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Love them. Unless you get the potluck nazi in the mix who tries to control and coordinate how many salads, who's bringing what, "Oh, no dear you can't bring another pasta dish..."
I'm fine with this being planned. At one of my previous workplaces, we would do a sign-up with room for x number of entrees, x number of sides, whatever. if it wasn't broken out into categories, lunch was 10 bags of chips, a couple of varieties of Lofthouse sugar cookies, and about a 20 people scrapping over the contents of a single bucket of fast food chicken.
I loved them and still do we had one lady she was german and she would make the best struedel and omg I loved that stuff . Then the Asian lady brought cabbage rolls and I always made a pig of myself over those too . I took a homemade pizza and a chicken paprikash and everyone gushed over that ....
Love them. Unless you get the potluck nazi in the mix who tries to control and coordinate how many salads, who's bringing what, "Oh, no dear you can't bring another pasta dish..."
I have never been to a potluck that didn't have a list of some sort.
I always bring my Teriyaki chicken wings.
I like them okay. If I could just grab my food and go back to my office, I would enjoy it more. It's the obligatory socializing that comes with the potluck that I can't stand.
We had a Christmas potluck where I worked and all the single guys brought something from a grocery store bakery. One of the engineers brought a frozen pie, straight out of the box - it still had ice crystals on it.
We had a Christmas potluck where I worked and all the single guys brought something from a grocery store bakery. One of the engineers brought a frozen pie, straight out of the box - it still had ice crystals on it.
Oh, I have seen the Sara Lee frozen pies at potlucks, too...LOL! That and the round tub of cookies they sell at gas stations and quick marts. I've even seen people set a box of Little Debbie swiss rolls on the food table. I worked with a guy a long time ago who would bring a big bowl of apples. It's funny---no one picked an apple during the luncheon, but a few days later, all of apples (and the frozen pie pieces and Little Debbies!) disappeared!
I like pot-lucks of all types as long as people are actually cooking the food.
Things that I get tired of at potlucks:
1) Potato and tortilla chips in the bag
2) Costco food
3) Fast foods of all sorts - especially hamburgers
As for Filipino food, bring it on. I used to have a staff of Filipino employees. When they came to the US, I put them up in a room with a kitchenettes. They started bringing me lunch everyday. Great food, but after a while, I had to decline as I did not want them spending their per diems on my lunch.
Love them.
I work with a very diverse bunch. They bring everything from jerk to pancit to sio pao to curried stew chicken to patties to falafel to tarama, etc.
I like pot-lucks of all types as long as people are actually cooking the food.
Things that I get tired of at potlucks:
1) Potato and tortilla chips in the bag
2) Costco food
3) Fast foods of all sorts - especially hamburgers
As for Filipino food, bring it on. I used to have a staff of Filipino employees. When they came to the US, I put them up in a room with a kitchenettes. They started bringing me lunch everyday. Great food, but after a while, I had to decline as I did not want them spending their per diems on my lunch.
Well, the last potluck I went to, I brought some killer pastries from my local French patisserie. They disappeared in a heartbeat.
I don't bake.
I love potlucks. I don't even mind when people bring chips. I love chips, too!
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