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So what would you serve...

notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
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to 40+ 5th grade girls at a dance party? 

Last year for the movie party, I did tacos in a bag. It went over well I think. I'm thinking pizza but that seems boring...I know, I'm a nut!
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  • ArnegardArnegard member
    DD's idea for the party, what's her preference for food?
    I'd go easy for sure!!
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    OK, we had a hot dog cart at DD's 3rd birthday...I love a party dammit! 

    And yes, you should probably have me committed, but the problem with the list is that everybody is friends with so and so and if we don't include her, she might get her feelings hurt when somebody mentions it at lunch, etc and so forth.

    If I serve pizza, what goes with it? Nothing? What happens if somebody doesn't eat pizza? I thought about getting a small frozen gluten free and vegan option JUST in case.I've served these girls twice in the past year and they all seem to eat a lot and I don't remember any major allergies...

    I did think about a nacho bar...then I thought about my house and nacho stuff everywhere. I wish I could buy hate nuggets.
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    Oh and the BBQ sliders I made for the luau in May were the thing that were the least popular. I was shocked.


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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    Arnegard said:
    DD's idea for the party, what's her preference for food?
    I'd go easy for sure!!
    She's have me serve a 4 course meal...this is one place she gets told what we're having. She did ask for doughnuts. LOL
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    Usm123 said:
    A hot dog cart.
    A Luckydog!
    I tried to buy a LuckyDog cart drunk more than once.
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    MrsMuq said:
    What about pizza and maybe a hero or a tray or two of Italian food and salad stuff?
    I thought about something like baked ziti...but didn't know how many kids would eat it.
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    Except @mrsmuq...these kids don't know Italian food! 

    @lalamama81 I wasn't saying I couldn't reuse. :)
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  • ArnegardArnegard member
    Since we were on such a coffee feud today, what about a (decaf) coffee bar?   :D

    I know my (almost) 9 year old would think they are hot stuff to have coffee!
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  • Spin313Spin313 member
    Pizza, salad, breadsticks...maybe a pasta tray...you're done!
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  • id012id012 member
    What about a pizza truck? If thr party was outside that might be cool. They normally will pull up in your yard and they make pizzas for 2 hours or so.. what ever kind your guess ask for.
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  • AndrewsgalAndrewsgal member
    Pizza. Kids are weird but almost all like pizza.
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  • id012id012 member
    Also agree with mrsmug. All that basic italian food always goes fast
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  • AndrewsgalAndrewsgal member
    edited September 2014
    id012 said:
    Also agree with mrsmug. All that basic italian food always goes fast

    Nope. FWIW One one of my kids and none of their 4 best friends would touch something like bake ziti.
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    I love all you Northerners that think kids love Italian food. :) "Our" kids don't have it! The only reason we eat good Italian food is because my father was Sicilian!
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    id012 said:
    What about a pizza truck? If thr party was outside that might be cool. They normally will pull up in your yard and they make pizzas for 2 hours or so.. what ever kind your guess ask for.
    I wish we had a pizza truck! I saw one that was an old fire truck but it lives in CA!
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  • AndrewsgalAndrewsgal member
    Kimbus22 said:
    notkateanymore said:
    I love all you Northerners that think kids love Italian food. :) "Our" kids don't have it! The only reason we eat good Italian food is because my father was Sicilian!
    I didn't realize it was a Northern thing.  It is a general crowd pleaser up here though. I mean, it's pasta.  What's not to like?

    seriously? For adults sure, but most kids down here? Nope.
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    Kimbus22 said:
    notkateanymore said:
    I love all you Northerners that think kids love Italian food. :) "Our" kids don't have it! The only reason we eat good Italian food is because my father was Sicilian!
    I didn't realize it was a Northern thing.  It is a general crowd pleaser up here though. I mean, it's pasta.  What's not to like?

    Tomato sauce, sausage, "things" mixed together. LOL
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    I was thinking about setting up a DIY Photo Booth area in her room @gastro! 
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  • dizzycooksdizzycooks member
    I would be so sad if dd wouldn't eat italian food.  One of her first favorite foods was eggplant parmesan!  
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    FTR, my child eats the shit out of any sort of Italian food, but it is definitely not the safe bet here as it might be up there.

    Oh DD has two helping of the pork ragu I made last night and basically licked her bowl.
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  • spring_timespring_time member
    What do people serve at things like baptisms and graduation parties if there isn't at least some mostaccioli represented? It is a staple, and is always on the menu because it is guaranteed to be eaten by even the pickiest eaters.

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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    Ham? I know y'all are kidding around with this, but I mean we have a totally separate base cuisine down here obviously. Southern food...Ham with rolls or biscuits, mac and cheese, green bean casserole, deviled eggs, pimento cheese...that's what is served here.
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    gennyu said:
    So, your kids aren't obsessed with mac n cheese like mine? How is that even possible?!
    Mac and cheese isn't baked ziti with Italian sausage or meatballs. Come on now!
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    Gotta love a good LA party! At my best friend's son's birthday last year we had boudin and jambalaya. Delicious! I shouldn't say nobody eats Italian, but it is not a staple here especially not for kids. I mean pasta sigh marinara maybe but not real Italian.
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  • Aussie45Aussie45 member
    Kimbus22 said:

    I'm flabbergasted that southern kids don't like italian food.

    My kid would live on nothing but meatballs and sauce if I let him.  And any kind of pasta with any kind of sauce.

    This is me too. I grew up as a southern kid. All I wanted to eat was pasta and Italian food was a staple of ours. I would have no qualms serving pasta and red sauce type foods because I just assumed everyone loved pasta.
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  • lollitotslollitots member
    We have been to too many parties with the firetruck pizza guy. He wouldn't be fast enough for that many kids though. Add me to the pizza vote. It is easy to serve. Add a fruit salad and count it as done.
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    LOL I've messed everybody up with this!

    FTR, people eat Italian. It's just not the go-to thing to serve at parties like it apparently is up North. I guess our big party meal is BBQ if I think some more.
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  • raraavis28raraavis28 member
    spring_time said:

    What do people serve at things like baptisms and graduation parties if there isn't at least some mostaccioli represented? It is a staple, and is always on the menu because it is guaranteed to be eaten by even the pickiest eaters.

    As my dad calls it, "The obligatory pan of mostaccioli" :P never realized that was a northern thing, interesting.

    I would do pizza all the way.

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  • AndrewsgalAndrewsgal member
    edited September 2014
    I don't even know what mostaccioli is
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    Ha! I do but that cracks me up!
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  • raraavis28raraavis28 member
    Andrewsgal said:
    I don't even know what mostaccioli is
    LOL really?? It's a tubey pasta, like ziti.
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  • notkateanymorenotkateanymore member
    I haven't said anything about the mess, though it does sound horrible. Being as I have a 10 year old, I can tell you that a group of 10 year olds in Alabama would not know what to do with baked ziti at a party. 
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