Oops - food error!

When I was a student nurse I served a whole ward of men custard instead of chicken soup the first time I was put in charge of the lunch wagon. They all ate it without complaining to save me from getting into trouble with the ward sister!

I thought of another one in my family. Years ago my Mum was making Christmas dinner in the tiny kitchen of her new house. There was just the four of us - Mum, her partner, me and DH. We'd been banished from the kitchen and the door was closed. She always got in a real tizzy about Christmas dinner. Eventually she brought out 3 prawn cocktails and disappeared back in to the kitchen saying she would have hers later.

The three of us sat there and eventually my DH whispered "Does anyone have any prawns in their prawn cocktail?" None of us did, but we decided not to say a word and just cleared our dishes. On Boxing Day she found the prawns still in the freezer. Fortunately she had chilled out enough by then to laugh about it!

Years ago a friend of my DH suggested to his DW that she cook a curry with rice. She wasn’t used to cooking foreign food and served it up with a tin of creamed rice pudding.

Sorry. Been out all day Camelot club. The poor man was in his late 70s and retired. He had no family and MIL had always spent Christmas with her late husband’s family. It was our first Christmas in England after living abroad since we married. I don’t know what he did the following Christmas but he kept well away from us?

Must learn to label stuff in the freezer. Took out apple sauce but it was tattie soup! Two courses on one plate?

starlily! That's made my day.

Years ago I was talking to a friend who was a TV repairman. He told me about a visit he had made to a very run down and nasty area, and when he went into the very dirty flat where the TV was he found the man and woman in a bed in the living room. The woman got up to let him in and then put the kettle on, made a pot of tea, emptied the cups and refilled them without washing them and gave one to my friend. She then made him a sandwich of some kind and gave him that. He didn't like to say no, as the man (still in bed) looked like a villain, and my friend was a bit frightened. He sat on the floor behind the TV, and after he had fixed it he put the back of the TV in place, with the sandwich inside, and then left as quickly as he could. For as long as he worked for the same firm he was terrified in case he ever had to go back there.

I remember my mum making me a cup of cocoa made with hot milk I thought it tasted a bit weird she had made it with bisto instead of cocoa lol the tins were kept next to each in the cupboard . We always laughed when someone asked for a cocoa after that ?

On a weekend away with my first husband in lovely Callendar (we were living near Glasgow at the time) we were served haggis at dinner, something that we both really liked. He nonchalantly picked up the large dispenser on the table and gave his haggis a good sprinkling of - sugar! He then ate it and tried to pretend he'd done it on purpose!

Years ago my exH and I were house hunting and viewed a not very nice flat which we knew straight away we wouldn’t buy. Although we wanted to leave ASAP we were young and too polite to refuse the offer of a cup of coffee. Despite the fact it smelt odd, in our haste to leave, we both took a gulp of the liquid - only to discover it had been made with curry powder. ?

Minerva
Why didn't lodger have his Xmas meal at the Savoy?!

My mum once found dad trying to fry half an apricot. This was in the days when you saved every scrap of food and he'd thought it was an egg.

One pre-Christmas time, I looked after a friend's child, along with my 3, for the day, whilst his Mum worked. He told his Mum afterwards that I made lovely chips, so she asked me what I did. My children knew the answer. There'd been a sugar sifter on the table ready for the dessert, which he mistook for the salt! Apparently my children giggled but didn't say anything.

Just after my first baby was born MIL told us we would have to host her lodger as he would be on his own on Christmas Day while she was with relatives. We had been a few months in the tiniest flat with a triangular kitchen so small you could stand in the middle and reach sink, cooker and fridge. We were also broke and could only manage a small chicken, the first proper meal I had ever cooked. The baby needed feeding and the chicken overcooked and was so dry and tough our not very sharp knife made a tangled mess of it while the vegetables were all overcooked and gravy came from a packet. Our very old guest ploughed miserably through his meal while I tried to rock the baby to sleep and make small talk. It turned out he worked, and ate, at the Savoy Hotel in London. Poor man. I am embarrassed still at the thought of it.

Years ago, my father and his then partner had brought me home from the hospital after my husband had passed away - she made a cup of tea for us all, dad drank his and spit it straight out - she had only put salt in it instead of sugar (still cannot work out how as completely different containers)

Not Christmas, but my Polish neighbour was politely eating the strawberries drenched in caster sugar with cream until I joined her and realsed my hsband had covered them in salt by mistake!

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

I've been dying to tell someone my story! On Boxing Day my hubby said he'd made me a lovely cocktail. He handed it to me with an green olive floating in it. I tasted it and it was odd. Then I realised he'd used the olives that had a clove of garlic stuffed in them! I smiled and said it was delicious.

Really made me laugh Ilovedragonflies! Sorry about the dog though.

Once watched (from too far away to stop him) a friend cover his profiteroles with lashings of mayonnaise. Several of us held our breath as he rejoined us at the table only to laugh immoderately at his face when he tucked in!

LOL!! So funny. Aren't men simple! Apple turnover with ketchup, Hilarious! Once I was clearing the kitchen with my DD after dinner where I had served chocolate cake for pudding . There was a bit of chocolate on the work surface, so I scooped it up with my finger and ate it...YAK ! My DD had just fed the cat and I was eating cat food. She never let me forgot that! Good to laugh this morning in this pouring rain. Happy New Year to all!

My niece hates brussels sprouts with a passion, but this year she tucked in very happily. We were very impressed until we found out it was because she'd craftily passed the real ones under the table to the dog and replaced them with the chocolate version! The dog gave it away, funnily enough, and it didn't take too long. Believe me when I say that the side effects on humans are nothing compared to how they act on our canine friends!

One Christmas, crisis was averted when lovely SIL was spotted about to sprinkle Ajax on the Christmas roast potatoes instead of salt. The DC still mention this occasionally almost 40 years on, though she doesn’t remember.

You've all cheered up my morning, I don't remember any "food horrors" although I'm sure there must have been some.

Made my morning, I'm sat here chuckling away, makes up for the miserable weather outside

?. Don’t get this much fun from a takeaway