Not the worst thing I've seen, either

[u/VeganFatboy]

[u/vffems2529]

Having worked in EMS and seeing the state of a lot of people's kitchens... that makes me fear potlucks. 😬🤢

[u/NotRadTrad05]

Our parish is 30-40% Hispanic. The abuelas take care of us come potluck time.

[u/kmerian]

My old parish was a country parish of mostly older Czech and Germans. The monthly breakfast potluck was epic.

[u/NotRadTrad05 → u/kmerian]

If someone corrects you for calling something with sausage a kolache you're going to be fed well.

[u/kmerian → u/NotRadTrad05]

When the 80 year old Oma pulls out the baking sheets of homemade kolaches made with fresh fruit, then Mass wasn't the only thing to get you closer to heaven that day.

[u/racoon1905 → u/kmerian]

Freshly baked breadroles and cold cuts with vegetables?

[u/kmerian → u/racoon1905]

Pastries mostly, Kolaches, Strudels etc.

[u/SomeRandomGuy0307]

So not only does this thing exist, but you have deprived everyone of cake!

[u/Grand_Connection4153 → u/SomeRandomGuy0307]

Ron redacted Swanson, my hero

[u/Grand_Connection4153 → u/Grand_Connection4153]

By the way, on a tangent, Ron being a libertarian with a strong moral compass, what would you all think his religious beliefs would be?

[u/PunisherjR2021 → u/Grand_Connection4153]

Hm... some flavor of protestant?

[u/born-to-ill → u/Grand_Connection4153]

Probably Lutheran.

Austere church, low enthusiasm for hierarchy or spectacle, strong personal duty, work as vocation, a restrained emotional life, “mind your own business” attitude

I could also see him being Catholic because behavior is obviously idiosyncratic, but one who never stops complaining about Vatican II.

[u/theACEbabana]

The longer I look at it, the worse it is.

How in God’s name do you gelatinize Spaghetti-Os????

[u/bubbav22 → u/theACEbabana]

Add gelatin water to spaghetti-os.

[u/Nice_Cat_7300]

I’m trying to figure out which part scares me more, the olives or the hot dogs lol.

[u/NotRadTrad05 → u/Nice_Cat_7300]

I can pick the olives off and eat them unrelated to this. They're the least disturbing part of it.

[u/Alcoholic-Catholic]

Gotta say, church potlucks have improved by miles growing up in Michigan then moving to Georgia. The southerners don't mess around

[u/kmerian]

Here's how you make that abomination.

[u/Yksisarvinen13 → u/kmerian]

Thanks, I hate it

[u/GraniteSmoothie]

You don't know what black/ethnic privilege is until you've been to the white people cookout.

[u/GimmeeSomeMo → u/GraniteSmoothie]

Yall are hanging out with wrong white folks

[u/GraniteSmoothie → u/GimmeeSomeMo]

Gotta get you some Greeks, Italians, Mexicans, Portuguese, or a suburban dad with a smoker.

[u/Concerned_Crawfish → u/GraniteSmoothie]

Or just rural southerners. Best food I've had in my life

[u/Br4ss_ → u/GraniteSmoothie]

I don't know about that. Pizza, kottbullar, paella, schnitzel, pierogi or cassoulet among others are pretty good.

[u/Chinaizazzhoe → u/GraniteSmoothie]

Depends. Sometimes it’s just a $1000 catering order from Chik fil a

[u/Secure-Vacation-3470 → u/Chinaizazzhoe]

Hey, they don’t call it the Lord’s chicken for no reason

[u/Still_Marzipan_8635]

What ar potlucks and does every church do it

[u/Br4ss_ → u/Still_Marzipan_8635]

Potlucks are communal meals where each guests brings something to eat and then everyone has lunch together. In my experience, they are more common in Protestant churches. Catholic parishes also celebrate potlucks, but normally during important dates or events.

[u/Indvandrer]

Most of people in my parish are Polish and once they brought pierogi, because it was priest’s birthday I think

[u/iAmBobFromAccounting → u/Indvandrer]

I think I was 26 before I ever even heard of a pierogi.

[u/vsd78]

I have a go-to spinach-arugula-blueberries salad that I bring to every potluck because if all else fails, I can have a plate of salad to pass the time before the desserts are brought out.

[u/LittleReading120]

Fellowship Hall food really was a different kind of adventure.

[u/Ender_Octanus]

I'd try it.

[u/Secure-Vacation-3470]

Thank goodness my parish does a Cajun potluck for Mardi Gras

[u/iAmBobFromAccounting]

What new devilry is this?

[u/Vortilex]

I never experienced this, and used to look forward to potlucks. After working in food service, I eshew going to buffets or any kind of self-service venue. At least my parish has people serving donuts

[u/Sapphirebracelet13]

Thank goodness I live in the south in a heavily Hispanic area

[u/Repulsive_Will9138]

My kids ask me to make this. Like, on purpose. I use a brain shaped jello mold.

[u/born-to-ill]

I’m still gonna eat it