Company Cookbook

September 27, 2005 6:27 PM

The Company Cookbook. Have you ever attended a company potluck? Did you vote on recipes and create a cookbook to send as promo to unsuspecting clients? Warning: If you select to read this post, you take "pot luck" - what was available, not knowing for sure what you might receive. (But be sure that, with this cookbook, it will include shredded cheese). And as a bonus, things you shouldn't bring to the company potluck.
posted by tidecat (13 comments total)

No, but watch what you eat should always apply. I remember once backpacking with a girl friend. While making scrambled eggs in the morning the gnats just wouldn't stay away. She bitched about me putting pepper into the eggs without asking first, but seemed to devour them with great delight nonetheless.
posted by caddis at 8:00 PM on September 27, 2005

There's a link in the comments to this site where the food is even scarier.
posted by jrossi4r at 8:57 PM on September 27, 2005

I get a kick out of those recipes in tabloids where all the quantities are one. One cup flour, one stick butter, one pound cheese. How could it have worked out that way by chance? mustn't there be some kind of cosmic force behind it?
posted by StickyCarpet at 2:25 AM on September 28, 2005

Nicelink - what I enjoy about the recipes is the way that none of the 'ingredients' bare any resemblence to ingredients that someone who really cooks might use. Although its ubiquity suggests to me that canned mushroom soup might be the fish sauce or paremsan cheese of middle america....

BTW, I think the original one of these is here. The guy wrote a book: it was pretty good.
posted by rhymer at 3:15 AM on September 28, 2005

Oh man. I'm hungry. That breakfast casserole is good. I make it all the time. Hot breakfast every day for a week! Yes, I am a bachelor. Why do you ask?
posted by sciurus at 5:51 AM on September 28, 2005

That made me giggle so much that Robocop_is_bleeding thought I was a little crazy this morning. I'm going to bookmark that cookbook for when I'm having a bad day and need some cheap laughs.
posted by banjo_and_the_pork at 5:52 AM on September 28, 2005

Too funny, jrossi4r. I can't believe that those are real weight watcher recipe cards? A truly surefire way to lose weight.
posted by tidecat at 8:28 AM on September 28, 2005

I get a kick out of those recipes in tabloids where all the quantities are one. One cup flour, one stick butter, one pound cheese. How could it have worked out that way by chance? mustn't there be some kind of cosmic force behind it?
posted by StickyCarpet

If you ask the women in my family, those recipes are called 'Cuppacuppacuppas'. They generally require a cup of everything.

My Grandmother's peach cobbler cuppacuppacuppa is great... especially with a cup or so of ice cream.
posted by aristan at 8:31 AM on September 28, 2005

Mmmm, mold balls.
posted by Wolfdog at 9:15 AM on September 28, 2005

I feel like I'm missing something. Is that stuff supposed to be REAL food?

I didn't see anything that even looked edible. Sausage and apples and mustard?
posted by Ynoxas at 9:51 AM on September 28, 2005

Holy crap. I've not seen stuff like that for years. One of my friend's parents had a cookbook with delicacies such as "Beef Bullets" (looked like faeces) and Curried Sheep Brains. Maybe it ended up influencing those guys.

As for the ubiquity of the cheese. Bloody hell, even in Scotland we dont eat shit like that any more. Well except for deep fried pizza occasionally.
posted by ClanvidHorse at 11:14 AM on September 28, 2005

But, but... I like mongoose bread.
posted by Specklet at 12:42 PM on September 28, 2005

Someone please tell me that this, this, this, and this really do taste good as long as you don't actually look at them.
posted by SisterHavana at 1:15 PM on September 28, 2005