Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

Q4 is also in a week? lol

 

[gnarlygninja]

I like to cook for my friends, so it's natural I ask for allergies and food restrictions after growing up with my Dad and one sibling having restrictions. And then the kid in my life got hit with lots of allergies. Thankfully nobody in my friend group is picky.

Count your blessings on that last point, I eventually stopped making dinner for my dnd group because they are each extremely picky and their combined list of foods they won't eat is something like
Beans, seafood, cilantro, mustard, avocado, mayonnaise, mushrooms, tofu, soy sauce, salami, prosciutto, any kind of seeds or whole grains not broken down, Brussels sprouts, blue cheese, anything pickled, coconut, meat that isn't cooked well done, meat that is cooked well done, chocolate, and anything even remotely spicy.

I also have a friend who claims his husband is "allergic to all lettuce that isn't iceberg", which always makes me think of the bit in 30 Rock where Dennis is allergic to all fish unless its fried.

 

[CleverNickName]

Count your blessings on that last point, I eventually stopped making dinner for my dnd group because they are each extremely picky and their combined list of foods they won't eat is something like
Beans, seafood, cilantro, mustard, avocado, mayonnaise, mushrooms, tofu, soy sauce, salami, prosciutto, any kind of seeds or whole grains not broken down, Brussels sprouts, blue cheese, anything pickled, coconut, meat that isn't cooked well done, meat that is cooked well done, chocolate, and anything even remotely spicy.

I also have a friend who claims his husband is "allergic to all lettuce that isn't iceberg", which always makes me think of the bit in 30 Rock where Dennis is allergic to all fish unless its fried.

Geez, I thought my friends were a picky lot! I have also given up on trying to find that Perfect Food^TM for my gaming group. Instead, I take a "here's what I'm cooking, bring whatever else you want" approach.

Like 4th of July weekend, for example: I sent a text that went something like this: "Okay everyone, the grill will be hot at 5:00 p.m. and I'll be grilling up turkey dogs for everyone. If you'd like to cook something else, bring it and I'll make room on the grill. Same deal with the cooler--it's full of Corona and limes right now but I'll make room for anything else you want to bring."

Sure, some folks showed up with burger patties and vegetable kebabs and a few bottles of wine, but most folks brought sides and toppings for the dogs I was already serving. My friends are cool like that.

 

[gnarlygninja]

I would love to be able to do something like that, but experience has taught me that if I leave something like that up to them, the best case scenario is everyone shows up late because they forgot about it until they were driving to my apartment and have to suddenly stop in at Costco on the way or just completely forget.

 

[MoonSong]

I would love to be able to do something like that, but experience has taught me that if I leave something like that up to them, the best case scenario is everyone shows up late because they forgot about it until they were driving to my apartment and have to suddenly stop in at Costco on the way or just completely forget.

At least you can coordinate to meet together. This stuff can be like herding cats.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Cats are much easier than players ime, you just shake a tube of churu and they'll basically do whatever you want.

 

[prabe]

Cats are much easier than players ime, you just shake a tube of churu and they'll basically do whatever you want.

My cat, we need to actually open the Churu, but you are correct that at that point we basically have control of the cat.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm not sure there really is a heresy when it comes to gumbo.

That said, pineapple might not improve it.

Are there versions of gumbo that use sweet components as a matter of course? (I'm just curious since most gumbo is off the table for me since I dislike seafood, so I've only really had various that were just chicken and sausage based).

I'm not sure there's "versions" of gumbo so much as there is "this is what we had in the kitchen at the time we were making it" gumbo.

I am confident that sweet onions and peppers sometime make their way into gumbo. I was thinking that the sour component of pineapple might be the more unusual note.

There’s nothing sweet in MY gumbo arsenal, but I’ve heard of people using sweet potatoes.

Not pineapples, AFAIK.

 

[overgeeked]

A: "But I feel that 2+2=5."

B: "Unfortunately, reality does not match your feelings. It's 2+2=4."

A: "How dare you!?"

 

[Scribe]

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I just cannot with that thread, and since we cannot thread ignore.