The Top 10 Food Related Items I Hate to get for Christmas: Join Me!

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clofthwld

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1. Obviously, Fruitcake that doesn't bounce

2. Eggnog packaged in milk cartons

3. Gingerbread houses that have been put together with a bunch of germy hands

4. Organic teas that I've never heard of

5. Flavored coffees. I hate hazelnut coffee. It might cost a fortune, but I hate it.

6. Burnt around the edges cookies unless they're supposed to be burnt around the edges cookies

7. Crappy Nestles or Hershey's chocolate. Sorry, guys, but I'm a chocolate snob. And don't even come near me with those chocolate covered cherries they sell at CVS.

8. Mandolin? Am I even spelling it right? I have every food processor that plugs in known to man and my sister gives me a "mandolin"? What does she expect me to do with it? Floss my teeth?

9. A Betty Crocker Cookbook. Sorry, Babs, but you are so over. Please disagree with me!!!

10. A vegetarian cookbook. Darling daughter: I love you. I really do. But there are certain things in my life that I will never give up and one of them is....DUCK LIVER and the other one is... VEAL. I'm sorry to be such a disappointment.

11. Restaurant Gift Certificates. I've gotten certificates for restaurants I'd never even use the restroom in let alone eat their food.

12. Waffle Irons. The last waffle I made in a gifted waffle iron puffed up larger than my entire kitchen. I got waffled.

 
Electric can openers, funky rolling pin that you put ice water in it or freeze it..

(can't remember but someone tried to give it to me and I just HAD to give it back to them).

That pasta cooker tube thingy that they advertise a million times on TV (poor DH, he is really an advertisers dream customer, he wanted so badly to get me one of these!).

Pampered Chef chopper--can't believe anyone would want to wash all those parts to chop up a bit of garlic or a few nuts, cutting board and knives are usually out and are only 2 simple pieces to wash and serve a multitude of purposes.

No offense ment to anyone who might enjoy the above mentioned products, they just are not for me!

 
Pie plates with the recipe printed on the inside ...

and of course as soon as you get the bottom crust fitted into it, you can't remember how long it's supposed to bake for.

Plates that say "Pasta" or something on them. KInda weird to serve a pasta-free dish on a plate that has "PastaPastaPasta" printed all around the rim. And anyway, your guests can't tell what's on the plate, they need a label? LOL

A Campbell's Soup cookbook. Sorry. Last time I opened a can of Campbell's soup I was 10. And sick. Can't remember if it helped.

 
Last year I received a gingerbread man cookie sheet...

I guess you were supposed to pour batter into it to make gingerbread men. Now, how often did my MIL think I would use that? I told her I would like kitchen stuff -- pots, pans, gadgets, etc.

 
Little, "cute" cutting boards with cheese slicers. Pirogi "presses". Salt and pepper shakers.

The latest slicers and dicers from TV, hula girl bottle openers, assortments of dry packets of soup mixes, cooking aprons and my all-time favorite things I hate receiving: baking mitts with "cute" faces on them or in the shape of animals.

I am always grateful to receive any gift that someone gives me but later I do admit to passing a lot of things on.

 
Things I really don't want....

Nutrogena Rainbath shower gel in 40 oz bottles
small decorator boxes that serve no purpose
fruitcake
more cookies than I can eat
dustbuster
stereo speakers
Starbucks coffee cards
Jam made last summer with no ID on the jars

 
Spices that has been left in the sun

Yeah, I KNOW you can get spices in super cute glass jars in Greece, Italy and Spain. It's just that these spices has been sitting out in the sun for months and they taste exactly like shredded paper.

Also, I don't need more kitchen towels. Honest. I'm not a slob, and the 50+ you have already given me will last me a life time. Trust me on that one.

Also, I think I've enough single tea cups to last me a life time. Same goes for wine glasses. If you want to buy me either of the above, please buy the same kind so I can set a table with similar china and wine glasses.

As for cheap chocolate, my dog loves it and I have figured, that sweets one time a year won't hurt his teeth.

 
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