We've got a couple of folks leaving our team, so we're having a potluck today. I brought some meatballs and a nice turtle pie (you know, chocolate, nuts & caramel & whatnot). One of my supervisors brought some sloppy joe's, we've got some potato salad and other sides. Potlucks can be cool if enough people participate and bring some cool stuff. Anybody who works in an office environment will know what I'm talking about. What do you guys like to bring to these things?

OdysseyMiles said:

copious amounts of liquor and weed.

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

Uhhh....yyyeah.....that's.....not gonna go too well with the coffee cake. Mkay?

in the summer I bring my pasta salad. It's overflowing with fresh veggies and basil, full of color and flavor...YUMMMM

in the winter, I bring either my veggie mexican rice or veggie chili. I like to show coworkers that food CAN taste good, even if it isn't made of meat

I was gonig to bring in some homeade brownies.. which i was told were the BEST brownies ever.. incredibly moist. Got the recipe off allrecipes.com.. Gotta say, they were the ultimate!

I like to bring a crab mousse.

summer potluck = pasta salad or potato salad (my 'tato salad is the BEST)

winter potluck = meatballs

i'll bring the ambrosia

lillith said:

Do you find it difficult to eat other folks' 'tato salad sometimes? That's a sensitive dish for some reason. It always seems like nobody's is as good as yours or your mom's.

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

Milton! What's happening. I'm gonna need you to move your desk.....

OdysseyMiles said:

i do!!! i will eat other peeps 'tato salad however with each and every bite i'm thinkin 'mines better'!!! i didn't name mine the best...i have had countless people tell me. but of course...i agree

Oooh!! Somebody just brought some shrimp cocktail! Someone else brought some Chips and conqueso!! Goodness, these food days are like being on a cruise. You find yourself just munchin' and munchin'. I'm gonna be doin' some extra cardio this weekend!

lol @ 'team'. you've been brainwashed (as most of us have).

i do a good cheesecake (more creamy than rich), devilled eggs, the standard spinach dip. i work with women who love to eat and fortunately cook, so our food days are infamous. the whole company's back in our little corner of the world. one day they did dogs and kraut and no lie, some of these heifers were eating hotdogs at 6am.

i'm all over the vegetables and dip. this one woman i work with - i can't stand her as a coworker but damn the bitch can cook. she made these things, i christened them 'love bars'. they knock me in the back of my knees and i have to sit down. she brought them to volleyball one time and i ate like... five.

starkitty said:

I know, right? Trust me, I use the term loosely.


Now way!! Sick! (would love to have seen that though)



What's in the "love bars"? Bet they got chocolate in 'em. Give it up!

i don't even know. they have maybe a bottom layer of graham cracker - not sure if there's karo syrup or not, but yeah chocolate chips and a layer of something that makes you weak.

starkitty said:

Makes you weak? Like ya wanna take a nap afterwards? Sounds great. Anything with chocolate and graham crackers is a gift from God. Like Wonka bars!

OdysseyMiles said:

no, weak like you have to sit down because you can't even focus on standing anymore.

starkitty said:

Uhhh.....wow. Is...she...using.....HEMP?
Ya know what? Nevermind. It just hit me. I know the reason you christened them "love bars". Sounds like the treats hit Miss Starkitty in her "sweet spot".

where's the Krispy Kreme? it's not an office function w/o Krispy Kreme.

mochalox said:

Man, those are a staple in most offices. Probably to the point of being played out. Pus, they'e downright lethal. Nothing should taste that good. One Krispy Kreme probably has about a zillion calories.
You ever had one of those things fresh off the line? Melt in your frickin' mouth.

nesseone said:

Word.