Mess: a quantity of food:
a archaic : food set on a table at one time
b : a prepared dish of soft food;
also : a mixture of ingredients cooked or eaten together
c : enough food of a specified kind for a dish or a meal <picked a
mess of peas for dinner>
2
a : a group of persons who regularly take their meals together;
also : a meal so taken
b : a place where meals are regularly served to a group
: mess hall
3
a : a disordered, untidy, offensive, or unpleasant state or condition <your room is in a
mess>
b : one that is disordered, untidy, offensive, or unpleasant usually because of blundering, laxity, or misconduct <[the movie] is a
mess, as sloppy in concept as it is in execution