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

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!).

eddiecat78

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

Easily done

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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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!

These have brightened up my day!

My OH queried why the dog treats were so small, and I needed to complain as they were a quarter of the normal size. It was only when I put my glasses on to read the order number I discovered I had bought senior size (a senior moment 😀). At 45 kilos the dog is not impressed.

Not knowing that my grandmother had rearranged her baking stuff - I happily weighed out and baked six ounces of salt instead of castor sugar .

It was the most revolting cheesecake !

We had a friend who bought her meat in bulk so usually bought half a pig and froze it. She took a joint out with out her glasses defrosted it and on the Sunday morning still without her glasses prepared the joint and put it in the oven. When she put her glasses on to check two ears were sticking up she had got the pigs head instead of another joint and couldn't see the ears.
Another time my mum went to see her she was busy making dresses for her daughters with material she had bought for curtains,after that she always wore her glasses.

PS I wear my glasses in the pool now.

Not food related but a real visual epic fail. I was just walking down into a swimming pool when I saw a large lady wearing the same swimsuit as me. I pointed at her and laughed hoping she'd think it funny too. She gave me a strange look and swam away. Of course I realised while changing afterwards that I was wearing my other swimsuit. She must have thought I was laughing rudely at her.

Fleurpepper

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!)

Showing off in Paris, I told reception I needed another ear ( pillow oreiller/ oreille)

And my wee German neighbour asked in the corner shop if the bottle was Essig (vinegar) for her tomato salad, and was assured it was. Fortunately, turpentine does have quite a distinctive smell.

Sorry, I digress, back to Specsavers!

My mum sprinkled fish food (instead of cinammon) on top of the rice pudding she'd made - cooked it, served it up, we all ate it - then she realised her mistake!!

I was working in a cafe in Asda and an old man came up to me and said there was something wrong with the vinegar on his wife's fish and chips. It turned out that she had squirted one of our purple antibacterial sprays all over it! Not only had she not noticed the bright purple colour but she had gone behind the counter to find it because it wasn't the sort of thing that was left out for the customers. I had a quick look down the list of ingredients and we decided that as it was safe for use in a food area the bit she had tasted probably wouldn't do her any harm.

Because both are in our spongebag I ought to explain.

My OH invariably takes off his glasses before nighttime bathroom visit. If we're on holiday he invariably confuses the toothpaste tube with Anusol... Pavlov suggested he'd learn, but he doesn't! 😂

My brother replaced the toothpaste on the sink with a carefully painted over tube of Amora extra strong mustard. Although meant for me, it was our father who brushed his teeth first. He did not find it amusing.

I did squirt olive oil ear drops into my eye last week instead of eye drops. Assumed that all would be ok and as my god daughter said I’ll just have a well lubricated eye ball 😆

Yes, she had a 'char' - that's what she called her.

Many years ago DH and I were having supper with an elderly friend . . . she brought in the salad and I thought there was a bit of a smell. She suddenly dashed back into the kitchen. Fortunately DH and I (having good manners thank goodness as it turned out) waited until she came back before helping ourselves to the salad. She dashed back. 'Don't eat the salad. I've made the dressing with white spirit. My char has put it on the wrong shelf in the cupboard'.

I took some pureed apple out of the freezer to make apple crumble. When it thawed it was chicken stock from a boiled carcass! Luckily no harm done as the crumble hadn't been added. Stock went back into freezer (labeled this time) replaced by real apple!