# Why I HATE office potlucks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-office-potlucks/71135 "2001-07-03T21:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-office-potlucks/71135/21 "2001-07-05T18:49:09Z")
P.S. My officemates, to whom I just sent a link to that recipe, are all screeching at their monitors and then pounding into my office to demand to know where I found such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-office-potlucks/71135/22 "2001-07-05T20:36:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*Hey, I found him! Man, this is weird. I love the Internet. > > [http://www.surrealgourmet.com/html/recipes/fries.html](http://www.surrealgourmet.com/html/recipes/fries.html) > > All his recipes aren’t “faux”. This is the best one that’s on the website, fake French fries made out of pound cake, with raspberry sauce for “ketchup”. > > \*\* I have his most recent book, and I’ve made the dishwasher salmon - it’s really good! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-office-potlucks/71135/23 "2001-07-06T00:00:37Z")
This is from the Surreal Gourmet site; \*\* > [@](#): > > “The ultimate compliment came from a waitress in Toronto who took me aside and whispered ‘every time I make your Caesar salad for a date, I get laid’.” \*\* Is it just me, or does this sound like a really stupid thing for a woman to say? I mean, let’s face it, getting laid is not the hardest thing in the world for a woman to achieve. A woman usually doesn’t have to make any special salad for her date; pretty much all she has to do is be warm and breathing (and the breathing may be optional for some guys). [/surreal gourmet hijack] ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-office-potlucks/71135/24 "2001-07-06T00:26:27Z")
The guys who work in our receiving department _never_ bring _anything_ to our potlucks, but guess who hangs out in the breakroom the most? One time, my wife, who is a gourmet baker, made a basket full of an assortment of cookies…people gobbled down the chocolate chip, peanut butter and sugar varieties, with the raisin-oatmeal ones lagged behind. When I was in the breakroom, one guy (who hadn’t brought anything) sat down, picked up a cookie and started picking off the raisins and throwing them _on the floor_. I asked him what the hell he was doing… “I don’t like raisins.” “Okay, 1.) you didn’t bring anything, so don’t take anything; 2.) if you don’t like raisins, don’t eat the cookies and finally 3.) stop throwing food on the floor!” “yeah, I guess you’re right…” Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-office-potlucks/71135/25 "2001-07-06T00:39:29Z")
Well, I’m a single, male, computer geek but I manage to cook a little bit. And I even take it in to work, sometimes because I don’t want to pig out on a batch of oatmeal raisin cookies or a whole lasagna by myself. And so far, no one’s reported being poisoned. But I do that on my own. If the edict came from on high that There Will Be A Potluck, that would take some of the surprise out of it. At the moment I’m trying to find fresh cherries for a cherry pie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-office-potlucks/71135.md?page=1)