• Soapbox@lemmy.zip
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    Church potluck every Sunday when I was a kid. A whole buffet line of jello based not dessert dishes. Usually peas in green jello, shredded carrots in orange jello,or hotdog in jello abominations. If not jello, there were at least 10 mayonnaise based atrocities.

    I ate a lot of dinner rolls.

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      I still can’t do potlucks because my parents forced me to eat all sorts of random bullshit at the church potluck, because they felt like being seen eating someone’s dish conferred some weird church status.

      “Go over and tell Miss Borley how much you liked her chicken liver and salmon casserole.”

      On the other hand, this also contributed to my powerful disdain for church, so I guess that’s something. The only way out is through… a senile lady’s disgusting casserole, or something.

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        “Go over and tell Miss Borley how much you liked her chicken liver and salmon casserole.”

        Okay, Mommy!

        goes over and vomits all over Miss Borley

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        I was a stubbornly picky eater. So thankfully my parents never made me do that, as I would have simply accepted a punishment rather than take a bite of any of that shit.

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      6 hours ago

      In defense of my old church:

      Pizza biscuits.

      Get Pillsbury biscuit dough, slap down one, slap down mozzarella, marinara, pepperoni/sausage, slap down another biscuit over top, do this 12 times, cover and bake.

      Sorta like a poor man’s calzone… or, arguably, they’re just super sized pizza pockets.

      Don’t pair well with grape juice imo, but they were honestly pretty good.

      We did eventually get an Italian soda station bar type thing, no clue if we just aped that from the Mormons or came up with it independently.

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      Apparently I missed out. Post church social time was coffee and pastries. The big meals were normal (turkey with mash, green beans, and cranberry sauce, for example).

      But I’ve read the cookbooks.