Discussion #2 - Serving...

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Last year, we only put out a handful of flavors at a time. IMO this was a bad idea.

I'm an observer, I watch people, and with fewer tubs of ice cream on the table, I noticed that people were more likely to take two scoops of a single flavor rather than a small scoop of a couple of flavors.
If the ice cream was in one of the yogurt tubs having one person take half the tub was resulting in people (who weren't pushy enough to get in and get some,) not getting any or getting the melted dredges after it was pretty much gone.

The more tubs of ice cream we put out on the tables at once the more likely everyone will get some of the flavors they want to try as people will take smaller servings of multiple flavors so they can,
1. still have a full bowl and 2. get a taste of lots of flavors.

I think the thought in a few people's heads was, "Well, my favorite flavors aren't out, but I like this one flavor that is out so I'll just have a full bowl of this one flavor." Some people like to have full bowls, and if we don't have enough flavors out, they will fill them with what we do put out.

This also begs the question of serving utensils, do we need smaller scoops? tablespoon size, rather than ice cream scoop size?

I personally am in favor of putting out some of the smaller servings mid day/afternoon on Saturday, then putting out whatever is sufficiently frozen, all of it, on Saturday night and again, whatever is left on Sunday.

When we have 80 flavors, and two yogurt size tubs of many of them, putting out 30 or 40 yogurt size tubs for 120 people just doesn't make sense. Also, I got none of the flavors I wanted to really try on Saturday night last year. I had something like a single scoop of one of my own flavors, the rest of the ones I would even consider trying were gone before I got to them. A single yogurt tub is not a lot of ice cream when people take large scoops.

Yeah, this got talked about a bit last year, right after BC. But it's worth bringing it up again, and seeing if we can come up with some ideas so people don't end up feeling gyped.

Hope I'm not out of line in bringing these things up here in this community, but I think we do need to think about how things are done and strive to make them easier and more efficient in an effort to make more people happy.

Comments

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

The clarification is appreciated. And for my part, I'm all for other people making more general flavors if it makes them happy. However, I probably won't since I'm not interested in either eating them or making them.

So if someone really wants the more general flavors, I see it as their responsibility to step up. I find it hard to believe that there was someone who *really* wanted to make a nice generic vanilla/chocolate/strawberry but was prevented from doing so by the ingredients being used up by weirder flavors, particularly since with several of mine, the cooking requirements necessitated me making them at home with my own ingredients.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Jack brought her own milk for Tit Surprise.