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Post by piggy pablo on Oct 25, 2020 2:27:00 GMT -5
Unrelated: found my first independently brewed ("brewed" almost certainly the wrong word. Probably "assembled", generously "infused") alcoholic sparkling water, made by Austin Eastciders, in the grocery store today. They were out of my favorite beer because it was on-sale and I think someone bought them out, which I thought about doing a couple days ago, tbh. Got a variety pack. It's pretty good, some unique flavors like Apple and Peach that I haven't had in other spiked sparklings. Only thing is it has 4.2% alcohol. The 5% of other sparklings is already kind of a buzzkill (so to speak).
Post by piggy pablo on Oct 25, 2020 2:31:05 GMT -5
When I graduated from college my party had El Rey Taqueria, a local Cuban-Mexican fast food joint that actually kicks a lot of ass, catered. Pretty sure I've talked about their Cuban Tacos on here before. Diced plantains, black beans, sour cream, and steak. Also had some ceviche, rotisserie chicken, ropa vieja, and maybe a couple other things to choose from. It was bomb. Wouldn't do it for a wedding, not fancy enough, but you could do a lot worse, tbh.
We had family friends renowned for their BBQ cater for our small outdoor reception. Also picked up a couple local favorites from restaurants. (My favorite was tirokafteri from a Greek place.) Cupcakes from a local bakery instead of a traditional tiered wedding cake were another perk of keeping it small.
My brother married some girl with type 1 diabetes and celiac. They got the cheapest caterer they could find, and much of the food was gluten free and no added sugars. It was awful.
Also of note: their wedding was also on 9-11 and the opening Sunday of the NFL season, because it was cheaper.
The gf and I left early to go to a party that had football on and better food. I'm guessing the Pats played at 4:25 that day.
I'm probably gonna get the local burrito joint to cater my wedding, but we're trying to spend under 5k
We pulled off an under 5k wedding. Little over a hundred people. Great city owned venue on the water was dirt cheap, wedding and reception in the same place. Food was a guy who cooks bbq, mac and cheese shit like that, was delicious. Mother in law made the cakes. DJ for reception music. Friend of ours officiated. Melody's dress was $100 on eBay and she looked incredible.
Biggest risk was we paid a friend who was an amateur photographer to do pictures. He charged $800 but we got lucky and he did an incredible job. So many great pictures from that day. There is one picture of Melody and I leaving the venue to head to Vegas that I swear if it was the only picture he took it would've been worth the $800.
What made it really easy budget wise was no booze. Sunday afternoon wedding, Melody and I met in AA and many of the guests were in AA and many of my extended family probably should be in AA so keeping it dry was an easy decision.
Downside was the amount of time Melody and her friends had to put into decorating and organizing. Was super stressful. It all worked out and was a great day, but if we had to do it again I'd pony up the cash for a wedding organizer or just do one of those all-in-one wedding packages at a venue.
Bottom line is it's your wedding, do whatever the hell you want. So long as you and your spouse are happy that's all that matters.
Post by Teddy Flair on Oct 25, 2020 12:45:20 GMT -5
Venue is a lodge at a state park, we're having it on a Friday in March so it was a little cheaper, came in around $1500. Photos are a wedding present from a really good friend of ours who happens to be a concert photographer. Booze will probably just be a handful of kegs and a couple cases of trader joe's wine. Decorations and flowers pretty minimal. I might DJ the damn thing myself? Lol
My worst birthday memory is when my grandma (who we always looked forward to our favorite birthday cake from) instead of making a cake just used some frozen chocolate bread she had from Christmas (my birthday is in March). We assumed she forgot my birthday that year lol
My worst birthday memory is when my grandma (who we always looked forward to our favorite birthday cake from) instead of making a cake just used some frozen chocolate bread she had from Christmas (my birthday is in March). We assumed she forgot my birthday that year lol
Our Christmas tradition is that my mom makes a lasagna for Christmas Eve. One year she had to work (she was a nurse in the ER) and decided that rather than make lasagna, she'd just get a frozen Stouffer's lasagna. That was at least twenty-five years ago and people in my family still bring it up.
Post by piggy pablo on Oct 26, 2020 0:30:46 GMT -5
Last year on Thanksgiving Eve my grandparents wanted to get Wendy's chili in bulk and I was so pissed like wtf and made such a stink about it that we made chili ourselves.
I mean, it's chili. It's not hard to put some chili-o and ground beef and tomatoes in a pot and simmer it for an hour. Wendy's chili isn't good for anything except inducing dyspepsia and heartburn. I was embarrassed for us that everyone seemed cool with that idea but me.
My family can really phone it in on holidays sometimes, to the point where I'm like "just let me cook or order something for us myself". We drove across the country to see yall, don't feed us fast food chili.
Last year on Thanksgiving Eve my grandparents wanted to get Wendy's chili in bulk and I was so pissed like wtf and made such a stink about it that we made chili ourselves.
I mean, it's chili. It's not hard to put some chili-o and ground beef and tomatoes in a pot and simmer it for an hour. Wendy's chili isn't good for anything except inducing dyspepsia and heartburn. I was embarrassed for us that everyone seemed cool with that idea but me.
My family can really phone it in on holidays sometimes, to the point where I'm like "just let me cook or order something for us myself". We drove across the country to see yall, don't feed us fast food chili.
Post by piggy pablo on Oct 26, 2020 0:34:19 GMT -5
There are only so many people I would share this with lmao. I was fucking horrified.
I'll fuck with some Stouffer's lasagna though. Idc. My other grandma makes it from scratch. She majored in home ec in college lol. I guess that set of grandparents I'm talking about are used to having everything prepared for them, but you can't buy taste.
There are only so many people I would share this with lmao. I was fucking horrified.
I'll fuck with some Stouffer's lasagna though. Idc. My other grandma makes it from scratch. She majored in home ec in college lol. I guess that set of grandparents I'm talking about are used to having everything prepared for them, but you can't buy taste.
My mother did, too! She put that shit to good use, too.
Post by piggy pablo on Oct 26, 2020 9:04:19 GMT -5
I still haven't had the Popeye's sandwich yet. I do think Wendy's makes a great chicken sandwich, like just the base spicy chicken sandwich. Idk if it's worth the five dollars they charge for it, but sometimes they do two-for-one, which is cool. I think just about everything else Wendy's does is several tiers above their chili.
Planning my chicken sandwich campaign strategy. Scoping out several possible locations. Working on my timing. Realizing I will probably have to go in instead of waiting in the one hour drive through line, only to find out they have none. This is going to take work.
Planning my chicken sandwich campaign strategy. Scoping out several possible locations. Working on my timing. Realizing I will probably have to go in instead of waiting in the one hour drive through line, only to find out they have none. This is going to take work.
Can you use GrubHub and place a pick up order so that you don't have to wait?
Planning my chicken sandwich campaign strategy. Scoping out several possible locations. Working on my timing. Realizing I will probably have to go in instead of waiting in the one hour drive through line, only to find out they have none. This is going to take work.
Can you use GrubHub and place a pick up order so that you don't have to wait?
I’m trying the low tech version first. If that fails me I will go high tech. I’m out and about today and going to be by three Popeyes locations. Surely to God one of them will have a GD sandwich.
