Leftovers, was Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP - Turkey, again!

[chirhart_1]

Hi.At our feasting time we always send food home with people.We useuly have
30 or so house members or friends over and with five turkeys and 17 or so
pies and other things there is some times (These people eat) something left
over.Which in turn helps in the clean up for use.Although we have had years
that very little was left. Olwen can attest things move quickly.


Happy Thanks Giving  From Chirhart

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PS    (And then there is THE BIG PIE)
From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:24 AM
Subject: Leftovers, was Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP - Turkey, again!


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> [snip]
> >
> > Adamantius
> >
> > *P.S.: Can anyone explain to me (and I know we've also had this
> > discussion here before), maybe I should say, can anyone give me a
> > compelling argument in support of either A) taking your leftovers
> > home with you, or B) --to be fair-- not taking your leftovers home
> > with you? The concept of bringing a casserole (or whatever, but this
> > being America, it seems to be the standard) to somebody else's home,
> > and then taking your leftover food home with you, seems so bizarre to
> > me. I mean, you go to somebody's house, and bring a bottle of wine,
> > do you say, "Okay, there's still a glass left in the bottle, I'll
> > just take that back home with me..."? I'm sure there are good
> > arguments to be made in favor of this practice, ranging from, "I want
> > to get my casserole dish back quickly," or, "I want to make cleanup
> > easier for my host/ess," or it may even date from some early funerary
> > custom in America, and, "I want to take this food of affliction away
> > from my host/ess, so that they can begin to heal." (Funeral-type
> > situations being a common occasion for the pot-luck/casserole thing,
> > it seems.) I always just thought it was weird.
>

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> In your case, where you've brought the food to start with, I wouldn't have
> any problems bringing some of the leftovers home. You might have to leave
> some for your mother, or split some with siblings, but I know my family
> wouldn't have a problem with the provider of the food taking the rest of
> it back home.
>
> Margaret



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