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Supermarket Catering and the Potluck Dessert Disaster
from My Last Christmas · #128
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5 minTim rants about families now buying catered food from supermarkets instead of cooking, dissects the indignity of potluck desserts, and delivers an extended riff on the dessert called "dirt" made with pudding, cookies, and gummy worms.
- 7:17Baby boomers are a selfish generation that sucked everything out of the country and gave it nothing.
- 8:51People go to supermarkets to cater holiday meals instead of cooking or hiring actual caterers.
- 9:32Tim rejects the potluck dessert concept where hosts demand guests bring dessert instead of taking responsibility themselves.
- 10:24Jell-O no-bake desserts were designed to let fat people avoid ovens and just stir, refrigerate, and eat.
- 10:51Adults brought a dessert called dirt to gatherings—whipped cream, pudding, cream cheese glop topped with crushed cookies and gummy worms.
- 11:39If you host a party, you do the dessert yourself and don't trust guests to bring quality food on the cheap.
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