You’ve spent hours preparing a meal and despite your best efforts, disaster strikes. But don’t beat yourself up – you’re not alone as the following photos prove!
Sometimes we have unavoidable food fails because we opted for a pre-prepared dish, but culinary catastrophes also happen in restaurants…
Here are 20 people who snapped and shared a photo of their less than appetizing meal.
1. Would you pay for this Caesar salad?

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2. No filling = no taste

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3. Burned to a cinder

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4. The salt comes separately

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5. Yes, this was a home delivery pizza

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6. And they call this restaurant quality

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7. Something's missing

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8. A minimalist burger

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9. Total massacre

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10. Tiny salad and no vinaigrette

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11. You can't get more unappetizing than this

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12. When a restaurant doesn't have matching cutlery

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13. Maybe they taste good?

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14. Ugh, mold!

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15. Sold without a filling

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16. What was advertized versus what they received

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17. Would you be tempted?

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18. This should be illegal

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19. Give this mess a miss

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20. Photo vs reality!

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