DJS0302 wrote:

> My dad is impossible to buy for so I was thinking about getting him a gift box
> from either The Swiss Colony or Hickory Farms. We always go to church and then
> to dinner on Christmas Eve and then go back to my parent's house to open
> presents. If I keep the stuff refrigerated as long as possible and wait till
> the last minute to put the gift under the tree, will the cheese and sausage
> logs still be safe to eat after sitting out for about 3 hours?

Every Christmas I see Hickory Farms kiosks pop up in all the local malls. The stuff
sits out on their shelves without refrigeration. There are a number of
organizations that sell that stuff for fundraisers, and they don't worry about
refrigeration, so I wouldn't worry about it.

My father was always impossible to buy for. He never seemed to like anything we
bought him. One year I decided to get something ridiculous for him, figuring he was
just going to complain about it. I got him some model airplanes. He loved them. He
went out and got the paints and sheets of decals and spent hours and hours putting
them together and painting and putting on the markings of his old air force
squadrons.