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adapted from the FunE-Mail
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Finger Food Roulette
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1) Select a variety of finger foods: celery sticks,
carrot sticks, pistachios, peanuts, etc. Place each in a separate
serving dish. In each dish, place enough of the selected finger food
to feed one-third to one-half of the extended family.
1.1) If there are more people than finger foods (as is
often the case), prepare two or perhaps even three dishes from each.
1.2) Thus making certain that each finger food is equally represented,
and each participant equally finger fed.
1.2.1) For example, were there only three snacks and
some 12 people, there would be 4 portions of each finger food.
2) At the appropriate time, distribute the finger food platters randomly,
placing one in front of each food fingerer (sic).
2.1) Instruct all participants to take a handful of the
snack in front of them, and then to
2.2) pass their platter to the clockwisenly (also sic) adjacent
person.
2.3) Continue in like manner: finger-feeding, passing, finger-feeding,
passing.
3) The last finger-food left loses. |
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Guess my Chew
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1) Prepare at least five or so finger foods, each with a different
crunch. For example: cranberry sauce, cashews, ginger snaps, cheese
nips, and garbanzo beans.
1.a) Place each in a small saucers or cuplets, with enough
complete sets for every other chewer-to-be.
1.b) Declare these people the Chewers, and adjacent participants
Partners.
1.b.a) For greater complexity, try bilateral adjacency.
1.b.b) Otherwise, suggest that the Partner is the person to
the right of the Chewer.
2) The Partner places an ear to the Chewer's cheek.
2.a) The Chewer takes a small piece of one of the foods,
and chews as necessary.
2.b) The goal, if one is needed, would be to identify what is
being chewed, and perhaps how much of it, along with some estimate
of swallow duration.
2.c) Or perhaps both Partner and Chewer both chew and listen
at the same time whilst simultaneously attempting to identify
what the other is eating. To make this activity almost involuntarily
amusing, see 1.b.a.
3) Estimated duration: 3-8 minutes. Activity is often left incomplete
due to hilarious incapacitance.
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Politessen
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A) Announce the following rules summarily:
I) Participants must serve each other
II) No participant can serve himself (and/or hers)
3) Or ask to be fed
B) Play for 3-20 minutes. |
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