Best Movie Food Fails - Cooking Mishaps

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There is nothing more rewarding than preparing the perfect home-cooked meal, especially when you get to show it off to friends and family. But when it goes wrong, it has a tendency to go HORRIBLY wrong, and it's totally humiliating (not to mention frustrating).

Everyone has some kind of kitchen nightmare story to share. So much so, that food fails have seeped into our national consciousness, and they come out in the form pop-culture catharsis, a.k.a. scenes from our favorite movies. Here are 20 times movies totally nailed our kitchen disasters, made us relive the panic of our own culinary catastrophes, and reminded us that everyone has been there.

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