that was me I wouldn't take the time to open it.
Load More Replies...The van says “trekking meals” so I’m assuming it’s for hiking, backpacking, and camping. Still, a soggy canned burger 🍔 is the last thing I’d take hiking.
Load More Replies...I'm also needing to know what he thought. How gross was it? Brave brave soul, I appreciate his sacrifice
Load More Replies...Came here to see if anyone else was going to point that out!
Load More Replies...It's German, and according to the book title ("parodistisch") it's supposed to be a joke.
It’s easy to laugh and feel entertained while scrolling through the unfortunate examples in this list, but they only prove that preparing food is an adventure. We all have experienced these disastrous blunders while cooking, and we know that cooking is a learning process and a skill that takes time to master.
"Fails are definitely a necessity to becoming good in the kitchen! A messed-up dish is a great story to share with your friends and family. I think a lot of people can relate to that," James said. "Please take a picture if you mess up your meal, society craves it real bad apparently. And if you need a guy to run your Twitter, send me a DM!"
The amount of food coloring...y'all are going to dye your mouths permanently
Ok can we talk about the fact that Squidward ones look like they expired
Those two bones were absolutely shoved into that pizza post bite.
Load More Replies...Previously, Ellen Manning, a food lover, writer, and founder of the acclaimed Eat With Ellen blog, offered us some insight about cooking blunders and tactics to avoid them. According to her, everyone has experienced massive failures in the kitchen: "I don't know anyone who hasn't."
"I've served up a ricotta and peach tart where the cheese had split and resembled something that should have been poured down the drain. I've served things up raw, burnt things, and messed things up, and I guarantee most people have — even top chefs," she revealed.
As Ellen explained, there are many reasons why things go wrong in the kitchen. "I think it's often due to lack of preparation and rushing, or maybe trying to do too much. Most of my failures were because I just didn't leave myself enough time to both prepare and cook a meal and tried to work at a million miles an hour to get it done. It never works."
Again, why? Who thinks this s**t up? Or does this stem from a weird pregnancy craving?
This looks like a heart attack waiting to happen! Please don't do this to the poor hospital staff!
Plot twist: This is being served in the hospital cafeteria
Load More Replies...I'm already sick and I can safely say, I am having some concerns as to whether I'm going to be able to not puke at this rate. My stomach lurches at a lot of these - they're just so ... so wrong on so many levels.
I'm with you on this one.. This weirdly needs a taste test.. After a couple of breathing sessions of course.. I'm thinking about how I used to put grape jelly on a burger, it's honestly not bad maybe this might be the same?
Load More Replies...In the words of Michael Jordon: "Stop it. Get some help."
Load More Replies...Give yourself heartburn and treat it all in one go! This is probably a marketing ploy by Pepto!
That's the Pink Sauce, some influencer made it and started to sell it without having it FDA approved or cooled during shipping so only the gods know how many deadly bacteria hide in it.
Thankfully, there are ways we can learn from our past screw-ups and take our cooking skills to a new level. "It's easy to dwell on the mistakes, but half the time, they're not as bad as you think," Ellen told us. "Something that isn't cooked enough can be put back in to finish off, split sauces can sometimes be saved, and burnt elements can be scraped off so you can salvage the rest of it."
"It's rarely the end of the world, so don't give yourself a hard time. Equally, making mistakes is often how we learn and the kitchen is no exception — you only get better by trying, and guaranteed once you've messed something up, you're unlikely to make the same mistake again, so don't let a mistake stop you trying again or experimenting."
kinda cool for like a Halloween party (if you use the correct food.)
Butterfly Pea + Lemonade makes a naturally purple lemonade without the artificial food coloring
Pretty sure that’s crawfish. Honestly, I don’t know why, lobster would be less offensive to me.
Load More Replies...It turns out that even the most minor tweaks can make a huge positive impact on our cooking. To avoid butchering our meals in the first place, Ellen suggested starting with preparation and planning. "That means leaving enough time, making sure you've got the right ingredients and equipment, preparing everything before you start cooking, and following instructions. Just generally slowing down and being a bit more organized can make a huge difference."
"After all, there's a reason why top chefs prep everything they need and sort out their 'mise en place', which is essentially gathering everything you need and having it right there ready to go," she told us.
Honestly, can see how this could actually be good. Sweet and salty, always a good combo 😉
I can sort of see that, because I'm very fond of the pretzel poptarts for that exact reason, but I think the greasiness of the burger would make it gross.
Load More Replies...I once made a mashed potato sandwich while high,not a proud day in my life
All of these derelictions of God's divinity can be explained with the words "I was high..."
This just looks like sushi in the shape of pizza which, if that’s the case, isn’t nearly as awful as the rest of these. I might actually eat that.
Square is for squares, you square! ...... Square!
Load More Replies...Is this brought to us by the same people who put the potato salad in the gallon jug? Looks like it is the same type of setup.
I have a sneaking suspicions these are entirely fake/prank.
Load More Replies...Looking at it...probably not. This is probably (and terrifyingly) real. Look at the lighting, the shadows, the shine off the label. Unfortunately, it's probably real.
Load More Replies...You can use it to play soccer at the local playground and then eat the ball for lunch. It serves "3 men" (apparently women won't eat it) so you'll need a few for a whole team.
"Some people have a natural talent for flavors and cooking, but for most of us, it's just a case of practice," the food blogger said. "For years, I told everyone I couldn't cook and always left it to other people, terrified that I would mess things up, but actually the more I practiced, the better I got."
"I'd say start simple, follow recipes, learn some basic techniques, and then when you get more confident, you can start experimenting. Watch cooking shows, read cookbooks, and use social media for inspiration, ideas and simple 'how to's'. If you're still worried, then if you have time alone, practice then. Don't wait until you're throwing a dinner party to give it a go — practice when no one's looking, then if it goes wrong there's no huge loss," Ellen concluded.
Beans on toast is very common in England, so this isn't so bad. Beans-on-T...6eac27.jpg
Our beans on toast is a national treasure that can be elevated to divinity by some grated cheddar. Refried beans on cold, limp pizza 🍕 is not.
Load More Replies...Looks disgusting! At the same time, Baked pork and beans (Fagioli con le cotiche) in a sandwich was sort of a traditional lunch for day-laborers in Rome while I was growing up. It probably still is. I had it a couple of times and it was actually delicious (but considered very low class at the time). This is not that different, even though the beans look sickly and lifeless.
pizza place in my city makes a great refried beans pizza. It's a layer of refried beans on the crust, then a tortilla, then the rest of the pizza
Damn I thought it was a daim cake for a second and was thinking yummy! Now I'm disappointed.
I made these years ago as a joke, used sliced pickles. Joke was on me as my brother actually liked them. They really didn’t taste too bad. But then again I love Frickles! Just wish they were available everywhere!
“Mom is cooking fried chicken again :( ” “Your mom makes that? WOW your sooo lucky!” “Okay, I don’t think you are aware of what’s gonna happen…”
"We have fried chicken at home" Fried chicken at home:
Load More Replies...Congrats! You’ve found a way to make ranch dressing even more foul than it already is…👏🏽
Frankly I think anyone who works around kids knows exactly the one who would *love* these.
Someone needs to be beat about the head with a large stick until near death over this c**p.
Correct, this was found to be a hoax. If you google the company "Ink Inc" or just "leche de rata" you get an article saying this was debunked in 2018 as just a prank.
Load More Replies...This has to be a spoof of the Simpsons episode where they milk rats for the kids’ school lunches.
"I don't get it. Everyone loves rats, but they don't wanna drink the rats' milk?" - Fat Tony
Load More Replies...“Dogs milk? How come it keeps so long?” ‘Cos no bugger will drink it” Love Red Dwarf :)
Load More Replies...I have a stupid question - a really stupid question - but is this supposodly for human consumption or is it like goat milk which is something newborn kittens can have if their mom is no longer around ?? ****** Answered own stupid question: No - it is not safe for humans to drink rat milk of sewer rats (or any other kind of rats). · Because many of the diseases and ailments rats can carry can ...
They look like burned cookies when you’re trying to be nice about it, turds when you can’t help but be honest about it.
Except flatter, even rabbits have rounder poop
Load More Replies...Please stop with all of those fake meat, there are tons of vegan dishes from around the world.
Looks like horse manure, which as far as I am concerned is basically is being mushed up plant material!
I love raw onion, and I love milk. But together? That's seriously messed up.
Melvins - Onions Make The Milk Taste Bad from the 2014 album Hold It In.
Load More Replies...Please put your hands where I can see them and step away from the food coloring.
Like most of these "dishes", it looks like vomit. Colorful vomit but vomit.
Step back from the food colouring. I repeat, step back from the food colouring.
i will NEVER complain about pineapple on a pizza again....still won't eat it though
Fried banana would make a dessert pizza, but adding bubble gum makes me want to hurl.
Could you even... eat this? Last time I checked, bubble gum wasn't edible...
Ok - this is where I draw the goddamned line. Bubblegum is one thing, but what kind of lunatic monster would put banana on a pizza?
Banana Pizza is actually a thing. You eat it with chicken or ham and curry, well and cheese
Load More Replies..."Artificially maple flavoured syrup" and "simulate nuggs" I think the only thing there real is the plate
This is actually a thing—-started in Los Angeles I believe. Though the Fruity Pebbles syrup would be a no-go for me, I could certainly see how maple syrup would work.
can't see why not. sausage stuffing often has a high breadcrumb content, so why not cooked rice.
If you'd pretend this was gross, you never had 2 hotdogs with some fries for a quick meal. Looking at you, everybody who's ever gone to IKEA.
You'd be surprised with the amount os food blasphemies we Brazilian can create. It's an art form, truly. (Saying this cause it's written in Portuguese and given the history, there's a 99% chance it's from the BR lands)
Normally, just as a lot of other folk, I'd click on for the extra photos relegated because of user votes. .I'm making an exception here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That has to be dry...I mean you cant put ketchup or mustard on it or you will ruin the cookie. Also do you drink milk with it or a coke?
I eat peanut sauce with a variety of savoury things (eg sate sauce on chicken). I eat sweet condiments with meat (port: apple sauce; lamb: mint jelly; rissole: plum jam). I'd give it a go.
Peanut butter, sweet chilli sauce and cucumber sandwich was my broke student dinner
Load More Replies...Ya know, if you ditched the peanut butter and the jelly was the right flavor, this might just work.
actually, dill pickles and peanut butter are a surprisingly good flavor pair, but those look like bread and butter chips *GAG!*
Someone just added pickle slices to a pumpkin pie for a picture. Nobody would eat that. I hope. 🤷🏼♂️
pasta is not inherently savoury. this would be edible, likely to induce diabetic shock, by edible.
I mean..technically speaking these are all edible, disgusting in 99.9% of cases, but edible. Nutella Spaghetti doesn't sound completely awful though. I like dipping tortilla chips in nutella. Love that salty sweet combination
Load More Replies...Nothing wrong here... I mean it's a dough made of flour and eggs or water (like bread) and a choco spread.
It looks like beetroot, but it is certainly not an attractive colour for pasta.
The fish one looks like it might be Poi - which is made from Taro root.
Load More Replies...Oh, I see. It's one of those 'will it blend' type situations. They ran out of ideas so this was the result. I'm sure it tastes... horrific.
Saw this in France at Île de Ré. They had sardine ice cream and potato ice cream, just because they had so many flavors and they wanted to highlight local products. To be honest I only tried the potato and it was just sweet cold mashed potatoes. Sardines are sweet but I prefer chocolate.
Technically those “American cheese” slices aren’t allowed to be called cheese. The labeling indicates it has to say “pasteurized cheese food product.” Seriously.
"American cheese" That's definitely not cheese. Not even close. It should be called "American fantasy looking like a bad description of cheese"
I did this when I was young. Nothing wrong with this. I rolled then so its easier to eath.
This is tasty, I used to have it as a child and I don't anymore because I'm vegetarian. Otherwise I'd be happy to have it again.
Corn, mayo, and something spicy together isn't unusual. Elote is amazing.
*cough cough cough* airplane food *cough cough cough*
Load More Replies...Word of advice you go to Dairy Queen for the ice cream treats not their meals it is awful.
Nutella. The sign says hazelnut in tiny letters. The red u and t are part of the Nutella logo.
I mean, they should’ve spelled out Nutella but this is probably amazing
In sweden we do boil bacon inside potatoe mash and wheat flour and call them kroppkakor. :)
Load More Replies...This is an example of what happens when parents unleash their coddled babies on the world when they move out at 24 years old.
Well, they have done this where I come from so not really a disaster. Just spam cut to look like fries.
One of my initial student attempts at feeding myself was this (I did get better) and you’re right that it is edible and will stay down it’s incredibly boring to eat. Like chewing on cardboard levels.
Load More Replies...Strawberry mochi are amazing, but this thing is definitely something else. It looks gross
Nine out of ten dentists agree that this is disgusting. The tenth was too busy scrubbing his mouth out with a Brillo pad to answer.
Thanks for the brillo pad tip. I now have brilliantly white teeth!
Load More Replies...They could be making Tres Leches cakes (three milk cake) which is delicious!
"If you add powdered milk to normal milk, it becomes double milk because there's more milk per milk" -one girl i saw in a kmk reaction video
When I was studying abroad in Spain way back in my Uni. years, tuna on pizza was a thing and I have a feeling it still is. It was actually quite nice as the tuna was incredibly fresh and paired really nicely with the cheese.
Wow, they must have been very worried of getting a copyright strike.
Probably tastes OK, but for ffs they couldn't roll the dough with whatever for a few minutes?
That isn't a travesty. Look like a murder scene but I'd taste it.
Looks better than McDonald's pizza
Load More Replies...Reminds me of one pizza place I went to where they had spaghetti on pizza. I think it would taste fine, but I'm not sure the best way to eat it.
One time when I lived in Japan, I saw a convenience store with a sign in the window that said "cream-filled donuts". That sounded great, so I bought one and started eating it. The donut was filled with creamed fish!
I stopped buying candy when I was in Tokyo because 75% of it was unexpectedly fish, shrimp or seaweed flavoured. >.
Load More Replies...Do not look at this post if you are having lunch while scrolling BP :( I hope this caution will not arrive too late for you as it did for me
That time I made chocolate cupcakes with fishsticks inside , also made some cinnamon maple ramen noodle cupcakes, the taste was fine, the texture chewing was horrendous, like cold dead worms. tkB6QU0-63...bb02fa.jpg
If any of my vegan friends or coworkers annoy me, I'm going to have to do this and tell them that they are vegan cupcakes.
Load More Replies...Every photo brought my supper closer to making a reappearance. I've had friends in the past that stayed high constantly making weird a*s food concoctions but nothing like any of this. Most of these were hella fake just for this post.
I'd hate to see this when I'm not high. Thank f**k I'm high...either it helped or it didn't.
One time when I lived in Japan, I saw a convenience store with a sign in the window that said "cream-filled donuts". That sounded great, so I bought one and started eating it. The donut was filled with creamed fish!
I stopped buying candy when I was in Tokyo because 75% of it was unexpectedly fish, shrimp or seaweed flavoured. >.
Load More Replies...Do not look at this post if you are having lunch while scrolling BP :( I hope this caution will not arrive too late for you as it did for me
That time I made chocolate cupcakes with fishsticks inside , also made some cinnamon maple ramen noodle cupcakes, the taste was fine, the texture chewing was horrendous, like cold dead worms. tkB6QU0-63...bb02fa.jpg
If any of my vegan friends or coworkers annoy me, I'm going to have to do this and tell them that they are vegan cupcakes.
Load More Replies...Every photo brought my supper closer to making a reappearance. I've had friends in the past that stayed high constantly making weird a*s food concoctions but nothing like any of this. Most of these were hella fake just for this post.
I'd hate to see this when I'm not high. Thank f**k I'm high...either it helped or it didn't.
