Restaurant experiences so bad they were funny?

We four were on holiday and visited a small town in Britain. One of us craved Indian food. We found a small restaurant advertising itself as Indian. A dark-skinned waiter with a very Indian accent brought menus and asked what we wanted. The first person started ordering - maybe butter chicken or something - but the waiter broke in with "No Indian food today" - spoken abruptly in his thick Indian accent which made it specially hard not to laugh.

Disappointed, we tried ordering other things not-Indian but nearly all of them were also "not today". With a bit of group giggling we finally decided we'd just make do with ham & cheese sandwiches and a beer. The sandwiches did arrive but there was no ham in them! We were by now convulsed in silent hysterics and didn't even bother to complain. The beer never came.

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Sweetpoison · 36-40, F

I would not even pay at that point 😐

Really · 80-89, M

@Sweetpoison But that's not a funny restaurant experience. Do you have one to tell?

Sweetpoison · 36-40, F

@Really yes lol ... i’m italian and one day i went in an «italian Restaurant» i thought so... i asked if they are italian but they did not look like true itslians anyway... i was thinking i should just try the pizza’s and that maybe they will be really good... when they finally arrived i can tell you by how it looked , it were frozen pizzas 😑 i was so upset i did not even give it a taste

Really · 80-89, M

@Sweetpoison An Italian cab driver told me real Italian pizza doesn't have 'all that stuff' on it. I think he said just tomato, mozzarella, maybe onion & some basil. We've played around with that and really liked the results.

Sweetpoison · 36-40, F

@Really maybe he meant that the first true italian pizza was the Margherita :)

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Sweetpoison there’s a local barbecue restaurant here that serves brisket and potato salad that tastes like it comes from Sam’s club. Mostly they like to sell barbecue pork. Kind of ridiculous to buy premade food from a grocery store to sell in a BBQ restaurant.

Sweetpoison · 36-40, F

@cherokeepatti yeah 😟 i agree

Really · 80-89, M

@cherokeepatti [quote]Kind of ridiculous to buy premade food from a grocery store to sell in a BBQ restaurant.[/quote]

I agree but notice that 'ridculous' means laughable :)

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Really If I wanted store-bought barbecue I could have bought it for almost the same price as the meal at Sam’s Club and had about 3 meals for the portion size they served. Therefore, not laughing.