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

[Anonymous]

People eat things they would never usually consider eating at a block party. Mainly bc you are there, the food is there, everyone else is eating it.

So don’t think bc everyone ate your weird croissant pizza crust cream cheese contraption, grape jelly meatballs, or condensed soup zucchini casserole that is was AMAZING. People ate because it was there. And so were they.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People eat things they would never usually consider eating at a block party. Mainly bc you are there, the food is there, everyone else is eating it.

So don’t think bc everyone ate your weird croissant pizza crust cream cheese contraption, grape jelly meatballs, or condensed soup zucchini casserole that is was AMAZING. People ate because it was there. And so were they.

This right here. And if you actually paid close attention, it’s mostly the teens who are gobbling up the “funeral potatoes.”

[Anonymous]

How about just dessert. Do people actually eat the other stuff? even in the 80s it seemed like no one ate the food at a block party. Chips and dip, maybe. Cookies and brownies, definitely. Everything else just sat. Seems the same at the ones I attended in our neighborhood a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best: A great pasta salad with Italian dressing, fresh basil, maybe some mozzarella, fresh tomatoes.

Vulgar

Thank you. For over a decade now I have been waging my pasta salad=vulgar crusade on this site. For a long time it felt like I was ploughing a lonely furrow, but now it seems it is starting to get some traction.

[Anonymous]

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.

Ha! I only eat what I bring and that’s it. Unless I’m going to a sit down dinner or lunch and or a catered/restaurant meal, I’m pretty much doing “stage eating” and putting a few things on my plate, pushing the food around then into the trash it goes. My expectation is never to have a full meal at office parties, block parties, birthday parties and most especially block parties.

I recognize I have food hang ups and yes, I will eat at restaurants.

Fun fact: I work for the health department.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about just dessert. Do people actually eat the other stuff? even in the 80s it seemed like no one ate the food at a block party. Chips and dip, maybe. Cookies and brownies, definitely. Everything else just sat. Seems the same at the ones I attended in our neighborhood a few years ago.

Yes we all eat. Only the eating disorder mommies stand on the side with their Yeti full of wine

[Anonymous]

9:59

Best: homemade (from a mix!) chocolate chip cookies - I quadruple the recipe and make large cookies, pile em on a plate and always always gone.

Another huge hit: ice cream sandwiches! Slice and bake chocolate chip -cool-add softened ice cream, roll in sprinkles, wrap in waxed paper squares and freeze. You’re welcome!

Worst: mystery casseroles. Anything creamy like homemade cole slaw or Watergate salad-ends up a runny, gloppy mess.

Meatloaf or any large pile of unidentifiable meat or meat product. Especially nauseating when maybe one portion is gone and the dish slowly melts and deconstructs in the sun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about just dessert. Do people actually eat the other stuff? even in the 80s it seemed like no one ate the food at a block party. Chips and dip, maybe. Cookies and brownies, definitely. Everything else just sat. Seems the same at the ones I attended in our neighborhood a few years ago.

Yes we all eat. Only the eating disorder mommies stand on the side with their Yeti full of wine

NP. I eat: in my own house before I walk out to the party, and yes, I do enjoy one serving of wine at the party. If I’m hungry later I might even eat again after the party. I’m zany that way.

Enjoy your warm pasta salad and communal queso dip. I’m really missing out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about just dessert. Do people actually eat the other stuff? even in the 80s it seemed like no one ate the food at a block party. Chips and dip, maybe. Cookies and brownies, definitely. Everything else just sat. Seems the same at the ones I attended in our neighborhood a few years ago.

Yes we all eat. Only the eating disorder mommies stand on the side with their Yeti full of wine

NP. I eat: in my own house before I walk out to the party, and yes, I do enjoy one serving of wine at the party. If I’m hungry later I might even eat again after the party. I’m zany that way.

Enjoy your warm pasta salad and communal queso dip. I’m really missing out.

+1. I always get sushi before the party, eat before joining the party, and might end up having a bowl of cereal or something if I’m hungry after the party is over. Just because I don’t eat from a communal trough does not mean that I have an eating disorder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: grocery store broccoli salad with the fake bacon bits and shredded cheese

Watergate salad

You decide which is best

Oh my goodness, Watergate salad is the taste of my childhood. Loved that stuff so much.

[Anonymous]

Best: chick pea salad or a whole watermelon cut up

Worst: deviled eggs, anything with mayonnaise or anything in a crockpot. Or store bought hummus with a bag of chips, yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re. peanut allergies. A girl died at a potluck because she ate a rice crispy treat made with peanut butter. They’re usually considered a safe treat made with marshmallow. Please label if you make it otherwise.

I also heard that Ferris is really sick, like he might sue.

[Anonymous]

Die, not sue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ha! I only eat what I bring and that’s it. Unless I’m going to a sit down dinner or lunch and or a catered/restaurant meal, I’m pretty much doing “stage eating” and putting a few things on my plate, pushing the food around then into the trash it goes. My expectation is never to have a full meal at office parties, block parties, birthday parties and most especially block parties.

I recognize I have food hang ups and yes, I will eat at restaurants.

Fun fact: I work for the health department.

A question for Health Department Lady: what are 3 foods you would never eat, from a food safety standpoint?

[Anonymous]

Mayonnaise left out for an hour does not make you any sicker than ketchup left out for an hour! Look it up, people.