Hmmm - been scratching my head, trying to think of which of the great selection to choose from...

...and out of the mists came this one...
Was living in Russia (Moscow), missus and I were doing contract work for USAID - and she was out of the country (over Stateside, with some trainees) - so I was doing the batchelor thing... sitting playing Civilisation, working my way through a rather nice bottle of Sauterne (I liked sweet sticky wines back then), when the hunger pangs began to set in. Had a bit of a rat around in the cupboards, and came up with this tinned pie. Yep, a pie in a tin (NOT a Russian idea - American, from an American food/grocery store - in Moscow). Read the instructions, a couple of times - "Heat in oven for 60 minutes."
So, into oven, which was a crappy gas thing, with an unregulated supply, so cooking times/temperatures tended to vary dependant on how many people in our part of the building were using their stoves.
Go back to game, and wine.
About an hour later, hunger pangs were getting quite sharp, so looked at watch - "Hmmm, dinner should be just about ready by now!" - at which point, there was a LARGE (actually, more like
HUGE explosion! FUCK! The whole building (all 5 stories) bounced up and down! SHIT! The fucking stoves blown up!
Leap into the kitchen - and WHAT A BLOODY MESS!

: The oven door was blown open - out flat - and the contents of the tinned pie were distributed all over the opposite wall, and the ceiling, and the floor, and over anywhere/thing else that was in the direct firing line.

All I could do was laugh. Just about pissed meself in fact - as I was scraping bits of pie off the walls and ceiling...
Once I'd finished that lovely little task - extracted the remains of the pie from the oven. Read top of tin - again.
"Warning: REMOVE PIE FROM TIN BEFORE COOKING!" 
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