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Reagan1k

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16 minutes ago, Bat Guano said:

Chili with a little weed mixed into the frying oil. People will have a nice mellow afternoon without really knowing why.

Yes, I'm fucking serious.

No beans, of course.

Well they never knew what hit em
When that potion went to work.
They had accountants doing back flips
H.R. looking up their skirts
They were singing hallelujah and Willie Nelson songs.
Boss said it was the best dang pot luck
That the office had ever thrown.

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Bat Guano

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2 minutes ago, Reagan1k said:

Well they never knew what hit em
When that potion went to work.
They had accountants doing back flips
H.R. looking up their skirts
They were singing hallelujah and Willie Nelson songs.
Boss said it was the best dang pot luck
That the office had ever thrown.

Nah, nothing like that. Don't put in enough to really get people stoned,  just enough to take the edge off.

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luke duke

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Update.  Went with deer and bacon chili.  Just made the batch and it's sitting on the counter cooling.  
 
Bitches at work probably will turn their nose up.  I told the boss what my plan was on Friday, and he gave me a fist bump.  


Make sure that everyone knows that it’s deer. That way none of the women eat any.
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Well they never knew what hit em
When that potion went to work.
They had accountants doing back flips
H.R. looking up their skirts
They were singing hallelujah and Willie Nelson songs.
Boss said it was the best dang pot luck
That the office had ever thrown.
Well done, sir. +rep given.
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utee94

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

I can safely say I did not pull a Kevin.  Crockpot full of chili delivered and warming at this moment.

I'm definitely interested in how your venison chili goes over, keep us posted. :)

No work pot lucks for me this year.  I guess our planning committee was busy doing something else.

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Pancho

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I hate these. 

I just stuck to the stuff that was brought it from legitimate restaurants. The homemade stuff, I put on my plate just to be nice. Brought both plates (2nd plate was nothing but desserts) back to my office where I proceeded to heat up my ground turkey/ground chicken hash and eat that with my almonds and protein shake. 

 

There was pizza, wing stop, homemade Japanese something, homemade Chinese something, some weird rice salad that was cold, a mango cake, and veggie spring rolls. 

 

 

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Bill Brasky

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it was several years ago but someone brought some kind of dessert tamale that was mashed sweet potatoes in a corn husk with raisins and cinnamon added

I made gumbo one year and half the people there thought it was some kind of fancy gravy to put on their turkey and dressing.   fucking savages.  

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I hate the potluck.  You gotta pay attention to your coworkers hygiene.  The nose picker.  Nope. That dude that smells like vomit and shit. Nope.  Also you get insight into their personal life.  The one that brings some weird game concoction like nutria and tegu lizard casserole.  “Is that menthol in that meat loaf?”  

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21 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

I hate the potluck.  You gotta pay attention to your coworkers hygiene.  The nose picker.  Nope. That dude that smells like vomit and shit. Nope.  Also you get insight into their personal life.  The one that brings some weird game concoction like nutria and tegu lizard casserole.  “Is that menthol in that meat loaf?”  

I'm intrigued.  What is the general nature of your business that you work with so many cast-offs?

 

 

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One of the benefits of the COVID pandemic is that it killed off our annual office pot-luck we always had in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  They talked about bringing it back this year, but it didn't gain any traction thank goodness.

Instead we're taking off early one day next week and doing a team happy hour at Pinthouse, on the company dime.

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6 minutes ago, utee94 said:

One of the benefits of the COVID pandemic is that it killed off our annual office pot-luck we always had in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  They talked about bringing it back this year, but it didn't gain any traction thank goodness.

Instead we're taking off early one day next week and doing a team happy hour at Pinthouse, on the company dime.

For the past couple of years, we've had an apparent head of party planning, who has started a Thanksgiving lunch before Thanksgiving.  Instead of just announcing it, she asked a group of us this year, and we told her that not a single person ever wants to eat Thanksgiving lunch the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.  Only partially deterred, she found an excuse for us to gather to eat pecan pie the week before Thanksgiving.  Happy hour really is a better solution to all of this.  There, if you want to eat, you eat; if you want to drink, you can drink; if you want to chill and make small talk, you do you.  Or, if you want to skip it all together without having to take time off of work to do so, have at it.  But stop forcing us to eat together at 3 p.m. in the middle of the week.  Also, your husband's famous grilled turkey is DAF.

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1 hour ago, Texzilla58 said:

I hate the potluck.  You gotta pay attention to your coworkers hygiene.  The nose picker.  Nope. That dude that smells like vomit and shit. Nope.  Also you get insight into their personal life.  The one that brings some weird game concoction like nutria and tegu lizard casserole.  “Is that menthol in that meat loaf?”  

Don’t forget the cat people that have an animal living in their house that shits and pisses in a box indoors and then walks around on the kitchen counters. 

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billfromlaketravis

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We had a potluck about a month ago for Thanksgiving. The Christmas luncheon today was thankfully catered.

Every year the Cajuns go all out, and every year people won’t touch their brown jambalaya or shit brown stuffing. It tastes great, but your average 26 year old is not touching that stuff. Might need to spruce it up with a crockpot manufactured after the Carter Administration. 
 

I gently suggested to the jambalaya guy that maybe he could make a version with tomatoes because people in Houston are familiar with it. Of course he lost his shit. In a low shout he said that’s how the Creoles make it! I make mine Cajun style!  
 

 The worst are these lazy/cheap assholes that bring Hawaiian rolls. Every year we have about a half dozen people do this. 
 

Department of about 140, and I’d say 4 people can actually cook. I had some good corn pudding and green beans with pork and tomatoes this year. 
 

I pity the pie people the most. They drop $40 at House of Pies and nobody touches it. 

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Luckily I’ve reached the point in my career a while ago where I will never attend one again unless I want to. Covid did help kill it off. I don’t want to eat near most of these people let alone eat something they prepared

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5 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

We had a potluck about a month ago for Thanksgiving. The Christmas luncheon today was thankfully catered.

Every year the Cajuns go all out, and every year people won’t touch their brown jambalaya or shit brown stuffing. It tastes great, but your average 26 year old is not touching that stuff. Might need to spruce it up with a crockpot manufactured after the Carter Administration. 
 

I gently suggested to the jambalaya guy that maybe he could make a version with tomatoes because people in Houston are familiar with it. Of course he lost his shit. In a low shout he said that’s how the Creoles make it! I make mine Cajun style!  
 

 The worst are these lazy/cheap assholes that bring Hawaiian rolls. Every year we have about a half dozen people do this. 
 

Department of about 140, and I’d say 4 people can actually cook. I had some good corn pudding and green beans with pork and tomatoes this year. 
 

I pity the pie people the most. They drop $40 at House of Pies and nobody touches it. 

Well, is he Creole or is he Cajun?

 

In the end, these are most definitely first-world problems, I recognize, despite my statements of protest above.

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11 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

We have our's next Friday.  It rotated by month.  Yes, my school does this each month.  I was going to make chili but someone thought a monthly theme would be great.  Our theme is appetizers and desserts.  Yay.

Chili can be an appetizer.  Do it!

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