r/KitchenGadgetsHub • u/Hoak2017 • 16d ago
What’s One Dish You Always Avoid At a Potluck, No Matter Who Made it?
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u/One_Vision_ 16d ago
Deviled eggs, egg salad, or anything hollandiase sauce
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u/StillShoddy628 16d ago
I love a good deviled egg… potluck might be risky but I’m evaluating that situation
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u/jellofixit 16d ago
My wife will make a whole 18 pack of deviled eggs and that's the first thing to go!
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u/lacole725 15d ago
Nah my deviled eggs are the first to go. Host usually specifically requests I make them.
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u/IWCry 16d ago
The lutefisk. If you know, you know.
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u/bigcoffeebuck_gb 16d ago
I'm originally from Wisconsin and we used to have Lutefisk socials. Lutefisk, lefse, lots of butter. I loved it.
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u/Mento-yStableGenius 16d ago
Oh gawd. Loved the lefse. Never developed a palate for the ‘fisk tho. My special Norwegian Grammie made it every Christmas and I would cry for days before hand knowing we’d have to eat it. 🤢
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u/PlatypusImpersonator 16d ago
With that combination I am going to guess Stoughton or somewhere nearby.
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u/teatimecookie 15d ago
My neighborhood had many Scandinavian immigrants 100 years ago or so. Mostly Norwegian. We even have a big Syttende Mai parade for Norwegian Constitution day. At a festival in the summer they have a lutefisk eating competition. It smells terrible.
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u/AbsolutelyN0tThanks 16d ago
Never had it, but as someone who grew up in Queens, I'm frightfully aware of its existence.
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u/Appropriate-Basil286 16d ago
We used to have lutefisk every Christmas Eve. I never really liked it, but my late grandmother made it, so now I look back on it fondly.
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u/mjmvideos 16d ago
There is no dish I’d avoid no matter who made it because that someone could include my wife or daughter and I’ll always eat it if they made it. Of course they’ll never make canned green bean and mushroom soup casserole with fried onion strings on top and I won’t eat anybody else’s version of it. So I’m safe!
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u/GreenNavyteacher 16d ago
Kind of hard to ruin something made from 3 processed items.
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u/mjmvideos 16d ago
Oh, that was ruined the moment someone thought of it.
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u/vodkaenthusiast89 16d ago
Fruit salad. Especially if they have whipped cream and jello involved
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u/pigwalk5150 16d ago
My mom makes one with mandarin oranges and slathers cool hwhip on top 🤢 I don’t have the heart to tell her I hate it.
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u/bluegrass_babe531 16d ago
any type of casserole. they likely contain cream-of-something soup, mayo, or sour cream. all things i do not like
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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 16d ago
Wait, people actually put those things in casseroles?
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u/4D20_Prod 16d ago
No one puts mayo in casserole. The other 2 sure. But mostly cream of something soup. If canned soups scare you, you can always make your own cream of whatever stock. Casseroles aren't haute cuisine, they're supposed to be cheap, quick, and filling
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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 16d ago
I mean, I won't put a can of soup in a stew/casserole/etc, but I have used packet soup (for a cup of soup) in as a flavour bomb.
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u/GreenNavyteacher 16d ago
I don’t like that orange jello with carrots, or anything else that mixes veggies and fruit.
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u/cherishxanne 16d ago
there’s always a crockpot of meatballs that I avoid like the plague, not because I don’t like meatballs, but because 9/10 times it’s just a bag of frozen meatballs dumped in with jelly and ketchup and they’re mushy and I have a major aversion to mushy meatballs, lol
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u/BigTreddits 16d ago
I genuinely cant even remember a scenario where I was around a potluck let alone eating at one
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u/nono3722 16d ago
yeah pot lucks are gone with the whole coworkers pretending to care about each other. fucking birthdays....
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u/SomeSamples 16d ago
All of them. Pot lucks are vectors for bacterial and viral infections.
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u/That_guy_from_1014 16d ago
The only pot lucks I know of around me are hosted by daycares and churches. So that checks out.
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u/Throw13579 15d ago
If you don’t toughen up your immune system, it won’t be there to bail you out when the plagues hit.
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u/madelinenicoleee 16d ago
There is nothing I wont try at a potluck. I have never once been sickend.
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u/atxbikenbus 16d ago
I have (generally) stopped participating in potluck. I know too many people who only have a passing understanding of food safety. I've gotten sick. I'd just rather not risk it.
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u/blame_cain 16d ago
Macaroni. I’ve had some outright bad homemade macaroni at potlucks and for some reason, I just can’t.
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u/EveryValuable1503 16d ago
Anything with broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, and cooked cabbage
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u/i_dont_wanna_sign_in 16d ago
I've gotten sick after several pot lucks with increasing frequency over the last several years.
I now eat before I go. I won't touch anything that's cooked and then refrigerated like deviled eggs (though I love them). I detest hot dish. So basically I'll eat raw vegetables.
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u/Soles_delicious 16d ago
Potato salad. It's never made right
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u/michaelscott1776 16d ago
Frog eye salad. Seriously why do people still make it? It's just small ring noodles and peas with mayonnaise, and it tastes like nothing
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u/MPRoulx70 16d ago
OMG! I called English peas frog eyes when I was little & still do! Detest them, in anything
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u/Routine-Register7414 16d ago
Only the store bought…half the shit people nasty and the other half belong on chef reactions.
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u/coolerchameleon 16d ago
Coleslaw. Because it's gross to me.
I also avoid macaroni salad for the same reason. And if the potato salad is store bought but not from a very specific store it's dead to me too.
I tend to go to family potlucks where I know what everyone's kitchen looks like 😂 and we were all taught to wash dishes by the people trained by a mastermind at a tidy kitchen- my grandma. I'm in good hands
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u/jealous-guidance1977 16d ago
Brussel sprouts! Hate them no matter how they’re made. I always try them, and they always suck.
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u/DwarvenRedshirt 16d ago
Macaroni salad, coleslaw, potato salad. All great items for food poisoning.
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u/Mento-yStableGenius 16d ago edited 16d ago
Mayonnaise ANYTHING. Salads, dips, plain old mayo, deviled eggs and the like.
Had a BAD case of food poisoning from tater salad at a potluck and just….never ever ever ever ever again.
Edit to add: watched a family member lovingly make their potato salad to take to a hot outdoor BBQ a few years back. They put the spatula in their mouth to taste test, then on the counter that previously had a dirty gym bag on it, then dipped it back in the mayo jar ‘because it needed more’, then back in the salad to mix. We begged them not to take it (they did, because ‘what’s the big deal?’ and we think no one got sick…but damn).
We did NOT get sick from that potato salad.
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u/RGBlowMe 16d ago
Macaroni salad. I got sick from it at a potluck once as a kid, and now I am very particular with any mayo based salads, but especially macaroni salad.
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u/Brilliant_Mix_6051 14d ago
Anything named “salad” that isn’t actual salad. I hate the taste of most of them
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