Post by Og M'thrg on Nov 14, 2007 11:52:11 GMT -5
Ok, so I FINALLY thought of a couple war stories. Heres the first.
Several years ago, when I was helping out in the VALOR Tavern, the powers-that-be said "Lets do a Turkey DInner Feast". ALL the fixings, bread, birds, veggies, a mountin of mashed 'taters, Deviled Eggs, you name it. Well, around this time, the "Deep Fried Turkeys" thing was in full swing, and they decied thats how they wanted to cook the birds! Cause 10+ Birds for 60+ people, would take DAYS too cook. Especially considering that the double oven at the VALOR site, only one of them really "cooked". The Other oven was basically good for warming food, not cooking.
Anyway. So we get a crew of people to help, there's about 8 of us, including my new GF, my and my mom all helping out in the kitchen.
Well, everything ELSE was going pretty well. Every single burner was occupied, food was cooked, the flat-grill was acting as a giant warmer.. And we realized, we had a problem.
Someone.. NOT me. Did the math wrong, and cooking the birds was taking 2-3x longer than we thougt. So 10 min to cook the birds was closer turning out to be closer to to 20 or 30, and even with TWO cookers, we were looking at about 5+ hrs of cooking birds. And at this point, we'd started about 3 hrs late.
Dinner was WAY late, players were tired, HUNGRY, Pissed! The Kitchen Crew was PISSED. AND Hungry too. Turns out someone (Also not me) set out all the food for the tables, and didn't hold back any to actually FEED the kitchen crew. We ended up raiding the tables and taking a selection back to the kicthen so we could all eat by ourselves, cause really we were all DONE with other people by this point.
Later as they called out the kitchen crew for thanks and rewards, they skipped over one of my good friends. I started desperatly trying to get the speakers attention so my friend DID get named/mentions for helping. Otherwise I think she'd have started throwing large heavy objects (like myself) around the dining hall. (Crisis averted). My GF also didn't get "counted" when they divied up gold/rewards, so she got shorted. THAT wasn't fun either. We were ALL on short fuses by the end of it.
I swore off EVER doing feasts again after that night.
Several years ago, when I was helping out in the VALOR Tavern, the powers-that-be said "Lets do a Turkey DInner Feast". ALL the fixings, bread, birds, veggies, a mountin of mashed 'taters, Deviled Eggs, you name it. Well, around this time, the "Deep Fried Turkeys" thing was in full swing, and they decied thats how they wanted to cook the birds! Cause 10+ Birds for 60+ people, would take DAYS too cook. Especially considering that the double oven at the VALOR site, only one of them really "cooked". The Other oven was basically good for warming food, not cooking.
Anyway. So we get a crew of people to help, there's about 8 of us, including my new GF, my and my mom all helping out in the kitchen.
Well, everything ELSE was going pretty well. Every single burner was occupied, food was cooked, the flat-grill was acting as a giant warmer.. And we realized, we had a problem.
Someone.. NOT me. Did the math wrong, and cooking the birds was taking 2-3x longer than we thougt. So 10 min to cook the birds was closer turning out to be closer to to 20 or 30, and even with TWO cookers, we were looking at about 5+ hrs of cooking birds. And at this point, we'd started about 3 hrs late.
Dinner was WAY late, players were tired, HUNGRY, Pissed! The Kitchen Crew was PISSED. AND Hungry too. Turns out someone (Also not me) set out all the food for the tables, and didn't hold back any to actually FEED the kitchen crew. We ended up raiding the tables and taking a selection back to the kicthen so we could all eat by ourselves, cause really we were all DONE with other people by this point.
Later as they called out the kitchen crew for thanks and rewards, they skipped over one of my good friends. I started desperatly trying to get the speakers attention so my friend DID get named/mentions for helping. Otherwise I think she'd have started throwing large heavy objects (like myself) around the dining hall. (Crisis averted). My GF also didn't get "counted" when they divied up gold/rewards, so she got shorted. THAT wasn't fun either. We were ALL on short fuses by the end of it.
I swore off EVER doing feasts again after that night.