Puester wrote:
> Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
>> Well the event was today... and the food was, shall I say ordinary?
>> Last month was apparantly an abberation (that day they had all
>> protein - three different people brought chicken). Today the table
>> was a starch-fest
>
>
> Over the years I have gotten the strong impresison that people
> LOVE to eat at potlucks for the potential variety of foods, but
> HATE to cook for them because it gets expensive to cook good food
> for a crowd. I honestly think the problem is the cost involved in
> providing a meat dish, particularly for people with limited
> imaginations.
>
Yep, it's expensive. I used to take a crock-pot of teriyaki chicken thighs
to work (bought the "family" pack) but even that was a tad pricy.

> Our local high school PTA equivalent had no problem 20 years
> ago, asking members and their friends to provide a very nice,
> well-rounded buffet lunch for the staff on their first day back
> to school in the fall. Some 10 years ago this project began
> to face failure when, as you say, it became a meatless pasta
> starchfest, even when half the people were asked to bring a
> "main dish". Pasta salads and brownies became the norm.
>
And store-bought cakes.
(snippage)
> gloria p

I think the closest we really got at work to "vegetables" was someone would
bring the ubiquitous broccoli-rice casserole. Much more rice than broccoli,
of course.

Jill