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December 26, 2006
Special D&D Food
My sister-in-grace (that's MR's brother's wife) told us a story that I thought the blog readers would enjoy.
Her two sons (who are brilliant and adoreable) play Dungeons and Dragons (just like their father and his brother did at their age) and they have a group that comes over to play at their house. One week, she didn't have time to go out and buy traditional "kid food" like chips or cookies, so she took some fruit and chopped it up and set it in front of the kids at D&D group. They scarfed up the fruit and loved it. The next week, same thing happened.
Then the next week, one of the other children's parents called her and asked, "What is the special D&D food?" Apparently this parent (I think it was a mom) had offered to feed the child lunch before they left for D&D group, but the child insisted that he couldn't eat lunch because he was waiting to eat the "special D&D food." So this parent was wondering exactly what said special food was.
Jimena reported that the special food is just cut up fruit.
I wonder if fresh fruit endows the players of role playing games with special powers, making them better spell casters, lizard slayers, or whatever. If so, someone should tell Julian Dibbell. As the backup singer in J-Lo's "Jenny From the Block" reminds us, "Everyone's got to make a living."
Posted by april at December 26, 2006 12:47 PM
Comments
My medieval reenactment group gets tetchy when I don't wimp out and hit the produce stands on my way to our monthly Grub and Garb potluck. I feel like I'm cheating, not cooking anything...but it's what they like the best, so that's what I do. And it's period! - sort of.
Posted by: Szarka at January 2, 2007 10:10 AM