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Unexpected Food Gifts

liuzhou

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Went for a meeting today at Good Shepherd with the boss Brother Richard - who happens to be a bit of a foodie. Apparently this was the Christmas present that had been waiting for me. 

 

Should make for good work lunches!

 

 

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Margaret Pilgrim

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Sort of...    Last evening I finished an early dinner, straightened the kitchen and retired upstairs to watch TV.    Doorbell rings.    Two large  HOT sacks of food.   Delivery person long gone.  Packing slip has correct street address but DIFFERENT TOWN!    I call the delivery service and had some difficulty getting across their error.   Was finally told to trash or enjoy the delivery.  Stuffed most of it in the fridge to worry about "tomorrow" like Scarlett.  

 

I felt bad for both the hungry people (probably 4, from the size of the order) as well as the hapless delivery person who may have to "eat" the $100+ cost of this order.   

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Margaret Pilgrim

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23 minutes ago, TdeV said:

@Margaret Pilgrim, I hope you tell us what's in the order. And what it tastes like!

A double order of chicken shawarma (very heavily seasoned with warm spices) with fries and salad, two kefta kabob dinners with salad, hummus and fries, a kind of gyro wrap or "burrito", two additional orders of fries, tabouli salad, extra pitas and yogurt sauces.    Son was over today and we sorted through for lunch; he took some home and I will forage supper tonight before tossing a lot that was not to our taste.  

 

We were both devastated by the financial hit that the delivery person probably took = cost of this meal plus some 25 miles and an hour excess travel time and expense.   These people work on slim enough margins, considerably less than minimum wage, and are tip dependent.    I would guess that original buyer cancelled any tip when meal was not delivered.   Sure, it should have been delivered correctly but mistakes happen.   I just hope this person was able to weather the financial hit that this mistake cost him.

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Maison Rustique

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At least it sounds like decent food! If that had happened to me it would have turned out to be a KFC bucket of chicken, which I always swear is pigeon because they are small and odd-shaped pieces. Would have gone straight out to the raccoons. But what you got sounds great and it would have fed me for 2 weeks!!

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21 hours ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

Sort of...    Last evening I finished an early dinner, straightened the kitchen and retired upstairs to watch TV.    Doorbell rings.    Two large  HOT sacks of food.   Delivery person long gone.  Packing slip has correct street address but DIFFERENT TOWN!    I call the delivery service and had some difficulty getting across their error.   Was finally told to trash or enjoy the delivery.  Stuffed most of it in the fridge to worry about "tomorrow" like Scarlett.  

 

I felt bad for both the hungry people (probably 4, from the size of the order) as well as the hapless delivery person who may have to "eat" the $100+ cost of this order.   

We've been on the opposite side of that kind of confusion, in our way.

 

The village I live in has a namesake just across the bay in Nova Scotia, and when we advertise our rabbits, quail, quail eggs etc for sale, we often have people responding to our ads in the mistaken belief that we're in the Nova Scotian town of the same name. Just a couple of weeks ago a sale for five young rabbits went south when the couple hopped into their car at 6:45 for our 7PM meeting, punched the address into their GPS, and said "Wait, what?"

 

(It would be worse on FB Marketplace, because when we set a radius of 50 or 75km around our location, it shows us ads from across the bay in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, and the reverse is also true.)

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liuzhou

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Today, I took delivery of a refill of my caviar supply. As you do. As usual it came with 'gifts'. Normally they throw in a pack of wonderful hot smoked sturgeon but this time that brought a friend.

 

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150g of Sturgeon Steak.  I'm not sure what I'll do with it, yet but thanks! The smoked sturgeon will probably be lunch in a day or two.

 

 

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A gift of food is, for me, quite rare. A few days ago I received a couple of pieces of freshly made focaccia covered with black olives, feta cheese, and caramelized onions. The unusual thing was how I got the gift.

 

It was early evening and I had just pushed the doorbell button at a friend's house. A moment later, he opened the door and at just that instant I heard a voice from behind me. "Hey, you guys want some focaccia?" Turning to the voice I saw a young man standing on the sidewalk in front of the house. He was holding, and offering, a take-away container in which there were a couple of pieces of the described focaccia. Friend and I were were taken aback not only by the offer, but by the circumstances.

 

The young man explained it was from a restaurant around the corner, on one of Berkeley's main shopping streets.  The man said that the restaurant was closing early and that they had some items left over that they decided to distribute to folks in the neighborhood, something akin to an advertising promotion I surmised. I got some information about the restaurant, and since the bread was quite delicious I'll visit the next time I'm in the heighborhood.

 

The incident reminded me of the times when I was a kid and guys would come through our neighborhood and sell meat and chicken out of the trunk of their car. It was a little different though, as those guys were always selling stuff that fell off a truck. As a kid, I thought how lucky those guys were, but later on I came to fully understand their good fortune.

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liuzhou

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This just arrived at my door. 10kg of litchi/lychees picked yesterday on a friend's farm. Now in my over stuffed fridge.

 

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BeeZee

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@liuzhou, with having a hard shell, do these last for a while when kept refrigerated?

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liuzhou

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1 hour ago, BeeZee said:

@liuzhou, with having a hard shell, do these last for a while when kept refrigerated?

 

They don't have a hard shell; its more a papery skin. They only last about a week in the fridge. However, they freeze well.

 

I'm busy uploading some on friends and neighbours.

 

 

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12 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

They don't have a hard shell; its more a papery skin. They only last about a week in the fridge. However, they freeze well.

 

I'm busy uploading some on friends and neighbours.

 

 

 

12 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

They don't have a hard shell; its more a papery skin. They only last about a week in the fridge. However, they freeze well.

 

I'm busy uploading some on friends and neighbours.

 

 

Downloading or Offloading, more like it ;)

 

 

liuzhou

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2 hours ago, TicTac said:

 

Downloading or Offloading, more like it ;)

 

 

 

I respectfully disagree. I chose my words with care. 🤪

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