[MR] Well, we could pare down the feast, for one thing.

[Gina Shelley]

I hate most feasts. There. I said it. 

 

That in no way take anything from the feastcrat or the staff. Usually, the food is pretty good. I just don't want to sit all bloody night to get it. So I guess I should rephrase this: I hate the way we usually SERVE feast. 

 

My two favorite feasts from last year: 

 

Twelfth Night. Just a big table full of food and we get to eat when we are hungry. Something runs out, oh well. There's plenty else. 

 

Midwinter's Tale: If I am thinking of the right event, it was a bowl of nice stew and some bread and butter. Since it was so cold and wet and dark outside, that really hit the spot. 

 

I personally do not like sitting through remove after remove after endless for God sake make it stop remove. I get bored out of my skull and start playing with the candles. I come home from events with minor burns on my skin and wax in my hair. I almost set Ivar's pants on fire at Birthday. 

 

We could just eat, clean up, and do some dancing or something, rather than sitting there lighting ourselves on fire. The meal feels like a series of really unsatisfying snacks instead of a good filling meal. I got low sugar and a short attention span, the only reason I don't usually bring my own supper like I used to anymore is because I am old and crotchety now and don't feel like adding one more thing to have to mess with just to go to an event. 

 

My eating at feast has less to do with any glad anticipation on my part and more to do with my own laziness. I am just saying. 

 

And anyone who cleans up after feast can tell you how much food goes to waste. It would be a better meal and less work and expense to make a few good, filling offerings that will get eaten than a dozen or more that won't. We spend way too much time and money on all this food that ends up getting tossed. 

 

Just my unsolicited opinion,

Dulcy
 		 	   		  
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