Unexpected Food Gifts

[Kerry Beal]

 

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!

 

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

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.   

[TdeV]

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

[Margaret Pilgrim]

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.

[Maison Rustique]

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!!

[chromedome]

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.)