Non-maternal answer: Back in the days when my cooking was more...erm...experimental in nature
(i.e., before I really knew what I was doing) I managed to bugger up a simple cheese sauce. To this day I'm still not sure how I managed it, but it ended up as a sea of yellow with lumps in it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 13 Feb 2012, 13:13, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

i made grey cheese sauce once
lighty took pity and sent me a proper recipe
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 13 Feb 2012, 13:16, Reply)

Did it contain lumps? Please tell me it contained lumps
My old flatmate and I, probably just before my own cheese sauce failure, speculated on the existence of a recipe for "boring soup," which would be "grey, with lumps." Obviously the closest I could get was yellow with lumps - I'd love to be able to tell him it's possible.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 13 Feb 2012, 13:20, Reply)

yes
it had lumps
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 13 Feb 2012, 13:23, Reply)