Anything You Would Never Do at a Show Again?

[blueberrylady]

I will never make 2 recipes or Tuxedo brownies at a party again. I will never make anything that needs to go in the oven in the summer.

What works out really great, is to make the brownie cups in the Mini Muffin Pan, and put them on a clean SA platter to take with you. I put the filling in the EAD, have washed berries and the Egg Slicer Plus ready. After my opening, I say something like, "Life's short; eat dessert first!" and have people fill their own to snack on during the demo. I have sold a lot of Mini Muffin pans (offering a lot of other simple recipes to do with it, of course!)

 

[blueberrylady]

Be overly nice about letting kids play with my tools at a "vendor fair"

My Tuesday host did a "Stop 'N Shop" in a large city (Six parties for herself going on at once). She had candles, jewelry, Creative Memories, handmade purses, and knock-off purses (both very expensive), Arbonne, and PC me. She works for a hospital, and put flyers in ever department. Probably 50 people came thru. The host sold Lia Sophia and had a buy 1, get 2 "1/2" price going on, and also was totally enthralled with Arbonne (never had seen it before, someone just told her she should include them) so she pushed it. Jewelry and Arbonne sold over $300 each. Candle lady sold C N C by the bagful.

One of the purse ladies brought her 2 1/2 yr old who came to play with me. He was full of energy, so I took all the sharp stuff away, and let him play with silicone stuff and my TTA (Mom had no toys for him, just snacks)

Long story short, he projectile vomited right beside my table, later wet thru his pull ups onto my cloth chair, and some lady who had a nosebleed later pulled the chair from where I had tried to hide it, and SAT ON IT (her brown slacks were damp :yuck: ) The host bummed a candle off the PL lady and burned it on my table to offset the smell...

I sold a Mix N Chop out of my C N C. That's all.

However, on my lead slips, I got 6 yes or maybes about hosting.

 

[Crystal Patton]

Or, of course, the ever-popular techie answer--user error.

I like 'operator malfunction' LOL

 

[chefann]

DH calls it "loser error."

 

[ChefJoyJ]

"Life's short; eat dessert first!" and have people fill their own to snack on during the demo.

Love it!

 

[lockhartkitchen]

Make sure I KNOW the recipe inside and out before I start. My first cooking show called for 2 tsp. of rum extract. My host had real rum. I read the recipe out loud as 2 TAB, which she over poured over that. We had a lot of fun. It was kind of a joke later.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Be overly nice about letting kids play with my tools at a "vendor fair"

My Tuesday host did a "Stop 'N Shop" in a large city (Six parties for herself going on at once). She had candles, jewelry, Creative Memories, handmade purses, and knock-off purses (both very expensive), Arbonne, and PC me. She works for a hospital, and put flyers in ever department. Probably 50 people came thru. The host sold Lia Sophia and had a buy 1, get 2 "1/2" price going on, and also was totally enthralled with Arbonne (never had seen it before, someone just told her she should include them) so she pushed it. Jewelry and Arbonne sold over $300 each. Candle lady sold C N C by the bagful.

One of the purse ladies brought her 2 1/2 yr old who came to play with me. He was full of energy, so I took all the sharp stuff away, and let him play with silicone stuff and my TTA (Mom had no toys for him, just snacks)

Long story short, he projectile vomited right beside my table, later wet thru his pull ups onto my cloth chair, and some lady who had a nosebleed later pulled the chair from where I had tried to hide it, and SAT ON IT (her brown slacks were damp :yuck: ) The host bummed a candle off the PL lady and burned it on my table to offset the smell...

I sold a Mix N Chop out of my C N C. That's all.

However, on my lead slips, I got 6 yes or maybes about hosting.

Hey There Blueberry Lady!

I know this wasn't funny - but it made me laugh...could anything else have gone wrong?

Oh wait - I guess the candle could have knocked over, and caught your tablecloth on fire.....

 

[cwinter474]

Be overly nice about letting kids play with my tools at a "vendor fair"

My Tuesday host did a "Stop 'N Shop" in a large city (Six parties for herself going on at once). She had candles, jewelry, Creative Memories, handmade purses, and knock-off purses (both very expensive), Arbonne, and PC me. She works for a hospital, and put flyers in ever department. Probably 50 people came thru. The host sold Lia Sophia and had a buy 1, get 2 "1/2" price going on, and also was totally enthralled with Arbonne (never had seen it before, someone just told her she should include them) so she pushed it. Jewelry and Arbonne sold over $300 each. Candle lady sold C N C by the bagful.

One of the purse ladies brought her 2 1/2 yr old who came to play with me. He was full of energy, so I took all the sharp stuff away, and let him play with silicone stuff and my TTA (Mom had no toys for him, just snacks)

Long story short, he projectile vomited right beside my table, later wet thru his pull ups onto my cloth chair, and some lady who had a nosebleed later pulled the chair from where I had tried to hide it, and SAT ON IT (her brown slacks were damp :yuck: ) The host bummed a candle off the PL lady and burned it on my table to offset the smell...

I sold a Mix N Chop out of my C N C. That's all.

However, on my lead slips, I got 6 yes or maybes about hosting.

Hoping for your sake that one of the hostess in not the mom of the six year old. Maybe your shows will be less dramatic

 

[Cippia]

enter in the WRONG house---yep met by a pit bull--

My worst nightmare!

I stopped in the country and asked a lady for directions. She stood there and talked to me IN HER BRA for ever. Very odd.

 

[jbdowd0798]

Told people that one of my new favorite items (when it first came out) was the dripless, pourer, stopper. WELL- the room of 8 were all non-drinkers...they don't drink due to their religion/church!!! OOPS!!! I don't know how I got out of that one just know it was EMBARRASSING!!!!

 

[Crystal Patton]

Told people that one of my new favorite items (when it first came out) was the dripless, pourer, stopper. WELL- the room of 8 were all non-drinkers...they don't drink due to their religion/church!!! OOPS!!! I don't know how I got out of that one just know it was EMBARRASSING!!!!

It is good to know your crowd. I pitched a Salp-your-mama Margarita theme show and got several dirty looks. All the guests were from the gals church. :blushing: Oops!

 

[Intrepid_Chef]

Blueberry lady, did any of those six possible leads come through?

 

[jbdowd0798]

It is good to know your crowd. I pitched a Salp-your-mama Margarita theme show and got several dirty looks. All the guests were from the gals church. :blushing: Oops!

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who things about alcohol and gets a dirty look! ha ha

 

[pamperedjules]

I wouldn't slice anything to soft on the mondoline, ie.. cheeses or tomatoes. It can get really messy really fast!

 

[Saturday Gourmet]

My worst nightmare!

I stopped in the country and asked a lady for directions. She stood there and talked to me IN HER BRA for ever. Very odd.

LOL! Ya think she believed it doubles as a bikini? How on Earth did you manage to keep a straight face?

I will never again begin talking about the aphrodisiac qualities of garlic, chocolate, etc. in what I THINK is a room full of women. I looked up and one of the husbands had come in. He was grinning from ear to ear and shaking trying not to laugh. My face went to a bright red.

On a side note, his sister booked a couples' grilling show and when I talked to his mother the other day, she reminded me that we'd be in "mixed company" and just started laughing herself silly. I told her I'd try to make sure I had some cookin' love advice for both sexes!