Oh pshaw, on Mon 11 Dec 2006 07:30:07p, Leonard Blaisdell meant to say...

> In article >,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> If so, I hope she is coming to your place for Christmas and not
>> mine. When we have the family for dinner we have to have double
>> the amount of food served. She grazes along the buffet, consuming
>> everything along the way. The last time she was here she parked
>> herself next to a platter of devilled eggs and moved on when she
>> had finished them off, then she went to the cheese platter where
>> there was about 1/3 pound of each of a half dozen cheeses, polished
>> them off and moved on to the next item.
>>
>> She once showed up at the home of her new stepsister,who was
>> expecting guests. By the time the guests arrived, she had eaten all
>> the food.
>
> 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.
>
> leo
>

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.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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