Anonymous
Post 07/29/2022 22:01     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:Juice Plus (mlm) gummies. As a dessert.


Oh man they are just vitamins too. Not THC gummies. Bad host.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2022 21:58     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Juice Plus (mlm) gummies. As a dessert.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2022 00:05     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:One time when I was very pregnant, the heat when out in our house and we had to go stay with my in laws unexpectedly. MIL was working at the time and FIL had never cooked a meal in his life but bless his heart he had made dinner because we all had such a stressful day and he wanted us to arrive to a hot meal.

He boiled rice and chicken breasts in the same pot of water, transferred it all to a casserole dish and put shredded cheddar cheese on top and baked it in the oven (so chicken was boiled and then baked 30 mins) and served it with a side of linguini noodles with shredded cheddar cheese on top. Not a lick of salt or seasoning anywhere.

It was the sweetest gesture and you bet DH and I sat there and ate every bite of our boiled baked chicken, rice with cheddar cheese, noodles with cheddar cheese.


You just made my day... I haven't belly laughed in a long time, I have laughter tears on my cheeks, bless your dad, and thanks for the much needed laugh
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2022 23:55     Subject: Re:Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Husband stopped by his eccentric elderly great aunt's house right after Christmas and she asked if he would like some eggnog. He said yes, thinking she had normal eggnog in a carton. But she pulled out a glass, broke two eggs in it, lightly stirred it around with some milk and nutmeg, and gave it to him...he had to drink it. I had almost gone with him and was SO glad I didn't.

My mom used to make me gogol mogol all the time when I was little. It's raw egg yolks and sugar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogel_mogel


Yes! With honey, raw egg yorks, and super hot milk for sore throat.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2022 23:51     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Beyond gross. Who eats rodents?! I'm ok with tongue.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2022 23:48     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:I don't want to call this weird because it's cultural, but for me it was a Romanian dish called piftie which is a chilled, molded gel (so an aspic) made from various parts of the pig. This one included the ear.

I really wish I had tried it but I think I said I wasn't feeling well and couldn't eat anything.


I'm Romanian and I've never tried that either. It's a very popular dish and apparently delicious.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2022 23:45     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
I love this thread! I can’t think of anything super weird but in my twenties a friend served us salad with bell peppers but he left all the seeds in. He had never had bell peppers
growing up so he didn’t know you are supposed to remove the seeds.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2022 23:26     Subject: Re:Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
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.


Anonymous
Post 07/28/2022 22:02     Subject: Re:Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was in England for a few months in the 90s and every pizza was topped with corn. Literally every pizza I saw, even the ones at the chains like Pizza Hut.


I also lived in London also in 1990s and sweet corn and tuna was a common pizza topping - as well as a common topping on “jacket potatoes” that you could buy from street carts. There were other pizza and potato toppings, too, though


I was in St. Vincent for a few months also in the 90s and corn was a popular pizza topping there as well.


Sweet corn is minor league. In South east Asia if you go to a Pizza Hut, you will find that durian is a popular topping (it’s a fruit with such a pungent smell, that many hotels won’t allow it to be eaten in their premises.)
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2022 21:59     Subject: Re:Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
When I was in England, I was served baked grapefruit in a dining hall. So weird to cook citrus that way.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:29     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I met my now DH's family for the first time, his grandmother served lunch, and I was given a plate of microwaved flour tortillas with shredded cheddar inside. Which is fine. I actually like that. But the tortilla was moldy. We had just travelled for 10 hours, I was freaking starving, and I explained how full I was and really couldn't eat another bite.


I've never seen a moldy tortilla. I'm scared to even imagine how long she had it and how she stored it.


I got one from Taco Bell in the 90s.


Tortillas mold pretty fast if you get the good ones without parabens or other preservatives.
Anonymous
Post 07/11/2022 14:15     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I met my now DH's family for the first time, his grandmother served lunch, and I was given a plate of microwaved flour tortillas with shredded cheddar inside. Which is fine. I actually like that. But the tortilla was moldy. We had just travelled for 10 hours, I was freaking starving, and I explained how full I was and really couldn't eat another bite.


I've never seen a moldy tortilla. I'm scared to even imagine how long she had it and how she stored it.


I got one from Taco Bell in the 90s.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2022 20:51     Subject: Weirdest thing you’ve been served at someone’s house (or at a restaurant)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:One time when I was very pregnant, the heat when out in our house and we had to go stay with my in laws unexpectedly. MIL was working at the time and FIL had never cooked a meal in his life but bless his heart he had made dinner because we all had such a stressful day and he wanted us to arrive to a hot meal.

He boiled rice and chicken breasts in the same pot of water, transferred it all to a casserole dish and put shredded cheddar cheese on top and baked it in the oven (so chicken was boiled and then baked 30 mins) and served it with a side of linguini noodles with shredded cheddar cheese on top. Not a lick of salt or seasoning anywhere.

It was the sweetest gesture and you bet DH and I sat there and ate every bite of our boiled baked chicken, rice with cheddar cheese, noodles with cheddar cheese.


Hah, I love this story. Reminds me of when DH and I were young newlyweds and went to visit my little sister in her first apartment. She made lasagna with canned tomato sauce, noodles, ricotta, and no seasonings whatsoever. Served it with ice cold red wine and garlic bread that was still partially frozen. We ate it like it was the best meal we ever had.


Both of these are sweet.

I can't compete with most of these meals, but my aunt used to make my kids kraft mac and cheese by just sprinkling the cheddar cheese powder on top of the boiled noodles.

When I was in college you could buy Kraft Mac & Cheese on sale for $0.19 and there were many nights I didn't have milk or butter so I just added some water. Best 19 cent dinner you could buy!