It is a rule of Southern Hospitality: In order to have enough food for a gathering, you have to have too much food. You want people to feel like they can take as much as they like without feeling bad. You want the last person in line to still feel like they’re at a feast. You want enough to send some home with Stephen for his wife because you know she wanted to be here. And you want leftovers for yourself because after hosting, you are going to be wore slap out and not feel like cooking for a while.
I don't come from a big family that did any potlucks and I'm from the south. My husband was born and raised Alaskan(which is where I live now) and has a huge family.... I never even really knew what potlucks were like until l came up here, and his family has LOADS of food. They invest in takeaway boxes from Costco, there's so much food. Think like 30-40 people who all bring something. It's amazing.
In my family we have a similar rule when deciding how much food to prepare for family gatherings: "Think of the most ridiculous amount possible, and then double it."
I have worked in healthcare for decades and that is how hospital potlucks are! *Everyone* will get enough to eat and it's acceptable to take a reasonable amount home with you. One floor used to do Thanksgiving every year. Three nurses from that floor would do the main dishes- turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy. Everyone else would bring appetizers, other sides and desserts. So much food, lawd! Even if you didn't bring anything, you were welcome to eat.
One year at the department holiday feed I brought a pumpkin cake roll. It lasted the first 12 guys out of around 65. Some people at pot lucks are just pigs.
Don't forget the "picker": the person who steals all the meatballs from the spaghetti and meatballs, the shrimp from the seafood dish, the "ends" of all the meats, cakes and meatloaves.
Don't forget "The Hoverer." That's the person that hovers around the table, looking at everything to see what's there before it's officially time to eat so they can strategize and optimize their meal. They also hover close by so they can be first in line. It's me. I'm The Hoverer.
It depends on how hungry I am. If I'm at a "not hungry, but I can eat" hunger level, I'll hover around the tables and mentally choose the best foods to eat. But if I'm at a "so hungry that I will eat just about anything, including the plate," then I'll shoot for the 3rd or 4th position in line, not first in line. Wouldn't want anyone to think I was hungry, you know ;)
Sometimes with good reason. I used to work as staff at a state university - some staff would go treasure hunting at the dorms on move out day. Students will leave behind all kinds of stuff- furniture, rugs, etc. One of the "shoppers" came back with half empty containers of cooking oil. No one ate anything she brought to potlucks after that.
I was once in charge (on site) of a potluck associated with a barn dance. I didn't put everything out all at once. I kept duplicates in the kitchen and replenished as the evening wore on. People got mad with me because I put out all the homemade stuff first and brought out the store bought stuff later on. Sorry, but your grocery store pie has less value than someones homemade cobbler.
My sister in law invited her new friend to a back yard bbq. We all brought homemade stuff and the friend brought three pounds of Walmart macaroni salad. Not a noodle touched 😂
One time I went to a church potluck with no sign up sheet and no traffic director. It was all desserts with a few buckets of fried chicken - BEST POTLUCK EVER!
I was part way thru ur comment & thought u were complaining. I was thinking “nothin wrong wit that”. Then I read ur last sentence and said “oh ok. Someone making some sense”
One time our extended family Easter lunch had no desserts, just some extra doughnuts someone had leftover from breakfast! Normally there were like 8 desserts but something crazy happened that year.
The way to fix that problem is one simple rule: bring a main dish or two that is sufficient to feed your family in the case that y’all had to eat *only* what you brought. (this ensures that there’s enough food to go around.) And if you wanna bring a dessert that’s extra; never bring just a dessert. Or just a salad! Think of what would happen if everyone did?!?
Sign up sheets or “contact ____ to coordinate what you’ll bring is new to me in just the past few years. We used to just bring whatever and somehow it all worked out.
My dad was a preacher at a little church in a farming community when I was little. The church potlucks were always amazingly sumptuous. Then when I got older, he became pastor of a church in metropolitan LA California. The first potluck we had at the church THEY RAN OUT OF FOOD! I couldn't comprehend how that was possible!
My husband makes amazing pies and people go for his pies before they get their dinner so they don't miss out. It's crazy! I don't like that particular kind they all go crazy for so I head for the deviled eggs 😁
@@brizaksmommy I bought a deviled egg plate at an antique store and thought..”I love them. Why not make them instead of eating them at parties, family reunions?” So I make them all the time and my husband goes nuts when he comes home and sees them in the fridge. Then I have to make him a dirty martini.....he brags to the guys and work and they CALL ME to bring them some!!!! They have magic powers over men.
Same I get a little of everything because if I got it on my plate my mother made me eat it. Once you know what is good then you load your plate properly.
I like how authentic and non-gimmicky this channel is. The subject matter is southern stereotypes, but the actors aren't caricatures of southerners. Nobody named Billy-Bob. Nobody wearing a John-Deere hat. Only a few actors speak with classic "southern" accents. At first the lack of these things was a bit of a distraction, but now I appreciate it. It proves they're genuine.
Our church potlucks are something else. The last in line doesn't have to worry about things running out--we bring enough food to feed TWO armies! We have a young college student with us and we send him home with three days worth of food! 😁
@@emilygoodman6853 I have to disagree. The salad, veggie trays come first along with chips. Then it graduates down to mains and vegetables. Desserts are on a separate table.
I have heard too many HORROR stories of people losing their favorite serving spoon. Now, that we have dollar tree, I buy serving spoons there. AMAZINGLY enough I have never lost a serving spoon I have bought at dollar tree.😊❤
As a mom of two toddlers, I'm the Juggler. As the youngest adult at my church, I'm often the Last in Line. And as a Baptist, I can't imagine anyone at the potluck throwing a hissy fit because there's two types of macaroni. Listen hon, you NEED two macaronis, AT LEAST. Or it'll be all gone before half the people come through.
Y'all forgot "The Lane Changer" when there's a church potluck with Two tables going and they hop between BOTH tables when everyone's in line because "oh that looks good!" or "Ooo I got to try some of that!"
Three other kinds of "potluck people" I would add: 1. The Indecisive One-The person who can't decide on what food they want as if their life depends on whether they want to eat meatballs or fried chicken. 2. The Stingy Server-The person who places the smallest "wouldn't feed a chipmunk" morsel of food on your plate. And you're a grown adult. 3. The "Historian"-The person who remembers how Sister Bettie's deviled eggs caused mass food poisoning at the Pastor's Appreciation church potluck in the summer of 1986. Even though Sister Bettie has done gone on to glory for over 20 years, the "Historian" continues to retell this historic event as if it were yesterday.
The end of the line guy broke my heart, LOL. I feel you, bro. I always try to make a tiny plate on my first pass, so I don't look like a pig. Then I go back and all the good stuff is gone :(
Potluck is serious business! You missed the one that’s expected to bring “their” dish to every potluck, though. Heaven forbid they try to bring something else!
Me. I made shortbread cookies once, because I was tired, rushed, and they were easy. Twenty+ years later, when there is any church dinner and I walk in, someone will ask if the cookies are "here." I rarely bring leftovers home.
I attended a potluck where I brought some chicken the host asked me to bring. It was fairly expensive takeout chicken. She took the container to the kitchen, put one portion or less on a plate, and put the rest in the refrigerator for her to take home!!! She actually brought it to work all week and ate it in front of us.
Baptists-we always bring enough for everyone and then some. In kindergarten, my sister had an assignment where they had to bring something that represented her faith. She brought a chicken casserole to represent Baptist life.
@@faethe000 That doesn't mean that my sister would identify enough with them to bring them up in a kindergarten class from years ago. Not all Southern Baptists are Klansmen. Not all Southerns are Klansmen. That is my point.
At one of my temp assignments a few years back we would do potlucks on a regular basis. Once I decided to phone it in and bring Stouffer's mac and cheese - and nobody complained. It might be cheating, but it's still really good. For the other ones, I did homemade coleslaw and German potato salad, both of which got high marks from my co-workers.
Can we all just agree that the plasticware and napkins belong at the end of the table so that you don't need to awkwardly carry them through the whole line? Also, there should be a separate drink table with it's own distinct line from the food table.
I am definitely the traffic director. I make sure everything has a place, it’s not too close to another dish, the food groups are in the right order, etc. I tried doing a potluck without doing all of that and the chaos it brewed drove me nuts! Everything was in the wrong order!
I am most definitely classified as a " juggler." Here's a professional tip, if you put your silverware and napkins in your shirt pocket that leaves a whole hand free to carry another plate. If they ever open buffets back up again, I could probably teach a class on different juggling techniques.
Robert Bailey If I am the traffic controller I always put the silverware and napkins after the food, but most people don’t think about doing it that way. If I am not the traffic controller, I get my silverware and napkin after I go through the line.
Regarding the dessert first issue, a trick we upper midwesteners use is we make a strawberry cream cheese pretzel dish that's called a "salad." That way you're eating it first but it's really an amazing dessert. Highly recommend.
Imagine hating your co workers, making a cake for the potluck that has been sitting in the back of your cabinet since you moved in. You open the package and there's dead bugs, weevils, in the mix but shrug and proceed to bake it anyway. . . then feed it to the group who say, "oh, this cake is really good." Steeple your fingers and smile, "I know..."
If that's an option that's what i'm signing up for every single time. Just as important as the food itself and i don't have to worry about giving anyone food poisoning.
Which is fine. As long as it's not the cheap plates that bend with the smallest amount of food. Also those forks where you can't finish a meal without one of the tines breaking.
You forgot "the mooch." The guy in the office who never brings anything to share, but comes right over only to socialize and help himself to a giant plate of food when there’s a potluck or a birthday cake. 😡😡😡
I am definitely a “last in line” cause my mom made me go after everyone else literally in her own words “you can not go into line until everyone else has had seconds” i hadn’t even had firsts!!! And they all wondered why I hated eating with people. Also it was the same thing on holidays I couldn’t eat anything (besides soda) until everyone had had all the food they want. Yes I know its polite to wait until everyone has their food but she made me wait until everyone had seconds to get in line. Now imagine a 9 year old (not my real age but it happened at all ages) who forgot to eat breakfast is going through church extremely hungry, church ends and they help set up and then they can’t eat for another 30 minutes while they watch people eat all that good looking food and talk to each other (Side Note: There were no children in my church at the time so I was very lonely and usually talked to the older people (like people in their 80’s or 90’s).
Ugh my SIL was like that with my niece as a toddler. She'd be so focused on getting the adults/guests fed that she wouldn't think of her until last. I remember one get together where I had served myself (probably too much) and I asked her if she had eaten yet and she shook her head so I put her on my lap and this child proceeded to down an entire adult sized portion of fried chicken, potatoes, vegetables, etc. By the time the whole line went through and my SIL started looking for her it was too late lol. She was so full she fell asleep on my lap and I got the only chicken leg that escaped her that day. I'd do it again too! No sense in making a child wait to eat when they should be served first!
The one that turns the pot-luck into a popularity contest to either show off how everyone loves their food or conversely gets depressed because there was some leftover or gets upset because someone else brought the same thing.
Y'all should make a video about when treats are split between family members, and they either fend for themselves or the one who uses complicated calculus to divide the cookie in an exact halves or the one who eats it secretly after or before it's time for dessert. It's so true y'all!🎂🍪🍩🍰🧁
I used to be like: let the kids, women and old folks go first...not anymore after being last in line guy...now I will knock Granny down to get to that mac & cheese. Lol
OMG, these people rot me to the core. I can understand anyone being poor and/or hungry, but when it's the same people all the time, and they have money for lotto tickets and cigarettes, well, that just rots my socks.
In college (some 35 years ago) a fellow resident was cutting the monthly birthday cake after a dorm meeting. She slid her thumb and pointer fingers up the knife and licked them after every cut. I asked her if she was going to lick the cake too & she got offended. I guess both of us were really put out by the situation bc her actions thoroughly grossed me out.
Oh, no, honey, visitors don't need to bring anything. I brought enough for extra. So did Kim, Betty, Linda, Tom, and the Baker family. You know they have 5 kids, so they always bring a lot. Can I get you some sweet tea?
Yea i hate when that happens too! I was visiting churches and I liked the one the one time so I went the next time my work schedule allowed..which was a couple weeks later. I felt bad because both times there ended up being meals..which I had no way of knowing. To make it worse..a lady who had introduced herself before was like..oh I see you only come when there's food... Call me petty but I decided to continue in my search for a home church. Haha
I got one for ya. This person is rare because no one has the guts to be this person. How about the person that quietly yells at other people and their kids because a 4yo doesn’t need 3 chicken breasts just to take a bite of each piece, a full plate of deserts , a bottle of water and 2 cans of soda with a sip taken from each just to throw everything away. That’s me. I get invited to a lot of pot lucks by elders just to upset the food wasters so they won’t come back. It’s a great job to have!
I won't go into the background of it but my husband and I were poor and had invited this family of 4 for supper. I told the mother to serve her family since she would know the portion size for each. They ended up with 90% of my supper in their plates, leaving the 10% for my family of 5. Then, of course, they only ate about 1% of what they took... which ended in the garbage because none of us would touch it. We never invited them, their friends or siblings ever again.
The Peddler I don’t care if they were from the South, North,East or West that was so rude thoughtless and completely bad etiquette. The mother should be ashamed of herself and her family for behaving like that.
@@laurettakhundmiri2144 I totally agree with you and when I asked her after supper and saw the leftovers she said they always put "a bit more" in their plates at home...
the last inline one, I felt that personaly and it hurts see all the beautiful food gone before you get to eat it but can still smell it the whole time.
@Elizabeth Frantes At a good Lutheran potluck there should be several tuna hotdishes all made differently along with several versions of macaroni salad.
For the record, I hate being "What's In It?" I have stomach issues, so I get the safe foods, then get fussed at for not trying your suspiciously multicolored-I mean *beautiful* new recipe. It's easier for me to avoid these.
This is why I write out an ingredient card for my Thanksgiving stuffing at my work potluck. Lets everyone know what's in it so they don't have to yell across the breakroom!
My mom would say that you should only bring food that your are proud of. If you have nothing to hide in your dish then you have no reason to snap at people who ask what's in it
I gotta be a "what's in this" too unfortunately. As a kid we found out I was highly allergic to fish and shellfish. And as an adult I found that I was also allergic to pistachios and avocado (get the same throat swelling reaction as fish). Pistachios aren't too common, but I've gotta be careful with Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes now that avocado is everywhere now.
I'm definitely "last in line". I'll get there 10 minutes early (as my mother raised me to do), wait patiently for everyone else (as my mother raised me to do), and end up at the back of the line due to my own awkwardness.
At my old church it was always meats, dumplins, and dressings at the beginning, followed by veggies of all kinds (seasoned and cooked for hours or sliced fresh from a garden), then finally cornbreads and rolls. The drinks and desserts were on a separate table. Mama and I used to get our drinks and desserts first, then find a seat, then go get in the food line. Everyone would eat until they was full as a tick and ready to pass out asleep. Absolutely delicious good times!
Here's a pro tip for those of you with a lot of small kids like me. (I have five.) Go in the church kitchen and get a tray! Put the plates on a tray when you go through the line so your 3yr old doesn't have to carry (and drop) their own plate. You won't have to juggle or make multiple trips to get everyone served.
Oh I know how this is! haha I am very familiar with all of the above. I love it! Last in Line, Dessert First, Chatter, Line Cutter and Proxy are all ones I've been before. Proxy, Line Cutter and Chatter just once though. The others plenty of times. My mom and many others in her side of the family are happy to be the to-go types as well, and it happens pretty frequently. "Don't want to let all this perfectly good food go to waste!" ...well you ain't gonna hear me complaining hahaha. Depression era mentalities coming in clutch!
We have a friend who makes a great chili relleno casserole (California, here) for potlucks. One time I was at her home and saw her make it. She tasted it and put the spoon back in the sauce. Now when I go to a party with them, I have to pass by this incredible dish that everyone raves about.
Not enough plugs for all of the slow cookers; stone cold entrees; the pig who piles his plate as high as possible; kids who clean out the dessert table; stepping on spilled food on the floor; and judging how good the meal is by how much of it is left at the end. Being a Baptist, I have these potlucks down!
Gluttony is a sin I can't abide, and I'm not even religious. The International students' club at my university had a very popular annual potluck dinner. It started out being self-serve, but they had to eventually get volunteers to serve up portions of the food, due to the problem of "plate-pilers" who figured as they'd bought a ticket, they had a right to take enough food for three people rather than just one. What would inevitably happen is the most popular items, eg. freshly-made Indian chapati bread, would run out long before everyone had served themselves, so multiple people at the end of the line were sh*t out of luck while some greedy-guts types had two or three chapatis on their plates. What annoyed me in particular was most of the greedy pigs could never actually finish all the food they'd hogged, so it ended up wasted, which is another grievous sin in my book.
The lean over look of horror of the last-in-line is so accurate. I've been that person most of my life. My dad's system of ladies first, prioritizing adults, meant that as the youngest son, I was always in the back of the line. Wouldn't ya know it, as soon as I turned 18, he "streamlined" the system so that the adults first priority was dropped, which meant that when guests were over, all the quick little kids still managed to scamper in before me!
Why do adults always get to go first?! Kids are the future and have more life ahead of them and need more sustenance therefore they should go first!😂You’re only a kid once after all and your childhood is supposed to be the best or one of the best parts of your life!
Lexie Ross kids also eat more though so that’s probably adults go first so adults can eat too without worrying about if there will be any food left or not if the kids went first there wouldn’t be as much food
Megan McKnight well kids usually don’t like to eat stuff that most of the adults do so....also adults eat more than kids until the kids are teens or are growing.
I'm the Desert First. Gotta snag that strawberry stuff before anyone else does. I also have to be the Juggler because I sometimes have to get food for my sibling. My mom is a Proxy and Juggler. My dad is the Hoverer (and is the one who my mom is proxying for). My uncle and aunt are the "bring your own food" people (so they don't have to eat other people's cooking). My aunt basically brings an entire 5 course meal. They also are "New Dishers"'-the people who bring unknown and unusual dishes to the potluck that are far out of range of the classics. Nothing wrong with it (I like trying new stuff) but almost no one else eats any of it. My grandpa is the one who I guess would be the Hoarder-takes big helpings of the dishes he likes (which is all the good ones). My grandma is the "No, I'm good/No, I'm full" Lady: she's hungry, swears she's not hungry, then eyeballs everyone elses' food until we're all uncomfortable. Eventually she caves and starts eating off my grandpa's plate. And she ends up eating more than he did. And usually eats his favorite food before he can.
I know it's unrelated to the pot luck supper scenario but I had to wear a face mask during the Corona pandemic just to get my divorce finalized so I can only imagine the chaos during a social gathering like a pot luck! 😷😬🤢
Cheaters in my household bring 20 piece Popeye's box. Don't look at me like that, you know Aunt Karen got hers from churches... At least we bring the expensive chicken.
@@cayannap6752 Do you know what people in my family, and my former drill sergeants used to tell me... If you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough. I didn't say Popeyes was bad, I just said it was cheating because you didn't cook it.
I was working up in Montana this spring and summer in an area completely inhabited by German homesteaders and Canadian immigrants. One day the boss decided to pay for the crews lunch and in the conversation in the little cafe, I found out that there are people in the United States who think potluck is a word for family's Thanksgiving dinner. They were confused when I tried to explain the concept.
At church potlucks, our minister would always stand at the potluck tables to deliver the blessing so he was first in line for the food. We loved Bill and no one minded.
That’s the passive aggressive way of telling you you’re moving too slow. Never mind the fact that you can’t move any faster than the person in front of you 🙄
That's me standing behind the person trying to pick through the casserole to make sure they don't get a mushroom on their plate or is picking all the shrimp out of the salad.
We had this one girl in our office that would stake claim to anything packaged and not eaten. Unopened soda, chips, salad, deli items, deserts etc. Once things wound down she would go around and collect everything and put them somewhere and guard them. Sometimes she would bring her husband who would provide security over the items in question. The crazy thing is she didn't buy the stuff!
Yeah, that's rude. I've donated my unused stuff so I didn't have to take it home, and in that case it's okay. But just to claim something you didn't bring without at least asking the person who did bring it is not okay. On the flipside, I've been given stuff to take home for my daughter, like leftover pizzas the dept. bought.. I guess people figure I don't feed her enough.
I am 100% a sampler, grabbing a single bite of everything and going back for seconds of my favorites. My aunt though, she's usually the one hosting and she is more of a traffic dictator; everything WILL be in order to her liking and you WILL hear about it if anything is out of place!
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I regret to inform y’all that the banana pudding is gone. My math was right.
Life is short... Eat dessert first.
Matt Mitchell you should post more on your channel you are hilarious
Dammit... I don't want that jello marshmallow fruit stuff.
Always crunch the numbers
No matter how large the banana pudding is, there will never be enough
They forgot the “everyone brought a crock pot” table that requires 17 extension cords because the room only has one outlet.
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Omg 😂😂😂☠️
Too true!!! 😆
That would cause the breaker to trip..
@@heidimisfeldt5685 And frequently does.
It is a rule of Southern Hospitality: In order to have enough food for a gathering, you have to have too much food. You want people to feel like they can take as much as they like without feeling bad. You want the last person in line to still feel like they’re at a feast. You want enough to send some home with Stephen for his wife because you know she wanted to be here. And you want leftovers for yourself because after hosting, you are going to be wore slap out and not feel like cooking for a while.
I don't come from a big family that did any potlucks and I'm from the south. My husband was born and raised Alaskan(which is where I live now) and has a huge family.... I never even really knew what potlucks were like until l came up here, and his family has LOADS of food. They invest in takeaway boxes from Costco, there's so much food. Think like 30-40 people who all bring something. It's amazing.
In my family we have a similar rule when deciding how much food to prepare for family gatherings: "Think of the most ridiculous amount possible, and then double it."
I have worked in healthcare for decades and that is how hospital potlucks are! *Everyone* will get enough to eat and it's acceptable to take a reasonable amount home with you. One floor used to do Thanksgiving every year. Three nurses from that floor would do the main dishes- turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy. Everyone else would bring appetizers, other sides and desserts. So much food, lawd! Even if you didn't bring anything, you were welcome to eat.
One year at the department holiday feed I brought a pumpkin cake roll. It lasted the first 12 guys out of around 65. Some people at pot lucks are just pigs.
Don't forget the "picker": the person who steals all the meatballs from the spaghetti and meatballs, the shrimp from the seafood dish, the "ends" of all the meats, cakes and meatloaves.
Those people are the worst.
@@AnalogWolf ok
They are also the ones who steal the strawberries and pineapple from the fruit salad.
I have people strip my flag cake of all of the berries!!!
@@missinformation916Their monsters!🥺
Don't forget "The Hoverer." That's the person that hovers around the table, looking at everything to see what's there before it's officially time to eat so they can strategize and optimize their meal. They also hover close by so they can be first in line.
It's me. I'm The Hoverer.
That's me!
This is me.
As a picky and a who made this eater I tend to do this as well.
It depends on how hungry I am. If I'm at a "not hungry, but I can eat" hunger level, I'll hover around the tables and mentally choose the best foods to eat. But if I'm at a "so hungry that I will eat just about anything, including the plate," then I'll shoot for the 3rd or 4th position in line, not first in line. Wouldn't want anyone to think I was hungry, you know ;)
Why must you call me out? Dad didn't raise no pushover, I get the good shit first.
Don't forget "Doesn't trust other people's cooking, so brings their own food".
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Sometimes with good reason. I used to work as staff at a state university - some staff would go treasure hunting at the dorms on move out day. Students will leave behind all kinds of stuff- furniture, rugs, etc. One of the "shoppers" came back with half empty containers of cooking oil. No one ate anything she brought to potlucks after that.
Dont forget people animals eat out their pot
That's me
Or only eat store bought food that has not been open
When she sniffed the cake and said, "Wal-Mart Cake" I felt that in my soul.
But she was eating off that spoon and getting it in other food...
I was once in charge (on site) of a potluck associated with a barn dance. I didn't put everything out all at once. I kept duplicates in the kitchen and replenished as the evening wore on. People got mad with me because I put out all the homemade stuff first and brought out the store bought stuff later on. Sorry, but your grocery store pie has less value than someones homemade cobbler.
I'm that person. I have no interest in the store-bought cakes or pies. I don't contaminate the food though.
My sister in law invited her new friend to a back yard bbq. We all brought homemade stuff and the friend brought three pounds of Walmart macaroni salad. Not a noodle touched 😂
@@georgettefrey1065 I was wondering if anyone else would mention that. That is a big no-no.
I love how she almost broke character and laughed at “rice based macaroni”
Good catch. You can barely see the edit to cut out her giggle!
Omg I saw that 😂
Yes. She did laugh and break character a bit.
As my pastor always says, "Eat dessert first, just incase the Lord comes back"
Life is short, eat dessert first.
Lol I LOOOOVE it!! New motto!
He sounds... obese!
Amen sister!😄🙌🏻
That's hilarious
One time I went to a church potluck with no sign up sheet and no traffic director. It was all desserts with a few buckets of fried chicken - BEST POTLUCK EVER!
I was part way thru ur comment & thought u were complaining. I was thinking “nothin wrong wit that”. Then I read ur last sentence and said “oh ok. Someone making some sense”
That was most of them when I was a kid.
One time our extended family Easter lunch had no desserts, just some extra doughnuts someone had leftover from breakfast! Normally there were like 8 desserts but something crazy happened that year.
The way to fix that problem is one simple rule: bring a main dish or two that is sufficient to feed your family in the case that y’all had to eat *only* what you brought. (this ensures that there’s enough food to go around.)
And if you wanna bring a dessert that’s extra; never bring just a dessert. Or just a salad!
Think of what would happen if everyone did?!?
Sign up sheets or “contact ____ to coordinate what you’ll bring is new to me in just the past few years. We used to just bring whatever and somehow it all worked out.
My dad was a preacher at a little church in a farming community when I was little. The church potlucks were always amazingly sumptuous. Then when I got older, he became pastor of a church in metropolitan LA California. The first potluck we had at the church THEY RAN OUT OF FOOD! I couldn't comprehend how that was possible!
That was great, spot-on! But you forgot the (classic single man, who only brings a bag of chips!) 😂
Or bag of rolls from grocery store 😮
“I’ve done the math. There are 32 people and only one container of banana pudding. You’ve gotta strike fast.”
No truer words have been spoken.
Indeed
Same with the men and deviled eggs. None left after three men hit the table.
My husband makes amazing pies and people go for his pies before they get their dinner so they don't miss out. It's crazy! I don't like that particular kind they all go crazy for so I head for the deviled eggs 😁
@@brizaksmommy I bought a deviled egg plate at an antique store and thought..”I love them. Why not make them instead of eating them at parties, family reunions?” So I make them all the time and my husband goes nuts when he comes home and sees them in the fridge. Then I have to make him a dirty martini.....he brags to the guys and work and they CALL ME to bring them some!!!! They have magic powers over men.
See my strategy is to grab the desert and the meal and the same time. That way you get to eat in the right order and the desert u want. 🧐
I was all set to claim "Sampler" until I saw she was sampling at the table. With the same fork.
Same. I thought it was gonna be where you get small amounts of everything, just to try it.
I caught that also. She sampled wrong.
Oh the double dipping!!!
I know, so gross. She's the worst.
Same I get a little of everything because if I got it on my plate my mother made me eat it. Once
you know what is good then you load your plate properly.
I like how authentic and non-gimmicky this channel is. The subject matter is southern stereotypes, but the actors aren't caricatures of southerners. Nobody named Billy-Bob. Nobody wearing a John-Deere hat. Only a few actors speak with classic "southern" accents. At first the lack of these things was a bit of a distraction, but now I appreciate it. It proves they're genuine.
A John Deer hat is not a southern exclusive. Honestly I have seen more of those in the midwest than I have in the south.
Our church potlucks are something else. The last in line doesn't have to worry about things running out--we bring enough food to feed TWO armies! We have a young college student with us and we send him home with three days worth of food! 😁
The desert dont go on the end of the table it's a whole nother separate table
Not for us was have five tables for desert
You’re right. The end of the table is reserved for chips, veggies and their dip come right before them.
@@emilygoodman6853 I have to disagree. The salad, veggie trays come first along with chips. Then it graduates down to mains and vegetables. Desserts are on a separate table.
You are correct, Ma'am. I'm beginning to suspect these people aren't real Southerners.
Extra southern points for writing out nother and not another.
Also forgot the people who forgot to bring a serving spoon with their dish and everyone has to use one of the tiny plastic utensil spoons to get some.
Bahaaaaaa!!!😂😂😂 tiny plastic spoon
And then, horror, the fork breaks inside and you can't find the piece!
I have heard too many HORROR stories of people losing their favorite serving spoon. Now, that we have dollar tree, I buy serving spoons there. AMAZINGLY enough I have never lost a serving spoon I have bought at dollar tree.😊❤
Guilty as charged! After losing so many good spoons at potlucks, I quit supplying one.
As a mom of two toddlers, I'm the Juggler. As the youngest adult at my church, I'm often the Last in Line. And as a Baptist, I can't imagine anyone at the potluck throwing a hissy fit because there's two types of macaroni. Listen hon, you NEED two macaronis, AT LEAST. Or it'll be all gone before half the people come through.
Y'all forgot "The Lane Changer" when there's a church potluck with Two tables going and they hop between BOTH tables when everyone's in line because "oh that looks good!" or "Ooo I got to try some of that!"
Don’t forget “The Good Samaritan.” Makes something for the Potluck, but doesn’t eat anything because he/she is on a diet.
My diabetic coworker made peanut butter fudge every Christmas. Never ate it; just made it to give away. That is amazing willpower.
This Good Samaritan often leads to tremendous pressure on the Last in Line by the Leftover Haters!
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I didn't ask to be called out. I just like making stuff and socializing.
have a Karen carpenter portion
Three other kinds of "potluck people" I would add:
1. The Indecisive One-The person who can't decide on what food they want as if their life depends on whether they want to eat meatballs or fried chicken.
2. The Stingy Server-The person who places the smallest "wouldn't feed a chipmunk" morsel of food on your plate. And you're a grown adult.
3. The "Historian"-The person who remembers how Sister Bettie's deviled eggs caused mass food poisoning at the Pastor's Appreciation church potluck in the summer of 1986. Even though Sister Bettie has done gone on to glory for over 20 years, the "Historian" continues to retell this historic event as if it were yesterday.
LOL!
At EVERY potluck .. whether that dish is there or not!
I'm telling you this is 💯 true FACT!!! 👌🏻👍🏻🤬🤐
Spoken like a true survivor
Lmfaooo the "gone to glory" did me in lol
The end of the line guy broke my heart, LOL. I feel you, bro. I always try to make a tiny plate on my first pass, so I don't look like a pig. Then I go back and all the good stuff is gone :(
"The Sampler" is why people get sick. Same thing happens at buffets
Also no one knows if they are using fresh ingredients or the last of a jar opened a year ago. Just saying.
Potluck is serious business! You missed the one that’s expected to bring “their” dish to every potluck, though. Heaven forbid they try to bring something else!
All my family.. EVERYONE, revolts if I'm not bringing deviled eggs, rolls, and a sweet thing. Thankfully they leave that dealer's choice.
Me. I made shortbread cookies once, because I was tired, rushed, and they were easy. Twenty+ years later, when there is any church dinner and I walk in, someone will ask if the cookies are "here." I rarely bring leftovers home.
@@ikreer9777 shortbread is so good! I keep my tamales, beans, and steak for guests only
I had a co-worker who makes the best deviled eggs, and she retired. We made her promise to still come to our potlucks! 😂😋
@@GoDDeSS428 Even if they don't like you, they'll let you in if you bring deviled eggs. I never met a deviled egg I didn't like.
The 16 dislikes are the "Last in Line" people stuck with the Wal-Mart cake.
My Walmart makes very good cake. I pity y'all.
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192, now.
Lol!!!
Haha! Yep!
I attended a potluck where I brought some chicken the host asked me to bring. It was fairly expensive takeout chicken. She took the container to the kitchen, put one portion or less on a plate, and put the rest in the refrigerator for her to take home!!! She actually brought it to work all week and ate it in front of us.
The Sampler strikes fear into my heart.
Me too. If I ever saw somebody doing that, I'd bail immediately. Nope, nope, not eating anything now, and I don't care if it's considered rude.
Baptists-we always bring enough for everyone and then some. In kindergarten, my sister had an assignment where they had to bring something that represented her faith. She brought a chicken casserole to represent Baptist life.
That is hilarious. I'm betting she's a great cook now
Shouldn't she have brought a gun and a burning cross on someone's lawn?
@@faethe000 We're Baptists, not Klansmen
@@joshuawells835 The klan has its roots in the southern baptist church. They're still tied together.
@@faethe000 That doesn't mean that my sister would identify enough with them to bring them up in a kindergarten class from years ago. Not all Southern Baptists are Klansmen. Not all Southerns are Klansmen. That is my point.
I classified as "Cheaters" until my grandmother forced me to learn how to cook. Best life skill she ever taught me.
This is actually acrered
I'm the good critic
I live in Illinois but I’m moving to Georgia I need things to know!
At one of my temp assignments a few years back we would do potlucks on a regular basis. Once I decided to phone it in and bring Stouffer's mac and cheese - and nobody complained. It might be cheating, but it's still really good.
For the other ones, I did homemade coleslaw and German potato salad, both of which got high marks from my co-workers.
You can always punt with a package of gourmet potato chips.
Can we all just agree that the plasticware and napkins belong at the end of the table so that you don't need to awkwardly carry them through the whole line? Also, there should be a separate drink table with it's own distinct line from the food table.
I am definitely the traffic director. I make sure everything has a place, it’s not too close to another dish, the food groups are in the right order, etc. I tried doing a potluck without doing all of that and the chaos it brewed drove me nuts! Everything was in the wrong order!
I am most definitely classified as a " juggler." Here's a professional tip, if you put your silverware and napkins in your shirt pocket that leaves a whole hand free to carry another plate. If they ever open buffets back up again, I could probably teach a class on different juggling techniques.
Robert Bailey If I am the traffic controller I always put the silverware and napkins after the food, but most people don’t think about doing it that way. If I am not the traffic controller, I get my silverware and napkin after I go through the line.
@@tagalonggal I'll just start bringing the free packs of plastic forks and spoons that I steal from Wendy's.😎
And get your drink last lol .. I had 5 kids .. juggling was a skill
@@robtheroadie2240 lmao!!
Me too!
Nope nope, a true southern potluck wouldn't run out of food until everyone at least had seconds. And possibly thirds.
You got that right. Lol
He was probably late
Unless the person last in line came like an hour or too late because of traffic
He was probably getting all the kids food and then making sure his wife Didn’t start an argument then got food
I've yet to attend one that even came close to running out.
Regarding the dessert first issue, a trick we upper midwesteners use is we make a strawberry cream cheese pretzel dish that's called a "salad." That way you're eating it first but it's really an amazing dessert. Highly recommend.
By upper midwest, do you mean Wisconsin? Because that's definitely a Wisconsin salad.
@@Kboyer36 Iowa but any who respect the strawberry cream cheese pretzel salad is family welcome in this household.
I love how she breaks on the rice-based pasta one 😂
I wonder how many people freaked out when she double dipped from the nanner puddin' to the cream pie?
Oh, so you heard my silent scream?
I did. BIG no-no, even before covid.
I don’t trust this potluck, I didn’t see one single jello fruit “salad”. 🤨😂
That's because this is Southern food. Jello is a vegetable down here. :D
Also, jello goes on the dessert table.
Jeff Gladu Is it? 🤣 It seems to be a side, dessert, and entree depending on whose grandma you ask.
thedungeondelver I knew macaroni and cheese was a vegetable, but not that! 🤣
They also didn’t have any mini-ham biscuits. I’m wondering what kind of people they invited.
"She's got too many cats in the kitchen." 🙌🙌🙌 Exactly why I don't do potlucks. I have seen things. 🤢
Based on what I've seen in some people's kitchens, it's not a bad idea.
Imagine hating your co workers, making a cake for the potluck that has been sitting in the back of your cabinet since you moved in. You open the package and there's dead bugs, weevils, in the mix but shrug and proceed to bake it anyway. . . then feed it to the group who say, "oh, this cake is really good." Steeple your fingers and smile, "I know..."
The last in line really got me in the feels
Theirs 32 people here and only one container of banana pudding I’ve done the math😂
"Let's get ready to rummmbllllllllllle!"
Lol!
You forgot the person who just brought the plates/forks/spoons/napkins.
That’s me. I ain’t cooking.
If that's an option that's what i'm signing up for every single time. Just as important as the food itself and i don't have to worry about giving anyone food poisoning.
I’m the one who brings the big bottle of hand sanitizer. Pre-pandemic.
Which is fine. As long as it's not the cheap plates that bend with the smallest amount of food. Also those forks where you can't finish a meal without one of the tines breaking.
@@courtneykilgore6821 Amen to that!
when I watch the videos with the older lady in them make me realize how much I miss my grandmother. God rest her soul
They forgot the pile it so high on their plate forgetting other people need to eat.
You forgot "the mooch." The guy in the office who never brings anything to share, but comes right over only to socialize and help himself to a giant plate of food when there’s a potluck or a birthday cake. 😡😡😡
We had a guy at work that brought his own plate and fork whenever there was food.
Or the “chip guy” brought one bag of ships then eats a huge heaping plate and goes back for seconds before most have gotten firsts.
We have that guy in our office. 😤
Jean Bean 🤣🤣🤣
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The “Who Made This?” is the most relatable. Not everybody knows how to cook
Increasingly the norm in our fast food, all convenience world.
I saw that meme of the person making pasta salad in their sink and it’s all I can see now at potlucks
I have trust issues with people known to not wash their hands.
@@AMcDub0708 I've seen collards in a bathtub. Nope!
That’s me, but only cause I want to know who to compliment when it’s something I like, or ask for the recipe later...
I am definitely a “last in line” cause my mom made me go after everyone else literally in her own words “you can not go into line until everyone else has had seconds” i hadn’t even had firsts!!! And they all wondered why I hated eating with people. Also it was the same thing on holidays I couldn’t eat anything (besides soda) until everyone had had all the food they want. Yes I know its polite to wait until everyone has their food but she made me wait until everyone had seconds to get in line. Now imagine a 9 year old (not my real age but it happened at all ages) who forgot to eat breakfast is going through church extremely hungry, church ends and they help set up and then they can’t eat for another 30 minutes while they watch people eat all that good looking food and talk to each other (Side Note: There were no children in my church at the time so I was very lonely and usually talked to the older people (like people in their 80’s or 90’s).
That is child abuse. Children eat first!
Children don't eat much, I don't understand making them wait till the adults have eaten
You poor thing! Why were your parents so restrictive? It seems mean
Not okay! I am sorry she did that to you. ((Hugs))
Ugh my SIL was like that with my niece as a toddler. She'd be so focused on getting the adults/guests fed that she wouldn't think of her until last. I remember one get together where I had served myself (probably too much) and I asked her if she had eaten yet and she shook her head so I put her on my lap and this child proceeded to down an entire adult sized portion of fried chicken, potatoes, vegetables, etc. By the time the whole line went through and my SIL started looking for her it was too late lol. She was so full she fell asleep on my lap and I got the only chicken leg that escaped her that day. I'd do it again too! No sense in making a child wait to eat when they should be served first!
Oh, my goodness, the chatters! They're just in a world of their own, bless their hearts. All you can do is just manouver around them.🤣
Forgot the one who is serious about eating and wont talk to anyone. Our joke is Luke dont hear good when he is eating
When the last in line dude comes up and the sad funeral music starts to play LOL
Mahi Mahi I bet he’s early next time!
@@samiam619 oh yeah!
That was my last job. We had too many people who seemed to be laying out their next 4 meals.
The one that turns the pot-luck into a popularity contest to either show off how everyone loves their food or conversely gets depressed because there was some leftover or gets upset because someone else brought the same thing.
Y'all should make a video about when treats are split between family members, and they either fend for themselves or the one who uses complicated calculus to divide the cookie in an exact halves or the one who eats it secretly after or before it's time for dessert.
It's so true y'all!🎂🍪🍩🍰🧁
I used to be like: let the kids, women and old folks go first...not anymore after being last in line guy...now I will knock Granny down to get to that mac & cheese. Lol
Haha 😂
Me first. Others 2nd
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Damn i am glad i live in md
Jason Lowry, I'm a granny and I'll fight ya' back! LOL!
You forgot the”. Eats everything, but brings nothing”
Chatters? Never. At work potlucks we had 15 minutes to eat. Silence
I always saved a plate for late comers or last in line guys
OMG, these people rot me to the core. I can understand anyone being poor and/or hungry, but when it's the same people all the time, and they have money for lotto tickets and cigarettes, well, that just rots my socks.
Yall forgot the one teen/preeteen that just kinda hovers in a corner not eating anything or talking to anyone.
I love that Matt the man who does the bless your rank played the food critic role very funny
The “Sampler” is the reason I don’t participate in potlucks and buffets.
It reminded me of George in Seinfeld...lol
Hopefully they’ll go extinct with the corona virus (or at least evolve to use a different, previously-unused, clean fork for each dish)
In college (some 35 years ago) a fellow resident was cutting the monthly birthday cake after a dorm meeting. She slid her thumb and pointer fingers up the knife and licked them after every cut. I asked her if she was going to lick the cake too & she got offended. I guess both of us were really put out by the situation bc her actions thoroughly grossed me out.
CSmith 4029 eww. Just... no.
@Santoine Bethel 🎯
As a stranger, invited to a church service, finding out a potluck followed, I felt horrible being empty handed.
Southern hospitality is so true ya'll
Oh, no, honey, visitors don't need to bring anything. I brought enough for extra. So did Kim, Betty, Linda, Tom, and the Baker family. You know they have 5 kids, so they always bring a lot. Can I get you some sweet tea?
@@DenisJava 😄🤣😄 that is almost word for word what they said too!
@@DenisJava you are a True Southerner! How's your mama-n-them?
Java Jones bless you sweetheart because my Ma’am will fry me alive if she found out I went somewhere empty handed.
Yea i hate when that happens too! I was visiting churches and I liked the one the one time so I went the next time my work schedule allowed..which was a couple weeks later. I felt bad because both times there ended up being meals..which I had no way of knowing.
To make it worse..a lady who had introduced herself before was like..oh I see you only come when there's food...
Call me petty but I decided to continue in my search for a home church. Haha
The last-in-line really hit home.
I need a hug now.
The chatters are literally my mom and grandma if a bring up anyone I know 😂 they're always connect somehow lol
I got one for ya. This person is rare because no one has the guts to be this person. How about the person that quietly yells at other people and their kids because a 4yo doesn’t need 3 chicken breasts just to take a bite of each piece, a full plate of deserts , a bottle of water and 2 cans of soda with a sip taken from each just to throw everything away. That’s me. I get invited to a lot of pot lucks by elders just to upset the food wasters so they won’t come back. It’s a great job to have!
I won't go into the background of it but my husband and I were poor and had invited this family of 4 for supper. I told the mother to serve her family since she would know the portion size for each. They ended up with 90% of my supper in their plates, leaving the 10% for my family of 5. Then, of course, they only ate about 1% of what they took... which ended in the garbage because none of us would touch it. We never invited them, their friends or siblings ever again.
The Peddler I don’t care if they were from the South, North,East or West that was so rude thoughtless and completely bad etiquette. The mother should be ashamed of herself and her family for behaving like that.
@@laurettakhundmiri2144 I totally agree with you and when I asked her after supper and saw the leftovers she said they always put "a bit more" in their plates at home...
Thank you for your public service Sir. It makes potlucks a better place.
That's how I sneak the extra food home to eat... Off my kids plates and onto a Togo order!
The 13 dislikes are the ones that were not invited to the potluck.
They're the ones guilty of all of these transgressions. They don't see what's wrong with any of it.
No, it just wasn't funny.
The double dipper, the sneezer, the takes huge helpings of the best dishes and throws most of it away...
the last inline one, I felt that personaly and it hurts see all the beautiful food gone before you get to eat it but can still smell it the whole time.
That is so true because I live in the south and when we have church gatherings I eat all my food and there is only one more scoop of bannana pudding
Lol every church potluck from my childhood.
Mine too. Lol
@Elizabeth Frantes At a good Lutheran potluck there should be several tuna hotdishes all made differently along with several versions of macaroni salad.
For the record, I hate being "What's In It?" I have stomach issues, so I get the safe foods, then get fussed at for not trying your suspiciously multicolored-I mean *beautiful* new recipe. It's easier for me to avoid these.
This is why I write out an ingredient card for my Thanksgiving stuffing at my work potluck. Lets everyone know what's in it so they don't have to yell across the breakroom!
My mom would say that you should only bring food that your are proud of. If you have nothing to hide in your dish then you have no reason to snap at people who ask what's in it
I have IBS, so I get you. It's been a decade, I've stopped being embarrassed about asking
I’m a loud and proud “What’s in it?” No allergies. Just a picky eater. Love me or hate me. 😃
I gotta be a "what's in this" too unfortunately. As a kid we found out I was highly allergic to fish and shellfish. And as an adult I found that I was also allergic to pistachios and avocado (get the same throat swelling reaction as fish). Pistachios aren't too common, but I've gotta be careful with Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes now that avocado is everywhere now.
It’s crazy how accurate this is
As a sanitary sampler and juggler I can verify that these are things we do.
I'm definitely "last in line". I'll get there 10 minutes early (as my mother raised me to do), wait patiently for everyone else (as my mother raised me to do), and end up at the back of the line due to my own awkwardness.
Gurl, same. But while I'm waiting for the dinner line to die down, I usually visit the dessert table, so I'm a "Dessert first" as well!
tricityladytn
Yep 👍 I hit the dessert table first, but set it on the table to claim my spot while I fix my dinner plate.
Our mothers just messed with our heads when we were young 😐
MisterHot
They sure did 😞
I am a 1st in line person. Thank you!
I hate when people double dip just gross.
It’s gross and they need to be exposed and called out for their sin!
@@AMcDub0708 Absolutely.
The line cutter.."excuse my boarding house reach"😁
At my old church it was always meats, dumplins, and dressings at the beginning, followed by veggies of all kinds (seasoned and cooked for hours or sliced fresh from a garden), then finally cornbreads and rolls. The drinks and desserts were on a separate table. Mama and I used to get our drinks and desserts first, then find a seat, then go get in the food line. Everyone would eat until they was full as a tick and ready to pass out asleep. Absolutely delicious good times!
Here's a pro tip for those of you with a lot of small kids like me. (I have five.) Go in the church kitchen and get a tray! Put the plates on a tray when you go through the line so your 3yr old doesn't have to carry (and drop) their own plate. You won't have to juggle or make multiple trips to get everyone served.
That is the most beautiful thing I have heard!
Do I have to have kids to use multiple plates and a tray?
Where were you with this wonderful tip 10 years ago when my kids were little? 😂
@@robtheroadie2240 love it!🤣
Best idea ever. I will do this next time.
Oh I know how this is! haha I am very familiar with all of the above. I love it! Last in Line, Dessert First, Chatter, Line Cutter and Proxy are all ones I've been before. Proxy, Line Cutter and Chatter just once though. The others plenty of times. My mom and many others in her side of the family are happy to be the to-go types as well, and it happens pretty frequently. "Don't want to let all this perfectly good food go to waste!" ...well you ain't gonna hear me complaining hahaha. Depression era mentalities coming in clutch!
4:00 "Why are we still here, just to suffer?"
Lmao I'm the food critic, and the "what's in this" people are why I started laying recipe cards next to my dishes .
That’s an excellent idea, I’ve done that but low and behold….they still asked…🤦♀️
Honestly fantastic idea. Prevents people from accidentally eating something they’re allergic to or having to ask people if it’s safe for them.
Ha! I once went to a gay church group potluck. Every dish had a recipe card next to it! They also ate off china and used real silverware. 🙂
No dish on a potluck ever runs out. Fake News.
I love how they picked Matt for the food critic role lmao
Well, he DOES host the Bless Your Rank videos after all!
Always! He is Always the food critic!
We have a friend who makes a great chili relleno casserole (California, here) for potlucks. One time I was at her home and saw her make it. She tasted it and put the spoon back in the sauce. Now when I go to a party with them, I have to pass by this incredible dish that everyone raves about.
🤦🏽♀️ lol
The "Whats in this" was so good. Her crack at the end of one of her lines killed me.
Not enough plugs for all of the slow cookers; stone cold entrees; the pig who piles his plate as high as possible; kids who clean out the dessert table; stepping on spilled food on the floor; and judging how good the meal is by how much of it is left at the end. Being a Baptist, I have these potlucks down!
Gluttony is a sin I can't abide, and I'm not even religious. The International students' club at my university had a very popular annual potluck dinner. It started out being self-serve, but they had to eventually get volunteers to serve up portions of the food, due to the problem of "plate-pilers" who figured as they'd bought a ticket, they had a right to take enough food for three people rather than just one. What would inevitably happen is the most popular items, eg. freshly-made Indian chapati bread, would run out long before everyone had served themselves, so multiple people at the end of the line were sh*t out of luck while some greedy-guts types had two or three chapatis on their plates. What annoyed me in particular was most of the greedy pigs could never actually finish all the food they'd hogged, so it ended up wasted, which is another grievous sin in my book.
The lean over look of horror of the last-in-line is so accurate. I've been that person most of my life. My dad's system of ladies first, prioritizing adults, meant that as the youngest son, I was always in the back of the line. Wouldn't ya know it, as soon as I turned 18, he "streamlined" the system so that the adults first priority was dropped, which meant that when guests were over, all the quick little kids still managed to scamper in before me!
Joseph Douglas so that started the system of whoever’s first wins and whoever is last loses.
Start hosting your own. Your house, your rules. And you can get your plate first before everyone....🤷🏼♀️
Why do adults always get to go first?! Kids are the future and have more life ahead of them and need more sustenance therefore they should go first!😂You’re only a kid once after all and your childhood is supposed to be the best or one of the best parts of your life!
Lexie Ross kids also eat more though so that’s probably adults go first so adults can eat too without worrying about if there will be any food left or not if the kids went first there wouldn’t be as much food
Megan McKnight well kids usually don’t like to eat stuff that most of the adults do so....also adults eat more than kids until the kids are teens or are growing.
The Referralist
"You've GOT to try that. It's really good. Have you tried THAT stuff? Make sure you get some."
This is Every...Single...Church potluck I've ever been to. Thanks.
I'm more of a 'one of each' and 'tester' then 'my favorites'
A kindred spirit! Rest assured you're not alone in being a tester, followed by faves. We're not finicky at all lol.
Right?! Small scoops now, actually enjoy the big scoops later!
0:18 bruh, shes using the same fork
Even before COVID, I would be pissed.
And this is why I never eat at potlucks outside of immediate family potlucks 😒
Brittany Neal Of you always go first.
I think that was the joke..
I would like to state for the record that I am NOT a "sampler" in real life. 🤢
I'm the Desert First. Gotta snag that strawberry stuff before anyone else does. I also have to be the Juggler because I sometimes have to get food for my sibling.
My mom is a Proxy and Juggler.
My dad is the Hoverer (and is the one who my mom is proxying for).
My uncle and aunt are the "bring your own food" people (so they don't have to eat other people's cooking). My aunt basically brings an entire 5 course meal. They also are "New Dishers"'-the people who bring unknown and unusual dishes to the potluck that are far out of range of the classics. Nothing wrong with it (I like trying new stuff) but almost no one else eats any of it.
My grandpa is the one who I guess would be the Hoarder-takes big helpings of the dishes he likes (which is all the good ones).
My grandma is the "No, I'm good/No, I'm full" Lady: she's hungry, swears she's not hungry, then eyeballs everyone elses' food until we're all uncomfortable. Eventually she caves and starts eating off my grandpa's plate. And she ends up eating more than he did. And usually eats his favorite food before he can.
"Cats in the kitchen" made me laugh. We also avoided the cat lady's offerings.
I don't blame anyone who would refuse to eat anything the cat lady brings to the potluck! 🤮
What about the "what the recipe?" person for each dish.
In the time of Corona, the double-dipper (“The Sampler”) has me clutching my pearls!
Yeah, that's just unsanitary, no matter what's going around.
I know it's unrelated to the pot luck supper scenario but I had to wear a face mask during the Corona pandemic just to get my divorce finalized so I can only imagine the chaos during a social gathering like a pot luck! 😷😬🤢
The last one in line - oh the inhumanity !
Can't forget me. The Architect. Master of balance and owner of the tallest tower on the tiniest plates.
Being from a poor southern family all our potlucks had 14 different kinds of deviled eggs and rolls.
And of course you have to try every one of them
Cheaters in my household bring 20 piece Popeye's box. Don't look at me like that, you know Aunt Karen got hers from churches... At least we bring the expensive chicken.
Hey. Bringing good fried chicken is NOT cheating. A fresh box of Popeyes Louisiana is an automatic free pass.
@@cayannap6752 Do you know what people in my family, and my former drill sergeants used to tell me... If you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough. I didn't say Popeyes was bad, I just said it was cheating because you didn't cook it.
True...but Churches Chicken gives you BIGGER pieces of Chicken.....
Sounds like you from Chicago 🤭
@@BossLadii71 nope, the Sipp
I was working up in Montana this spring and summer in an area completely inhabited by German homesteaders and Canadian immigrants. One day the boss decided to pay for the crews lunch and in the conversation in the little cafe, I found out that there are people in the United States who think potluck is a word for family's Thanksgiving dinner. They were confused when I tried to explain the concept.
At church potlucks, our minister would always stand at the potluck tables to deliver the blessing so he was first in line for the food. We loved Bill and no one minded.
What about the ones who stand WAY too close behind you?
Literally breathing down your neck
That’s the passive aggressive way of telling you you’re moving too slow. Never mind the fact that you can’t move any faster than the person in front of you 🙄
That's exactly why personal bubble space was invented lol
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That's me standing behind the person trying to pick through the casserole to make sure they don't get a mushroom on their plate or is picking all the shrimp out of the salad.
We had this one girl in our office that would stake claim to anything packaged and not eaten. Unopened soda, chips, salad, deli items, deserts etc. Once things wound down she would go around and collect everything and put them somewhere and guard them. Sometimes she would bring her husband who would provide security over the items in question. The crazy thing is she didn't buy the stuff!
Yeah, that's rude. I've donated my unused stuff so I didn't have to take it home, and in that case it's okay. But just to claim something you didn't bring without at least asking the person who did bring it is not okay.
On the flipside, I've been given stuff to take home for my daughter, like leftover pizzas the dept. bought.. I guess people figure I don't feed her enough.
Got one of those
Well, there's a lot of difference between just taking food home you didn't bring and being _offered_ it.
Ahhhhh, The Scavenger!
Oh my goodness the nerve!!
2:50 And there's nothing wrong with that🤣
I am 100% a sampler, grabbing a single bite of everything and going back for seconds of my favorites. My aunt though, she's usually the one hosting and she is more of a traffic dictator; everything WILL be in order to her liking and you WILL hear about it if anything is out of place!
This has got to be one of the most relatable videos I’ve ever seen!