You're meeting your lover for a secret rendezvous

[Gifted Gourmet]

I have this friend who seemed to always dates these really beautiful women.  His seduction modus operandi has always been: take them to lunch at McDonalds (where the girl actually had to pay her own meal) and back to his place for a quick tryst in front of the fireplace.  Most of my guy friends still couldn't figure out how he does it.

Who is actually reporting on his "actual success" with this thrift-based technique?? Him??

In which case, I am puzzled ... no, actually incredulous .. anyone interview these "quarter pounder" for roll in the hay women??

Or maybe his "technique" overrides the entire lunch ... drive around please ...

[Mabelline]

I think that most of us women are wondering too. And make her pay her own way? What kind of perverted fiend is he?

[Gifted Gourmet]

Well, in all honesty, I think he is having one exceedingly Happy Meal!

and I also think he is feeding at the hamburger trough of hype!!

[judiu]

White Castles!

But doesn't the smell of those steaming onions act as an aphrodesiac to you, Jason? and the weight of the bag full of White Castles make for an erotic turn-on??

Ah, the finest food of my delightfully mis-spent youth! Nothing better at 2:30 a.m., shared with fellow drunkards!

[alacarte]

how does that song go?

"I gave my love a cherry that had no stone..."

chocolate-covered (pitted) cherries?

[bergerka]

Am I the only one who finds fresh bread smeared with um...roasted garlic...sexy? Might be a little difficult to lug to a rendezvous, though.

I must also recommend Nutella or other chocolate-hazelnut-type spreads. Not with the roasted garlic though. Afterward.

Good bourbon is sexy too. In fact, I recommend bringing a beautiful cocktail shaker, two chilled glasses (use an ice chest, do I have to think of EVERYTHING?) and the ingredients to an Aviation. A cabin in the mountains with a fabulous view is best for this...

K

[Carolyn Tillie]

Gooey, dripping, oozingly sticky coated baby back pork ribs.

[hathor]

How come it's mostly women replying on this thread?? I hope the men are taking very good notes!!!

[LEdlund]

how does that song go?

"I gave my love a cherry that had no stone..."

chocolate-covered (pitted) cherries?

I was actually leaning towards doing something with cherries, seeing as I have tons of them from my CSA basket.

I saw a recipe in Sunset magazine for chocolate waffles topped with marinated cherries and whipped mascarpone. Sounded romantic to me!

[phaelon56]

and the ingredients to an Aviation. A cabin in the mountains with a fabulous view is best for this...

Actually.... that very same combination recently worked magic for me and I wasn't even the one drinking the Aviation

[tryska]

rendez-vous' ain't for eating.

[Gifted Gourmet]

rendez-vous' ain't for eating.

purely a subjective view, m'dear ....

depends on who, or perhaps what, is being eaten ....

[tryska]

i meant food.

[Gifted Gourmet]

i meant food.

yes, but the two sometimes tend to overlap on a great rendezvous ....

[tryska]

in that case bring fried chicken. it tastes great cold.

[malarkey]

i meant food.

yes, but the two sometimes tend to overlap on a great rendezvous ....

Absolutely. In fact, a rendezvous without food would rank WAY under a rendezvous with food, um, for me, anyways.

Champagne is a natural, chocolate, perfectly ripe fruit, this could be peaches, pears, mangos, avocados, tomatoes, when they are good, they are incredibly sensuous. Great bread, high fat butter and sea salt. Ice cream or sorbet. Anything you can feed each other. In fact, a really good caprese could work. Tomatoes drizzled with olive oil, sea salt, mozz, basil, some awesome bread and some olives.. I'm already in heaven. Things that are messy are not necessarily bad...

[Jake]

in that case bring fried chicken. it tastes great cold.

Indeed, sometimes more substantial food is required near the end of the rendezvous.

[tryska]

smart man.

[Jake]

smart man.

Believe it or not -- "Jake" is a girl.

(A girl who knows fried chicken has its place, no less. )

[tryska]

gah! i had a feeling you would say that! i was hesitant to apply gender, but i bet and lost.

in that case - "smart woman!" to understand fried chickens place. i was jsut sitting her ethinking, if i'm on my way to an ilicit secret encounter, i'm gonna be thinking more about places to do the deed and not get caught, than places to seduce with fruit. (operating on the assumption that both me and my beau are broke/don't want a credit card bill)

[Gifted Gourmet]

Indeed, sometimes more substantial food is required near the end of the rendezvous.

Ah yes, the requisite postcoital pork chop ... smoke 'em if you got 'em ...

[GG Mora]

how does that song go?

"I gave my love a cherry that had no stone..."

chocolate-covered (pitted) cherries?

A friend often offers up this toast....

Here's to the girl in the little red shoes:

She took all my money and drank all my booze.

She didn't have a cherry, but it was no sin;

She still had the box that her cherry came in.

OT, I guess, but you were talkin about cherries.

[LEdlund]

I thought you might be interested in hearing what everyone brought to book group last night. I hope by posting this it won't discourage people to continue to post - this has been fun to read everyone's ideas of "romantic" food.

As I suspected, we had a little bit of everything:

angel food cake topped with whipped cream and berries

potato chips and champagne (that one had an interesting story to go along with it)

chocolates and rose wine

figs wrapped in proscuitto

fried chicken (!) and potato salad

greek salad (from the accountant in the group - she said we need our vegetables too!)

chocolate cheesecake

caprese salad

brie and bread

cream puffs filled with whipped cream

Needless to say - all the basis were covered. I cracked up when I saw that someone had brought fried chicken!

Thanks for the fun responses

Lauren

[tryska]

Needless to say - all the basis were covered. I cracked up when I saw that someone had brought fried chicken!

great minds think alike!

[formerly grueldelux]

rendez-vous' ain't for eating.

i'm with you. The sensual qualities of food have never had any relation to sexuality for me. Completely different appetites. In fact, the more intense the "rendez-vous", the more food becomes an afterthought. A luscious ripe mango makes me lust after another luscious ripe mango, followed perhaps by a nap.