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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2006 19:44:32 GMT -5
Personally I like paper plates no mess, no fuss. The drawback is expense washing and reusing is cheaper in the long run. But in this case health considerations etc outweigh that. It is a sensible thing to do.
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Post by close on Jun 12, 2006 22:00:54 GMT -5
Personally I like paper plates no mess, no fuss. The drawback is expense washing and reusing is cheaper in the long run. But in this case health considerations etc outweigh that. It is a sensible thing to do. Actually, disposable is cheaper than setting up the washing, having the unused equipment sitting around for the rest of the year, hot water requirements, and the cost of the settings themselves.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2006 22:10:19 GMT -5
My family got the tin ware for several conventions, it was Army surplus and cost nearly nothing ie hundreds of settings for ten dollars. Now every year, when my daddy takes the workers to Costco for their pre Convention shoping spree, they spend TENS of thousands of dollars. So I don't know about cheaper.
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Post by bluejay on Jun 12, 2006 22:27:12 GMT -5
I think conventions and the paper plate route are unacceptable same with cafe's unacceptable everyone i talk with is negative concerning the paper plate plastic knife and fork route I won't support a cafe that doesn't have real plates dishes etc. Can you think of a more stupid topic to bit- about? No... I think not... Hi Bryan, I agree. This topic is brainless. However, I responded because I get tired of reading posts of complaint against the f&w's for anything and everything they do. I believe it takes away from the validity of other very important issues that need to be brought out into the open and discussed. I don't believe it's an honorable thing to allow a group of people as a whole to be criticized for every move they make. Lloyd has posted some very good thoughts & links on this board, and I just want to encourage him to focus on the doctrinal issues at hand.
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Post by Random on Jun 12, 2006 22:43:50 GMT -5
Lloyd has posted some very good thoughts & links on this board, and I just want to encourage him to focus on the doctrinal issues at hand. Even a monkey will sometimes hit keys that make sense.
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Post by zing on Jun 12, 2006 23:59:42 GMT -5
ha! I remember the 'special people' who got to leave meeting first to serve with the meals, quietly filing out while the rest waited... and I remember peering in the door, at those 'important people' who got to set the tables... hardly waiting until I got to be special enough to do the same... sadly I think that only happened once... but the arrangement of the tables, and the dishes... somehow was magic ... and afterwards it did look so neat to see all the 'special people' washing, that was like a step above the table setters... of course I remember also being crowded, and nearly trampled in the rush to the best seat, who would get to sit by whom, the whistle blowing, which I think was the 'come in' signal... and the tomatoe & macaroni and hot dog dish... do they still serve that? oh yeah, then afterwards the trek to the outhouse (which always had this odd smell to it) where a person would make several trips, because that way you could 'run into' all the other folks, and have long and important conversations... and always it seemed that there were puddles and you had to step over hollow sounding plywood.... and the curtained doors, which invariably some elderly lady would peek in at you, thinking it was empty... the most memorable parts of convention were the shavings, the rain on the tent, the white dishes at mealtime, the multiple outhouse with the funny smell, the goodies we got to have in the barns, the coloring books and kids on blankets, putting quarters on the train tracks, listening to the train go by at night, the long lane where trees arched over the road, the late night worker talks in the barn with a flashlight... oh yeah, and the 'terror' speech', about the young lad who never professed although he 'knew he should' then he was killed in a vehicle accident on the way to a party... ... but take away the dishes?... it would seem kind cheap, and a destruction of tradition... and I think the tents should be re-installed again... it was so cozy...and the crackling of the microphone in storms, the benches that guaranteed that someone would plop on the floor in a heap, and not to forget the man who always, every year, made a very fast walk ( dash) for the speakers platform, as he felt 'moved'... and each time he would be intercepted and guided out the side door.... and the long stairs to the ladies top level of the barn... where the little boys invariably stood under looking upward when the little girls in thier little dresses walked up the stairs, and the sing songs with the beautiful voices... yes there are certain things which should be declared illegal to be removed from conventions... and the dishes certainly rate high on this list...
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Post by las logged out on Jun 13, 2006 9:44:54 GMT -5
I can remember when Smeaton convention went paper plate they never told us the reasons...but i see the really reasons now from the internet..after Altmount convention is my guess
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