Dishwasher soap confused with wine

5-07-2008 @4:31PM unclejerry said... My mom once brewed some tea in a kettle that she normally 'burned' popuri in. The tea smelt good but tasted awful.
And then one time back when I used to chew tobacco, I had two bottles going, one to drink out of and one to spit it, and happened to pick up the spit bottle and took a big ol' swig of Levi Garret... At least that stuff taste a little like raisins so it wasn't that bad... but not something I would recommend any body doing.
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5-07-2008 @4:56PM Emma Leigh said... Back in the day of all nighters with my new baby I squeezed out Desitin baby creme on my toothbrush. The smell hit me before I brushed.

I found this part odd: "At least these women wisely stopped drinking after experiencing a burning sensation on the lips and mouth and thus lived to tell the tale."

The taste wasn't a clue - it took the burning sensation to key them into a problem? Does mulled wine taste like soap?



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5-07-2008 @4:57PM Alex said... My mom used to keep a dish of salt which which her friend once mistook for sugar and dumped in the large sugar container. We were unaware. My mom then made pancakes with the adulterated sugar and served them to her friend. Everyone was baffled by the saltiness until the friend remembered the small "sugar" bowl he transferred to the big sugar container and asked if that could have something to do with it. As awful as those pancakes were, they weren't as bad as the next pancakes she served this friend. That batch ended up with broken glass in it. I'm pretty sure her friend made the pancakes from then on.
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5-07-2008 @4:58PM sezmra said... Doh!

I've only had one similar experience, when I was a kid. I went to a convenience store with my dad, and decided I wanted a lemonade from their fountain machine. I fetched it and started sipping on the star as we made our way to the counter to pay - I was thirsty so I took a few big gulps...
Something tasted funny and my dad and I found out from the clerk that it was actually CLEANING fluid and they were cleaning the fountain drink machine... and didn't even bother to put up a notice. The cleaner was a cloudy clear liquid, easily mistaken for lemonade.
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5-08-2008 @12:10AM Barbara said... I once was eating a meal that had "sauce" and don't ask me how, but somehow some liquid baby soap - lavender scented - spilled and as I was engrossed in reading something accidentally "licked" the soap. I can honestly say it was the *worst* thing ever! It was over 7 years ago and I still remember the awful taste and where I was and everything about the event. One small taste and it's something I will honestly never ever ever ever ever forget.
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5-08-2008 @3:15PM Adriane said... Around the holidays my father makes a mulled alcoholic cider called "golden horn"--it's delicious but has quite a heavy dose of booze in it, so there is always the alternative non-alchy mulled cider.. One year, when I was quite young, I went to get some orange juice from the fridge..but there was none! Suddenly feeling very thirsty, I grabbed the container marked 'cider' and took a few BIG chugs ...turns out someone had accidentally mixed the two containers and both were golden horn-- needless to say I was feeling it immediately!


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5-08-2008 @9:43PM Suzana said... I used to take messages for an after-hour supermarket quality assurance line, you know the kind of place you can ca ll when you find a rubber glove finger (or worse)in your tray of Kozy Shack pudding cups, or many other worse in the scale of grossness...

I remember a call when someone opened a can of stewed tomatoes, quickly dumping it into their big pot of spaghetti sauce, and found out the can was mislabeled, they had dumped an entire can of fruit cocktail in the sauce.
& another caller finding a praying mantis in their frozen french cut green beans; oh the list goes on and on. I miss that job, it was never boring.
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5-09-2008 @12:21AM jessica gensmer said... Along the same lines as Emma Leigh:

A couple of weeks ago, when i had to wake up much earlier for work than normal, i was brushing my teeth and it tasted funny. i had used my husband's hair styling glue as toothpaste! And due to my 1st trimester morning sickness, i almost threw up and could not brush my teeth that morning. Thankfully i could chew gum, otherwise i'd have felt really bad for my boss!
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5-09-2008 @4:49PM nanaannemarie said... My ex husband was the hotel manager for a good size facility in Orlando. One night we invited a gentleman, who was alone, to have dessert with us. The chef came to the table and made a banana foster. As we raved about how good the chef was, the gentleman took a bite. The chef came running back to inform us someone had swapped sugar for salt. We certainly did not make a good impression that night.
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5-12-2008 @6:00PM ageekymom said... While working as a waitress at a family-style restaurant, I was doing my side-work near a family having a late lunch. Their server had just left a large antipasto salad at their table. I heard a stifled scream and then fits of laughter, since I was the only employee around, I went to see if there was a problem. Apparently, the salad chef had cut his finger and hadn't bothered to put on gloves while tossing the salad. His bandage came off, he didn't bother to tell anyone about it and served the salad anyway. The mother was unlucky enough to pick it up in her forkful of salad and chew on it a bit...Nasty!!
(Her kids thought it was hilarious!)
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