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Oh no renegade! That had to be the world's worst crumble!

I was leaning down to shake the perfect amount of black pepper ontp the strips of venison jerky I was cooking on a smoker in the backyard when a sudden gust of wind blew a bunch of pepper into my eyes. I blindly staggered around and nearly knocked over the smoker before I could find the garden hose.

I had actually cooked the dish quite well...... a big Kedgeree ... smoked haddock and curry and riceand some veges... that sorta thing ... speshal request for my girlfriends party.

And then I tripped on the carpeted stairs of my block of units .... soaked in .... smelt baaaaad er each day .....wouldn't wash out ... not happy Jan .One neighbour just twitched when she sees me

Niner - were you able to rescue the venison jerky???? I love venison jerky. So far we've only made beef jerky and only in our plastic indoor smoker. We really need to branch out on our jerky making.

philistine - finished, dropped meals are the saddest stories of all. I hate when I spend time whipping up a beautiful meal and end up mopping it off of the floor. Fortunately, it doesn't happen often but when it does my heart breaks.

Oh, the dropped meal!

I was carrying a crockpot of beef stew in the back seat of my car. My brand new, two-week old car. You can guess what happened. All over the cloth back seat.

It was 4 days before I could get to a car wash to have the seat steam cleaned. In the meantime, since it was summer, that beef stew fermented beautifully in a hot car. When bacteria do their thing to proteins, they produce some amazingly aromatic chemicals. I could only drive the car with all the windows down and while breathing through my mouth.

Oh dear nutrax! That must have been awful!

You reminded me of 2 things (to go a bit off track).

The first (more on track) A friend of mine made matzo ball soup and offered to give me some to take him. He wanted to make sure I had enough but didn't any good large containers. The container he gave me leaked like a sieve (I was really glad I put it on the floor) and I still had way more liquid than I needed for the amount of matzo balls.

The really bad one was - one day my car started to smell horrible. I figure it was something I had in a bag in the back and threw it out. The smell went away. About 3 months later, Winter ended and the smell came back. I cleaned out my entire car to find that a box of butter (4 sticks) had fallen under the seat and melted all over. I had to clean it out with a cleaner that had bleach in it and sprayed it with Febreeze. The weird part is that the carpet never got discolored.