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

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HurdyGurdy Thu 03-Aug-23 12:32:14

Went to Bills restaurant in Covent Garden a couple of weeks ago, and had a wonderful Santorini Salad, with Feta cheese, watermelon, pumpkin seeds, tomatoes, cucumber etc

I thought "well I can replicate this at home", so today is the day for a Santorini Salad at home.

The plate is prepared and looking very tempting, and the last thing I do is sprinkle a generous helping of what I thought were pumpkin seeds, only to find when I started eating it, that I've liberally sprinkled dried green lentils over it.

I am now, instead of thoroughly enjoying my lunch, sitting picking green blimmin' lentils out of it.

Anyone else had one of those moments?

TwinLolly Sat 05-Aug-23 12:45:52

These have brightened up my day!smile

Unigran4 Sat 05-Aug-23 15:54:28

And similar to Doodledog and NannyTopsy I ran out of deodorant so crept into my daughter's room very early one morning to borrow some of hers whilst she was asleep. It was only after I had sprayed a generous helping under each arm, that I realised it was her glitter spray!

Aveline Sat 05-Aug-23 16:15:02

grin

HurdyGurdy Sat 05-Aug-23 16:22:35

Oh my goodness, there are some absolute belters on this thread.

Thank you all for sharing your various mishaps. I've had such a laugh reading them.

AskAlice Sat 05-Aug-23 16:27:16

My daughter, on her honeymoon abroad, took a large helping of green beans from the hot buffet. She had a mouthful and discovered they were green birdseye chillies!!!

mrswoo Mon 07-Aug-23 16:20:16

Once, when we were viewing a house for sale the vendor insisted he make DH and I cup of coffee before we left. Being quite polite people we said nothing as we sipped our “ coffee’ - which had been made with curry powder. shock

Aldom Mon 07-Aug-23 16:28:54

Oh mrswoo that sounds awful. It reminded me of the time a friend and I visited a mutual friend. When offered a hot drink we chose a fruit tea. Off to the kitchen went our friend. She returned with cups of fruit tea to which she had added milk. It was revolting. We pretended to drink the tea, then I offered to take the 'empty' cups to the kitchen. You can guess what I did with the contents of the cups. grin

Skydancer Mon 07-Aug-23 16:40:20

I once cooked a chicken curry for four of us. It wasn't bad. Nobody commented on it. Later in the day I realised I hadn't actually put the chicken in. It was still in the fridge.

MayBee70 Mon 07-Aug-23 16:42:52

eddiecat78

Oh, and I also thawed out a tub of rhubarb to make crumble - it was celery

Easily done grin

MayBee70 Mon 07-Aug-23 22:31:41

I still remember going on a school trip to London Zoo and putting sugar on my fish and chip lunch instead of salt. I then had to pretend that I was enjoying it ( it was horrible!).