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Old 03-18-2021, 09:11 AM
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You bring up a timely quandary that has been on my mind, too. We want to get a group of about 20 people together. Everybody is of the age to have been vaccinated, but I can’t figure out how to feed that many without a buffet line.

I think some of us now are going to have a baked-in weirdness about buffet style and party trays for a while.

Last summer, I entertained my book club in the driveway. I used small gift bags and put in little bags of snacks, an envelope of hand-sanitizer, and a wrapped straw. I had a cooler of canned wine and bottled water.

Box-lunches could work, but I can’t think of anywhere in TV that does that. Box lunches would cut down on group-handling in a buffet line, but then you have to offer choices all boxed up and hope everybody does not want the same thing. Box lunches would be the same thing as carry-out like many of us have been using for a year.

Maybe Publix needs to go into the box-lunch business.

I will follow this thread and hope somebody has an answer to this. To try to entertain a group without offering food or to offer food and weird out some people just doesn’t feel right. I can’t figure out the answer yet. I think we are emerging into a completely different social expectation. I hope we soon get past it.

Boomer Stewart
Honey Baked Ham has boxed meals and quite a variety and so does TooJays.