Anonymous wrote:My toddler and I were invited over to the house of one of his friends for a "pizza party" The pizza had tunafish and corn on it. Unbelievably, my toddler (who hated everything) ate it. Even more unbelievably, the mom who invited us announced she had to go to a meeting and I needed to stay an extra hour bc it was her nanny's day off.

These toppings are considered acceptable in England. So super gross!!

Anonymous wrote:A long time ago when airplanes still served meals, I had reserved a vegetarian meal for a cross country flight. It arrived light green and just shy of gelatinous. I asked what it was and was told braised celery. I was hungry, but I just couldn’t fathom eating it.

You win. WTF is braised celery?

Anonymous wrote:Coworker killed a rattlesnake in his yard and brought it in for everyone to try. He dressed it with olive oil, salt, and pepper and heated it up in the breakroom microwave.

Wow! Did you try it?

Anonymous wrote:My grandma used to make things like squirrel stew with drop dumplings and pig tongue on the regular. It tasted great and I was a kid so I didn’t know it was weird.

This isn’t weird. People who grew up in rural areas did, and still, eat like this.

Anonymous wrote:BBQ crab salad looked and tasted like expensive cat food

Because it was made with artificial crab.

Coworker killed a rattlesnake in his yard and brought it in for everyone to try. He dressed it with olive oil, salt, and pepper and heated it up in the breakroom microwave.

Side dish was whole boiled onions. The big kind.
Host also served a pork tenderloin cooked to death and boiled potatoes.
The potatoes were nice 😊

I once went to a dinner party at what was once Volta’s house in Italy. The atmosphere was pretty stuffy and formal (relevant later).

Some of the guests were surgeons from a nearby hospital, and it is customary to give a gift to your doctor(s) after a procedure or treatment. The owner of the house was a surgeon who had recently been given rabbits that had been hunted by a low income patient, and those rabbits were our dinner.

While eating I discovered that the rabbit contained a fair amount of shotgun pellets. I discretely returned any I found to my fork and then to my plate. Unfortunately one dropped from my fork to my plate with a loud plink during a total lull in conversation. Since the atmosphere was so formal and there had been no other plinks I felt like I had committed a faux pas and I’m sure my face showed it. Fortunately, it actually lightened the mood; a few people started laughing, and the remainder of the dinner was full of the sound of plinking pellets.

My toddler and I were invited over to the house of one of his friends for a "pizza party" The pizza had tunafish and corn on it. Unbelievably, my toddler (who hated everything) ate it. Even more unbelievably, the mom who invited us announced she had to go to a meeting and I needed to stay an extra hour bc it was her nanny's day off.

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Anonymous wrote:We got invited over for happy hour by the parents of DD's school friend. We were invited for 6pm. We got there at 6pm. "Oh, you're early!" We were the only ones invited - this was not a party, but literally four adults.

She then grabbed a dinner plate, dumped Ritz crackers on it, and squirted ketchup on some and mustard on others. As we chatted (they were lovely!) she absentmindedly fed the dog the crackers. We had a glass of wine, stayed for 45 minutes and then left.

This is hilarious. I wish that had happened to us, we would be laughing for years with “Remember the time…”

Agree. That is pretty great. At least she didn’t expect you to eat them. Reminds me of the Honey Boo Boo spaghetti (hot noodles with melted county crock margarine and ketchup as the sauce )

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Anonymous wrote:We got invited over for happy hour by the parents of DD's school friend. We were invited for 6pm. We got there at 6pm. "Oh, you're early!" We were the only ones invited - this was not a party, but literally four adults.

She then grabbed a dinner plate, dumped Ritz crackers on it, and squirted ketchup on some and mustard on others. As we chatted (they were lovely!) she absentmindedly fed the dog the crackers. We had a glass of wine, stayed for 45 minutes and then left.

Wow, that is amazing! Do you think after you left they were mortified?

Nope, I think that's what they normally serve as a little appetizer or snack. They're REALLY nice people. Seem to be normal in every other way except this one.

OMG if I let my spouse get away with this "contest of the cheap and unrefined" he would totally do this. "It's not the queen, you know!"

Spotted dick by hosts who weren’t even British. The dessert per se wasn’t weird but the teens in attendance couldn’t stop snickering once they learned the name.

My grandma used to make things like squirrel stew with drop dumplings and pig tongue on the regular. It tasted great and I was a kid so I didn’t know it was weird.

BBQ crab salad looked and tasted like expensive cat food

Chilled garlic (no other flavour) soup -- I think the 2 primary ingredients were really garlic and ice. over 20 years ago, I love garlic, and It was the most revolting thing I've ever had.