I confess! Ever Kept Quiet about an Ingredient?

@GreenMoo (11834)
April 22, 2009 12:27pm CST
What's the most dreadful thing you've ever served at the dinner table? Ever had to keep quiet about an ingredient or it's providence? Now's your chance to lift that burden of guilt and tell your guilty secret! The choice of groceries in my local supermarket is somewhat limited so when I received a recipe in my inbox recently which was based on barley grains I set it aside as impossible. But then I had a bright idea and my household gobbled up the finnished dish, proclaiming it to be delicious. So where did I find barley? I realised that I have a 40 kilo bag of it downstairs intended as rabbit feed! I'll say no more, but I did tell them afterwards. What's your guilty secret? Did you come clean after your family had cleared their plates?
5 responses
dragon54u
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
22 Apr 09
No, but I avoid telling visitors what my dogs are chewing on--bully sticks, the name for dried bull's you-know-whats!
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GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
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22 Apr 09
I avoid telling visitors that the dogs are liable to 'pre-clean' the crockery before washing it up LoL
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dragon54u
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
22 Apr 09
You, too?! Why deny them such tasty treats! My dishes are so clean I really wouldn't even have to wash them. If something is stuck on, I let Gus and Cookie work it over--better than a scouring pad! Your four are probably better than an electric dishwasher!
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GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
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23 Apr 09
I had to stop their Mum from 'pre-washing' my pans as she'd put her paws in them to keep them still and actually damage them!
positiveminded1977
@positiveminded1977 (7072)
• India
24 Apr 09
I once laboriously picked a few stout, wriggling worms from soji (semolina?) before boiling it, seasoning it, and serving it at the table. I haven't let out my "guilty" secret. People will never trust me if I tell them everything. ;) Cheers and happy Mylotting
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GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
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2 May 09
It must have been good soji if the worms it was feeding were stout & wriggly! Why remove them? Extra protein lol
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positiveminded1977
@positiveminded1977 (7072)
• India
7 May 09
Thanks a lot for the BR. :)
ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
23 Apr 09
not me, and not really ingrediants, but the roomie's grand mother once served a pie that a squirrel helped himself to a peice of first and her mom served a turkey that the cat had his way with a leg...
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GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
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23 Apr 09
Better than a pie made of squirrel I suppose! I have to fight my puppies for bread rolls so regularly that I've lmost stopped thinking of it as unusual!
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guybrush
@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
23 Apr 09
I actually wish I'd kept quiet about an ingredient yesterday - but I didn't have the chance, as my son found it first! I don't know how it happened, but he found a strip of plastic in the noodle stir-fry he took to work for his lunch. The plastic strip was the bit I'd snipped from the top of the noodle packet - I have NO idea how it ended up in the stir-fry - but it was lucky it was big enough and long enough it didn't choke him! Also lucky he has a great sense of humour and didn't mind!
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GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
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23 Apr 09
I think he should just be thankful you're making him such yummy sounding lunches!
daisy777
@daisy777 (214)
• South Africa
7 Sep 12
Hee hee, OMG, that's hilarious. I haven't done anything like that. The worst I've done is drop something on the floor and then pick it up and still put it in the pot to cook. It's the 5 second rule ha ha.
GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
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7 Sep 12
The 5 second rule is a good one. There's another you might have heard of .. it's called the 'if nobody sees you it doesn't count' rule.