Good idea gone bad

[CajunCamper]

A few years ago my wife and I had taken our two boys camping for a long weekend getaway to one of our favorite state parks. As we typically do, we plan our meals ahead of time and pick up most of if not all the supplies before heading out. Well on this particular trip we were going to have hamburgers for one of our meals and when it came time to cook the burgers my oldest son discovered that we had picked up hot dog buns by mistake instead of hamburger buns. Well the boys were ready for hamburgers and they wanted to know how we were going to make the hot dog buns work. Well I came up with the bright idea to form our hamburgers into the shape of a hot dog and mold them around our hot dog/marshmellow scures and we would each cook our own hot dog shaped hamburgers over the fire. What a great idea everyone thought and we all got busy molding our hamburgers and proceeded to cook them over the fire. As our burgers reached their doneness, my youngest son said, "There's no way I'm eating that, it's disgusting". He was right, it looked like something the dog had left behind. I tried to talk everyone into closing their eyes and eating it anyway, but we wound up eating something else that night.

Live and learn.


CajunCamper

[AustinBoston]

Somebody's "Kitty Litter" cake comes to mind...

Austin

[ldgregory]

Somebody's "Kitty Litter" cake comes to mind...

I've got the recipe for that! This might even be worse though:

A few years back we were having a baby shower that I got sucked into having to be there for. My wife put me in charge of making appetizers. Big mistake.

I mixed up some refried beans, cheese, hot dog chunks, and topped it off with a little salsa. I then took that horribly nasty "looking" concoction and put it in a newborn diaper I bought at the store.

Not surprisingly, nobody else partook and there was some substantial gagging the first time people saw me dip a chip in and eat the special treat!!!

[AustinBoston]

My wife put me in charge of making appetizers. Big mistake.

My brother has a saying...if you really don't want to do it, screw it up badly enough and they will never ask you to do it again.  :yikes:

Austin

[ldgregory]

My brother has a saying...if you really don't want to do it, screw it up badly enough and they will never ask you to do it again.

My thoughts exactly. It wasn't the making of the appetizers, I'd have done that gladly enough. It was being the only guy at the babyshower and knowing I was going to have to sit there and tell people how cute I thought our new daughter was going to be in those pink frilly socks they picked out!

[shinobi]

I would've just separated and flattened the hot dog buns to use them as burger buns but I could see how gross looking they would be though.

[ptbrauch]

I would have just cooked the round hamburgers and then cut them in half, or thirds, after they were cooked so they fit on the hot dog bun.

[CajunCamper]

I wish I dad taken a picture of those burgers and the faces of my kids when they realized what they looked like. It was priceless.

CajunCamper

[austinado16]

A diaper filled with joy.......I love it!

Wanna have some real fun?  Take a can of expandible spray foam insulation and make some coiled up dookies, and then paint them with gloss brown spray paint.  Just leave them laying around the house or office.  A wadded up piece of toilet paper makes a nice touch too.