Food at Potlucks- Am I the only one?

It sure looks like the potluck subject will never die,........and I will never die from a potluck.

I don't do potlucks at work either. For a multitude of reason. One being, I see to many co-workers leave the bathroom with out washing their hands.

I know someone posted about eating at restaurants. But restaurants have higher standards and guidelines set by law that the average person making food in their home doesn't have to follow. Doesn't mean that restaurant employees follow them, but I would like to think so.

Caveman Charlie wrote:

down home wrote:

Caveman Charlie wrote:

down home wrote:
More and more we find potlucks have a lot of KFC and other things, if there are any close.
Usually gave good luck at them. At Family Reunions up noth everything is made at home.
I know why all the Cousins are skinny.
If there's fried chicken, smashed taters, and pinto beans I'm good to go.
Don't want no bean salad or past salad, or raw veg mix nor rolls. Give real bread; corn bread or biscuits. Don't bring no convenience mart or fast food tea neither. Sugar won't disolve in cold tea.

I don't understand your sentence about all the Cousins are skinny.
Skinny is good. Maybe they want to be skinny. To each is own , I wouldn't want to eat the food you mention and like because they all sound to heavy, fatty, and full of cholesterol for me. If you like them that's OK though. Maybe that's why it's a pot luck so everybody can get a taste of new things and then eat the food that they like.

Give me the raw vegetable mix and some Lite Ranch Dressing and I'm golden. You can have the undercooked red meat and so on. Lets shake on it and be friends. :)

Edit: After we shake on it we better wash our hands before we eat. ;)

I'll bring some Okra and Opossum to the next one. Got a couple fattening themselves up on the cat's food. Ought to be real plump by then. :)

I'de love to try some Opossum. Is that a animal similar to the Possums we have up here? ;) If I have some will you try some fresh vegetables right out of my garden? Puts the store bought vegetables to shame.

I can get some corn fed deer meat too. It tastes a lot better then the deer that are in the woods.

Maybe we should start a RV.NET Pot Luck. :B

I been threatening to bring opossum to a family reunion but I'd have to run for it. Dad's family, as Sharecroppers at a lot of it or anything else they could catch.
I'll take the Vension in pepper gravy any day. absolutely delicious.
Don't bring any of that fish they fix in lye or Luterfish or something though. :)

Love to eat food lots of others have prepared. Such a blessed and delicious way to fellowship
I'm sorry you have this phobia and miss out on such fun. You are not alone, though so don't worry about it.

I eat at potlucks and have a food allergy so I ask. Walnuts will eventually kill me.....BUT if there is any question about the food, I will avoid it entirely if my questions regarding it are not answered.

I have no problem asking :)

For you folks who are wondering where to find the pot lucks... we have a Rally section on RV.net! ... find a rally and join! :C

BTW My Cajun shrimp is to die for!! :B

Mike

Lauren wrote:
Ya shure, I hadda look up Storden,MN, Caveman Charlie. Lived in MN for 25 years and traveled all over it in my sales job but never heard of da Storden, ya know. Been to Windom, which is a major city compared to Storden it looks like - must be the biggest city near you. I called on Green Giant.

But the I look at da Google maps and you haf da Sweden Ave, Norway Ave and Denmark Ave don cha know. Vell, my parents ver both born in Sweden and my wife's maiden name vas Anderson - ya even got da Anderson St. And all of 218 people!

Yumpin Yiminy, you must a bunch of Scandinavians dere. Bet ya even have da glögg at Christmas!

(Sorry all, I just could not contain myself! :-) )

No problem, I got a laugh out of it. Personally, I'm German but, I have a neighbor a few miles from me and his wife does any sewing I need done, she's good at it. Whenever she talks though I have to try hard not to giggle because she sounds just like that. I've never eaten with them. I wonder if they would bring lutefisk to a pot luck?

Caveman Charlie wrote:
I can get some corn fed deer meat too. It tastes a lot better then the deer that are in the woods.

Maybe we should start a RV.NET Pot Luck. :B

I'll have my back straps medium rare please.

I eat at potlucks and enjoy trying new foods I have never had before.
That said, I want to share a true life experience.
A few years ago we hung out with 3 other couples and would visit each others homes to eat , drink, and enjoy the fire pit.
We'll call them Bill and Betty, Jack and Jill, Fred and Wilma. Whenever we would go to Jack and Jill's, Bill would never eat. Jack and Jill lived on a farm and raised their own beef, I assumed that was why... but because I grew up on a farm with "home killed" meat, it didn't bother me.
Then one day, he spoke to me alone and said the Wife and I shouldn't eat their food. "Ever notice Jill's pet?"
She had a pet Iguana and would prep the food with it sitting on her shoulder. Often times feeding it from her hand the same meat she was feeding us. That's when I learned Reptiles carry salmonella and we never ate their food again.

Ya shure, I hadda look up Storden,MN, Caveman Charlie. Lived in MN for 25 years and traveled all over it in my sales job but never heard of da Storden, ya know. Been to Windom, which is a major city compared to Storden it looks like - must be the biggest city near you. I called on Green Giant.

But the I look at da Google maps and you haf da Sweden Ave, Norway Ave and Denmark Ave don cha know. Vell, my parents ver both born in Sweden and my wife's maiden name vas Anderson - ya even got da Anderson St. And all of 218 people!

Yumpin Yiminy, you must a bunch of Scandinavians dere. Bet ya even have da glögg at Christmas!

(Sorry all, I just could not contain myself! :-) )