# Amusing kitchen accidents

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-kitchen-accidents/925829>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-kitchen-accidents/925829 "2020-11-17T22:13:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-kitchen-accidents/925829/24 "2020-11-18T19:54:14Z")

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> [@Aspenglow](#):
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> > [@markn\_1](#):
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> > The pizza, with the bottom covered with a nice slick layer of oil, promptly slid off the rack and landed on the floor upside down.
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> I couldn’t stop giggling over this. It’s a move I’d make, too.

YouTube has waaay too many videos of pizza mishaps. Far too many for all of them to be accidents as opposed to “accidents.” But, like Yakety Sax, it never ceases being funny.

> [@Is “Yakety Sax” inherently funny, or are we just conditioned into considering it funny by Benny Hill?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-yakety-sax-inherently-funny-or-are-we-just-conditioned-into-considering-it-funny-by-benny-hill/924942):
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> Random question that came to mind just now. slight_smile

@Aspenglow: a question if I may. As far as I know, large crabs are very rare up where the aspens grow thick enough to glow in the waning light. What’s the story on your icon vs. your name?  
  
  
Other kitchen follies:  
Eons ago I was making spaghetti in a tiny kitchenette. Ref my earlier post here I _had_ successfully drained the pasta and was about to dump it from the colander onto the two dinner plates that just barely fit on the narrow counter space between sink & fridge. For whatever reason I’d left the drawer under that counter open about 6-8". Said drawer being full of silverware & similar in the usual compartmented tray.

Anyhow, as I poured the pasta out of the colander towards myself, the pasta all stuck together, then all came out in a large interlocking lump, hit the plate and slid right off, filling the silverware drawer with lots of oozy starchy wet pasta. Much of which then shape-shifted Slinky style out onto the floor. But still leaving the drawer well filled with mess.

That was also the only pasta I owned, so I had none to make a second batch. Dinner was PB&Js that night. After lots of very skilled cursing. Why no, I did not have a dishwasher in that tiny kitchenette, why do you ask? But she married me anyhow, so it’s not all bad.

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