Just had a "should have had my glasses on" moments, and ruined my lunch

I once sprinkled my fish and chips in a cafe with sugar instead of salt - yuk!!

I was making a risotto in the slow cooker and accidentally chucked in a cup of pearl barley instead of arborio rice. I decided to carry on with the recipe anyway and it was absolutely delicious.

Last summer, there was a wasp in the bathroom one evening. It rejected every opportunity to fly out of the open window so I sprayed the room with fly killer before I went to bed. Early next morning I showered, dried .... and in my half-awake state sprayed my armpits with Raid!

My mother made a chocolate cake only unfortunately she'd put gravy powder in instead of cocoa Yeuch!

HurdyGurdy Really cheered me up reading your green lentils experience!

I am very short sighted and as a student nurse newly allowed on a ward on my own 6 weeks after starting my training I was serving supper and put beetroot with custard in bowls for the patients . I soon learnt to be less vain and wear my glasses on duty . Have always been able to see brilliantly for close up things by the way !

At a pub carvery my daughter liberally laced her plate with bread sauce only to find it was horseradish! She managed to eat her meal after scraping most of the offending sauce off but when we mentioned that maybe some labels would be helpful they said “You should have brought it back. We’d have given you a fresh plate.” Not a no glasses moment - she was a teenager at the time!

In my cakemaking days one of my specialties was devil's food cake. I once put gravy browning in instead of cocoa powder, spooned as much out as I could and didn't tell anyone. It seemed to go round and round my mouth but my DH said it was the best I'd ever made!

Honig = honey

Senf = mustard

Honigsenf - honey mustard.

I met a mistake at the market in Berlin and asked for 'ein Pfund Dirne' instead of 'Birne' (prostitutes instead of pears! ooops- they laughed!)

they do sell honey mustard- so perhaps where you went wrong?

When I was a teenager my parents took me skiing in Austria. We were self catering and Dad said he would like some honey from the supermarket for breakfast 'no problem' I said as I was doing O level German - but when he opened the jar it was mustard! Not sure how but I managed to pass the O level and then the A level too and will never forget German for 'honey' or 'mustard'!

When my nan was babysitting us kids, a guest came round and while he waited for our mum and dad to come back nan made him a coffee.

She had only ever had that ‘Camp Coffee’ do not used to instant coffee.
She made a lovely cup of milky ‘coffee’
with Bisto Gravy. The poor fella drank it too!

Had a hankering for toast and jam. Couldn't find the strawberry jam in the fridge, so got a new one out of the cupboard. Took a bite and thought it tasted of alcohol... Cranberry sauce with cognac.

I'm another of the freezer brigade - took out (I thought) some stewed apple for a crumble, only to discover when I opened the container that it was lentil soup ...🙄

A couple of weeks ago my DH must have filled the sugar bowl with salt. I dont take sugar and it took me a while to realise why he was complaining that his cereal and tea tasted funny.

I've done the dry shampoo on armpits and deodorant on the hair swop. I suppose it could have worked if I had hairy armpits.

Should have said…The above is for Ginster.

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I put sugar all over my fish and chips in a cake . They were so sweet and just brought me another plate of food.

Oldnproud

Doodledog

I once absentmindedly sprayed my hair with deodorant instead of hair spray.

Me too - I was looking in the mirror as I did it, and saw my hair turning slightly grey as I sprayed. It took a minute or two for me to realize what I had done. 😁

Yep. And the number of times I have used conditioner instead of shampoo (and vice versa) are too many to count. It's in the bathroom where I have the issues - no glasses and steam are not a good combination.

One xmas I gave my DD and DiL a small box of Chocolate bombes with marshmellow inside to make hot chocolate. Neither read the box and both added to bathwater !

Haha! Thank you for a lovely post.

My mother had a long dress which came with a sort of chiffon cape. She had taken it off, folded it,put it on the table, then had to watch an elderly relative use it as an ashtray.

I once sprayed Mr Sheen on my hair instead of hairspray. Instant shine 🙄

Doodledog

I once absentmindedly sprayed my hair with deodorant instead of hair spray.

Me too - I was looking in the mirror as I did it, and saw my hair turning slightly grey as I sprayed. It took a minute or two for me to realize what I had done. 😁

In 1976 we went on our hols to a caravan park in Great Yarmouth. Our parents had no money left at all but went to the clubhouse and my dad won the bingo on a free ticket. On the way home we stopped at a Granada services and had a meal. I had sausage and chips and poured sugar all over my dinner. My mum said people could tell we weren’t used to eating out as she wiped the sugar off my sausages with her hankie and I then ate the lot. I was so young it probably didn’t register that it was sweet.