POT LUCK DINNER HORROR STORIES????

[cowgirlnerd]

Tell us your most horrific dish or item that a guest of family member brought or insists on bringing to "pot luck" or holiday dinners!

In the South, we love dinners after church and we had this one lady that brought cat hair baked beans (she was old and her food always had cat hair in it...gross).  We avoided it like the plague.  We actually had people start putting names on dishes just because of her....  petty Baptists, huh?

What do you guys think?

[margypops]

Oh I forgot a good one I did a long time ago , I served a pizza fresh from the oven and then forgot to take the cardboard from the bottom and some of them ate it with the Pizza ,I guess they were used to tough pizza.

[gwmclean]

Wife my, isnt a cook, but she tries.  When we first started dating she tried to bake me a pie.  She tried making me a pumpkin pie.   I say tried because she made the pie shell okay, but the filling was less than desirable.  Turns out she just dumped the can of pumpkin pie filling directly into the crust.  She didn't realize that she need to add a few key ingredients before it went into the oven.

[cowgirlnerd]

salami, cream cheese, pineapple and bacon makes me want to take immodium without it sitting out!  That sounds a little gross to me - maybe I am werid!

It's weird, as a child, I can remember us having Sunday lunch and my Mom would leave it on the table and put a sheet over it.  We would go back and forth through it for the next several hours and we didn't get sick.  If I did that now - I would be fogging the bathroom for sure.

Well, with the holidays coming around, I am sure we will have some jello with funky fruit to savor, or some lovely mystery casserole to dig into.  I think sometimes people are just a tad to creative when it comes to preparing dishes for potlucks.  It's like "who can top MY dish!"  

[dominosarah]

i almost need Immodium just thinking about it!!!!!  LOL

[bet643]

How perfect, I was just a my brothers birthday party when his girlfriend had rolled up salami stuffed with cream cheese, pineapple and bacon. Because it sat there for a few hours, you could see the grease shimmering under the lights. There were some other ingredients in it but I couldn't figure it out. Believe it or not, it was about the only thing that looked good, because it was slim pickens as we say. So since I was starving, I had a few, and I got real sick, so did others who ate there. Let's just say that we all had to take immodium A.D. for the problem.

[MJIthewriter]

Ewwwww.... I don't get why hand washing is such a bad thing to some people.  That can't be too difficult. If she is allergic to soap there are alternatives.  There should be no excuse for not washing ones hands after going to the bathroom.

[paranoidpatty]

Yeah, we had to change the way we did our potlucks after a while. We had to put everything on a long list, from the dishes down to the utensils and paper goods.  Then we had people check off what they were bringing.  We just made sure all of the food items were taken before she signed up and she got the hint after a while (I think) LOL.  

I think somebody told her about handwashing because now if she's in there and she knows somebody is watching she turns on the water for a good 2 seconds at most and doesn't use soap and goes right on about her business.  You wonder why germs are spread so easily.  YUKK!!

[cowgirlnerd]

I swear the Baptist thing was hilarious.  We would go down the tables and we would (the ones in my family) would nod yes or no at things we weren't sure about.  We had a lot of old farts that - God bless them - were probably good cooks in the day, but .....

Even the preacher did it...  His wife created the name thing!  

[dominosarah]

Now that is gross!!!!!  Can you maybe convince her to bring the paper plates next time??!!!!

[kitty51]

Naughty Baptists!! Thats not christian like to do that to an old lady!!
ONLY KIDDING
I would gag if  found any hair in food YUK
The name thing is a good idea,then you know for sure who made what,and if anyone makes a dodgy meal and you get sick,at least you know who's food to give a miss too.Its not all bad,if someone makes something really good then you know who to ask for the recipe..

[paranoidpatty]

A woman at work doesn't wash her hands when she leaves the restroom.  Of course she is the first one to volunteer to make something when we have a function at work.  We all know of her restroom habits so we avoid her dish like the plague and she wonders why.  She even overhandles the food by using her hands to toss the roast beef in the gravy instead of using utensils.  We even gave her plastic gloves and she got offended and didn't use them.

[margypops]

One of my Daughters ,brought a new "boy friend she had' found to visit us, we were having a pot luck that weekend and he asked to cook a traditional meal from his Country which was Chile, it smelt delicious and we could hardly wait to try it, to this day I am uncertain what he exactly put in it and we all murmured 'great dish ' etc to him, but it was horrible, I dont thinlk he had considered the spices he had mixed into it. I looked at everyone and I could see they were having a hard time aswell. But we swallowed most of it and I noticed a few quick trips to the Bathroom.

[kiddthekatt]

A pot of pinto beans with ham, only thing about them was, she had let them scorch on the bottom of the pot and they were so nasty. Could not get that taste out of my mouth.

[MJIthewriter]

Watery yellow-orange squash soup my dad made for a potluck at my grandma's church last year. It looked like it was all squash, but mostly juice.  To make matters worse we accidently slopped it when trying to get the door open so it spilled on us.

It looked awful but surprisingly someone really liked it and thanked dad for bringing it!

[dominosarah]

My grandma,bless her heart, made a rice dish that was just the best.  It was a family tradition.........couldnt have a get together without this.  Well she was about 90 when she made it for the last time.  We all sit down and everyone goes for the rice and we all take a big old bite and all of a sudden we realized at the same time she had used bad milk.  Oh god that was so bad.