The “This Is Why I Don’t Do Potlucks” Facebook Group Shares The Worst Dishes Someone Had The Audacity To Serve (40 New Pics)
InterviewOne of my absolute favorite things is having a picnic with my friends. Setting up camp on a blanket in a park on a warm, sunny day and sharing delicious treats we’ve prepared at home feels like the perfect way to bond with loved ones. Well, it did feel like that. But now I’m starting to have trust issues because I’ve just taken a trip to the This Is Why I Don’t Do Potlucks Facebook Group, and I’ve completely lost my appetite.
Below, you'll find some of the most unsettling and disgusting food photos that might make you swear off picnics and potlucks, as well as an interview with the group's creator Sarah Slabodnik. From questionable cooking methods to dishes that look like one-way tickets to salmonella city, this list has it all. If you don’t want the experience of sharing food with your pals to be ruined, I would run now, pandas. But if your stomach can handle these horrifying pics, be sure to upvote the ones that have convinced you to eat before going to your next potluck!
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They make a fruit salad with mayo but I don't eat it. My mom used to make pineapple mayo sandwiches, which sounds awful, but i liked it as a kid.
Load More Replies...I'm a Canadian, and remember visiting the U.S South and its restaurants." Want mayonnaise on that?" was a question regarding so many of the food items that I requested.
Mayo on fries is actually a European thing, more specifically from Belgium but they do that all over
Load More Replies...I’m from the south and I LOATHE mayo based salads at potlucks. I used to sign up for the salad first and bring spaghetti salad.. 😋
Spaghetti salad is awesome, but no potato, mac, egg, or chicken salad?
Load More Replies...Haha I just watched Vengeance (2022) last night and I now know the meaning behind this
Load More Replies...If you’re not familiar with this unappetizing corner of the internet, let me get you acquainted with This Is Why I Don’t Do Potlucks. This group was created in September of 2020 and has amassed an impressive 153k members since then. There’s even an adorable poem on the group’s “about” page giving members an idea of what horrible photos they’re about to find lurking in the group, “Potlucks are something that I do not do, it should be so simple, just sharing some stew… Cooks that reek of the cigarettes they smoke, or they smell like cat pee so much that you choke, I’ve seen turds in a pot where a toddler shat right in the kitchen is where that pot sat.” Charming, right?
Well, lucky for us, we were able to get in touch with the creator of this group that’s caused potluck-phobia to run rampant on the internet, Sarah Slabodnik. Sarah was previously interviewed by Bored Panda the last time we featured her group as well, but she was kind enough to provide some updates on how the page is doing now. Previously when we spoke with Sarah, she explained how this shocking and unsettling page started: it was actually born as a spin-off of another Facebook group she runs called Messy Houses You Zoom In To See The Background Of.
I won't tell you what would I have cleaned with that. But you could call it "civet coffee".
I was at a place and they had a guy that would take the coffee pots into the bathroom and clean them in the sink. They didn't understand why everyone was upset when they found out they were using the brush kept under the sink! They had been doing it for years!! Thank God I don't drink coffee.
Hoping this isn't a restaurant but I'm pretty sure that's futile.
If the soft can-openers put food where we can get it, the food is obviously for us.
My younger boy will snatch food right out of my hand if I'm holding it! I guess that counts as "where he can get it" ;) (though he's really only been hangry since he survived FIP, so I don't begrudge him!)
Load More Replies...If you took the time to get a nicely centered shot...were you really that concerned about a mild cat licking?
In all likelihood that wasn't the first lick. If the cat has already licked your food you may as well get a good picture while he keeps doing it.
Load More Replies...Honestly, if the cat is like mine (vaccinated, clean and dewormed) this is the "cleanest" picture in this gallery of horrors.
Eh, just remove that small part or wipe it down with tissue, it's only a cat
“We were getting so many gross food prep areas posted [on Messy Houses You Zoom In To See The Background Of] that someone suggested making a separate group just for that,” Sarah told Bored Panda. “We got the title from the most common type of comment on those kinds of posts, which was that this was why people didn't trust food from a potluck.”
The creator of the group also went on to share a bit about what the community of This Is Why I Don’t Do Potlucks is like. “It's mostly people from the States, but I bet many of our members would be surprised to know our group was created by a Canadian,” Sarah noted. “I think a lot of people are drawn to our group because they'll have had a bad experience with a potluck, food poisoning for example, and they're happy to find there are more potluck weary people out there."
"Some join because they love potlucks and don't understand why we don't," she added. "After a quick scroll on our page, they start to understand, and soon they become people who no longer do potlucks."
I'm beginning to feel that we, as a society, are just sharing too much
checks off list: "mouse crematorium" yup that is a feature in this house
True story. My grandmother was frail and loopy, so when I moved out my parents gave me her stove. My uncle is an electrician, he said it's an excellent stove, made in the days when things were built to last. However, when I cleaned it, I found something that looked like a shrivelled-up grape twig stuck behind the bottom drawer under the oven. Then I realized the twig ended in a claw.
True story.. In England, my sister turned on the gas broiler, prepped a grilled cheese sandwich, pulled the broiler pan out and almost fainted... There was a live mouse, steaming from the heat! She dropped the pan and the mouse staggered away, but her cat saw it and scampered over and grabbed it.. She picked up the cat, swatted it to make it drop the mouse and put it outside the kitchen and closed the door! Gingerly, she picked up the traumatized mouse with a dish towel and walked it over to the side door which was located on a narrow street. She carefully put the mouse down and watched it try to scamper away.. only to have a car drive down the street and run over the mouse.. It was years before the movie 'Final Destination' hit the circuit.. But every time I think of that mouse I think of that movie... When it's your time, it's your time...
Taking self-cleaning ovens to a whole different level.
My sister once walked into a loud argument her friend had with her mom because the mom refused to do the laundry again after she found out she accidentally washed a frog with the last load.
It’s o’dark thirty here and I am officially done
Load More Replies...I work in my dads bait and tackle shop from time to time and this has happened on more than one occasion. Its a nightmare as they get into and under EVERYTHING! And there is no way to clean them all up and In the warmer weather a few days later you have 100's of flys. You put powdered maize or ground bait in with them so they stay dry. As soon as they get wet they climb. You can also get pinkies- (small pink maggots.) Bronze maggots (that are coloured with turmeric), white (obvs), red and squats (which are shorter and fatter)
That’s hilarious, I may have to borrow it sometime 😁
Load More Replies...I can't believe I'm saying this, but I HOPE those are "just" regular maggots that fed on something that had red food coloring in it...? And that they're NOT some kind of horrible monstrous Stephen King/Dean Koontz breed of fly maggot...
Load More Replies...I think they’re the kind of maggots people use for fishing, like for the bait.
Load More Replies...I really hope they were for fishing. The alternative is a "run to the toilet" scenario.
As someone who occasionally has maggots in a fridge (safely sealed away of course) for fishing, this horrified me.
I have no idea why would someone have that many though, maybe this is from some bait and tackle shop, but they wouldn’t make that mistake.
Load More Replies...Burn it. Burn it and go buy a new one. I sure as s**t can’t even fathom anyone wanting to go on using it after this.
Thinking about all those litter boxes is nightmare inducing.
Load More Replies...Had a co-worker who had 3 cats. She kept their litter boxes on top of her upper kitchen cabinets, so whenever the cats used them, there was a light rain of litter dust and whatever else settling down on the whole kitchen. No thank you.
This IS why I don’t do potlucks!!! You never know what someone’s kitchen looks like, or if they’re following safe food protocols.
Lakota Wolf you're the only person in this comment section I want to be friends with
Load More Replies...Everyone commenting nasty stuff here can put a cork in it. She's a little old lady who probably saved all those kitties. And, they all look like they are well taken care of. Go bag on someone else.
That's a nope for me. I cannot believe it when people let their cats on their counter in the kitchen. So gross.
the trouble with this is toxoplasmodium gondii. That's serious. It's got nothing to do with hating animals, it's about hygiene and not having an amoeba eat your brain.
Absolutely no way I'd allow my cat free range of the kitchen work surfaces
As far as how the page has changed since the last time we spoke with Sarah, she shared that the group has gained an impressive 25k new members in about six months. “There were also a lot of complaints from members about fly egg posts, so we took a poll in the group and decided to dedicate one pinned announcement to fly eggs,” the administrator went on to explain, referencing posts that were apparently quite common the last time we spoke with her. “Now members can only post fly egg pictures on that post, so they don't show up on member's newsfeeds anymore.”
We were also curious if there were any new trends emerging in the group. “One thing that comes up often and goes way beyond your typical potluck food is urine therapy,” Sarah told Bored Panda. “If you're a consenting adult who wants to drink their own urine, that's one thing, but some people are sneaking urine into other people's food or drink without their consent. That's assault, not to mention disgusting,” she explained. “We had a post recently where a parent was sneaking her urine into her child's popsicles in order for the child to do well at school.”
I would ditch that disgusting spit fuckwurt to the kerb.,ugh how have you put up with this, and WTF.
fuckwurt isn't censored? interesting *takes notes*
Load More Replies...You're an idiot for staying with him and putting up with a disgustingly unhygienic habit he has, and believing his lies about it. Has he p****d on you to mark his territory yet? Do people ask these sort of questions to get attention, or are they truly that asinine?
Obviously it's not disgusting for him. I can't understand how, but people are weird, to say the least.
Load More Replies...Oh dear Lord ... don't marry him ... Get out ... who knows what he's doing with other body fluids!
*pukes on mashed potato* oh no let me clean that up- wait it looks the exact same...
Butter, chicken broth…..why in the world would anyone do this….?!?!
Load More Replies...Yup. I suggest you hack off the inedible parts of that sausage, namely the exact places it TOUCHED the weird potato mash
Load More Replies...This meat was heavily discounted because it was ALREADY old and close to spoiling. Get ready for a trip to the ER if anyone eats this!
Go by the smell. Meat goes grey when it oxidises, when exposed to air, it doesn't mean it's unsafe to eat. Sliminess and stench are the two big ways nature warns you not to eat it.
Naw, naw, hell naw! Meat should never be left in room temperature any longer than two (2) hours. AND in a trunk!?! If it was summer, good lort that beef would have spoiled in no time.
Load More Replies..."Fine to eat"... Well, if you are a scavenger maybe, if you are human, I'll pass. I'll pass and I'm living in France where going to ER wouldn't mean bankruptcy.
Eh, depends on the weather. I forgot eggs , lunch meat and bottled water in the hatch of my SUV overnight. The were frozen solid when I remembered them the next day.
Eggs can be kept out for more than a day and be fine...some dont even store theirs in the fridge. Lunch meat has sooo much salt in it that a day will not make too much of a difference..and, of course, water does not spoil. This was a very different scenario...already discounted, lightly packaged butchered meat left in a truck for over 2 days is not quite the same as some processed, salted packaged meat, water and eggs for a day.
Load More Replies...Sadly, this no longer qualifies as "meat". It is now carrion. Take it out of town and chuck it into the field for the buzzards. (Pun intended)
“A great (and non urine related) post from a few days ago mentioned that [someone had] found a bottle of Salon Selectives hair spray from the 90's in their parents' kitchen, marked with a piece of masking tape stating the contents were teriyaki sauce,” Sarah added.
And although she loves being an administrator for this terrifying Facebook group, Sarah previously shared with Bored Panda that it’s not always a walk in the park. “There are some recurring debates in our group, like whether or not it's acceptable to prepare food in a sink for example, and members are quick to pick their side and stick to it,” she explained. “Members can debate the food as much as they want, but if anyone gets out of line and starts criticizing other members instead of the food, we don't put up with that."
Why do the chocolate candies look like fingers ripping away the skin?! 🤢
Spoiler alert: this is how everything started in "The last of us"
Us old people recognize that from Creepshow where Stephen King played the farmer who found the meteorite.
Load More Replies...Livin in the fridge! You can't stop the mold from groooooowinnnnnnng
Load More Replies...I think he/she is not only confused about how long two weeks is, but also on how Tupperware looks
came here to say similar, I know Tupperware has become the generic term for plastic sealed containers but that is neither.
Load More Replies...Took me a few seconds to see what the issue is but then....oooh yes... those annoying people who don't sort the cutlery into the right slot.... tsk tsk
My husband is in pest control. He’s seen some s**t. S**t like this and worse. BTW, looks like cockroach p**s and s**t. On the silverware.
As well as mouse pee and poo. My house has always had a mouse problem and I can spot their M.O. from another county.
Load More Replies...oh ew the floor. oh ew the counter top. oh ew the air in there. ETA: i like to tear down the dirt. But anyone who lives like this either cannot care for themselves because of physical ailments, or cannot care for themselves because of mental disabilities. and it is kinda gross to make fun of the handicapped, infirm, and mentally unstable.
Jessica, bless you for wanting to give the benefit of the doubt, but sometimes, there is no mental or physical illness involved...some are just plain nasty and lazy. I worked with a lady like that...perfectly lovely woman, but when I went to her mobile home to pick her up one night for girls night drinks...I was stunned to find it incredibly filthy. She just said she has always "hated cleaning" to please "excuse the mess". It was awful and I never went back. Some people just do not mind living in filth...no "illness" required.
Load More Replies...This just makes me sad, the person needs some TLC and so does their home
This might be a hoarder's house, based on the look of those floors.
Very true. Hoarding is in my family and this looks like the kitchen I grew up in. And my uncles which me and my sister had to clean out after His death. I keep my house clean mostly because I don't want other peoples judgment. And because I don't like to share my space with bugs...
Load More Replies..."Shame food, not people" is the number one rule of This Is Why I Don’t Do Potlucks. Members are encouraged to share any photos of disgusting or shocking meals or food prep areas, but the admins make it clear that bullying and discrimination of any kind are not tolerated. Members are also asked to block out faces and names when submitting a post. Another important rule is that videos where food is wasted for entertainment purposes are not permitted. Especially nowadays, when there are so many people out there struggling to put food on the table, wasting food for comedic effect or entertainment value is tasteless and tone deaf.
Is this a cookie that a 5th grader decorated and I’m supposed to say….good job ?? Lol
at first i was like "what's wrong" AND THEN I SAW THE EGGS edit: and apparently the grapes are olives delightful
Alright. This is a very poorly executed version of a famous Spanish salad. The actual salad has cod, oranges, hard boiled eggs and black olives and it's delicious. But it needs dressing (l don't even see olive oil here) and some more love than this.
Thanks for the explanation because otherwise I’d have guessed it was a college fraternity dare
Load More Replies...oh it's the base layer! otherwise it's a boring salad! 🤣
Load More Replies...ok - i will confess here: as a broke, just--out-of-college person, i used to highly enjoy potlucks, because i could make something i do not care for (banana bread was a frequent choice) to bring, and then gladly enjoy other people's offerings without guilt. but at least the banana bread i brought was perfectly tasty and edible. this, on the other hand, looks like someone remembered at the last second they had to bring something, and just dumped random food items into a dish....
I have a cookbook from 1936 and 1933 with some interesting? Recipes like this one
Whoever made that just threw together whatever random foods they had lying around.
Gotta ask, other than the mental notion of smelly feet and clean dishes what is wrong with this? Unless your dishwasher is defective and doesn't get things clean everything should be fine. Your dirty dishes are more likely to leave specks of food on your shoes than your shoes hurting your dishes.
People? What kind of people? Where? I know very weird people, buy I've never heard of anyone washing their hats (or crocs, shoes, clothes, etc) in the dishwasher.
Load More Replies...To get the scuffs off, I always use a Magic Eraser and that works perfect. In the sink.
Oh mother of pearl…seriously people ? Next to the Pyrex, what did it do to you ?
I find the thongs.... yes.... flip flops... more disturbing.
And although running this group has made Sarah more weary of potlucks in general, she confessed to Bored Panda that she actually did end up attending one in January. “The next morning I felt unwell, and the only person I could blame was myself,” she admitted. “If anyone should have known better, it's me. Most of the food was delicious going down, I just wished it had stayed there. It's so hard to trust food that others have made.”
They're trying to sell cookie and showing their nasty kitchen in the pic!? I wouldn't go near anything from that pig sty
They're no-bake cookies, made mostly from oatmeal. They're big in prison.
I would think the prison kitchen is cleaner than this one.
Load More Replies...You should meet bacon and cheese sarni person and cutlery drawer person. Something tells me you have a lot in common.
if it wasn't for the nasty kitchen, this would be ok. even though they look like s**t, the cookies are probobly no-bake chocolate peanut butter cookies. my dad makes them all the time!
These are probably the kind without peanut butter. For me, they are better without.
Load More Replies...Are they Cow Pie Cookies, perchance? Because they look like cow pies to anyone who’s lived in the boondocks and is familiar with that particular byproduct of grass and water. PS-Your kitchen is filthy, so the cow pie comparison is valid. Do the roaches and mice like your cookies?
I'm the first to admit I know nothing of canning. I know people do it to preserve food. If properly done, and properly stored, SHOULD canned foods last decades? D: Are they reasonably safe? The apples look absolutely horrifying and I don't know if I could get past the visuals of this myself, but if they're just faded/weird-looking but safe, then so be it XD EDIT: I just read a 40-page guide to home canning by the USDA. XD They recommend not storing home-canned food for more than a year.
We had a 10+ year old glas of cherries in our basement, when we moved. We didn't dare to eat them but they still smelled just fine when we opened the glas.
Load More Replies...The perfect dessert to serve after 30 year old canned venison on rice. Amaze your friends - if you have any, with more delicious recipes from the Old Canned Food Cook Book For Idiots.
I work at a hospital. I would like to not be ADMITTED to the hospital. Not again, anyway.
If one can pet one's furred sauerkraut with much the same visceral physical experience as petting one's cat, it's not fine XD
Load More Replies...As someone whos national dish is pork, potatos and sauerkraut, I can say that I never seen it grow mold.
My grandmother made sauerkraut too, sure didn’t look like this. This is not kapusta !
Load More Replies...Is it ok? NOT IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT DO YOU NOT SEE THE ASPERGILLUS
Aspergillus? Madame, I see that you are a connoisseur of moldy growths... Bravo to you, Madame...
Load More Replies...If somebody sees this, and needs to ask if it's ok, they really deserve to die of food poisoning. Even the dumbest animal knows when it is not ok to eat something!
AITA for giving absolutely no forks if people like this just eat the damn stuff and croak as God so obviously intended all along? Seriously, how do you live long enough to make "sauerkraut" (or whatever this really is) and not recognize MOLD?!
There's no need to drag God into your aspersions, Tiny Dancer. God would never wish that kind of evil death on any one.
Load More Replies...Sarah had previously explained to Bored Panda that it’s not only the posts that put members off of potlucks, it can also be the comments from others. "We had a post about someone displaying their cooked bacon next to their raw bacon for size comparison,” Sarah went on to note. “The problem was that they were putting the cooked bacon where the raw bacon was, so now their cooked bacon was contaminated. Many members commented that you actually don't need to cook bacon. Many other members, including me, were shocked. Shouldn't it be common sense that you have to cook bacon before you serve it? Apparently not. Common sense is not common when it comes to safe food handling."
I always feel so sorry for people in situations like this. Its clearly been there for a while and it's too hard for them to fix 😔
Load More Replies...Not to judge, but this could be the kitchen of someone struggling with mental health, by old age or partially sighted. I’ve been at this stage not long ago where I simply could not give a rats backside about anything and used the same plate and mug for weeks on end. The laundry built up too to such an extent that I had nothing left to wear. Feel as if you’ve not got any reason to struggle with life? You certainly don’t worry about the state of your house.
I own that plate and this is doubley gross for me to look at...
Load More Replies...Oh please allow me to introduce you to some other people on here- there's bacon and cheese sarni person, cutlery drawer person, loverly home baked cookie person and coffee pot person. You could start a commune......
I could be wrong but I think they meant it wasn't too bad cleaning it, like it didn't take that long/wasn't too labor intensive
Load More Replies...Might I suggest YOU bringing dinner over to them? Something tells me they'd appreciate it.
Load More Replies..."It wasn't to bad and looks much better".... "Should of". 🤦🏻♂️ Their grammar is as good as the upkeep of their microwave!
Unpopular opinion here: Yes, this is gross, but a lot of people who let things get like this have undiagnosed (and sometimes diagnosed) mental issues...and I'm just super glad they took steps to make it right <3
Yeah, my husband’s in pest control, and has told me about some of the places he’s treated. Dis—-f*****g—-gusting.
My bestie and I moved into an apartment and found one dead cockroach in the kitchen, also in the clock display casing. We still talk about it in horror, and it was 20 years ago.
“If you do go to a potluck, there are a few tips that seem to work well,” Sarah shared with Bored Panda. “You can bring your own dish and only eat that, you can only eat food that people have bought prepared to bring. Make sure you're first in the line to get food (less likely someone will have handled it, coughed or sneezed on it by the time you get there), claim you're on a diet, claim you have dietary restrictions, eat before you go or tell them the last time you ate insert questionable food here you got ill.”
I mean, I approve of the Twilight books getting stabbed, but Sherlock Holmes?! That's a classic!
I can't see the books for the dirty ribbon holding them together. *shudders*
aside from kindling, what other good use is there for THOSE books?
I’m pretty sure the books didn’t get damaged, I mean throw away the Twilight books but keep the Sherlock Holmes one!
Also it says prep so it probably just means washing them
Load More Replies...Almost as good as the 'hack' I saw recently... 'If you have added too much water to your rice, just add a few cellphones to soak it up...'
In their defense: I do have a counter top dishwasher that actually has a vegetable/fruit wash mode. They might have this setting too. I imagine for large-scale washes.
It says for Thanksgiving Day PREP. It's probably just to clean them. That being said, it's still stupid, wasteful, and will take more time than if you just did it by hand.
I dunno... my dishwasher is pretty energy efficient and can wash stuff using much less water than if you did it by hand. It also has a top-rack-only setting that washes pretty quickly. This could be sloth, but it could also be genius
Load More Replies...If you are that lazy and stupid to do this….you just need to whip a bag of Idahoan instant potatoes….good gravy. Seen it all now kids. Lol
When I wash my potatoes before cooking, I just use plain cold water, and they come out nice and clean. Neither boiling hot water nor dishwashing detergent are necessary.
Use a freaking microwave if you're such in a hurry. Or eat pasta. Edit :I meant microwave to cook potatoes very quick, of course you need to wash them before :)
oh god I thought that was broccoli at first glance....how wrong I was
Load More Replies...I know canned food last a long time but if you’ve got a jar that’s older than the internet and been sitting around before Reagan died….ya might think twice on that. Eat grass clippings before this death trap.
Please do not invite me round to dinner... ever....
Your gonna have a looooooong night in the toilet, bring a bucket.
“I think ignorance can be bliss when it comes to potlucks,” Sarah added. “It's all fun and games until you find pet fur in the icing or part of a fake fingernail in the burgers. Or until you're so ill that you can't even keep water down.” Honestly, these photos aren’t just giving me the heebie-jeebies when it comes to potlucks, I’m questioning all food that I haven’t prepared myself. When visiting a friend’s apartment, how clean is their kitchen? When eating out in a restaurant, how do I know the staff values cleanliness and personal hygiene? New phobia: activated.
One can only assume that monstrosity and the dirty diaper in the console are related somehow.
i would have said I'd eat it if it were peach crisp, but the diaper nixes that.
Load More Replies...Upon close up that might have been a sweet potato casserole…but I wouldn’t touch this with a ten foot pole. Oh hurl.
I can fry an egg on the sidewalk, ad bake dinner in the car! Nothing else to see here. No diapers.
I'm going to let this one slide. I know what it's like to have to eat whenever possible.
I thought the same thing. Someone just having a snack in the car. Weird maybe but also kind of funny. Until I saw a comment pointing out that there is also a diaper next to it.
Load More Replies...Funny anecdote: when I was a kid (12? 13?) I went to a friend's sleepover birthday party. I was the only girl there (this was the 90s, and I was "one of the boys", zero interest in em other than as friends). The whole group of us stayed up late, way past when the friend's parents went to bed. One group of kids were playing Magic: The Gathering in a side room. Another group was playing hide and seek in the dark. My best friend and I decided to explore our friend's house. We snuck into the garage. There were jars of homemade pickles brining next to the water heater. We were baffled. We'd never seen homemade pickles... and in a garage?! We dared a third friend to open one of the jars and try a "pickle". Turns out, they were VERY early on in the pickling process and still mostly cucumbers at that point XD Third friend put the bitten cucumber BACK INTO THE JAR. We never told anyone XD I wonder what my friend's parents thought when they went to open their pickles months later and saw one with a bite taken out...
I'm really glad it's next to the toilet. Everyone knows that a key component to pickleization is a good, even spray of fecal matter.
yall remember to close the lid before you go and flush now ya hear
Load More Replies...My late former father inlaw was the county coroner. He was called to the local pickle factory to declare a third shift employee dead that had fallen into a massive vat of pickles, drowned, and been found there by the first shift employees. I was told in confidence that the company refused to drain the vat, toss the pickles, and clean it, due to the financial loss, after the body had been retrieved.
I can't really mock it as much as I want to. They obviously grew more than they thought. That pool is just to wash bulk ammounts, rinsing off dirt and removing bugs. You can see the shower hose right beside it.
I admire your optimism. I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with this were it not for the toilet next to the pool of cucumbers.
Load More Replies...Remember those giant barrels of pickles that disappeared in the 80s? They had tongs attached, to the lid, but we just used our hands.
10 minutes is enough even with large eggs in my experience
Load More Replies...!!!First of all, those look like they were sliced the wrong way to begin with!!!
Something about this picture weirds me out but I can’t place why
It's that they cut the eggs the wrong way, right?
Load More Replies...Have you completely lost your appetite, pandas? These photos have been making me feel relieved to be vegan, as I usually can’t partake in much of what is served at any potluck I attend. I don’t think I’ll swear off gatherings like this for the rest of my life, but I’ll definitely be more careful about who I trust to be preparing my food… We hope you’re enjoying these frightening photos, and if your stomach can handle even more, be sure to check out our previous article featuring This Is Why I Don’t Do Potlucks right here!
Gee, look at all that fat dripping on the burning gas jets. That’s not a fire hazard, right? (/s, ffs)
well, if it were about half the distance from the flames, it would probably get the job done, but still a nope.
Have none of these people heard of the phrase “you don’t poop where you eat”? I just wanna disinfect my phone after this thread lol.
Have you not heard of the phrase "Washing Machine"? I mean, I think this is weird, but in no way unhygienic, assuming they're clean.
Load More Replies...Can not remove this image from my kind. And I thought I was weird because I used to throw my bras and panties in the freezer right before wearing them in the hot Phoenix Arizona summers. I stand corrected, I’m not as weird as I thought.
This guy is oblivious to the danger he's putting himself, and every living thing in his building, in - this is a fire hazard. How's that for a scary story, Trash Jones?
Pass me a tea towel will you..... oh... its glued to the stove.....
On the plus side, it'll stand straight up on its own when you set it down
Load More Replies...Not that my kitchen looks anything like this, but it is a lot easier than you think to just block that stuff out and carry on like everything's normal. I've lived in some cockroach motels that would kill normal folks!
Load More Replies...People still don't seem to realize that we eat with our eyes first. Even just one look at awful food like this is enough to make anyone develop a bad association or make you sick to your stomach. I will probably never try this sandwich now.
I'm not against this.....in fact I may just go make something similar right now
Your mistake, OP, was to put them in the freezer in the store packaging. If you’d removed them from that packaging, and put them in vacuum sealed bags—-remember to write the date you stored them on the bag!—-before storing them in the freezer, they might still be OK after a a year and a half, as long as your freezer never lost power and thawed out. We have a good sized chest freezer, and whenever meat and other frozen/freezable stuff goes on sale or comes out of the garden, we put it there. We’ve eaten steaks and chicken that have been frozen, in vacuum sealed bags, for up to two years, and have obviously lived to tell the story.
A coworker of mine brought a cheesecake that had been in her freezer for over a year to a potluck lunch that we had at work for the department. It tasted terrible. Will never do potlucks again.
What is very interesting is how unaware most people are. It’s a truth. It’s shocking, but accurate.
Load More Replies...That's Botox! Do you mean botulism maybe? Cuz I was trying to figure out what the B was for too
Load More Replies...Opened in the dark, poured while keeping their eyes closed for dramatic effect and eaten with eyes glued to TV screen.....that's the only scenario I can imagine for not seeing that.
Load More Replies...That is a jar, not a can. I also think the picture was taken after left over sauce was sitting in fridge for several weeks. Smh
fun fact that nobody wants to hear- bacteria can thrive is the cuts in the cutting board, and it is impossible to clean out!
Even if a disinfecting liquid, like lemon juice, can penetrate the cuts to where the bacteria is thriving? Hmmm....
Load More Replies...A chicken egg that dreamed of becoming a dove in life achieved its dream after poaching XD
Yeah? .. LOL! Nope.. It's a bird-shaped soap... You can buy them on the web.. This one just melted a bit.. index-63f6...3640e2.jpg
You're a regular Sherlock Holmes, U.G... The case of the Ropeless Soap has been solved!
Load More Replies...Is the egg bad? I can't tell, I don't eat poached eggs. What's wrong with this?
No brick of cheese in my grandma's house would have lasted long enough to get moldy.
Load More Replies...Sorry, it's driving me crazy... It's "would have", "should have"... How is it that there's so many people nowadays writing "would of", "should of"? English is not my first language but I'm pretty sure that's incorrectly written, right?
My grandmother did that as well. Her reasoning- she got one small loaf of bread a week to eat in the concentration camp (most times it was mouldy on delivery.)
Too much mold. If it's a tiny spot only, on a hard cheese line cheddar, if you cut an inch pat where any mold is, it's safe. That said, if it's moldy I toss it
What I'm wondering is, at what point is its transformation from moldy cheese to brick of solid mold complete?
Load More Replies...At least in her native language. My grandmother spoke german, yiddish, and french. Her english was entertaining. What? you want I should do what? Whats a matter for you?
Load More Replies...My dad grew up during the Depression. He said the cheese was better after it started to mold!
If it's a hard cheese, and only a couple spots, it's still usable. But this is too much. Also, if it's soft cheese you can't use it, that should be tossed.
I do not understand what the toilet sous vide has to do with the propane tank.
It's not like they used the actual toilet bowl. Although I find it peculiar that you're doing some fancy cooking and you couldn't find something deep enough to use?
Uh, bologna is processed meat paste basically, this looks like it had an air bubble in the middle. The "slimy" part is probably fat/collagen (aka gelatin).
My grandfather, a very stubborn, pretentious person, once got very angry because he had bought half a kilo of gruyère cheese and he had been given less cheese and a lot of holes.
Load More Replies...no it isn't okay to eat. it's fücking baloney. that sh¡t is nasty. the holes however have nothing to do with that.
No way! I won't even touch cold cuts anymore because of all the recalls....and seeing photos like this one.
All it needs is a little ketchup and it'll make a fine sammich!
Load More Replies...this is from "The Husbands" by Chandler Baker, in case anyone was curious.
Baby potties in the dishwasher...? Is that somehow better than washing them by hand? Aren't they usually plastic and would warp in the dishwasher? I've never had a baby, but my dad was disabled for 21 years and his commode was plastic...
Run the potty seat with dried urine in the freakin dishwasher??? Who the hell are these people and why did you let your home devolve into such a clusterfuck ?
What is wrong with people? I'm not a germaphobe by long stretch, but this is disgusting.
Sure you can, I've done it many times with many foods with no change in the food. This is another of those myths that needs to die. Some meats will get tougher but there's nothing dangerous.
Load More Replies...I know I'm repeating myself, but... I wonder how some people manage to reach adulthood. They are either extremely lucky, or tougher than cockroaches.
yep - roaches are so tough some of them even survive decapitation. A certain headless roach roams these very pages
Load More Replies...Depends on timing. As long as the temp is under 41F then bacterial growth is still inhibited. Refreezing meat will make the texture all weird, but if you're eating bagged chicken nuggets I think you've already given up on gourmet dining.
This is why we need to make Home Economics mandatory in high school again…not a 2 week elective like I’m told the US school system does now. Budget cuts I’m sure but not for high school football though ! Grrrr.
You've hit the nail right on the old head there, Marie. How odd that ignoring the Life Basics in school, such as cooking and, yeah, even sewing, has consequences that could kill you in Real Life. I'm not a great cook, but I know enough to keep my family alive, which shouldn't be the "win" it is these days. Lots of stuff could kill ya, but my refrozen chicken nuggets aren't taking you out, lol!
Load More Replies...From USA Today: Refrigerator-thawed, raw or cooked meat is safe to refreeze, though the U.S. Department of Agriculture warns the meat may lose some quality due to moisture loss. You should not refreeze foods that have been outside of the fridge for more than two hours, or one hour in temperatures above 90 degrees.
Correct. But that last part has nothing to do with re-freezing and everything to do with the meat being in the temp danger zone. I think this is where the "don't refreeze" myth came from.
Load More Replies...I worked in a place that made the ''meat' for Chicken nuggets - trust me, the slimy, MRM (Mechanically recovered meat), basically everything left over after the carcass has been stripped, is then sent away to be mixed with thickeners, MSG and 'flavouring' , was not nice, in fact it stunk. So, you'll be feeding your kids Nuggets now then .... Do some research then tell your friends. Hideous.
Yes, you can commit to the action of putting thawed food back in the freezer, just like you can walk across thin ice. It's not safe or a good idea.
You CAN refreeze, but the quality will suffer. It also depends on just how LONG it was thawed for
That is what it looks like. It just cold butter. Other than too little seasoning on the shrimp...not seeing much wrong here....
Load More Replies...Nothing wrong here.. it's just refrigerated and needs to be warmed up. Why waste perfectly good food?
This reminds me of the time I needed to use the bathroom that belonged to 3 beer guzzling, foul-mouthed bachelor brothers that lived together. This coffee pot is the exact same condition the bathroom was in except there were little hairs mixed in with the rest of the filth... 🤮
So when they die, they do become handy extra cabinets. But a plunger is beyond my taste.
Or eat them. Whatever you do is fine - the carrot clearly thought it was underground again so basically it's not much different from pulling a carrot up from the soil.
Load More Replies...You could eat them, but they will taste bad. The carrots are growing again, and in the second year the root is using the nutrients it has stored to produce flowers and make seeds.
Cutting meat in a nail salon on top of a stool many butts have been on.
Load More Replies...if that's a bathroom, why is there a regular wall plug? (bathroom wall plugs are usually for shavers, electric toothbrushes etc that use DC so that cooker shouldn't work). if it's not a bathroom the presence of the toilet is even more disturbing
My bathroom has regular wall plugs I've never in my life seen one that didn't. I'm in the US
Load More Replies...Y’all hear me out this is not bad. Just don’t look at it while you’re eating it cuz then it’s just hate-eating.
none of those ingredients put me off, i would eat any of them separately, and i am fairly certain that flavor wise, together like this it is not totally disgusting, but still, i would take a hard pass.
Load More Replies...I have kind of had this, except it is like all mixed together so it looks WAY better. Like a fluffy cloud. It's actually really good but a little to sweet for me cuz I'm not a fan of most sweets lol
This is the recipe for it: https://www.momontimeout.com/lemon-lime-jello-salad-recipe/
Load More Replies...Check out the actual recipe, it’s supposed to look like this: https://www.momontimeout.com/lemon-lime-jello-salad-recipe/
Load More Replies...It's the type you hook to the edge of the pot to keep on eye on the temp when you're cooking down sugar, etc. Things like sugar and chocolate can be VERY temperamental.
Load More Replies...We in the UK don’t have mercury because it’s really poisonous, it kills .. where did it go ?
In the winter when we ride horses the metal bit that goes in their mouth gets really cold. It's customary (and kind) to warm up the bit before you put the bridle on. It's hilarious to see a bunch of people holding bits between their thighs before they ride. You can do it with your hands or by breathing on it, but the fastest way is to clutch the bit with your crotch. ;) NOT inside your pants of course! If you're doing that you're weird.
Put a glass of water in the microwave, then throw away the water and cover the butter with the hot glass.
Some mold is perfectly safe to eat. Some mold in food is intentional. Some mold is safe to remove and keep eating. You gotta ask to know.
Load More Replies...I'd be more concerned about the potential output after eating this...
Honestly this is a good point. Just cut the dirty bits off. Lol
Load More Replies...I'd ask the other cat molested food people on here for their expert advice on this one.
As a food-molested cat owner... trim off the chewed bits, run the meat under water to rinse off the dirt( as long as the floor doesn't look like those above) then procede with cooking as planned. I do not reccommend the same for fish or chicken, though.
Load More Replies...Just cut off the chewed bit , it will be fine (but it’s a no thanks from me) to eat!
I'm not worried about the cat germs, I'm worried about the floor germs.
I love cats, but I honestly don't understand people who would let an animal steal food out of their hand (or even off a plate really). This behavior should not be condoned.
What part of "steal" makes you think someone "let" them do it?
Load More Replies...Sourkrot? That doesn't even make sense phonetically. If 'you're going to misspell it, at least toss a w in there.
The "croc" pot? Why are you trying to cook in shoes? That's your FIRST mistake.
When I say I'm going to the bathroom to have some coke, this is what I mean.
Until you come out with white powder on your nose. Lol
Load More Replies...I'm sure I'm not the only one that drinks coffee while pooping, it's very relaxing. I used to do it with a smoke as well but I quit a long time ago.
I mean, as long as they're going to eat the pie themselves and not serve it to anyone else... XD
Still, the cats paws walk in cat litter…..and now you have those same paws on a counter. C’mon that can’t be a good idea.
Maybe for Green Eggs and Ham? We just added blue food coloring to scrambled eggs, but this works.
These are not what I meant when I said bring Jell-O shots to the party Becky !!!
until yesterday i didn't know that. God I'm so american. ANY OTHER THINGS MY GOVERNMENT HAS LIED TO ME ABT!?
Load More Replies...My roommate puts cinnamon sticks in his. It's.... Okay. Prefer my chili without it though
Looks like they're " pâtes de fruits", à kind of very concentrated, solid fruit jelly that's then cut in squares and rolled in sugar. They're traditional treats here and can be kept for à while, in dry conditions. It's the pectin of the fruits that makes them solid. No jell'o in there.
This person made it for themselves in their own home and missed a single piece of hair before taking the picture. Calm down.
RIGHT?! Like seriously- Nobody else is eating the food, except the owner of the hair on the plate. We have all probably consumed our own hair on accident, anyways.
Load More Replies...No. No. No. I'm going to fix this. Toss the alfalfa sprouts, add another kind of cheese, caramelize the onions, ditch the pickles, mayo, and scorpion sauce. Add a lil toothpick. Serve on a CLEAN plate, please.
Did it hurt you when you read sammich? Mind your own, let em live.
Load More Replies...Yep. And when I use a measuring cup for stuff like water or rice...I just rinse, wipe and put it back. Hopefully he means something similar....
Load More Replies...Like washing dishes that way? I mean if you cut veggies with a knife you can usually just rinse the knife, but other things no way.
Looks like a tub of risen dough for oliebollen (fried like donuts) with currants.
I'd love to believe that's just a dog or cat harness, but knowing people, that's a bondage harness for a dude's scrotúm or something.
"My meat smells like the feet of a week old corpse, is it okay to eat it?"
Meat is safe to eat if it is brown , it’s been exposed to light . BUT if it smells like ROTTING FLESH then don’t eat it .
This one is really not bad, that's usually how a flat top grill looks within 2 minutes of using it. You just scrape it and scrub it clean when you're done.
Besides not throwing out the shells, there really isnt much wrong here
I see it too- Not 100% sure what it is, but I do see it-
Load More Replies...yeah Im not seeing anything wrong here. raw veggies are pretty good and all of those can be eaten raw. I would and have eaten a plate of food just like that.
I don´t know if there is a piece of pineapple hiding on top, but still... its raw veggies. all good.
I'm not sure if you've tried raw Cauliflower... but it tastes like dirt and disappointment.
Leftover turkey growing six months' worth of mold in two weeks? In the fridge? Frozen cake layers moldy after three days? Sorry, but I'm just not buying a lot of these.
Yeah, specifically the cake one for me. I bake all the time, and freeze cake all the time too! Even if you freeze it while warm, it shouldn't get moldy after just 3 days! Maybe it was a problem with their freezer?
Load More Replies...Sorry but there's no way some of these are legit. i could see them in some extreme circs, but.... honestly, context would be appreciated. E.g., "We came home to this after a month away from home b/c our fridge died while we were gone"...
Been there. Opened the fridge once. Bought a new fridge and had them haul the nasty one away
Load More Replies...You know...I was thinking, "ok this weekend I need to clean the kitchen", and tbh it's not so bad. At least anything coming out of it (or anything that's in the fridge) is totally safe and edible. I just need to do a few dishes and clean the sink.
these horrify me to no end. I can't even do my Christmas baking until i clean my already clean kitchen. I take no chances.
This series needs a trigger warning. Do not eat while reading or if you plan to eat in the next 24 hours.
Leftover turkey growing six months' worth of mold in two weeks? In the fridge? Frozen cake layers moldy after three days? Sorry, but I'm just not buying a lot of these.
Yeah, specifically the cake one for me. I bake all the time, and freeze cake all the time too! Even if you freeze it while warm, it shouldn't get moldy after just 3 days! Maybe it was a problem with their freezer?
Load More Replies...Sorry but there's no way some of these are legit. i could see them in some extreme circs, but.... honestly, context would be appreciated. E.g., "We came home to this after a month away from home b/c our fridge died while we were gone"...
Been there. Opened the fridge once. Bought a new fridge and had them haul the nasty one away
Load More Replies...You know...I was thinking, "ok this weekend I need to clean the kitchen", and tbh it's not so bad. At least anything coming out of it (or anything that's in the fridge) is totally safe and edible. I just need to do a few dishes and clean the sink.
these horrify me to no end. I can't even do my Christmas baking until i clean my already clean kitchen. I take no chances.
This series needs a trigger warning. Do not eat while reading or if you plan to eat in the next 24 hours.
