# Best and Worst Appetizer?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-appetizer/995257>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [December 28, 2023, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-appetizer/995257 "2023-12-28T05:25:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-appetizer/995257/63 "2023-12-29T17:26:28Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> With mini-marshmallows, of course.

Of course!

> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> The meatballs with grape jam are much better than they sound

> [@solost](#):
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> It’s a Midwestern thing.

I just remembered an amusing plot line from an otherwise so-so “fish out of water” sitcom called “Bless this Mess” involving this particular appetizer. This is all from memory, so I won’t get the details exactly right:

Dax Shepard and Lake Bell play a NYC couple who move to a small town in the Midwest. A town pot luck is coming up, and, eager to fit in, the Dax character asks his neighbor who is organizing the pot luck if he could be assigned a sure-fire hit for a dish to bring.

She tells him “here’s one you can’t screw up and is sure to please: put equal parts grape jelly and Heinz chili sauce into a crock pot. Don’t mix. Add meatballs.”

On pot luck day he’s excited for her to try his meatball dish. She does, and immediately yells out angrily “YOU MIXED IT!!!”

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