The day my mom passed after a 2 year battle with cancer. My wife and I were running all day, from something like 5am. We finally get home about midnight and realize we hadn’t eaten anything at all that day. We look in the cupboards, fridge, etc and there is absolutely nothing but a single can of chef boyardee ravioli. We were so tired, we stood at the kitchen sink eating them cold, right out of the can. About half way though the can we both started crying as we hadn’t let the emotions touch us yet. So through our tears of grief, we ate cold ravioli out of a can.
Condolences, that really sucks.
There wasn’t sad food to go along with it but, my wife and I had a very similar experience. My nephew passed away after 3 months of trying to repair a heart defect (HLHS specifically). My SIL, her husband and, her other kids had been living with for the past six months because we lived near the hospital he was treated at. Their extended family spent a lot of nights with us as well.
The day after he passed away, they all went home. My wife and I are child free so we were just alone in this quiet, empty house that had been loud and crowded since we found out our nephew was going to be born with a bad heart. The weight of the past months hit us all at once and we sat there sobbing for what felt like hours. It’s been like three years and I still get teary thinking about it.
It’s tough when you have to be there as support for others. You realize you never had time to process things and then it all hits at once. This was nearly 20 years ago now and it’s still one of the worst feelings. I’m sorry you and your family had to go through this, and I hope healing has happened for all involved.
I found myself alone in a motel in a southern state in Christmas day.
The only food I could find was a can of chef boyardee at a shady convenience store. It had a pop top so I could open it.
I had to tear apart the plastic cup in the motel room to use as a spoon.
I had to do an elimination diet before testing for food allergies. For two weeks I had a cup of rice for all three meals a day. Now I really like rice but on one of these days I had to attend a working catered lunch with some coworkers. It was incredibly embarrassing eating my small cup of rice in this meeting while all my coworkers had an amazing catered lunch. I got a whole lot of “you’re really committed to your diet” comments.
All you can do is tell them “Thanks, I might die if I don’t follow it.”
A full plate of pork ribs (almost) I was out to dinner with my gf and her parents (first time I had meet them) at a fancy restaurant, and her Dad was paying, big guy, didnt say much, picture Ron Swanson but bigger and bald. Anyways I love pork ribs and as soon as i saw the menu i had to have em, altho as soon as i ordered them i realized they were a full serving (not a half, so one whole side of pig!) And that it was the most expensive item on the menu, it was at this point i knew i had f’ed up. I tried my best but could not finish this behemoth plate of beautifully cooked pork rib cage while under the scrutinizing eye of one red faced, barrel chested, potential farther in law. I sent a half eaten plate back to the kitchen only to turn round and see the look in his eye that said i was nothing but a waste of money to him and that i deserve nothing less than the colossal meat shits that was coming for me. We then went home and i couldn’t even hug my gf in bed as my guts set about the task of converting 3 pounds of pig flesh into a glorious song of digestion featuring frequent trumpet solos for my gf to enjoy into the night…we lasted a month
That was BEAUTIFULLY written. You sir a real poet!
Went to visit my gf in college once a few hours away. On the way back I put every penny I had into my gas tank in hopes it would be enough and it barely was. While at the gas station I mixed some ketchup packets, salt, and hot water for “tomato soup” because it was all free.
Nice ingenuity. How was it?
Not good. Just watery ketchup. But it was a hell of a lot better than nothing. It did help that I snagged a few packs of crackers for texture.
Rice with a raw egg mixed in… Tasted bad and I felt sorry for everyone evolved with the ingredients so I ate it anyways. this was when I experimented a lot as a kid so just a sad meal for my taste buds.
You had tamago kake gohan minus the soy sauce. I like it, but I understand how the raw egg texture can be off-putting.
Anything I’ve eaten in the past 5 months. I’m on a strict health related diet and it sucks.
it depends on whose perspective.
i had rice and mayo for dinner once. just a bowl of rice with a huge dollop of Japanese Kewpie mayo on top.
my gf thought it was the saddest thing ever, i thought it was delicious.
Fish and potato dinners in the Norwegian Kingsguard army camp. I despised all fish meals for the next 7 years, I couldn’t stomach the smell of them. Poor fish didn’t deserve getting killed for such a fate.
I went on a tour of Malaysia with a cheap Chinese tour company once. Food in Malaysia is AMAZING but you wouldn’t know it from this tour.
They’d take us to these warehouse-like empty restaurants on the edges of towns and would serve us the worst Chinese food I ever had by a mile. I love Chinese food, but this was just soul-crushingly bad. And because we were basically stuck with staying close to the bus, we had no choice but to eat there.
Two dishes stand out in my mind. One was stir-fried lettuce that had so many block spots it looked like a pointillist work. The other was a mapo tofu that looked so awful, I couldn’t help thinking the chef had broken it up by chewing it and blowing it out of his nose.
I couldn’t help thinking the chef had broken it up by chewing it and blowing it out of his nose.
Good god, now there’s a visual…
One week old McDonald burgers
A bowl of microwaved frozen peas. More than once.
Few of my weird kids eat frozen peas for a snack
Honestly, frozen peas (heated) pair well with Mac and cheese. Maybe sad, but delicious especially with sriracha.
Nah, that ain’t sad, I straight up made this the other night because it’s comfort food for when I’m being lazy. Got my bowls and posted up in front of the TV and watched cartoons, best meal of the week.
I spread shredded cheese on a plate and microwaved it. More than once.
Baking parmesan by itself on a baking sheet is actually pretty good.
The cookies at my mentor’s memorial.
A rice sandwich.
