The World's Worst Potluck - Driving Game

On our drive back to Billings last Sunday I was reading to Matt from this interesting book called Why You Say It which I'd borrowed at my Dad's house.  This book is all about the origins of different expressions and sayings like "caught red handed," "monkey wrench," "deviled eggs," and "slush fund."  One of the sections I read was for the term "potluck."  The book said it had to do with housewives adding the bits of all there leftover dinners to a pot which would then be eaten with the diners apparently hoping for good luck when it came to taste.   Or so the story goes.

Somehow or other this led me to say something about what I would bring to the world's worst potluck...which in turn led me to ask Matt to play an old car game with me which we'd both played as  kids. 

You know, the memory and alphabet game where each person says what they are going to bring to a party in turn and correlated to a letter of the alphabet.  Person 1 says something that starts with letter A, person 2 repeats the letter A and the comes up with a letter B, person 3 says letter A, B, and C, and so on until someone forgets one item or you reach the end of the alphabet.  Ever play that one?

It was a lot of fun trying to think of the worst thing to bring for each letter as quickly as possible, though I realize that macaroni salad and coleslaw are probably more than acceptable potluck fare for a lot of people.  Not Matt and I though... yuck, macaroni salad....ewwww.....no thanks. 

So, "Matt and I are going to the world's worst potluck and we are bringing...."

Anchovies
Brussel sprouts
Coleslaw
Deviled eggs
Eggs benedict
Foie gras
Gaspacho
Horseradish
Iceberg lettuce
Jello with fruit in it
Kohlrabi
Lutefisk
Macaroni salad
Nog (as in eggnog)
Oysters on the half shell
Pickled eggs
Quail
Radicchio
Sprouts
Tripe
Unagi (eel)
Veal
Watermelon pickles
Xylitol packets
Yerba mate
Zebra steaks

It kept us pretty amused (and kept me awake) and then before we knew it we were pulling into Billings.  Neither Matt nor I had played that particular travel game in quite some time.  I'm glad it came to me though as we read through that interesting little book.  Its always been pretty fun.