Worst pasta dishes you've ever tasted

Switzerland
September 30, 2007 3:49am CST
There have been quite a few threads about tasty pasta dishes, so I thought I'd even the balance! I love pasta but have eaten some utterly revolting dishes. Take today for instance, I had a cherry tomato and parmesan sauce by Dolmio...it smelt like vomit after being cooked and tasted as if it had already been eaten twice (not that I've experienced such "food" before, but I can imagine!) The other day I had Loyd Grossman's pepper pasta sauce and it was vile. And something which I dislike, which most people seem to love is red pesto! Ate once... andn ever again! I once ate a plate of it once as I was very hungry, but didn't like it. I felt sick all day and now the smell of it makes me feel sick. Ewww. Anyway, feel free to add the pasta sauces/dishes you most dislike...
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• United States
1 Oct 07
There was a place that opened and closed within six months in my home town. This was probably the mid-nineties, 1996 or 1997. My wife was working late and since I don't like cooking for one, I stopped in to the place in question because they had cheap nightly specials. This particular night it was lasagna. Now, you would think lasagna would be pretty safe, right? I have never in my life tasted a sauce that had a taste that was so shockingly reminiscent of stomach bile. It tasted like the worst acid reflux I've ever had. I could have washed it down with battery acid and felt wonderfully refreshed. I took only two bites and sent it back. They offered me something else but at that point I wanted nothing more than to go home and chug a fifth of Pepto Bismol. I had nothing that resembled an appetite left at that point. The only other example of really bad pasta I can remember was one summer when I was working for a bed and breakfast and the innkeeper had this "signature dessert" called Blueberry Lasagna. It was lasagna noodles layered with blueberries, ricotta cheese, nuts and God only knows what that horrid glop was in the center. It was supposed to be a custard, I suppose. It was horrid. What a way to abuse perfectly good pasta.