14 December 2007

Potluck Issues

I have issues. Potluck issues.

Here is my problem.

Aside from the Meat Issue--as in, everyone drowns every living thing in MEAT--people just eat strange food! They put FRUIT in SALAD. Fruit has no place in a salad! It's sweet! You can't mix sweet and savory! Then you never want to go back to the savory! It's bad nutritional practice! They drown everything in SAUCE. There is such a thing as too much sauce people...Salad shouldn't be Soupy! If you need a SPOON to eat solid food there might be a problem. Put down the bottle of sauce and step away from the serving dish. Nothing is ever as warm as it should be, you're given nothing but plastic utensils to cut through things with, and everything TOUCHES. Then there's the cattle drive. You know what I'm talking about, everyone in line waiting to walk the line of food and the people in front and behind you quietly (and disdainfully) surveying your plate and wondering why you're so picky that you're not eating EVERYTHING. It's too much. I cannot take it...I must FLEE.

Does anyone else see a problem here? It's seriously cruel and unusual punishment to continue to hold these kinds of events...but HOW do we get people to leave off and realize the total INSANITY of what they're suggesting as a holiday party?

I can understand a dessert potluck where everyone brings a sweet of some kind and shares and you eat tiny little portions and talk over the merits of one dessert or another...but that's it! I'm officially over the potluck edge...someone save me...send a rescue party...and also normal food.

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At December 14, 2007 at 1:36 PM , Anonymous Tess said...

I disapprove of sweet with savory too. "Then you never want to go back to the savory!". Heh.

Are you a meat-avoider? I can't remember, 3/4 of the blogs I read are written by meat-avoiders. I'm like the only meat-eater left on my blogroll.

 
At December 14, 2007 at 1:38 PM , Anonymous The Wife said...

Tessie:

I am a vegetarian for a variety of reasons, but mostly because my GI system doesn't tolerate meat. The Husband always wants me to make this clarification lest people assume that I'm a rabid Vegan Nazi.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 
At December 14, 2007 at 2:52 PM , Anonymous Jeff VanD. said...

Well.. two thoughts... yeah... I love potlucks for the same reason you hate them... lots of food... and strange foods I've never tried before... oh, and meat... yum. :) (I couldn't say that to a normal vegetarian.)

Second... dessert potluck... um, YUM! Sign me up. When should I come over? I'll bring dutch oven pumpkin crunch. :)

 
At December 17, 2007 at 12:13 PM , Anonymous Whimsy said...

Yes, the potluck issues. As I'm sure you can guess, Chip HATES potluck because of the cleanliness issue. And the food touching. And you just never KNOW how someone prepared something. Funny that we're now in charge of parties on a regular basis that center around potlucks. Be careful, you could be NEXT.

What might this "Dutch Oven Pumpkin Crunch" be? It has peaked my pumpkin-loving soul.

 

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