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 Posted By: CanMan 
Nov 20  # 21 of 41
The same one that forgets to turn on the oven. :D
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 Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy 
Nov 20  # 22 of 41
Quote chubbyalaskagriz wrote:
Wow- many great stories, all! :)

Having cooked in commercial kitchens for years- I can tell a few good stories too- however, we in the culinary union are sworn to secrecy and prohibited from ever sharing bad secrets that might turn folks' stomachs so badly that they never eat out ever again! Ha! :)

I never took that oath...chuckle chuckle!:p
So there was a guy that I once knew and he relayed this story to me, he worked at a milk bottling company, his job was at the vats of buttermilk and he had to make sure the paddles stirred the stuff constantly and did not hang or quit churning. Well he smoked cigars and kept them in his shirt pocket. Lo and behold one night the paddles quit turning properly he had to lean over the vat and get those darned paddles going again. Now he got it done and decided to go have his customary good cigar break when he was done. Went outside & reached for his cigars and they were gone, vanished, and it slowly dawned on him...THE BUTTERMILK VAT:eek: He ran back in and lo & behold there was tobacco churning away with that big old vat of Buttermilk! He got scarred and found a big net and started scooping tobacco out and finally got all of it out! Next the delima hit him, what to do next tell or not to tell...well in the South and no UNION protection for Dairy Factory workers and for fear of loosing his job...he never uttered a word. And that buttermilk shipped as any normal batch would. And nary a soul was wise to his misdeed>>>>except me;) And now 20 some odd years after the fact now everyone at SpicePlace knows!!!:D
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 Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy 
Nov 20  # 23 of 41
Quote CanMan wrote:
The same one that forgets to turn on the oven. :D

:D LMAO!!! Darn............
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 Posted By: CanMan 
Nov 20  # 24 of 41
Quote Cook Chatty Cathy wrote:
......and lo & behold there was tobacco churning away with that big old vat of Buttermilk!
I never took that oath either and your story reminds me of my early days in the Navy having mess duty very early in the morning after a long night of typical sailor behavior. Three of us are sitting around a huge vat cracking eggs in to it for the morning's scrambled eggs. It's bad enough when cigarette ash drops in, and occasionally a cigarette that was hanging loosely from hung over lips, or the already forming embryo, but this one morning the guy next to me suddenly empties his whole stomach from the night before in to the eggs. There was too many eggs to toss out, so we quickly swirled the mess into the eggs and kept our silence. :eek:

And that is one of my 'nicer' stories. Anybody that has been in the service knows.

For the rest of my Navy career I refused to eat scrambled eggs.
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 Posted By: Mama Mangia 
Nov 20  # 25 of 41
Can Man -

all I can say is OMG!

I've seen my fair share in restaurants - I dont' even want to go there.