Re: [DL] Food at the game [was: The dead of Deadlands? [OT]]

[Marguerite Frey <natasha_corey@yahoo.com>]

--- Darkechilde <darkechilde@charter.net> wrote:
> My wife used to cook, but after the two things I 
> warned her about came true, she stopped - 1) she
> wouldn't get the thanks she was expecting, b/c she's
> not downstairs gaming (she isn't a gamer, just an 
> Evercrack addict), and 2) the gamers would come
> to expect it, and would bitch-n-moan if she ever
> failed to cook for them.  Both happened, and she 
> doesn't cook any more.

I cook on occasion, but you're right, it's -rough-
because I'm playing as well.  I've stopped doing it
because it takes so much time and, you're right, the
appreciate doesn't seem to be there.  I still do it as
a treat once and a while, like if we're going to have
an in-game dinner, and I made a huge fondue dinner
when some first-time players came over.

We always have a "snack basket" available, where all
the chips, cookies, crackers and candy live (heh, it's
a big basket).  Most of the time in a short session
snacking will hold people, but when we get into our
(frequent) marathon all nighters, the chips won't hold
us.

What about clean-up?  I don't know about you guys, but
the morning after a gaming session it looks like the
Snack Food Bomb hit the living room; empty soda
bottles, napkins, cups...  Does anybody offer
incentives for clean-up?  Does it work?

Marguerite