Thanksgiving dinner disasters unfortunately happen to the best of us.
The turkey falls on the floor by mistake; the gravy is lumpy; the mashed potatoes resemble glue; the dog eats the entire pumpkin pie. (Are you scratching your head wondering what in the world I'm talking about? Then … uh … just kidding! These things have never happened to me, either.)
Oops! Forgot to butter the pan!
The fact is: No Thanksgiving dinner can be absolutely perfect. There's always some kind of unforeseen culinary calamity no matter how well-intentional and organized your cooking plan. Usually, however, it's just one dish that is a fail while all the rest can be salvaged.
Except in the case of the worst Thanksgiving dinner of all time …
It all begins with the bread course …
Maybe we can just scrape off the burned part and be left with, well, nothing.
Instead of exploding with flavor in the mouth, these sweet potatoes had a premature situation in the oven.
Looks like someone is getting some mileage of our their Cool Whip Cookbook!
There's plenty of gelatinous ridges to go around.
Speaking of gelatin … can we just ban it altogether from this holiday?
Tofurkey's done! (I think?)
If only we had taken the turkey out just a few minutes hours sooner.
What was your worst Thanksgiving Day food disaster?
Images via jeffheuer/Flickr; Liliang/Flickr; heather.dyan/Flickr; Rochelle, et. al'/Flickr; Daniel Morrison/Flickr; ukanda/Flickr; CarbonNYC/Flickr; Editor B/Flickr
