SC - Complaints at feasts

[Elaine Koogler]

I honestly believe that the best way around complaints, etc., from various sorts
at a feast is to simply post a listing of the ingredients for the feast in
several places around the site...troll, outside the kitchen door, etc.  I try to
serve feasts that are fairly well-rounded with dishes to suit all sorts, though
I obviously cannot second-guess allergies (purpose of ingredients list).  The
only time I actually cooked around an allergy was when I cooked a Coronation
feast for a Queen allergic to nuts.

If you have posted the listing, you have "covered yourself", to be polite!
Because then, if a person eats something they shouldn't, it is their own doing.
You can be symnpathetic, but you are not at fault!

Kiri

Black Jade wrote:

> >The question was raised:  how to do a vegan feast without getting
> >complaints from the various permutations of vegetarians?
> >
> >That way lies madness.  Do your best at whatever you are trying to do.
> >There will always be complaints.  (We've had people complain about
> >feasts who weren't even at the events!)  Ignore all complaints except the
> >valid ones.  I.E.  if someone waits until 30 minutes before feast to
> >bring
> >you a laundry list of "allergies", this is not a valid complaint.  Now if
> >the queen said she's violently allergic to mushrooms 3 months before the
> >event and you serve beef with mushroom sauce in the first remove and
> >mushroom quiche in the second, that's a valid complaint.  (And you
> >need to work on your clerical skills.)
>
> I'm in total agreement here.  There is no point in trying to prepare a
> feast at which EVERYONE is happy.  There will always be someone who will
> look for something to complain about in a feast (there was too much of
> this, not enough of that.  They're allergic to something that they forgot
> to tell about.)
> If they failed to give the requirements when they booked, or a useful time
> before they came, then it's tough bikkies for them.  On;y listen for a
> valid complaint, such as nothing suitable for someone who told you about an
> allergy in plenty of time.  Otherwise you'll run yourself ragged and
> recieve just as many complaints as you did to begin with.
> -Katerine
>
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