Food is food and everyone needs to eat, regardless of how pretty it is. Anyone who is lucky enough to be able to eat three solid meals a day should be grateful. Sometimes, though, everyone can make fun of a meal made out of desperation, lack of the right ingredients, or just something new gone terribly wrong. It's okay to admit being defeated by cooking, it isn't easy. Sometimes even the professionals get it wrong, and restaurant food comes out looking a little funky. Having to scarf down a meal that just looks unappetizing has happened to everyone, but they aren't always as bad as they seem.

Sometimes, however, they're still pretty bad. There are a lot of people online who are dedicated to the shaming and the self-shaming of bad-looking meals, ones that just don't look remotely edible. For all of the times trying something new went wrong, or a vision didn't quite turn out as expected, here are 25 people who have been in the same boat.