Just for fun: worst/best dishes to bring to a block party

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Anonymous wrote:I bring meatballs in grape jelly. The pan is always cleaned out.

Meatballs in grape jelly is my worst. So so disgusting.

Best would be a really good summer salad with produce from their own garden or a farmers market. Tomato, basil, mozzarella. Tomatoes, avocado, red onion. That sort of thing.

Let me guess, you just drink water at block parties (out of your own water bottle, of course).

Lol I’m the snobby PP. I really just hate those meatballs and am a tomato lover in a house full of tomato haters, so never grow my own. We bring our own water bottles, but also a good IPA. Only thing worse than jelly meatballs is cheap beer.

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one grossed out by block party food, and it's sitting outside in the sun for hours with tons of people touching it? I just open a drink and sip from that while chatting for an hour, then leave. I don't eat.

Same! I won't eat anything made by people with dogs or cats in their house.

Your loss. The cat is never in our kitchen.

But their hair is. It's everywhere. No thanks!

Not anymore than your own.

It's a no on the cat hair for me, thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I bring meatballs in grape jelly. The pan is always cleaned out.

Meatballs in grape jelly is my worst. So so disgusting.

Best would be a really good summer salad with produce from their own garden or a farmers market. Tomato, basil, mozzarella. Tomatoes, avocado, red onion. That sort of thing.

Let me guess, you just drink water at block parties (out of your own water bottle, of course).

NP. What's wrong with drinking water at a block party? Our neighborhood block party happens on my end of the street, and I usually bring my own water bottle. I don't drink alcohol or soda. Is that OK?

You DCUMers are so hilariously predictable.

Why is it hilarious and predictable that some people don't drink alcohol?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone in my neighborhood always phones it in and brings a bunch of Popeyes chicken. It goes like hotcakes.

Worst: anything too fancy

Doing this next time. Popeyes!

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one grossed out by block party food, and it's sitting outside in the sun for hours with tons of people touching it? I just open a drink and sip from that while chatting for an hour, then leave. I don't eat.

you are not the only one. any kind of potluck is so gross. ideally a block party should be catered.

Catered? That sort of takes the fun out of it

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I make plum pie for the dessert table and it always goes within minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:Worst: 3 bean “salad” … thanks for dumping a few cans of beans into a bowl without rinsing them properly, Linda

Best: Those awesomely awful Rice Krispie treats with peanut butter and the melted chocolate on top

Let’s duke it out.

Best - Rotel with HOT sausage; Worst - a Jello dish

Dare you to try strawberry jello pretzel salad.

I was a skeptic, too.

So good! The salty pretzel crust is delicious with the cream cheese part. I made this for my kids last year and they loved it. I had it as a kid at all summer parties.

I first saw strawberry jello pretzel salad at an office potluck some 20 years ago. At first I turned up my nose at it, and then I finally tried it. Sooooo good. If someone put a dish of that in front of me right now, I would not send it back.

This was my grandmother's go-to for parties. It was so good. Or maybe it just reminds me of her but I will never pass on strawberry jello pretzel salad.

I love pretzels with sweet stuff like chocolate but don't they get soggy in the jello? Tho maybe the key is using chocolate covered ones in the jello 🤔

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Anonymous wrote:Worst: 3 bean “salad” … thanks for dumping a few cans of beans into a bowl without rinsing them properly, Linda

Best: Those awesomely awful Rice Krispie treats with peanut butter and the melted chocolate on top

Let’s duke it out.

Best - Rotel with HOT sausage; Worst - a Jello dish

Dare you to try strawberry jello pretzel salad.

I was a skeptic, too.

So good! The salty pretzel crust is delicious with the cream cheese part. I made this for my kids last year and they loved it. I had it as a kid at all summer parties.

I first saw strawberry jello pretzel salad at an office potluck some 20 years ago. At first I turned up my nose at it, and then I finally tried it. Sooooo good. If someone put a dish of that in front of me right now, I would not send it back.

This was my grandmother's go-to for parties. It was so good. Or maybe it just reminds me of her but I will never pass on strawberry jello pretzel salad.

I love pretzels with sweet stuff like chocolate but don't they get soggy in the jello? Tho maybe the key is using chocolate covered ones in the jello 🤔

It’s a layer dessert…pretzel crust, cream cheesy middle, jello top. Doesn’t get soggy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I bring meatballs in grape jelly. The pan is always cleaned out.

Meatballs in grape jelly is my worst. So so disgusting.

Best would be a really good summer salad with produce from their own garden or a farmers market. Tomato, basil, mozzarella. Tomatoes, avocado, red onion. That sort of thing.

Let me guess, you just drink water at block parties (out of your own water bottle, of course).

NP. What's wrong with drinking water at a block party? Our neighborhood block party happens on my end of the street, and I usually bring my own water bottle. I don't drink alcohol or soda. Is that OK?

You DCUMers are so hilariously predictable.

Why is it hilarious and predictable that some people don't drink alcohol?

Do you want a medal or something?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bring meatballs in grape jelly. The pan is always cleaned out.

Meatballs in grape jelly is my worst. So so disgusting.

Best would be a really good summer salad with produce from their own garden or a farmers market. Tomato, basil, mozzarella. Tomatoes, avocado, red onion. That sort of thing.

Let me guess, you just drink water at block parties (out of your own water bottle, of course).

NP. What's wrong with drinking water at a block party? Our neighborhood block party happens on my end of the street, and I usually bring my own water bottle. I don't drink alcohol or soda. Is that OK?

You DCUMers are so hilariously predictable.

+1. Thanks for the laugh, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:Worst: 3 bean “salad” … thanks for dumping a few cans of beans into a bowl without rinsing them properly, Linda

Best: Those awesomely awful Rice Krispie treats with peanut butter and the melted chocolate on top

Let’s duke it out.

Best - Rotel with HOT sausage; Worst - a Jello dish

Dare you to try strawberry jello pretzel salad.

I was a skeptic, too.

So good! The salty pretzel crust is delicious with the cream cheese part. I made this for my kids last year and they loved it. I had it as a kid at all summer parties.

I first saw strawberry jello pretzel salad at an office potluck some 20 years ago. At first I turned up my nose at it, and then I finally tried it. Sooooo good. If someone put a dish of that in front of me right now, I would not send it back.

This was my grandmother's go-to for parties. It was so good. Or maybe it just reminds me of her but I will never pass on strawberry jello pretzel salad.

I love pretzels with sweet stuff like chocolate but don't they get soggy in the jello? Tho maybe the key is using chocolate covered ones in the jello 🤔

It’s a layer dessert…pretzel crust, cream cheesy middle, jello top. Doesn’t get soggy.

Dammit. You’ve convinced me. I was trying to stand strong, but now I need to make this.

[Anonymous]

I brought lumpia and brownies at the last one and they all went even though the lumpia got soggy in the Tupperware.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of this meatball and grape jelly dish. I guess I don't get out much.

Swedish meatballs

I thought it was actually grape jelly + mustard.

[Anonymous]

Best: Pigs in blankets - everyone makes fun of them, but they are one of the first items to be finished

Worst: Shrimp salad in a plain gelatin mold with another layer below of unidentifiable pink stuff with green things in it. Yes, someone did this in the past five years.

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Anonymous wrote:Worst: 3 bean “salad” … thanks for dumping a few cans of beans into a bowl without rinsing them properly, Linda

Best: Those awesomely awful Rice Krispie treats with peanut butter and the melted chocolate on top

Let’s duke it out.

Best - Rotel with HOT sausage; Worst - a Jello dish

Dare you to try strawberry jello pretzel salad.

I was a skeptic, too.

So good! The salty pretzel crust is delicious with the cream cheese part. I made this for my kids last year and they loved it. I had it as a kid at all summer parties.

I first saw strawberry jello pretzel salad at an office potluck some 20 years ago. At first I turned up my nose at it, and then I finally tried it. Sooooo good. If someone put a dish of that in front of me right now, I would not send it back.

This was my grandmother's go-to for parties. It was so good. Or maybe it just reminds me of her but I will never pass on strawberry jello pretzel salad.

I love pretzels with sweet stuff like chocolate but don't they get soggy in the jello? Tho maybe the key is using chocolate covered ones in the jello 🤔

It’s a layer dessert…pretzel crust, cream cheesy middle, jello top. Doesn’t get soggy.

Dammit. You’ve convinced me. I was trying to stand strong, but now I need to make this.

I read the recipe to understand this dish- you have to bake the pretzel crust. I get it now. It's more like a trifle or an ice box pie than a "jello salad" - which in my day was jello with weird crap suspended in it and Kool Whip.

I would try it at your block party but I won't probably make it myself.