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The Grossest Dishes on Rate My Plate

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When a cake fails yet again or my lasagna turns out to be downright tear-inducing, I can barely laugh about it. But one look at my favorite Facebook page, Rate My Plate, and I’m ready to face the world again.

Foto van culinair journalist Lauretta Baarends

Terrifying food combinations

Rate My Plate is an absolute hit on Facebook. Here, ‘home cooks’ show off their homemade creations and let the other 2.3 million followers judge their often spectacularly failed ‘dishes’. From terrifying food combinations to ‘how did you even come up with this?’ food art. These plates are guaranteed to give you fits of laughter and/or nightmares for days to come.


Maybe if you’re really, really drunk. Or have a death wish.

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Minced-meat feet with onion toenails. Terrifyingly gross.


Can you identify even one ingredient in this mushy vomit?


Turkey dinos with ‘broccotrees’ and 6 white beans in tomato sauce.


Black pasta with spicy meatballs. And orange chewing-gum balls with diarrhea.


Toast with white beans in tomato sauce and salad dressing. Mmm!

Fortunately, it’s not all worthy of tears. The following dishes get a solid 10!


Eggs Benedict to perfection.


Charcuterie board 2.0

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And what about this speculaas cheesecake?

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