post-baitcon feedback

[quietann.livejournal.com]

My personal issues with baitcon are in my personal journal; however, there are a few things that IMHO need to change:

• Separate dishes/mixing equipment/etc. for any ice cream product containing meat. There are a lot of people involved who nominally keep kosher, and it's discomfiting to know that one's ice cream might have been prepared using the same equipment as, say, the chicken liver ice cream. (for that matter, I'd just ban meat-containing flavors entirely, but that's not my decision to make.)
  
• More whole wheat (not just wheat, whole wheat) bread, less white bread. We ran out of whole wheat by lunch on Saturday. (this suggestion passed on from Gregorian, who was amazingly polite about it, but still really would have preferred whole wheat bread for his peanut butter sandwich...)
  
• More tarpage for shade protection (may not be an issue if baitcon isn't at Mink Hollow anymore, but...)
  
• Re-reinforcement of the "modest dress" (ahem) requirement in and around the main area. There was one person in particular who seriously violated this. (insert serious snarkage here; I am trying to be polite.) Dancing naked in the rain, as usual, should be granted leniency.
  

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Vegetarians might also be a bit uncomfortable about having their non-meat ice cream served with a scoop (or made in a container) that was also used for meat ice cream.

Perhaps they should use one of the rinsing buckets that are helpfully provided on the table next to the ice creams? :)

Sorry if this sounds snarky, but this strikes me as a non-problem. (And if it is, perhaps they should bring their own scoops.)

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Hm.
If someone cares sufficiently then a rinse isn't enough, even if a soap wash would be.

In general it's pretty hard to find a non [ingredient] kosher ice cream, and I can't really remember any from before this year.

I think it wouldn't be too hard to have any few meat containing ice creams stirred /served separately, much like we had a whole table one year devoted to non-soy ice creams.

While separate creation containers is more kosher specific, having separation in general for meat ice creams would be helpful for any vegetarians, too. One vegetarian friend hadn't heard the 'proscuitto' part of the gorganzola proscuitto balsamic fig; I provided that information just before sie was about to take a bite.* And sometimes labels come off and chicken liver looks a lot like rose...

*hopefully that was a good rather than bad thing for me to do; in any case I was thanked for it...

[ceo]

And sometimes (thankfully, not often) things are mislabeled, which caused one milk-allergic person an evening of gastrointestinal discomfort.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Yah. If it's who I think it was, I'm glad she's feeling better and glad she liked my vegan coconut amaretto. (Now to figure out how to make it stay frozen more than a few minutes.)

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

That was you? That stuff rocked.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Coolness! I'm so glad - it didn't freeze all that well, so I didn't know how many people liked it. I had all this amaretto left over, and it made me doubly happy for it to be vegan :)

Are you she who was offering help with pinning my coin trimmed vest had we actually had pins? (attempting to connect lj with the weekend )

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Yup. C'est moi. And now I know who *you* are! Hope you don't mind if I friend you...