One of the philosophy of tabletop gaming I adhere to is Cheetoism, which basically boils down to:
We game for the snacks. And also the dice. But mostly, just to hang out with friends and tell tall stories
I used to be more hardcore about ‘THE GAME’ until I realized that my gaming friends weren’t all that much into the nuts and bolts of the crunch and the total immersion experience of Epic Fluff. I sinced took it down a few notch and it’s been great.
My point today is not to debate the finer points of gaming philosophy, let’s save that for later.
A big part of Cheetoism (sorry for those who hate the name because it refers to those chemical-weapons-called-snacks) is the sharing of food at the gaming table. Since a lot of RPG session run a few hours, there is often a meal involved and, at the very least, almost always the presence of snacks and Drinks at the table.
My questions to you is thus:
- What are your group eating/snacking arrangements when you game?
- Who orders the meal and who pays the it?
- What are your typical snacks and drinks?
For us, since we mostly game after work on Fridays twice a month, we always have food delivered and eat before playing. It’s usually chicken in a box, Pizza or Szechuan food (General Tao Chicken!).
The host of the game usually orders the food and collects money from all participants (DM pays too). When I’m the host, I usually collect a flat 10$ per meal (which cost on average 7-8$ each), the extra goes to help pay for books and gaming material. The whole group is fine with that so far.
As for snacks, we usually have them when we start playing pickup games before the whole group has arrived. We usually have bag or two of potato chips… Which we grow sick off real fast since we eat too much of them too fast because we’re so hungry.
Later in the evening, on occasion, my wife will bring a dessert she prepared with the kids and we’ll thank her profusely for the much appreciated extra sugar boost.
As for drinks, we usually have a mix of alcohol (Beer or Wine) , sodas (colas and Iced Teas) and fruit drinks.
We occasionally have too much to drink (especially me, being a very fast social drinker, I drain beers at the speed of gulp), which tends to have an effect on the game. However, things have been cool lately (I switched to light beer to keep the buzz down).
So what’s your Heroes’ Feast like?
Nice question. Food is essential in our group but we don’t have anything formal. Games are played at my house and we tend to bring an assortment of snacks and usually pizza is involved. Lately we’ve been putting back the drinks at the game, but none of use are major drinkers, at least not on Wednesday nights when we game, having to work the next day takes us down a couple notches. I usually bring down whatever snacks I have about and most of us provide chips. We’re pretty casual about the food at our games but we’re never lacking for consumables. Coffee is often times involved since we game 7-11 in the middle of the week. If we decided to order food it’s usually a group process and all of us chip in.
Cheers
We pull out a few standards of chips and brand name standard sodas as hosts, and some cookies or cupcakes: cookies if I don’t feel like baking cupcakes if I do. And if you want anything specific after that? It’s bring your own. With the private serving I often have a 20 oz cherry vanilla dr pepper (because believe it or not, not everyone worships it) and as weird as this is going to sound, a bowl of cereal. I actually don’t eat chips unless there’s dip, and there’s never dip.. so this just works for me as a substitute for some reason. Even if it’s nearing midnight.
Sometimes someone goes out of their way to make everyone a meal pr snack other than me but that’s not a prereq for anyone, seeing as our participants have varrying income levels.
Mmm… foood.. I gotta get some breakfast. Cocoa Puffs.
Snacks are vital, but cheetohs are an absolute anathema to our group. We play almost all our games, even the RPGs with hand painted miniatures. The last thing we want is cheetoh crust wiping out our paint jobs. The old expression ‘Beer and Pretzels Game’ comes from old miniatures grognards, pretzels are dry and don’t add oil to your fingers. Our group is big on Sourdough Pretzels and M&Ms mostly, anything that doesn’t put too much stress on the figures. If you are playing with prepainted plastic dudes then cheetoh away, but if you are using figures that someone put some time and love into put away the yellow finger food.
For most games, I make either dinner or desert from scratch. Gamers have a choice: bring 5$ worth of food (snacks, drinks, side-dishes or desert), or pay me 5$ to help cover my costs. I started charging after realizing that almost every game has at least one cheap-skate and calculating just how much money I was spending on food!
Last game we had chicken-Dijon cold cuts with gouda and cheddar cheese, crusty whole wheat and Belgium white bread, sandwich fixings (farm-fresh lettuce, tomatoes, & cucumbers), home-made potato salad, home-made coleslaw, apple-grape juice, ice tea, and silhouette raspberry juice to drink and pound cake for desert.
Summer dishes are mostly cold salads, cold cuts, and finger foods. The other seasons I typically make dinner at about 3 in the afternoon, allow it to cool, then pack it to travel and reheat it when I get there. In some cases I actually cook at the Host’s house; but I try to limit cooking time to 30 minutes.
When I don’t want to cook we order in (chicken, greek, lebaneese, sushi, …). I try really hard to stay away from pizza, chips, and the unhealthy–and the groups I’m in are really supportive of this. That doesn’t mean they don’t indulge their sweet teeth/junk teeth at games, but it does reduce it some.
Favorite dish: Chicken cashew stir-fry or barley mushroom risotto with shrimp
Most elaborate dish: Shrimp cervishe with mango salsa
Most common dish: Chicken soup with noodles & garlic bread
Favorite desert: cake (preferably chocolate)
Most elaborate desert: flourless chocolate torte
Most common desert: banana bread
Favorite snack: hummus with vegetables or crackers
Most elaborate snack: Brie-stuffed strawberries
Most common snack: goldfish crackers
Gah Rebecca… I’m salivating here… can I come play at your place next time?
@Brett: Good point on the hand painted miniature.
@Mea: Vanilla Cherry DR Pepper eh? I’ll stick to Diet plain Dr.P… 😀
There’s always a couple o’bags of Jelly Babies on the table when we’re playing 4e. We use ’em as minis and victor gets to eat his foes 🙂 Jelly Babies are easily my favourite game aid – and they’re colour coded too!
Aside from that, we prefer cold snacks and munchies to hot food – that tends to distrupt the game too much and turns the session into more of a sit-down meal with friends than a game session. That’s good too, but not why we’re together 🙂
….. and I would love to play in Rebecca’s game. Yummy!!!!
My wife is one of my players, and as our sessions are as much a social event with our friends as a game, she goes the extra mile and will bake brownies or some other kind of snack. We usually break for about 10 minutes during the session to down some brownies.
If I am going somewhere else to game, I will often bring pretzels to share. I’m particularly fond of the honey-wheat pretzel twists. They are tasty, relatively healthy, and leave no residue.
One nifty trick I saw at a con was the use of candy for monsters. Kill a beasty, get a candy. Mini-reeses cups make great medium monsters, regularly cups work for full-size. I’ve also seen starbursts used. (edit: greywolf got this in before I did… Jellybabies would be excellent for 4E markers)
Back in the heyday of group gaming (yea these 2-3 years ago) the general consensus was bring your own drinks, bring your own snacks, share if you like (pretty much we shared without incident). And generally we would order dinner (pizza, Chinese, etc.). Everyone more of less paid for their own stuff, occasionally people would pool together get get chips or drinks if one person was stopping at the store anyway. I’ve never really understood drinking (i.e. beer/wine/maddog 2020) at games… but I’m not much of a drinker in general.
In the current game I’m in, it’s a new group of people forming up, so there really isn’t much in the way of group fooding, it’s mostly “bring something if you want something”.
One of the odd things that this brings up for me… one of my main issues with my old group (and one of the reasons I stopped running) is that the group had gotten to… social. I know, I know… that’s some of the point. But if we’re just there to talk and hang out, why am I putting in any effort to this game? Lets get together and talk and I won’t have to read/buy/plan game stuff. Course I think the game had become the groups social outlet… and I didn’t want a social outlet, I wanted a game outlet… anyways, that’s perhaps far afield from your point so… I’m done.
In my first game we used to all pitch in to order pizza and eat together while leveling and asking the DM various meta-questions we needed to know (it was a newbie game, these things took time). After that was gaming time. We played in the student union building at college so there were snack machines downstairs and you could leave the table to run down and get stuff. (Usually our group was split up for various plot-related reasons, so not everyone needed to hear everything going on).
My FLGS has a snack bar with a fridge/freezer combo for drinks and Hot Pockets (and a microwave out back!) and every group that plays there will have their rules for when you can go buy stuff. (It’s also considered good etiquette to buy at least something from the snack bar as a thank you to the management.)
If/when I ever run a game at my house I’m cooking dinner beforehand and providing various snacks, probably a lot of gummies and jelly beans and the like. (I have various personal diet needs so it’s really much easier for me to cook.)
Hold on to that thought… this will definitively be a question for a future post.
Our group plays on Sunday nights, and I would say 50% of the time, we get together for a sit down dinner before game time. Dinner is almost always take out, with Wings (you guys call them Buffalo Wings) and/or Pizza being the most popular choices, but from time time to time, some Chinese, or Indian (chicken Tikai Masala).
At the table, we don’t snack too much. Most of us are big water drinkers, though a few people will bring an Iced Tea or some Soda. When we do have snacks, my current favorite is Chex Mix.
Cheetos… *shudder*. They always make me think of that horrorish story I read in Omni sometime in the late ’80s. I don’t remember anything else about it right now, except the creepy guy who ate Cheetos and had orange-stained fingers.
Agreed, It’s an unfortunate name for an otherwise solid social philosophy.
My kids love them… I only eat them at kids birthday parties.
My girlfriend does the cooking for the group, and the other members each pay $5 for it, which is a fantastic deal for them considering the level of my girlfriend’s cooking! Next week she’s making homemade alfredo.
Ah-hah! A bit of searching found the story — “The Pear-Shaped Man” by George R.R. Martin. http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook693.htm, published in _Omni_ magazine October 1987.
@Katy: Bookmarked! Thanks!
I have to stop posting about food… I’m sooo hungry now!
My group meets online over Skype these days, so food is pretty much everyone’s separate issue.
Back when we all were in college, however, we were pretty lazy about it. We met in the common room of the greater part of the group’s dorm building, so a big catered deal wasn’t really an option. Plus we were all broke. So mostly it was chips and sodas from the vending machine down the hallway. Either that or store-brand soda from one of the PC’s fridge. You have not tasted bad soda until you’ve had warm diet ‘Dr. Thunder’, a Dr. Pepper rip-off from Sam’s Club.
Cheetos were common.
We usually buy some chips to eat and cola to drink; any player pays it and later we give him/her our part.
But lately, my brother is running a Hackmaster campaign, and has begun a new tradition: whoever pays for the snacks get a +10% experience points that day :).
Yes, it’s silly, but given that I don’t care about experience points (my characters usually don’t survive for too long anyway), it’s being a money-saver for me!
Best regards,
Carlos
That’s pretty close to what we do – we play every other Thursday night after work. I’ll typically IM everyone in the afternoon before hand and get a consensus for food, and I’m usually stocked with sodas, or more adult beverages. We try to eat right before we start playing (since everyone is heading straight to my house right from work), and we can recap the last session, or just discuss non-game stuff while we eat.
Here is how things wiork in our group:
We usually play Sunday afternoons, from noon ’till 6ish. Each of us (there are 5 players in total) gives the DM $20 and he (the DM) is in charge of buying pop and snacks for the game. Lunch is usually hotdogs, eaten at about 2ish.
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Wow… so the DM gets $100 a week, and spends… what? $25 on snacks for the group? I know hotdogs aren’t that expensive…. 😛 Sounds like a good deal for the DM 😉
We order pizza right when everyone arrives (with enough for leftovers), then either BS and chat about the game or start with a recap, planning — whatever we can do without getting derailed when food arrives. Everyone chips in $10, and we play weekly on Saturday or Sunday nights.
Drinks are BYO, usually not booze (although booze is fine), and someone generally brings a snack of some kind; Starburst jelly beans and Twizzlers are popular. The snacks in our host’s house are generally free for the eating, too.
Pretty vanilla, but it works for us. 😉 I wish there was a button we could push to have Pizza Hut (not by choice — it’s our only delivery option!) deliver our order, since it’s always the same.
My group has one host, and he and his family are firm believers in hospitality. Guacamole and chips on arrival, usually a real dinner by the time we’ve finished playing and are back to socializing, planning for the next get-together, or bunching up around the computer to catch up on each other’s favorite shows. Every now and then someone else will bring something: sometimes it’s a package of snacks that they just needed to get rid of, sometimes one of us just felt like cooking and/or showing off.
Most of my old gaming group has moved away to other states and/or countries, so a lot of my gaming is now done online. However, we recently started a new tradition of playing Arkham Horror about once a month. This can be a long game, so we tend to start early in the afternoon (usually with a little bit of fun on the Wii) before we sit down to tackle the Elder Gods.
Everyone brings their own drinks (alcoholic or otherwise). But for food, everybody brings something. We try to bring healthy options aside from just chips. Sometimes I’ll make a spinach dip, or someone will bring fresh veggies. Although we’ll order pizza from time to time, mostly we have a homemade meal. Somebody brings a lasagna or casserole we can just throw in the oven. And then somebody else will bring vegetables for a salad or something for a side. I tend to bring the desserts. Last time, it was a triple berry lemon trifle. I didn’t have a lot of leftovers to take home.
These gaming events are social events for us, too. My wife and a friend’s wife have joined us and and play Arkham Horror, and I think that’s great.
Our weekly gaming group typically tries to rotate out meal/snack/drink duty. We try to have one person bring a main dish, two people bring snacks and one person bring drinks. It sorta works. We’ve recently lost four players and replaced them with three players who haven’t quite gotten into the rotation system yet. I’m thinking we might just start doing $5 pizza pitch with the rest going to the host *me* for snacks and drinks.
Oh and wohoo it’s my first post, been reading your blog for the past few months now and finally decided to leave a comment. Keep up the grand work Chatty, you give me something to do at boring work.
We have the BEST arrangement. We play D&D, and the DM decided to try to do ‘in character’ food. So before the first session, we made a grocery run and got a roast chicken, some cumberland sausages, fresh bread, cheese, fruit, nuts, apple pie, fresh cream… basically all stuff that we could imagine our characters eating at a nice inn somewhere. (I decided that chocolate could easily exist in D&D, with druids to nurture the cacao trees, so we had chocolate as well.) This was such a hit that we’ve done it nearly every time since then. We only meet once a month, so we don’t get sick of it. It’s brilliant.
We don’t have a formal arrangement for money. The DM usually does the shopping. He’s never asked for cash, but I always chip in. I hope everyone else does too!
My group actually ignores the food stuffs. If we can someone brings something but usually we are all left with empty guts. We game every Thursday (the only day we all have off. Weird, I know) so the gaming session is less of a ceremony than i think most are. If we do order food (about a 1 in 5 chance) we usually get a 30″ pizza from a local pizza place. One of these last the whole group all day.
Almost no one has cash, we be poor 🙁 So who can’t pay has to do the work of ordering as picking said food stuffs.
One of our members works at a grocery store so she can get us lots of cheap snacks. But like i said, we’re too cheap to do this often.
Drinks receive even less attention than food (I usually end up with a glass of water for the whole evening)
We have long ago established that D D&D (Drunk Dungeons and Dragons) is a bad idea…. We don’t do that anymore.
I think in all the groups I’ve played in everyone has been responsible for their own food/drink – probably partly because almost every group has involved incompatible food allergies 🙂 Other than that we’ve run the gamut right from snacks only through to potlucks (we even stopped the game in the middle for a while to order food – the person with the most complicated order got stuck doing the ordering so his didn’t get screwed up 😀 ).
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It’s fun to see how diverse these habits are.
And a big warm hello and welcome to commenters that appeared recently: Roger, Daniel, Ravyn, happyturtle, Virgil, David, Mea and Brett! (Sorry if I skipped anyone, it used to be a lot easier when I had one new reader per month!)
I must say that happyturtle’s suggestion is just plain brilliant. This is a perfect mix of social activities (shopping, cooking, eating, gaming). I wish we had the time to do something like this.
Thanks for the comments!
My Wife used to make dinner for everyone, but as my group has grown to 5-8 players, it is no longer convenient. Now everyone brings their own dinner or eats before we play(6pm on a Sat). Someone usually brings some snacks for everyone to eat, anything from chips to cookies to ice cream sandwiches. Drinks are bring your own, but anyone is welcome to anything in my fridge. I just only drink diet now, so the guys don’t like that so much. We try to keep alcohol to a minimum.
We meet on Friday nights, on the heels of work. Consequently, my wife (work-from-home mom and domestic goddess) cooks dinner. The group brings drinks and snacks. I bring the game setting and the toys. It’s a good arrangement.
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In my current group we’re all in our early to mid 30’s. I myself love to cook and one of our number is a professional pastry chef… And one player is lactose intolerant. So we often go beyond the 2 liters of coke, pizza and cool ranch dorietos of our youth.
We do still get pizza (and order an sandwich for lactose man) every now and again. (And Costco pizza is very good as well as inexpensive but we also order in from this place called “Big Slice”.) At some point I started cooking for the group with we played at my house. It started innocently enough when I decided to get one of those roasted chickens from the store, shred it up and set it out with a bunch of fixens and tortillas for the guys to assemble soft tacos. But after watching too many episodes of Good Eats, and the Food Network in general, I started getting fancy with Asian noodle soup pouches, mini meatloaf muffins and broiled talapia or salmon. (The Albertson’s near me always has a great price on talapia fillets.) My chilli was also a hit but I’ve since decided to forgo any recipe that involves beans…
At any game somebody may or may not bring cookie dough which we bake up during the break we usually take about half way through our session. Though angel food cake topped with macerated berries and Reddi Whip has become quite popular since you don’t need to wait for it to bake. (Macerated just means you coat them with sugar/splenda and let them sit for a little while.)
Regardless of whether we order out or cook in, the host usually does the actual paying. People will usually chip in but we often chalk it up to “food karma”. Where the host will get covered for dinner at a later time by somebody who forgot to bring cash that night.
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We play every Sunday, starting around 2:00 and going until 7-8:00.
We’ve been playing with this group in this setup for a few years, and decided early on against pizza every week.
So our arrangement is to rotate cooking duties between households (the group consists of 3 couples and one single guy, and each of the couples has a student [and thus far less money available], so we felt it was pretty fair even to the single guy).
The game is almost always at our apartment, and out gaming table (dining room table) is approximately 2 feet from the kitchen. So the cooking couple cooks while we continue to play, and they remain involved.
Once food is ready, we break from gaming and eat, in the living room so that the dining table can keep the D&D stuff set up.
For meals, we had smokies and potato salad yesterday, for a simpler one, but we’ve had everything from chicken/pasta salads to honey mustard chicken to ribs to spaghetti to chicken a la king. Nothing too complex, but always pretty good.
Which is impressive, because we have a few dietary restrictions around, too. We have a vegetarian, one guy who is allergic to pretty much all nuts except for peanuts, and a few things people just really dislike (peppers and mushrooms, but we used to have a guy that hated cheese). All of those are pretty easy to plan around, though. You just cook those things separately, and everyone adds them to taste.
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For snacks, everyone is left to their own devices. We live about 50 feet away from a 7-11, and we don’t own a coffee machine, so it is common to do a Sev run before a game. We’ll grab chips, drinks, slurpees, and coffee for who wants. We will occasionally run to Safeway (grocery store across the street) for candy and jube jubes. And a couple of the players will occasionally bring weird-ass Japanese snacks (some are good, some… are just weird).
We have a quiet rule about too much sugary snacks, though. For a while we played in the living room on our very comfy couches and coffee table, and we had a significant problem with people eating too much sugar, being hyper for a little, but then sugar crashing and falling asleep on the comfy couches.
As such, the most common snacks tend to be salty/savoury snacks, though the sugary ones and caffeinated drinks are always around a bit to keep energy up.
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Back when I first started gaming (2001-ish), we played at another friend’s place. There were anything from 6-12 people there at once, so we split up into groups, and there was never all that much in the way of formal extended campaigns, as we tended to switch directions a lot.
Anyways, when there, we played on Saturdays and ordered pizza. The place we ordered from has cheap large pizzas that get cheaper the more you order, so having 12 players was a great thing.
It was a pain to get orders from everyone, though… until we discovered the greatest pizza combination from them.
You see, like everywhere else, they have bacon as a topping.
Unlike everywhere else, they also have Canadian bacon as a topping.
So our order usually went as follows (all large pizzas, one per person usually, as we were all young and had high metabolism [well, not me, but I did martial arts in those days so I still stayed pretty fit]):
– Bacon and (Canadian) bacon.
– Bacon ‘n’ bacon.
– Bacon ‘n’ bacon.
– Bacon ‘n’ bacon.
– Bacon ‘n’ bacon.
– Bacon ‘n’ bacon.
– Bacon ‘n’ bacon.
– Cheese.
– Bacon ‘n’ bacon.
– Bacon ‘n’ bacon.
– And ten 2-litres of Coke.
Yeah, those were the days.
We tend to fend for ourselves prior to the game. Of course, the rest of the group all lives in the same house, so I have to travel in. Makes it easy on them, a bit less so for me. Still, it beats arguing over what goes on the pizza, and now that I have IBS, I can’t eat some of the same crap anymore anyways, so this works out better for everyone.
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Food is a big part of our gaming sessions. Usually, we order pizza, and everyone who is eating pays an equal share. Snacks are provided by the host and consist of cookies (especially EL Fudges) and sometimes chips. Diet Coke is the predominent drink of choice, and the host provides plenty of soda, though if anyone wants something else, they are free to bring their own.
Sometimes, someone will offer to cook a great, home-cooked dinner for us all. And we always enjoy it. 🙂
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For awhile, we were going out to eat before sessions, like Steak ‘n Shake, and one time Outback Steakhouse, but we determined that it cut into the game time too much to go somewhere and eat. We should make a once-a-month excursion to somewhere that’s a little nicer than McDonald’s once in awhile.
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@Graham – the Bacon n’ Bacon sounds lovely! Mmm…
My Orlando group used to eat a mishmash of whatever people brought. The other drow (*cough*) used to cook stuff and bring it over. I would bring over break n’bake macadamia nut cookies (because those were the DMs favorite and it is important to make the DM your bitch! – yes, you can quote me on that). Nothing like cookies straight from the oven, even if they are break n’bake.
Our old cleric (of Celestial Bee fame), used to bring Oreos and milk for us.
Not sure what the new group is going to be like… finding out on Monday!
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My group always plays each Friday night at my house, where either I run, or it is my pal Dave’e turn to run. We usually rotate every 6 games or so. The food is always pizza ordered just before they all arrive, and I usually pick it up on my way home from work. The players pay for pizza upon arrival. Drinks are diet pop of various assortment with which I keep the gaming fridge stocked conveniently only about 12 feet away from the game table. The players often chip in for pop as well. Occaisionally snacks are also brought and shared during the games, but I insist the players wash hands before touching the highly detailed painted minis.
I have two groups with two completely different gaming styles and different eating habits. With my casual “fluffy” group, the game takes a short pause at the appropriate cliffhanger and we all take a ride to the nearby Chinese take-out and get the lunch special. We then proceed back to the game, and character sheets quickly become placemats/napkins.
With my other, amazingly serious group, I find that those early to the session get to join me for a supermarket drive. The lucky few get to pick out favorite snacks that should last through the day, into the night, and beyond. This used to be followed with copious amounts of alcohol. However, that has been cut down on since our paladin spent an entire game in the bathroom praying to the porcelain god, so to speak.
Ah, foul Tequilus, god of porcelain.
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Since I’m off subject anyways, I’d also like to say I dig your anti-spam filter. If someone who reads your blog can’t figure out what these are, it definitely has to be a bot. And if I ever get denied to post for not recognizing it, I hope someone shoots me in the head.
In Australia cheetos used to have the advertising slogan “Tastes good but!” (in this usage, “but” means “though”). I hate them though.
When I played in Australia we would have roast potatoes (put them on before you start), wine (Australian) and beer, and people would bring bread and humus. In Japan I played on skype, so my partner and I made the roast potatoes (but no humus in rural Japan).
Now sadly I am in a group that plays at a pub. The pub food is absolutely awful. So I buy Japanese takeaway from itsu (at the very branch where that Russian chap was poisoned) and eat it at work before I go. Then it’s just English pints from 6pm, and things go downhill fast…
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Whenever I post about food, I get a faceful of how global this small community of like-minded chatty geek is.
There are strong chances that I’ll have to start doing buisness travels over the US and Europe soon, expect me to post about it and ask the Chatty Minions to meet in restaurants (and maybe some pick up games)
The Chatty DM D&D Roadshow,,, I feel a runaway idea just left the station…
That would be fun. But British restaurants are often not so good…
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I should add … role-playing in Australia and Japan is pretty low-key, there is very little of it and what there is probably isn’t very good. Here in London it’s completely different, though.
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It usually depends on what I’m in the mood to cook. Last game night, I grilled steaks and roasted potatoes and made coleslaw. Time before that, it was burgers, hot dogs, potato salad, and baked beans (I’ll never serve beans again ;P). I usually make a desert of some kind like turtle brownies or whatever or if I’m short on time, pick one up from the bakery at HyVee. This coming up Monday I’m making pulled pork and pasta salad. We always have chips or snackies and as far as drinks go, last time my old friend Jack Daniels made an appearance and let me tell you that made for an interesting game. Rip and I got into an argument (I was tipsy) over the logical use of a certain magickal item. I still say I’m right.
Anyway, I have been complimented on my culinary skills quite often. At least none of my geeks friends can ever say they go hungry at my house on game night.