• the food was inedible muck
• beyond possibility, cockeyed, impossible, it cannot be, out of the question, outrageous, preposterous, unearthly
• dud, helpless, impotent, incapable, inert, powerless, shiftless, wimpy
• undiscernible, undistinguishable
• helplessness, impotence, inability, inability to do sg, incapacity, inertia, inertness, paralysis, powerlessness
• beyond recovery, beyond retrieval, irreparable, past retrieval, unredeemable
• stand around like a spare prick at a wedding, stand around like a spare prick at an orgy
• insensible, undetectable
• bum, it's no use, no good, of no utility, played out, unavailable
• dud, fish, fuckup, lame duck, lunk, lunkhead, twit