Hotdish Revolution Recap

The Holland Neighborhood association holds a potluck every year, calling it the Hotdish Revolution. It's a fundraiser for the neighborhood, and a good cheesy excuse for a get-together. So we decided to throw together a Halupsi and a Jello, and headed over.

Girlfriend pulled out her brain-shaped jello mold and mixed up a zombie-brain jello on Oreo cookie dirt, with gummi worms and a secret bloody side jello. It was lovely, and creepy, and, we hoped, delicious. 







I forgot to mention they give awards at the Revolution. Best hotdish in four categories: Tater Tot Excellence, Vegetarian, a couple others, and Jello. When we saw the Jello competition, it put fear in our hearts:

Yes, it was a fishtank, done in jello. We figured there was no way our Brain salad could compete with that. Fish! In Jello! Genius!

The line for food stretched around nearly the entire Keg house. Everyone would have food by the time we got there! And it was kind of true - there's some law about buffets, because all the stuff at the front of the line was gone, and all the hotdishes toward the back had hardly been touched.

Also, some people get really hungry when they see hotdish, and just can't say no to anything. I had to take this picture. As I was snapping it, the guy came back to his plate. He looked at me funny, as if he'd never seen a guy taking a picture of another person's food before. Me, smartass I am, asked if he'd gotten that plate back to the table all by himself. He dismissed me, sat down, and tucked in. I don't know if he finished or not.

By the time we got to jello, our Brain was gone. People like brains, I guess. So we tried some of the fishtank jello, and found it to be kind of gross. It was runny, and those things in the bottom weren't marshmallows, or any kind of candy we recognized, or found edible. So there was a glimmer of hope!

In the end, clever won out, gentle reader, and our jello brains won the jello competition! The newspaper took our picture, and everyone congratulated us. We won a major award!

We retreated to Grumpy's, to let the hotdish settle in our guts, and bask in the glow of our success.