Potlucks can be a polarizing, love-them-or-hate-them events. In the world of librarians, however, potlucks are serious business. People got to great effort to create ornate, complicated, and time-consuming comestibles. They are the currency of connection and celebration.

This, however, is a story of a potluck dish that went very wrong - and the hilarious effort undertaken to spare the guilty party from ever knowing about it.

Image: Oscar Schlemmer

Music: Martin-Eero Koressaar via SoundCloud (Eero – Day-3-page-95)