Whoooo hoo! It is Monday and that can only mean ONE thing….Potluck.
Today I am throwing out the potluck handbook (you can’t prove I don’t have one) and diving into deep potluck analysis.
Let me begin by saying that the potluck has been a bit controversial among those who know me.
I don’t understand the potluck.
I just don’t get the potluck.
What is with the potluck?
I love the potluck! I have been doing a Monday potluck from almost the beginning of my blog. I live for the potluck. The potluck isn’t going anywhere dear friends and family…
What is to understand?
It is a potluck.
Does it have to make sense?
A very telling comment was made by Blogstedman’s brother-in-law in an email following last week’s potluck:
I โขm still not a big fan of POTLUCK, but then again I was never a fan of real potlucks
AHA!
*insert light bulb over head here*
Maybe psychologically the literal potlucks of our youth are causing my virtual potlucks to be viewed through chunky-jello-glasses. Maybe the word potluck has such garbanzo-bean-casserole connotations that it inhibits potluck digestion.
I think people are AFRAID of the potluck!
So, to begin healing the wounded potluck soul, I need your help.
I would like to compile a list of horrific food that I will promise to NEVER serve at the potluck.
I need you to please leave me a comment as to what foods would cause you potluck nightmares…
We will return to our previously scheduled potluck next Monday.
Thanks for playing!
What does it say about me that I like chunky jello?
Pigs in a blanket, however, ew.
I don’t have any potluck nightmares, either. Although some of the comments may have sparked some.
I really missed your coccyx and your fruit bowl today. ๐
HAGGIS
Liver
Spam
Lamb, the smell gets me everytime!
Goats milk, goats milk and Karo Syrup!
Black Pudding
Tripe
I love potlucks! Remind me of buffets.
I’ll have to go with any tuna dish. I will never eat tuna anywhere but home where I have immediate access to a tooth brush and some mouthwash.
Oh Holly, you CRACK ME UP!
I like pot luck, as long as its not all beans(I agree with Angie on this one) It can make for VERY Interesting after dinner conversation!
I LOVE your pot luck…it is always entertaining…hey, what’s in the fruit bowl?
Blessings. E
My cousins and I once had this idea to conoct a truly hideous dish to put out on the picnic table – a hot dish casserole that included meat, maraschino cherries, and had potato chips sprinkled atop it. A couple of older folks ate it and declared it “interesting,” in an apparent attempt not to discourage the poor bachelor students who had obviously gone to a great deal of trouble.
I think it’s called “ambrosia salad”? You know…where you throw everything you have into Jello and call it a day. It frightens me:P
Someone please explain why and how jello ever became a food, let alone a food that someone deemed a potluck necessity.
Also, how many different baked bean dishes can be found at ONE potluck on any given day? baked beans with bacon, baked beans with chili, baked beans with garbonzo thrown in, baked beans in a pot, baked beans in a crock, baked beans… Save us!
I don’t really love potlucks, honestly. Everyting starts to taste the same AND I can’t bear the embarrassment of my dish being shunned.
KEEP BELIEVING
Beans. I HATE beans…
And I LURV your potluck!! Glad it will be back next week!!!
I would add to also steer clear of ‘meatless’ hotdishes! You never know. My childhood potlucks involved countless combinations of nuts, eggs, cheese, and yes, peanut butter. Very scary!