Despite seeming impossible to do, have you ever said the wrong thing?

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A discussion by @JudyEv brought to mind an incident my maternal grandfather told me once. He was always vocal about not liking rhubarb in anything. I myself never tried rhubarb in any form until I tried Strawberry Rhubarb Poppi soda (it was okay). So my grandfather was a pastor. And on occasion he’d get called to preach a revival. Once, he was asked to come to Tennessee to preach, and stayed with a family who insisted he live with them through the duration. My grandfather arrived, thanked them for their hospitality, and as it was dinner time, asked if he could help set the table (which was probably rare of a man to do in the 1950s). They said no, but told him they had made dessert just for him. It was her special pie she’d won contests for, and everyone loved it. Do you get where I’m going with this? The woman of the house said she hoped he’d like it, and my grandfather (in his 20s at the time) said, “Oh, I love pie. Every kind of pie but rhubarb.” Yep, the pie was rhubarb. What were the odds? My grandpa said the family laughed and got a kick out of it, but that he felt about two feet tall. And yes, he definitely took this as a life lesson. I would tend to believe the woman wasn’t offended as back then people didn’t get offended by everything, plus, they were from the country. Country people (at least in my dad’s circle growing up) had bigger fish to fry than getting offended by stuff like that. But I took his random lesson to heart. Why let his regret ever be my regret?!