Bagel Saturday and Glutton Thursday
If this holiday has shown me nothing, I have seen how wasteful our society is. How do we celebrate the bounty and blessings of having enough to eat? By stuffing ourselves stupid and throwing away the leftovers. I had the opportunity to witness this phenomenon twice over. Thanksgiving day, of course, but again today, on Bagel Saturday.
Bagel Saturday is a tradition of the Rutgers costume shop. The day before first dress, all of the shop assistants come in to finish the work for the show. We gather around 9am to eat bagels, fruit, cheese, and whatever other munchies our professor, fellow students, and shop supervisor may provide. By 10 o'clock we usually get down to work, taking frequent breaks throughout the day to peak into the conference room for more food. This continue until all of the work is done. The longest bagel Saturday I've been to so far was Doll's House--8:30 pm. We just missed that deadline--most of the work was done by 7:50 tonight.
But food was wasted. Sure, the loaves of bread, bagels, fruit and some of the salad was divided up among the other students to take home, but the soup, which did not go over well with most of us, was dumped down the drain. Perfectly edible, but an acquired taste. Is it a coincidence that the Asian students tend to be the least picky and thus least wasteful?
Thursday, despite the glut, was a very good Thanksgiving. We cooked a la A&P Supermarket. By we I mean, Ellen and our two Korean classmates. A lot of food for four people, but we ate well, divided the food and are still eating well. A burnt pie ended up in the garbage, as did the congealed remains of the stuffing and the partially picked apart carcass of the turkey. I could have rescued more meat if I tried.
While I enjoy spending such holidays with friends, I certainly miss my family (and soon to be family).
Bagel Saturday is a tradition of the Rutgers costume shop. The day before first dress, all of the shop assistants come in to finish the work for the show. We gather around 9am to eat bagels, fruit, cheese, and whatever other munchies our professor, fellow students, and shop supervisor may provide. By 10 o'clock we usually get down to work, taking frequent breaks throughout the day to peak into the conference room for more food. This continue until all of the work is done. The longest bagel Saturday I've been to so far was Doll's House--8:30 pm. We just missed that deadline--most of the work was done by 7:50 tonight.
But food was wasted. Sure, the loaves of bread, bagels, fruit and some of the salad was divided up among the other students to take home, but the soup, which did not go over well with most of us, was dumped down the drain. Perfectly edible, but an acquired taste. Is it a coincidence that the Asian students tend to be the least picky and thus least wasteful?
Thursday, despite the glut, was a very good Thanksgiving. We cooked a la A&P Supermarket. By we I mean, Ellen and our two Korean classmates. A lot of food for four people, but we ate well, divided the food and are still eating well. A burnt pie ended up in the garbage, as did the congealed remains of the stuffing and the partially picked apart carcass of the turkey. I could have rescued more meat if I tried.
While I enjoy spending such holidays with friends, I certainly miss my family (and soon to be family).
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8:43 PM
1 Comments:
I've always thought our culture's celebration on thankfulness was a bit odd. It doesn't seem to me that much thankfulness comes across in the feasting the way it did back in the day when eating a feast was big splurge and also a huge risk because you didn't know if you were going to run out of food over the winter! That's why I wanted to combine Thankgiving (which I love - no doubt maybe because the only think I like more than cooking is eating) with fasting in the same month to gain appreciation for the food that I have. Unfortunately that didn't work out so well, but fasting occasionally? I'm all for it.
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