Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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> > I know people similar to that. That's why, when I have a Christmas
> > Party, I serve six pounds of shrimp a pound and a half at a time and
> > four dozen deviled eggs twelve at a time. All with a polite pause while
> > eyeing the offending individual who is destroying the menu. I leave the
> > bulk of the food in the garage until I decide when it's needed. That's a
> > ploy. It may not work. It has for me so far.
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> > leo
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> Some people know no limits. Those are the ones I don't invite. I don't
> spend my time in the kitchen to satisfy one person's sheer gluttony.

That is the way I look at it. It's pretty bad when you have a
party for 14 people and calculate a certain amount of food, but
if you add the extra person who eats none stop you have to
literally double the amount of food. It wouldn't bee so bad if
you could just stick a bag of potato chips in her hand and let
her stuff her beak with the cheap stuff, but when she goes from
a platter of devilled eggs to a tray of cheeses to a platter of
smoked salmon and smoked eel canapés to a tray of cold cuts and
cleans out each one in succession. I haven't had her here for
years now.


I had to bite my tongue at the a party at the step niece's
house. I was out on the patio when the big niece's husband came
along asking if I knew where his lovely wife was. I said I
hadn't seen for for a while and resisted suggesting that he check
the buffet table. I glanced up and looked through the dining room
winter. Yep. There she was.