Terrible foodBack when I was a student, we had a "clear out the fridge" party. Everyone brought what they had left and the idea was to make a big meal out of it.
The stew/casserole/whatever was going surprisingly well until someone added the tin of mackerel in tomato sauce they'd been hoarding all year.
What's the worst thing you've ever cooked or eaten? Who's the worst cook you've encountered?
[and yes, we've asked this before, but way, way back before we had the fancy QOTW pages]
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chthonic, Thu 17 May 2007, 10:23)
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Another story of chipsI work at a university, as you may know if you've read some of my previous posts. I am therefore in an environment which is full of intelligent people, who sometimes lack common sense and certain skills necessary for living life in general (and I admit I include myself in this category!)
Anyway, a friend of mine, a Chinese bloke called Fan, came to see our technician Grant one day, with a piece of charred plastic in his hand. Fan's a great bloke, and one of the brightest people I know. But here's where the common sense thing comes in.
The conversation went thusly:
G - Hi Fan. What's up?
F - My wife's away just now and I was making chips for my son's breakfast.
G - Chips for breakfast?
F - Yes, he likes chips. Anyway, I was frying them and the chip pan went on fire.
G - Oh dear. What did you do?
F - I got a bucket of water....
G - Jeez - that's the last thing you should do with a chip pan fire. It can make it much worse.
F - No, it's OK, it put the fire out. But the fuse box blew out off the wall.
The piece of charred plastic was the fuse holder. Silly bugger had shorted out his electric cooker, and then hoped Grant could fix it for him. Lucky he didn't burn the place down and kill himself in the process.
It was not recorded what his wife said/did when she got back from her trip!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 18 May 2007, 11:53,
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