Cucumber Sandwiches ahoy
Sunday, February 11th, 2007Tomorrow’s the company office putluck for Valentines day. Honestly I don’t see why we need a potluck for Valentines but the HR person suggested it and so why not. They’re trying to get the company more friendly with one another, while harping on us if we talk too much. I just don’t get it. Either ease up on us and let us chit-chat just a wee bit when we’re working, or don’t. Don’t tease us by having these things where we can hang out and talk, but only every 6 weeks or so.
Anyways, the potlucks are getting funnier and funnier. The first my friend Lizzie brought chips and dip. Keep in mind she *JUST* moved into a new house with her hubby and we’re speculating she didn’t have a kitchen. And she brought in a lot of stuff. Some really great varieties of chips, tortias and lots of dip and salsa. Well Amanda is all about fairness and complained about chips and dip not being “real food” (whatever) and ever since our last potluck and this coming potluck the rule has been “No bringing chips and dip” which Liz takes offense to since she did that the first time around. And it wasn’t like it was bad.
The comment on that is “we need to make sure there’s enough food for the 20 or so office people” and if I recall correctly, it’s not like we ever ran out of food. We’ve always had leftovers and extras and food we end up sending to the warehouse lunch room for them to all munch on. (I hope they’re not offended by us giving them our leftovers!)
But this most recent one is hilarious. The e-mail told us that there must be like one green salad, one fruit salad, three meat dishes, two fish/shrimp dishes, one casserole, two vegitarian dishes, one rice dish, one pasta dish, three desserts… We in the lunch room have been laughing our heads off as we sign up for stuff, and talk about who’s going to duke it out with who if two of the sign-up things were “too close” to each other.
Even better is my other coworker & friend Donna said in passing how she might bring pizza again (Last time she ordered two pretty big pizzas, one veggie one meat and they were awesome) and if I heard this story properly, the HR lady said “No pizza, it’s not on the list”
Revenge of the Human Resources I do think I hear!
Anyways, no one said I couldn’t bring cucumber sanwiches, and I figured it would be easy, cute and silly. I just realized I only have a few hours to make all of them now too! Away I go!
