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Jan. 21st, 2009
The Arisia 2009 Jelly Bean incident
Jan. 21st, 2009 04:13 pmor How no Con Suite staff ended up in jail.
The story has been making the rounds, so some thought I should post the official version.
Arisia has a great con suite, something that sometimes gets forgotten. Other cons i've been to tend to be bowls of chips and m-n-m's and some oreos, not much else. Arisia goes all out. Cold cuts,brownies, sandwich fixin's, 180# of cheese cubes alone,fresh fruit and veggies, warm cookies and most of all...the meatballs.
Now here's the problem, because we do such great food people often forget that the Con suite food is not there to replace your meals, but to be a rest stop with great nibbles. Often people swarm a platter of cold cuts as soon as it's put out and then it's gone in 3 minutes,no one else can get any, things like that.
Now the meatballs have become an Arisia tradition. They get served covered in super sekrit meatball sauce. When we put something else on the meatballs there are complaints. I'm not thrilled with it, but tradition is tradition.
In the past there have been problems with con goers selfishly scooping heaping cereal bowlfuls out of the crockpot of freshly delivered meatballs ,leaving others with none.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jedilora, con suite manager extraordinaire, solved this problem by taking away the bowls first and putting out toothpicks. This worked great, everyone got some.
This year she pulled out the bowls, put out the meatballs and went back to the prep room. She turned around and went back in only to be stopped by a fellow with a bowl heaped with 1/3 of a crockpot. Said con-goer looked at her and said "you're almost out of meatballs in there".jedilora's reaction was "Where did you find that bowl?"
Leading to the point of the story.
"Oh, I emptied a bowl of jellybeans onto the table and used that. BTW, you might want to have someone pick up the jelly beans too"
jedilora is a much better person than I, and was also too shocked to do anything.
This is the Arisia 2009 jellybean incident.
The story has been making the rounds, so some thought I should post the official version.
Arisia has a great con suite, something that sometimes gets forgotten. Other cons i've been to tend to be bowls of chips and m-n-m's and some oreos, not much else. Arisia goes all out. Cold cuts,brownies, sandwich fixin's, 180# of cheese cubes alone,fresh fruit and veggies, warm cookies and most of all...the meatballs.
Now here's the problem, because we do such great food people often forget that the Con suite food is not there to replace your meals, but to be a rest stop with great nibbles. Often people swarm a platter of cold cuts as soon as it's put out and then it's gone in 3 minutes,no one else can get any, things like that.
Now the meatballs have become an Arisia tradition. They get served covered in super sekrit meatball sauce. When we put something else on the meatballs there are complaints. I'm not thrilled with it, but tradition is tradition.
In the past there have been problems with con goers selfishly scooping heaping cereal bowlfuls out of the crockpot of freshly delivered meatballs ,leaving others with none.
jedilora, con suite manager extraordinaire, solved this problem by taking away the bowls first and putting out toothpicks. This worked great, everyone got some.This year she pulled out the bowls, put out the meatballs and went back to the prep room. She turned around and went back in only to be stopped by a fellow with a bowl heaped with 1/3 of a crockpot. Said con-goer looked at her and said "you're almost out of meatballs in there".
jedilora's reaction was "Where did you find that bowl?"Leading to the point of the story.
"Oh, I emptied a bowl of jellybeans onto the table and used that. BTW, you might want to have someone pick up the jelly beans too"
jedilora is a much better person than I, and was also too shocked to do anything. This is the Arisia 2009 jellybean incident.
The Arisia 2009 Jelly Bean incident
Jan. 21st, 2009 04:13 pmor How no Con Suite staff ended up in jail.
The story has been making the rounds, so some thought I should post the official version.
Arisia has a great con suite, something that sometimes gets forgotten. Other cons i've been to tend to be bowls of chips and m-n-m's and some oreos, not much else. Arisia goes all out. Cold cuts,brownies, sandwich fixin's, 180# of cheese cubes alone,fresh fruit and veggies, warm cookies and most of all...the meatballs.
Now here's the problem, because we do such great food people often forget that the Con suite food is not there to replace your meals, but to be a rest stop with great nibbles. Often people swarm a platter of cold cuts as soon as it's put out and then it's gone in 3 minutes,no one else can get any, things like that.
Now the meatballs have become an Arisia tradition. They get served covered in super sekrit meatball sauce. When we put something else on the meatballs there are complaints. I'm not thrilled with it, but tradition is tradition.
In the past there have been problems with con goers selfishly scooping heaping cereal bowlfuls out of the crockpot of freshly delivered meatballs ,leaving others with none.jedilora, con suite manager extraordinaire, solved this problem by taking away the bowls first and putting out toothpicks. This worked great, everyone got some.
This year she pulled out the bowls, put out the meatballs and went back to the prep room. She turned around and went back in only to be stopped by a fellow with a bowl heaped with 1/3 of a crockpot. Said con-goer looked at her and said "you're almost out of meatballs in there".jedilora's reaction was "Where did you find that bowl?"
Leading to the point of the story.
"Oh, I emptied a bowl of jellybeans onto the table and used that. BTW, you might want to have someone pick up the jelly beans too"
jedilora is a much better person than I, and was also too shocked to do anything.
This is the Arisia 2009 jellybean incident.
The story has been making the rounds, so some thought I should post the official version.
Arisia has a great con suite, something that sometimes gets forgotten. Other cons i've been to tend to be bowls of chips and m-n-m's and some oreos, not much else. Arisia goes all out. Cold cuts,brownies, sandwich fixin's, 180# of cheese cubes alone,fresh fruit and veggies, warm cookies and most of all...the meatballs.
Now here's the problem, because we do such great food people often forget that the Con suite food is not there to replace your meals, but to be a rest stop with great nibbles. Often people swarm a platter of cold cuts as soon as it's put out and then it's gone in 3 minutes,no one else can get any, things like that.
Now the meatballs have become an Arisia tradition. They get served covered in super sekrit meatball sauce. When we put something else on the meatballs there are complaints. I'm not thrilled with it, but tradition is tradition.
In the past there have been problems with con goers selfishly scooping heaping cereal bowlfuls out of the crockpot of freshly delivered meatballs ,leaving others with none.
jedilora, con suite manager extraordinaire, solved this problem by taking away the bowls first and putting out toothpicks. This worked great, everyone got some.This year she pulled out the bowls, put out the meatballs and went back to the prep room. She turned around and went back in only to be stopped by a fellow with a bowl heaped with 1/3 of a crockpot. Said con-goer looked at her and said "you're almost out of meatballs in there".
jedilora's reaction was "Where did you find that bowl?"Leading to the point of the story.
"Oh, I emptied a bowl of jellybeans onto the table and used that. BTW, you might want to have someone pick up the jelly beans too"
jedilora is a much better person than I, and was also too shocked to do anything. This is the Arisia 2009 jellybean incident.
The Arisia 2009 Jelly Bean incident
Jan. 21st, 2009 04:13 pmor How no Con Suite staff ended up in jail.
The story has been making the rounds, so some thought I should post the official version.
Arisia has a great con suite, something that sometimes gets forgotten. Other cons i've been to tend to be bowls of chips and m-n-m's and some oreos, not much else. Arisia goes all out. Cold cuts,brownies, sandwich fixin's, 180# of cheese cubes alone,fresh fruit and veggies, warm cookies and most of all...the meatballs.
Now here's the problem, because we do such great food people often forget that the Con suite food is not there to replace your meals, but to be a rest stop with great nibbles. Often people swarm a platter of cold cuts as soon as it's put out and then it's gone in 3 minutes,no one else can get any, things like that.
Now the meatballs have become an Arisia tradition. They get served covered in super sekrit meatball sauce. When we put something else on the meatballs there are complaints. I'm not thrilled with it, but tradition is tradition.
In the past there have been problems with con goers selfishly scooping heaping cereal bowlfuls out of the crockpot of freshly delivered meatballs ,leaving others with none.jedilora, con suite manager extraordinaire, solved this problem by taking away the bowls first and putting out toothpicks. This worked great, everyone got some.
This year she pulled out the bowls, put out the meatballs and went back to the prep room. She turned around and went back in only to be stopped by a fellow with a bowl heaped with 1/3 of a crockpot. Said con-goer looked at her and said "you're almost out of meatballs in there".jedilora's reaction was "Where did you find that bowl?"
Leading to the point of the story.
"Oh, I emptied a bowl of jellybeans onto the table and used that. BTW, you might want to have someone pick up the jelly beans too"
jedilora is a much better person than I, and was also too shocked to do anything.
This is the Arisia 2009 jellybean incident.
The story has been making the rounds, so some thought I should post the official version.
Arisia has a great con suite, something that sometimes gets forgotten. Other cons i've been to tend to be bowls of chips and m-n-m's and some oreos, not much else. Arisia goes all out. Cold cuts,brownies, sandwich fixin's, 180# of cheese cubes alone,fresh fruit and veggies, warm cookies and most of all...the meatballs.
Now here's the problem, because we do such great food people often forget that the Con suite food is not there to replace your meals, but to be a rest stop with great nibbles. Often people swarm a platter of cold cuts as soon as it's put out and then it's gone in 3 minutes,no one else can get any, things like that.
Now the meatballs have become an Arisia tradition. They get served covered in super sekrit meatball sauce. When we put something else on the meatballs there are complaints. I'm not thrilled with it, but tradition is tradition.
In the past there have been problems with con goers selfishly scooping heaping cereal bowlfuls out of the crockpot of freshly delivered meatballs ,leaving others with none.
jedilora, con suite manager extraordinaire, solved this problem by taking away the bowls first and putting out toothpicks. This worked great, everyone got some.This year she pulled out the bowls, put out the meatballs and went back to the prep room. She turned around and went back in only to be stopped by a fellow with a bowl heaped with 1/3 of a crockpot. Said con-goer looked at her and said "you're almost out of meatballs in there".
jedilora's reaction was "Where did you find that bowl?"Leading to the point of the story.
"Oh, I emptied a bowl of jellybeans onto the table and used that. BTW, you might want to have someone pick up the jelly beans too"
jedilora is a much better person than I, and was also too shocked to do anything. This is the Arisia 2009 jellybean incident.