A Saturday Question

Posted By Laughing_Wolf

After work and such this week, I'm a bit fried. Rather than go for serious this morning, I thought I would share a short tale and see if any of you would care to share you worst/funniest/etc. field culinary experience for a laugh.

In my case, I was not the one who did it -- honest. In any group or team, civilian or military, there are people that you rapidly determine just are not the best choice for certain jobs. Yet, dictates are that sometimes the job, like cooking, has to rotate so that everyone has a turn. No matter how unsuited they were for the task.

Years back, when the crust had barely cooled and dinosaurs walked the Earth, meals were not always for the individual and ready to eat. Breakfast was almost always a group affair, and we had quickly learned who did what the best and adjusted the schedule so that they had the duty at the appropriate time. It also meant that the least culinarily inclined, such as "M" as I shall call him, had the easiest times.

Well, we thought it would be hard for M to mess up. However, none of us ever expected him to mistake cups of water for quarts of water when making pancakes from mix. Yep, instead of cups of water he put in quarts of water. We all stared, glared, and hit our carefully horded supplies of bait and dumped in packs of oatmeal and anything else we had that might bulk it up enough to be cooked in the time available. No go. We drank what we could of the uncooked concoction, sucked it up, and moved on.

We did laugh about it fairly quickly, though I am sure that M was glad to see that day end. We razzed him about it for quite a while though. Guess we still are in a way.

So, any of you care to share?

LW

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A Saturday Question

After work and such this week, I'm a bit fried. Rather than go for serious this morning, I thought I would share a short tale and see if any of you would care to share you worst/funniest/etc. field culinary experience for a laugh.

In my case, I was not the one who did it -- honest. In any group or team, civilian or military, there are people that you rapidly determine just are not the best choice for certain jobs. Yet, dictates are that sometimes the job, like cooking, has to rotate so that everyone has a turn. No matter how unsuited they were for the task.

Years back, when the crust had barely cooled and dinosaurs walked the Earth, meals were not always for the individual and ready to eat. Breakfast was almost always a group affair, and we had quickly learned who did what the best and adjusted the schedule so that they had the duty at the appropriate time. It also meant that the least culinarily inclined, such as "M" as I shall call him, had the easiest times.

Well, we thought it would be hard for M to mess up. However, none of us ever expected him to mistake cups of water for quarts of water when making pancakes from mix. Yep, instead of cups of water he put in quarts of water. We all stared, glared, and hit our carefully horded supplies of bait and dumped in packs of oatmeal and anything else we had that might bulk it up enough to be cooked in the time available. No go. We drank what we could of the uncooked concoction, sucked it up, and moved on.

We did laugh about it fairly quickly, though I am sure that M was glad to see that day end. We razzed him about it for quite a while though. Guess we still are in a way.

So, any of you care to share?

LW

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