why potlucks are a BAD IDEA

Well THAT'S a downer.

We need to keep that link for anyone who ever brings up potluck wedding again. We won't respond just share the link!

Someone come and argue this. We are all bored.

Yeah, well you know that the couples who are doing this will respond with, 'In our crowd, we always do it, it's normal, people love it, I"m doing it anyway."

But thanks for trying, lol!

Pretty much anyone who posts is still gonna do whatever they're asking is okay.

Eesh... we're doing a potluck at work tomorrow and this just killed it for me. Thanks for that...

That's tragic. And unfortunately until it happens to one of these potluck brides it won't change their mind.

This is why I don't eat food cooked by people I don't know/trust. But if I had a potluck wedding (I'm not), my mother and I would be doing the cooking and I trust us.

I totally get why potlucks don't work for weddings, but I think they're fun for other occasions. Botulism, though... Not so fun.

Oh my! That's unfortunate.

I'm so bored I can't even think of anything to say at all.

Yeah, I definitely stray away from eating food in any situation like that if I don't know who cooked it. My mom's wife wanted to go have Easter dinner at her mother's RV park which was going to be a potluck for all of the RV-ers. My mom and I looked at her like she had grown 4 heads. Seriously? You've raised me for the last 26 years and you are going to ask me to go eat dinner cooked by a bunch of people I don't know who on top of that cooked said food in an RV? Yeah negatory, I'll pass.

I don't eat potluck food EVER. Gross.

Holy crap.

I eat at potlucks, but usually it's people I know/trust and I like to stick to pre-packaged store bought items.

Years before I started at my job, someone apparently brought in baked goods that were made with her BREAST MILK as she ran out of regular milk.

Thank god that woman no longer works in my department

@karebear87 That is horrifying. She admitted this?

Apparently she admitted it. She's obviously a weirdo to ever even think of doing that AND admitting it.

She still works for the company though... hope they don't do potlucks in her department!

@karebear.... uh... ok. lol (That's just weird, but I guess milk has to come out of something/one's nipple )

Karebear OMG GROSS. ugh. I can't even.

I eat at potlucks, but I'm pretty sure I know the people who cooked the meals typically. This is really sad. We're doing a potluck beach party this summer, but we'll be cooking the hot dogs/hamburgers on a charcoal grill at the beach and I'm assuming people will be bringing beach-y food (thinking chips, veggie trays, etc).

No stranger danger food for me. If I haven't seen your kitchen I'm not eating it. LOL

@Buttons125 - LOL. I'm stealing that! No Stranger Danger Food!!!