On Mar 28, 5:20*pm, Bobo Bonobo® > wrote:incidents.



> Just like I'm "stuck" making way more than my share of the holiday
> meals. *It's the only way to ensure that the food is up to standard,
> i.e. doesn't include jarred gravy.

Well, you're not 'stuck' if you have made the choice.

Maybe one day of jarred gravy won't kill you and you can avoid
feeling put upon.


>
> > People like that need to learn manners some way.
>
> I don't go out to lunch with my boss because he insists on going
> through the drive thru, and taking it back to work, instead of eating
> in. *When the food gets back to work, it is no longer right. *Example,
> McDonald's French fries. *However you feel about them to begin with,
> they certainly aren't very good six or ten minutes old. *I like my
> boss. *He's a good guy, but his standard for food freshness means that
> I don't go get lunch with him. *I don't go to certain places because
> of bad food. *There's a nice YMCA resort in this area. *Nice, except
> that meals are included in the exorbitant price, and the food is less
> than Rally's quality. *Precooked burgers sitting in God knows what
> that liquid is, burger broth? **Shudder*. *Half hour old "fries"
> sitting in a chafing dish. *It created some tension with my extended
> family when I spoke to the manager and told him that the food was
> worse than a grade school lunchroom. *I really insulted the
> operation. *I left after one day, when I'd expected to stay three.
> They ended up comping me the one day that I did stay, which mollified
> me. *Notice that I called it "otherwise nice."
>
>
>
> > Kris
>
> --Bryan