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

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

:chuckle: Harder to ignore is probably a goodly amount of the problem. I "kept kosher" for a year in college, in that I didn't have milk and meat together in a meal that I knew of and I avoided pork and shellfish. Sure, I was eating in the normal dining hall and had no control over the dishes, preparation, or even whether they'd thrown lard in the cake today. But I was doing what I could to a comfort level I could manage.*

I don't think there's a request for a kosher kitchen or kosher ice cream prep. But I don't think it's only those who keep kosher who might prefer that the few ice creams containing meat be separated out and maybe handled with meatish utensils rather than the general ice cream utensils. I commented further above.

*for what it's worth, my biggest problem with the gorganzola proscuitto balsamic fig was that the fig bits were overpowering. The friend of the family I visited nearby extrapolated that it would be really cool to fill figs with goat cheese/proscuitto ice cream. YMMV

balsamic figs

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Heh...I actually would have been willing to try a balsamic fig ice cream or other style of frozen treat. I tried a few pieces of the balsamic figs and rather liked them.