What is the worst side dish you ever tasted, or at least witnessed??

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Roughly five years ago, my mom made her famous pumpkin pies from scratch and we all dig in like no tomorrow. BUT at that Thanksgiving, she forgot the sugar. She could not figure out why all of a sudden everyone pushed their plates away after taking one bite. My Dad chimed in and told her she must have forgotten the sugar. Sure enough, every year we had to remind her not to forget the SUGAR in the pumpkin pie recipes! Believe me sugarless pumpkin pies tasted
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Had a good friend that was a little wracky in the head, prepared her Thanksgiving food on her cat-infected countertops...you can guess what it is!
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Including the hairs!
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We didnt eat any of her food except for Mom's pies and went home after that, ate some leftovers from supper the night before. GROSS! After that, we always declined the friend's invites.

Chickenlady, I would have been so morfied about someone making potato salad in the bathtub. Its so gross!
 
Culinary School Horror Tales...

I attended (and graduated from) the Western Culinary School here in Portland several years ago. It was a hoot, and I was among several other guys who were there paying for their own education, and darn well determined to get our money's worth. We did too; all of us graduated with honors and smoked all the twenty-something classmates.

We had one young gal show up in the Deli class once, where they give you some leeway on creativity for food items to make and sell in the Schools Deli. Pretty cool class if you work hard and play your cards right. This gal was not one of those.

She headed over to the meat department and sweet-talked the Chef into helping her section and skin some rabbits for a recipe she had in mind. She brought them back to the Deli kitchen, and proceeded to drench a pan with three rabbits in it with chocolate sauce. Yes, chocolate sauce, as in right out of the ice cream pump out in the front of the Deli.

Mind you, there is a traditional "Mole" sauce that does involve chocolate, but I assure you, this wasn't it.

She proceeded to oven braise her rabbits and chocolate sauce until the meat was 'done" (I am still mystified to this day how she determined "doneness" and I still remember the smell) and presented her "chocolate rabbit" for service. The rest of us saw it coming and just stayed out of her way...there are times when one is so determined to fall on their sword, all you can do is try not to let the blood get on you.

She "presented" it to the Chef, who promptly made her taste it 9she had not) and then eat some (it was not funny and hilarious at the same time...YOU try and keep a straight face when something like that goes on in YOUR kitchen...).

Some of the atrocities committed in the Kitchen are simply beyond any reason...

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My poor MIL is the queen of the kitchen disaster. I was lucky enough to escape the turkey jerky (crunchy white meat on a Christmas bird), but witnessed the bloody soccer ball dinner disaster.

She smothered a crossrib roast roughly the size of a soccer ball in mustard and garlic, and she roasted the lump for an hour and a half.
The thing bled everywhere and was cold inside.

Back to the side dish:

To accompany she tried to make a granny smith curry rice....but she had no apples. So she used frozen peas.
She put those in with the dry rice to steam in the rice cooker....and the whole mass came out looking like level three baby food.

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HMMM! I have an idea for Easter Dinner now.

Imp- Everyone knows you need capers in Hobo enchiladas. Best served with canned asparagus or green bean casserole. And a side of mashed cauliflower.
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Fried eggplant. I am grown up now, and love acorn squash and crooked neck squash. Mom made me eat fried eggplant as a kid, and it was horrible. And asparagus. Mountain oysters are better than both.
 
My husbands parents had at the time 4 Bloodhounds. Don't get me wrong I Loved each of them BUT..they were the most spoiled dogs and if you know about Bloodhounds they tend to drool alot and they have a stink to them, they're hounds. Anyways, his mom had made what I though was great green chile over fried potatos. We sit down on the couch and start eating and I notice a couple of dog hairs. I give my DH the look but I quietly pulled them out. Somewhat grossed out by now I hear the flapping of the ears on the head of on of the dogs, look up and there are slimers flying everywhere
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Needless to say one goes flying over me and hits DH which I thought was funny but then one lands in my plate. That did it! NASTY!
 
Jeepers creepers - potato salad in a bathtub?
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What the heck was that woman thinking?
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That sure beats the stones I crunched on in the Peter Pan peanut butter one time. (And I thought it was supposed to be creamy! Har de har har!)
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my daughters mil invited us all for easter dinner at her house..she is a whack job anyways... heavily bleached white hair.. huge globs of jewelery. any ways she made ham.. we all gathered around and waited and waited.. but no ham smell.... when she cooks a ham she boils it and throws out the water 3 times.. so there is no salt left in it.. by the time she was done cooking the smoked ham it was white and dry and boiled to death.. ugh.. we nibbled and then left and went out to dinner afterwards.. and my step dad may he rest in peace used to make his special spagetti for us.. he used to open cambells tomato soup and pour it over the noodles.. he loved it.. it was all we could do to gag it down.. i was 12 and told my mom never ever let him cook again lol...
 
Ah yes mention of spaghetti reminded me of my late fathers tendency to take the night befores left over spaghetti and sauce, fry it in a pan, and then dip peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches in it (usually grape)
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I guaruntee you THAT is NOT genetic...
 
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