Chocolate Fountains and other lame party foods

[Moliere]

Cream filled pastries that you buy frozen at Costco and serve at wedding banquets.

It would taste better to tear croissants into pieces and cover them with Redi-whip.

This! A million times this!

I agree that chocolate fountains are gross. I avoid them but my kids can't get enough, which proves the point that they are gross.

[TalkyTina]

That is one of the most disgusting things I've read on this board.

I ate it. I didn't realize the heater was on in the fountain. I feel like I needed to confess that.

[USUC]

Let me add that no-bake cheesecake is not real cheesecake; it's cream-cheese flavored gelatin. And anyone who prefers that over real cheesecake because the "flavor is better" or because real cheesecake is "too rich" is a real loser.

I actually prefer the no-bake version to the real deal. Topped off with gelatinous cherries from a can... whats not to like? I also like 7-11 glazed donuts over most glazed versions at donut shops (Banbury Cross? ). Tasty's in Kaysville is a huge exception.

I had no idea that chocolate fountains had canola oil. WTF? I never thought they were especially good but bleh.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

That is one of the most disgusting things I've read on this board.

Does that include things written by wuap?

[Parrot Head]

7 layer dip. There are dips that people put together that are delicious, however if it is in a plastic container and has roughly 4-8 layers with the largest layer being refried beans that equal 60+% of the depth it isn't good.

Wow, did not know this. These have been at many football and hoops parties I've been to in recent years and they're always a hit with adults while the kids stay away. I thought that right there would at least get a B- in most circles.

[chrisrenrut]

We do a chocolate fountain sometimes for family gatherings. We use good chocolate and cocoa butter (not canola oil, yuck) from Gygi's. We try to keep it as thick as possible while still allowing it to flow through the fountain. We try to use good dipping ingredients like fresh strawberries, raspberries, bananas. With kids, marshmallows, gummy and cinnamon bears, and small cookies are good too.

I would not touch at large gatherings or restaurants.

[TalkyTina]

We do a chocolate fountain sometimes for family gatherings. We use good chocolate and cocoa butter (not canola oil, yuck) from Gygi's. We try to keep it as thick as possible while still allowing it to flow through the fountain. We try to use good dipping ingredients like fresh strawberries, raspberries, bananas. With kids, marshmallows, gummy and cinnamon bears, and small cookies are good too.

I would not touch at large gatherings or restaurants.

I wish I would have known about the cocoa butter before giving all of the fondue party guests oily diarrhea.

[Green Monstah]

Cream filled pastries that you buy frozen at Costco and serve at wedding banquets.

It would taste better to tear croissants into pieces and cover them with Redi-whip.

We're going to have to agree to disagree here. As long as said pastries are properly thawed, I find them to be delicious.

[Katy Lied]

So I went to a baby shower this weekend and the grand prize for some lame baby game was a chocolate fountain... You can guess where I am going with this. So I won the fountain and tried to give it back to someone else. But since it was the grand prize, there was nothing else to trade for. Then I tried to give it to someone who hadn't won anything, but everyone was scandalized that I would give away such a great gift. (!). Then I tried to give it away to the baby mama but she said she had so much booty from the shower that she couldn't possibly take my precious fountain. Then I "forgot" it at the shower when I left only to have someone drop it by the house, along with pretzels, marshmallows, chocolate chips, and a half gallon of vegetable oil. I hadn't realized that I won chocolate fountain acoutrements as well.

[TripletDaddy]

You were invited to a party, the host gives you a gift, and you spend the rest of the time openly trying to jettison the gift?

Déclassé.

[Katy Lied]

I was trying to follow the dictates of church welfare: From She who has surplus, to She who has needs. I will never have a need for a chocolate fountain, so I was trying to be Christianlike and charitable.

I'm even willing to donate it to your ward primary, for their next primary party.

[PaloAltoCougar]

You were invited to a party, the host gives you a gift, and you spend the rest of the time openly trying to jettison the gift?

Déclassé.

Unlike the hamfisted approach most here would take when trying to unload an unwanted gratuity, KL's social and diplomatic gifts are such that those in attendance were probably overwhelmed with gratitude for being able to witness such a selfless act.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I was trying to follow the dictates of church welfare: From She who has surplus, to She who has needs. I will never have a need for a chocolate fountain, so I was trying to be Christianlike and charitable.

I'm even willing to donate it to your ward primary, for their next primary party.

Make it the trophy for the annual KL family intensely competitive softball game!

[Katy Lied]

Make it the trophy for the annual KL family intensely competitive softball game!

My family softball has nothing on baby shower games. Those women are super competitive. It always gets a little ugly.

[SeattleUte]

I've always felt that sour cream mixed with Lipton onion soup as a chip dip -- a staple at Mormon ward parties and such -- was so lame. I hadn't eaten it for many years. But a while ago the Mariners started offering it as part of the spread in their luxury boxes used by corporations and professional firms and such for client entretainment and special events. I told my wife the stuff is lame and don't get it; it gives me nightmares. She'd never had it before and says it's delicious and keeps ordering it.