A lad who shares his mum's lovingly prepared meals in a group chat has seen the 'abysmal' dinners mercilessly mocked after one of his pal's brutally reviewed each 'awful' dish. Clem Johnson first started sharing his mum's culinary delights to his football mates 'as a laugh' - with his friend Owen claiming they looked like they'd been 'cooked in a washing machine'.
The 24-year-old sent the photos to his Liverpool season ticket holder pals with hilarious captions - including two meals that were so odd they were branded 'unidentifiable'. Other fishes included microwaved bacon, pie with cream crackers and spaghetti with ketchup.
His friend Owen Southwood, 20, eventually became so stunned by Clem's diet that he shared it on Twitter, with the tweet thread attracting more than 35,800 likes and 4,920 retweets. Owen, from near Liverpool, Merseyside, said: "He’s taking the **** (out of the meals) with most of the pictures. I think he doesn’t mind the spaghetti and sausages but for the rest of them, he’s taking the ****.
"We all just send our food in whenever we make something that looks nice, so he does the opposite. It started about two months ago with the sausages and spaghetti. His mum cooks the majority of them. Some of them caused more of a stir in the group than others.
"The best looking one is probably the curry - it looks edible and would probably taste okay. The worst one was the spaghetti with egg and bacon. We voted as a group that it was the worst meal we’d ever seen. The egg and chips wasn’t even that bad really - it’s just the presentation. The pie on crackers got called worse than rations."
Clem first started sharing the pictures to his mates after being stunned at the meals his mum served up. Clem said: "I've been sending them in for ages as a laugh to see their reaction. I hate cooking it’s just too much effort for five minutes to eat. I live with my mum so she cooks.
"Owen said 'enough's enough - it’s going on Twitter'. All my mates have been laughing for ages. I didn’t think it’d go viral on Twitter though."
The football fan has now rushed to defend his mum's egg and chips - but admits pie and crackers wasn't quite Michelin-star standard. Clem said: "The reaction online's been funny. At first I tried to keep it anonymous but loads of people worked out it was me. I reckon chip and eggs aren’t even that bad. Pie and crackers was definitely a low. I've seen a lad donated £25 to a food bank so that’s all that matters. I don’t go hungry so all good."
One of Owen's comments reads: "Without doubt the single worst meal I have EVER seen consumed, there are starving refugees who would turn their nose up at this, the bacon was also cooked in the microwave. 0/10" Another says: "This is supposed to be a fajita, the block of what looks like butter is a solid block of cheese and yes they are baked beans. 2.5/10"
A third reads: "To this day I still don’t know what this is. 1/10" Although he was in on the joke, Clem kindly tweeted asking those who laughed at his pictures to donate to a food bank.
