SC - Fruit Query

[margali]

> >     Be your own person,  and just let people know  (when it's too late
to be pressured) that you decided  to do something a bit different.  It's
kind ofhard to critize a feast "because the Cook had the audacity NOT to
servehoneybutter! " and that's the worse they can say . . . .
> Caointiarn
>
> Thanks for the insight.  Too bad we have to submit a menu "for approval"
prior  to the event.  Takes some of the decisions out of the cooks' hands
and places it  somewhere else.
> Liadnan

    The menu is titled "tentative"  stating things like sales/ availability
of seasonal produce.
A wave of the hand, saying bread & butter is implied . . . .
And if the party that "appproves" menus  doesn't like your suggestions,
(and  proposed compromises aren't to your liking) then you could just bow
out gracefully  thanking them for their time.

    There's also the "opps I left it at home"   underhanded passive
aggressive position. . . .

Caointiarn
who's alter ego  has  waaay too many years in Mental Healath  --- but I feel
MUCH better now!  ;*>