We've covered some pretty depressing food pictures but this takes the prize for wrist-slitting bleakness by a country mile. This picture is an illustration of what dinner would look like in a Threads-style post-apocalyptic wasteland, where contaminated meat of uncertain origin is the main dish, served under the watchful eye of deceased relatives who lie in the corner of the dining room.
The food in question is hangikjöt, an Icelandic dish of sliced mutton. In the picture, it is served with bechamel sauce, odd potatoes, decaying pea matter and something else which I can't determine. It looks like the sort of meal that might be eaten by the protagonist of Halldor Laxness' novel Independent People, an unremittingly grim tale of an impoverished farmer in rural Iceland. The most memorable scene illustrates what happens when animal feed becomes so scarce that sheep farmers have to give their animals coffee instead; the results are about as pretty as you might expect.








