# Food to Annoy Party Guests **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506 "2000-11-24T04:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/1 "2000-11-24T04:56:40Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47868) thread made we wonder what kind of food would you serve if you wanted to annoy your guests. Here’s my list: [ul] [li]cheese in a can[/li][li]Spam (right from the can with the gelatin)[/li][li]Wonder Bread[/li][li]Underwood Deviled Ham[/li][li]Ritz crackers[/li][li]olive loaf or that nasty processed ham with embedded cheese[/li][li]Velveeta[/li][/ul] And for dessert, Circus Peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/2 "2000-11-24T05:07:26Z")
Remind me to never come to one of your dinner parties. Gross. And what is up with your sig? Is JDT that stupid? So much doubletalk and rambling makes me think he is a democrat. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/3 "2000-11-24T05:08:57Z")
Rice cakes… ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/4 "2000-11-24T05:12:55Z")
**fnord** Well, I’ve never actually served any of this stuff. This is a hypothetical. 😉 And yes, he is that stupid. [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47817) the thread. ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/5 "2000-11-25T09:17:39Z")
Oddly enough, I thought, the only food that _everyone_ turned down the one time I made it (back in college) was banana splits. This seemed perfect to me at the time, the thing I’d seen them all eat in the Student Union at other times. It was a good day for it, and we’d arrived mid-afternoon after a concert where no food was served. But it bombed, I had no takers. They wanted me to scrounge for chips, which I didn’t have. I couldn’t eat alone and the sundaes all turned impossible to refreeze in a few minutes, so I had to toss them. I was crushed. In retrospect I should have been pissed. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/6 "2000-11-25T10:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*Rice cakes… > > \*\* Two more words … goat cheese. Heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/7 "2000-11-25T10:19:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47868) thread made we wonder what kind of food would you serve if you wanted to annoy your guests. Here’s my list: > [ul] > [li]cheese in a can[/li][li]Spam (right from the can with the gelatin)[/li][li]Wonder Bread[/li][li]Underwood Deviled Ham[/li][li]Ritz crackers[/li][li]olive loaf or that nasty processed ham with embedded cheese[/li][li]Velveeta[/li][/ul] > And for dessert, Circus Peanuts. > \*\* These are some of my favorite foods! ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/8 "2000-11-25T10:53:55Z")
I love Circus Peanuts. Where in the hell is ricepad? –Tim ---
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/9 "2000-11-25T12:13:00Z")
Cooked sushi Hogshead cheese Haggis Fruitless fruitcake (one of my favorites) Or Chicken Shortcake, Frankfurters in Gelatin, or Green Balls - real recipes featured on this site: [http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/500/index.html](http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/500/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/10 "2000-11-25T15:07:11Z")
Can I be your bartender? Milwaukee’s Best Lite (served warm) Wild Irish Rose (both straight and mixed with Coke) White-Zin-in-a-box wine coolers of all sorts Southern Comfort ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/11 "2000-11-25T16:41:00Z")
Snooooopy said: > [@](#): > > Two more words … goat cheese. Two more words: Head cheese. Serve them do-it-yourself sushi. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/12 "2000-11-25T17:20:10Z")
One of my friends served a giant bowl of beef jerky during his last party. I thought it would bomb, but everyone was chowing down. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/13 "2000-11-25T18:23:22Z")
I don’t think those foods would annoy party guests, I think it would do something more like sicken them. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/14 "2000-11-25T18:28:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > \*\*Two more words … goat cheese. Heh heh. \*\* Goats smell bad. Everything that comes from goats has that same smell. and it stays with you long after it went down your stomach (see, even your stomach knows better) and _melted_ goat cheese. ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/15 "2000-11-25T19:23:29Z")
If you want to really annoy your guests…chocolate exlax frosted cake. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/16 "2000-11-25T19:43:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\* > [li]Ritz crackers[/li] \*\* What’s so wrong with Ritz crackers. I actually kind of like their butterry goodness. Especially with peanut butter. Great, now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/17 "2000-11-25T20:04:13Z")
Manny years ago I had a jointly-hosted-with-a-friend party (i.e., manny guests I didn’t know) at my place. It was the holidays and somebody, I think at work, had given my a joke assortment of horse turds all wrapped up in plastic, each sitting in its own little whatever-you-call-those-ruffled-paper-things that chocolates come in. I just set it out on the table by the chips and dip and veggies - it was quite obvious what it was. Great party! Lots of people, a well stocked bar (I remember one guy who was tanked heeded my advice to not drive home and pushed his car home ~1 mile),… Anyway, cleaning up aftwerwards, we found the plastic wrap broken and sitting on top of the box was half a horse turd with french onion dip around its edges. _Bon appetit!_ ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/18 "2000-11-25T20:41:47Z")
Sort of hijack - sorry, but unless I want to spend many hours wondering, I really have to ask what is cheese in a can? I must be missing something very obvious, but I don’t see why cheese would need to be in a can. I gather from the context that it is not a very popular item, but why anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/19 "2000-11-25T20:57:33Z")
**Celyn,** it’s called Easy Cheese. It’s aerosol cheese. At least that’s what I assume Porcupine is speaking of. The cheddar variety is what I buy with wheat crackers when I know absolutely no one is looking. Shall I forward this to the TMI thread? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506/20 "2000-11-25T21:01:29Z")
Two words that really do not belong together: **Head cheese** And don’t forget the **Vienna Sausages** and **pickled pig’s feet**! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-to-annoy-party-guests/42506.md?page=2)