Need a laugh? If cookbooks were treated like gaming rules

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**Mastiff**

I found this article on Wired, where the author satires gamers whinging about D&D rules updates by doing the same to cookbooks . It's completely transferable to our little corner of the gaming world:

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2008/06/alttext_0618

Posted: 12:15 a.m. by LordOrcus I'm so mad that there's a new edition of The Better Joy Cookbook out. Thanks for making my old copy obsolete, you greedy hacks! For five years now, my friends have been coming over for my eggplant Parmesan, and now I'm never going to be able serve it again unless I shell out 35 bucks for the latest version.

Posted: 1:52 a.m. by IAmEd As I have pointed out MANY TIMES, several of these recipes contain raisins, and I, like most people, am ALLERGIC to raisins! And before you tell me to substitute dried cranberries, I will reiterate that I am discussing the recipes AS WRITTEN. I do not appreciate your ATTACKING ME with helpful suggestions!

Check out the article. I got a good chuckle out of the insanity of it all, especially since my friends and I decided to dust off our Confrontation 3.0 rules and get back to playing a game we loved. Turns out it still tastes great, even after all this time.

(Credit for finding this goes to Trent in the comments on TabletopGamingnews.com http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2012/01/09/53892/#comments)

**kronk**

F-ing right on the money! Thanks for sharing that.

**Blacksails**

You will all suffer infinite oregano!

I enjoyed that a lot.

**Chosen Praetorian**

Haha thats great. Id like to see this on the old Asian iron chef episodes

**Easy E**

Oregano is overpowered now. Totally broke the whole cookbook.

**Ahtman**

Paizo is making the same cookbook you owned when you were 14, but changed raisins for dried cranberries.

**biccat**

I heard Betty Crocker is suing Ocean Spray because their dried cranberries can be substituted for raisins in their signature Oatmeal Cookies with Raisins (tm) line.

**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

Posted: 2:17 a.m. by LordOrcus I have read the new Better Joy Cookbook and I am devastated to my very core. Their macaroni and cheese recipe, the very macaroni and cheese I've been making since I was in college, has been ravaged and disfigured and left bleeding on the page. Where once it contained only cheddar cheese, now the recipe calls for a mix of cheddar and Colby. It may contain macaroni, and it may contain cheese, but it is not macaroni and cheese. This is a slap in the face and a knife in the gut. You have lost me, Better Joy Cookbook. I would bid you goodbye, but I wish you nothing but the pain and rage you have delivered unto me

made my day

**d-usa**

Every time they come out with a new book it makes all my utensils obsolete. The books are just a way for them to sell more plastic crack to people. I'm not going to do it anymore.

**Grakmar**

I've been a firm follower in Betty Crocker's New Cookbook. Every week I get together with a few friends and try out a recipe or two from it.

A few months ago, one of my friends brought along a Joy of Cooking. We all reluctantly gave it a try. I found the recipes to be counter-intuitive and lacking in structure. But, almost half of our group liked it more. They started getting together and cooking from that god-awful cookbook. I refuse to ever try that cookbook again, so I haven't spoken to these former friends since.