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

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

On a related issue, if the breakfast menu says "turkey sausage" will be served, when the turkey sausage runs out, please put out a sign next to the sausage that says "pork sausage". Fortunately, someone warned me that the sausages weren't turkey before I ate them.

and a similar related issue, it would be SO useful, if when the veggie patties are served, and it's ANNOUNCED before they even hit the table that they are essentially reserved for actual veggie/vegans who cannot eat of the meat bonanza, that such a thing is respected.

they were in quite limited supply, as a result, my grrl was able to get ONE and i'm sure that most the people i saw immediately scarfing them down weren't veggies judging by the meats and fruit bats and orangutans on their plates.

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[larksdream]

It's okay, I don't eat that much anyway. And people who saw the problem ended up arranging themselves so as to pounce on the incoming veggie patties for me, so that worked out okay.

But... fruit bat isn't vegetarian??? ;)

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

well, at least you had people diving for them for you. i made sure to snag the one you got as well. they were flying off the plate, and that was the second serving too. oiy.

fruit bats are made of fruit!

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[quietann.livejournal.com]

The same was true of the grilled veggies served with Saturday's dinner. They disappeared very quickly, along with both kinds of beans, and vegetarian folks were lacking full-meal options after that.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

In past years there was a request that omnivores leave the veggie stuff alone until such time as people were going back for seconds. That seemed to be a change this year...

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

there seemed to be a lot of veggies, and unlike the veggie patties, there was no awareness to leave the veggies of any sort alone. what's a burrito without beans (only saw one kind).

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[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Usually there's a distinction between vegetarian "entrees" and vegetable dishes or condiments. Beans, cheese, rice and often veggies are standard burrito ingredients almost everywhere; if omnivores were expected to stick strictly to meat and leave all of the other ingredients alone until later, that would have to be made much more explicit.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

nota bene: I'm one of the omnivores :)

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Perhaps part of the solution might be to put out the meat items first, let the hoards descend, and then once they're sated, put out the veggie stuff?

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

I think it might have just been that this was the first year of entree-that-could-be-meat-or-veggie (like the burritos) and calculations are different...