Time/Temperature Control for Safety (TCS) Foods: Foods that require refrigeration, heat or time to be used to control the growth of pathogenic (things that can make you sick) bacteria. Sale of the baked goods is used for fundraising purposes for tax-exempt non-profit organizations (for the sponsoring organization only). Non-time/temperature control for safety (TCS) foods, usually baked goods prepared at the organizations facility or in the home of members. If the food items are consumed during or after the event, no license is required. Potluck food items can ONLY be served to the members of the church, club or organization holding the event and cannot be offered to the general public. Potluck foods can be potentially hazardous foods, as well as non-potentially hazardous foods. Potlucks are generally associated with a specific event such as a meeting, service or other scheduled event that is not advertised to the public. Guests may bring in any form of food, ranging from the main course to desserts.Potluck food items are items that are prepared in the home kitchen of a member or person attending an event. This agreement rectifies the problem of many participants bringing the same dish. In some cases, each participant agrees ahead of time to bring a single course, and the result is a multi-course meal. The only traditional rule is that each dish be large enough to be shared among a good portion of the anticipated guests. Potluck dinners are events where the attendees bring a dish to a meal. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, however, it is 'unlikely that this played any part in the development of this sense'.ĭescription Various Korean dishes at a potluck Some speakers believe that it is an eggcorn of the North American indigenous communal meal known as a potlatch (meaning 'to give away'). The modern execution of a 'communal meal, where guests bring their own food', most likely originated in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The word pot-lucke appears in the 16th-century English work of Thomas Nashe, and used to mean 'food provided for an unexpected or uninvited guest, the luck of the pot'.

Other names for a 'potluck' include: potluck dinner, pitch-in, shared lunch, spread, faith supper, carry-in dinner, covered-dish-supper, fuddle, Jacob's Join, bring a plate, and fellowship meal. An assorted spread of different dishes at a potluck in Alberta, CanadaĪ potluck is a communal gathering where each guest or group contributes a different, often homemade, dish of food to be shared. For other uses, see Pot luck (disambiguation).

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