"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 20 May 2012 17:50:11 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> > wrote:
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>>On May 20, 8:47 pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 20 May 2012 15:14:30 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>>> >"Kalmia" > wrote in message
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>>> >>A friend is throwing an open house for the h.s. graduate daughter . I
>>> >> suggested she stick to finger food only - hence, no silver to wash,
>>> >> no
>>> >> guests trying to plate and cutlery balance etc.
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>>> >> I suggested
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>>> >> tiny finger sandwiches (ham, chicken salad, tuna, crab)
>>> >> pineapple chunks on toothpicks
>>> >> one or two bite cupcakes
>>> >> sherbet punch in paper cups
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>>> >> Any other suggs? I offered to help her prep the food, so I'd like to
>>> >> keep it easy-peasy.
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>>> >> Thanks.
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>>> >Veggies, chips and dip, cheese platter.
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>>> Hotdogs simmered in beer. Easy
>>> Baked beans. Peasy
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>>> It would help to know for approximately how many.
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>>She trying to keep it 'finger food'. A good 50 folk cud show up. The
>>grad's pals and the parents' associates too who know the kid.
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> That could be well over a hundred guests, and young people can eat a
> lot... is there a dollar limit. It is very limiting to feed so many
> nothing but finger food, and it wouldn't be very sanitary. I think
> you'd have to at least allow toothpics... with strictly finger foods
> I'd anticipate a lot of waste... with finger foods there will be a lot
> of picking up and putting down... most are not going to want to eat
> foods that others fingers have perused, I wouldn't want to.

I think he means foods that can be eaten with the fingers. That doesn't
mean they have to be served with the fingers. Dip can have a spoon in it.
Chips and veggies can have tongs in them to serve up your portion onto your
plate.