Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for May 08, 2021

Years ago, after my dad’s death, EVERYONE brought potato salad when they visited. I’m not joking, I had to throw away over a gallon a day. It took quite some time before anyone could look at potato salad.

Bringing your own is the only way to be sure there will be one you like.

That’s why it’s good to have everyone pick what they are bringing ahead of time.

At our church pot-lucks those with a last name beginning A to F brought bread or salad, G to L brought an entrée, M through S a veggie, and the rest brought dessert. Hubby and I usually swapped with somebody in the entrée group, so we’d have a vegetarian dish we could eat.

The joke at our church is that since we don’t believe in “luck”, we call it a “pot trust” (trusting that everyone will be something in their pot)!

1) For potlucks, I generally brought a dish of my own invention, which both surprised and pleased everyone else.

2) But once, invited to a pot-luck birthday party when I didn’t have time to prepare anything, I decided to be “different” and bring some sushi from a restaurant near where I worked.

Arriving at the party, I found that almost everyone else had brought cake, cookies, or something with pasta. But unbeknownst to us, the birthday girl had a gluten allergy. She was so glad that I had brought something she could actually eat. 8^)

Each one used a different recipe.

I remember one potluck where about half the people brought cucumber salads.

Pot luck needs a list, sign-up for appetizer or entree or salad or side dish or dessert, with A limit on each category. (I ended-up bringing the 5th fruit salad to a picnic. Surprise, the men “organized” it )

This spud’s for you!

Oh potato salad, how I wish I could eat thee. It has been over 25 years since the last time I could enjoy potato salad.

We planned a pot luck Chinese, All but my gf bailed at the last minute so it was rice and escargot

It was on sale at the Haunted Forest Grocery Store and Deli…

This is why you really should coordinate with the host.

Where’s the beef?!

Hildie i hope you like potato salad.

At least everybody didn’t bring potato chips.

I had a secret to avoid duplicating a dish at potlucks – a 1920s cookbook by the Good Housekeeping Institute. From hors d’oeuvres to dessert I was always able to bring something new.

All too often something forgotten.

This is why you have a sign up list. I don’t even like potato salad.

Derived from “potlatch” as practiced by my ancestors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch

Hot German potato salad. With BACON!!!!!!!

Great. Four dishes of potato salad. ALL with mustard.

On the bright side, you can have a potato salad taste-off for the best batch….

The rule (after this sort of thing happened all the time) in one group I was in was, “Bring the SECOND thing you think of.” That worked. There was such a thing as too much in sync….