It bugs me when people bring lame things to a potluck

[Anonymous]

Potlucks are the opposite of foo foo snobbery. It is the meal of the common communal folks. No hoity toity fancy schmancy dinner party going on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is ro-tel?

Ro-tel is a brand of canned tomatoes with green chiles. If you do not know this, you can type "Ro-tel" into Google to find out.

[Anonymous]

My pet peeve is where half the stuff is from Costco and tastes like crap. Choc chip cookies in a plastic tub, gross pizza, wilted caesar salad and some random dip. And I've spent time making a homemade dish. *grumble*

[Anonymous]

If I get an invite with enough warning, I'm down with briing something homemade and edible. But the last-minute swim team potluck that starts at 5:30 on a work day? I'm throwing a pizza from the train station Sbarros on the table and saying, "I was at work. You know...at my job."

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Anonymous wrote:How would you react if I brought a little crock pot with some Velveeta and Ro-tel? And a bag of tortilla chips, of course.

I'd be stoked, assuming the rest of the menu is chili or tacos or burgers or something, and not beouf bouriguignon.

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Anonymous wrote:Three pages and I'm the only one with reservations about the food other people prepare?

Cleanliness of other people's kitchens, do they lick their fingers inbetween, worse, and so on?

I'm not a clean freak but it does skeeve me quite a bit.

This is me. Personally I only like to eat food which is prepared by people I know well. I'm pretty leery of other people's kitchen habits.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a guy and have to bring dessert for a pot luck this week. I was going to get a pie from a nice pie shop. Do you think that's OK?

How is the fact that you are a guy relevant?

Because men may either buy pies or make pies, but women must make pies.

Exactly. And if you notice everyone said it was fine he was buying. Except for the weirdo who thinks everyone goes to potlucks to sample the food....

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three pages and I'm the only one with reservations about the food other people prepare?

Cleanliness of other people's kitchens, do they lick their fingers inbetween, worse, and so on?

I'm not a clean freak but it does skeeve me quite a bit.

This is me. Personally I only like to eat food which is prepared by people I know well. I'm pretty leery of other people's kitchen habits.

Eh. Do you dine out? The fancier the restaurant, the more spit you eat. Chefs taste early and often. They double-dip.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three pages and I'm the only one with reservations about the food other people prepare?

Cleanliness of other people's kitchens, do they lick their fingers inbetween, worse, and so on?

I'm not a clean freak but it does skeeve me quite a bit.

So you never eat out?

Actually I do. I work in foodservice and most commercial kitchens are cleaner. Of course there are exceptions!

[Anonymous]

The two previous posts are hilarious in a row...

[Anonymous]

Man, where is "dollop of goat cheese on endive" lady?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would you react if I brought a little crock pot with some Velveeta and Ro-tel? And a bag of tortilla chips, of course.

I'd be stoked, assuming the rest of the menu is chili or tacos or burgers or something, and not beouf bouriguignon.

Lol. I even look for the good tortilla chips when I bring Ro-tel. At home we eat cheap knock-off chips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my kids was younger and there were events at his school, I'd bring fruit every time. They went to school near my work, not my home, and I have an inflexible schedule. There was no way I could go home between work and events, and no refrigeration at work, so most homemade things were out. So, I'd stop at the grocery store on my way and pick up bananas and clementines (large amounts, if I was supposed to bring food for 10, I wouldn't bring 10 bananas, because I know that 10 bananas is not equivalent to 10 pieces of home made pie), and other fruit that was easy to put out. I'd get a few looks like my bananas didn't count, but I'd also hear a ton of parents saying things like "look, bananas! Finally something you'll eat." after their child had rejected almost everything else, and I certainly never saw any bananas left at the end of the day.

It's funny, we went to a big potluck at our pool this labor day weekend. There was pulled pork BBQ and black bean salad and Asian tossed salad and a bunch of other stuff my kids wouldn't touch. But - hey! - look, there's a ton of bananas! I'd never seen anyone provide them at a potluck but I was sure psyched to see them! My kids ate 2 each.

I work FT. I always WANT to cook something for school or pool potlucks but sometimes I have to pick something up. Sometimes it's just chips or water or cookies. But who cares? It's not a fancy dinner, it's a potluck. It's like dinner by Russian Roulette. It's great that someone else can pick up the slack for me, this time, and next time, I'll be the one to make the homemade trifle. It takes a village, right?

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Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is where half the stuff is from Costco and tastes like crap. Choc chip cookies in a plastic tub, gross pizza, wilted caesar salad and some random dip. And I've spent time making a homemade dish. *grumble*

And yet most DCUMers look at your homemade dish and think "saliva, sweat, bacteria and cat hair."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is where half the stuff is from Costco and tastes like crap. Choc chip cookies in a plastic tub, gross pizza, wilted caesar salad and some random dip. And I've spent time making a homemade dish. *grumble*

And yet most DCUMers look at your homemade dish and think "saliva, sweat, bacteria and cat hair."

More for me. (Of the homemade dish, that is; not of the saliva, sweat, bacteria, and cat hair.)