Posted on 10/11/2010 8:00:54 PM PDT by Bean Counter
With the holiday entertainment season upon us, it's time to compare notes about what the worst Party fare anyone has ever encountered. There are innumerable Culinary Disasters to relate out there, so why not start early and avoid an Entertainment Faux Pas of your own?
My wife and I worked for a title insurance company in Portland, Oregon for a while back around the turn of the Century, and we had numerous opportunities to experience some of the most goat-gagging recipes that people came up with for office pot-lucks and various event parties.
Some remain legendary, and my wife and I were dredging up a few of them tonight, hence this post.
Our joint vote goes to our Dearly departed former co-worker Rose, who presented the Staff with her personal offering of a very creative Jello mold; the recipe follows....
1 Package Lime Jello
1 Can Tuna Fish in Oil (it's important...)
Frozen Green Peas
Prepare the Jello per the box. To help cool it, add the frozen peas to the hot/warm jello (but make sure it is not hot enough to cook the peas...). As the Jello starts to set, add the partially drained Tuna, pour into the mold of your choice, and refrigerate until set.
To serve, turn the mold out onto a dinner plate, and the residual tuna smell will draw plenty of flies to garnish with...
The Tuna in Oil is important because when served, and as the mold warms to room temperature, the residual oil in the tuna adds a marvelous rainbow sheen (that contrast nicely with the fly wings) to the melting jello and the mostly raw peas....this recipe is obviously about the texture but don't discount the aroma...
Sure tastes like squid!
“LIVE woodchuck?!?!?!?”
Like live lobster. The VN guy ordered, a waiter (holding the critter by the tail) opened the door and a woodchuck looked at me, I looked at it, and said “whatever, go ahead.” You really can’t refuse in Asia.
Luckily there was wine.
It was terrible all 7 ways.
Next time she makes a batch [God forbid] I’ll mail you some after I’ve picked out all the lima beans....:)
It’s funny because it is true.
Although it’s not AS bad as some of the stuff I’ve seen so far on this thread, I have something.
Every Thanksgiving and Christmas, my dear departed grandma would make tomato aspic. basically, it’s tomato jello. Eww.
I tried it once. Never again.
lol
anti oxidants do not kill bacteria!
My, I am glad you’ve never had it..
It’s terrible!
The coming from both ends part of it came later..
Worst Christmas I ever had!
My boss’s wife made a cranberry cobbler for their housewarming party. Other than that main ingredient known as unsweetened cranberries, the cobbler was fine.
Oyters and the USPS dont mix.
Well, they say turtle tastes like chicken. Doesn't mean they're the same thing! LOL!
Limas are just the poor relatives of butter beans.
really really poor...
“...I only put up the picture of the snake soju because I couldn’t find any online pics of a bottle of rat soju ;-)”
I have two bottles of cobra wine from VN. I can send you a pic if you’d like.
However, we don't think it was from the food (unless food poisoning can be transmitted person to person w/out food).
I used to eat the stuff dried as jerky.
It was NFG on Pizza and the fake cheese made it worse.
LOL
Probably!
We got served some rhubarb pie once..
The hostess forgot to put the sugar in the recipe..
Woooooo!
Pucker up, baby!
Dat was some sour!
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Koreans can’t get enough of the dried squid jerky. The smell will about kill you if you aren’t used to it. Only durian smells worse, IMO.
I love rhubarb pie and even used to eat it raw as a kid, but that would be quite a surprise!
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