I mean, pretty much everyone is guilty of those at one point or another, myself included.

The way I see it, the whole point of this group is to joke about the silly mistakes of others in order to make ourselves feel better about our own.

I agree that the main issue here is the olives. The rest can certainly be made work with the right ingredients.

Just substitute jalapeños instead and we can still be friends.

Modern day Cinderella story

That was not my intention (hence the attempt at humor in the title)

I mean, that’s the best part about food crimes, that the ones who commit them are generally also the first to pay the price for them.

Unless there’s unwilling participants involved in the experiment of course, but I’m guessing those don’t end up having photographic evidence posted on the Internet.

I’m not sure olives should ever be paired with any cheese except feta (or its derivatives). I’m also not sure they should be near any sausages that aren’t of Italian or other Mediterranean provenance either.

Mustard also seems risky but might work with the right one.

If you absolutely must try it, perhaps an Italian sausage, olive tapenade, and some bell peppers and onions could possibly work.

That may or may not be the case, but there seems to be no point in continuing this discussion here as all of my comments appear to be getting deleted by a mod anyways.

But yes, I’m sure there’s plenty of people in there who don’t deserve, just as I’m sure that there’s plenty of people on the outside who should be in prison in their stead. And yes, the food does look rather pitiful, but that alone doesn’t look like a human rights violation to me as it seems edible in a pinch.

Yeah no, Nebuchadnezzar is definitely the name of the ship.

Literally could have just dumped a tub of sour cream and some spices into the pan with the meat and onion juices and made an acceptable sauce in less than five minutes. This screams either laziness or empty fridge to me.

While the combo of wiener and kraut is about as German as it gets, this picture is likely from the American Midwest. Actual Germans wouldn’t be caught dead with cocktail sauce on their wieners, nor do they use tortillas as a common ingredient.

Wieners and kraut get mustard and potatoes, anything else is against the law. I’m fully convinced no true German would disagree that a food crime has in fact been committed here.

At that point you might as well just order pie.

Literally just needs sour cream and maybe some mushrooms (cooked into sauce, obviously) and it would be passable Stroganoff.

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The average American in the wild is already fat and lethargic enough, probably doesn’t hurt to keep them on a bit of a leaner diet.

I’m thinking smoked sausage (kielbasa perhaps), add some Swiss cheese and a good Russian dressing instead of this sad Thousand Island from a bottle, maybe some grilled onions… yeah, I could see that fly.

Well, who are you gonna dress to impress in there anyways? Might as well be comfortable.

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No idea. Never been, and not planning on it either, but I guess nobody really does.

The meat actually looks fairly decent and the pasta is not overcooked, so it doesn’t appear to be a skills issue. Maybe they ran out of cream?

It definitely looks bland AF but certainly edible.