Oops - food error!

On a weekend away with my first husband in lovely Callendar (we were living near Glasgow at the time) we were served haggis at dinner, something that we both really liked. He nonchalantly picked up the large dispenser on the table and gave his haggis a good sprinkling of - sugar! He then ate it and tried to pretend he'd done it on purpose!

I remember my mum making me a cup of cocoa made with hot milk I thought it tasted a bit weird she had made it with bisto instead of cocoa lol the tins were kept next to each in the cupboard . We always laughed when someone asked for a cocoa after that ?

Years ago I was talking to a friend who was a TV repairman. He told me about a visit he had made to a very run down and nasty area, and when he went into the very dirty flat where the TV was he found the man and woman in a bed in the living room. The woman got up to let him in and then put the kettle on, made a pot of tea, emptied the cups and refilled them without washing them and gave one to my friend. She then made him a sandwich of some kind and gave him that. He didn't like to say no, as the man (still in bed) looked like a villain, and my friend was a bit frightened. He sat on the floor behind the TV, and after he had fixed it he put the back of the TV in place, with the sandwich inside, and then left as quickly as he could. For as long as he worked for the same firm he was terrified in case he ever had to go back there.

starlily! That's made my day.

Must learn to label stuff in the freezer. Took out apple sauce but it was tattie soup! Two courses on one plate?

Sorry. Been out all day Camelot club. The poor man was in his late 70s and retired. He had no family and MIL had always spent Christmas with her late husband’s family. It was our first Christmas in England after living abroad since we married. I don’t know what he did the following Christmas but he kept well away from us?

Years ago a friend of my DH suggested to his DW that she cook a curry with rice. She wasn’t used to cooking foreign food and served it up with a tin of creamed rice pudding.

I thought of another one in my family. Years ago my Mum was making Christmas dinner in the tiny kitchen of her new house. There was just the four of us - Mum, her partner, me and DH. We'd been banished from the kitchen and the door was closed. She always got in a real tizzy about Christmas dinner. Eventually she brought out 3 prawn cocktails and disappeared back in to the kitchen saying she would have hers later.

The three of us sat there and eventually my DH whispered "Does anyone have any prawns in their prawn cocktail?" None of us did, but we decided not to say a word and just cleared our dishes. On Boxing Day she found the prawns still in the freezer. Fortunately she had chilled out enough by then to laugh about it!

When I was a student nurse I served a whole ward of men custard instead of chicken soup the first time I was put in charge of the lunch wagon. They all ate it without complaining to save me from getting into trouble with the ward sister!