… for holiday feasting. We’re having our office Christmas lunch today, and that reminds me of my favorite scene from one of my favorite holiday movies: “The Apartment” with Jack Lemmon and Shirley McLaine. The office party involves lots of drinking and dancing on desks. But those were simpler times…
What’s on tap for your office party? Thrill us with your gastronomic and/or boozy antics…
And while we’re on the subject of holiday movies, what’s your favorite flick that involves food? (I’m crazy about the scene in “Christmas Story” where the hound dogs eat the turkey off the table, so the family ends up at a Chinese restaurant…)
Let's eat
Responses to “It’s the season…”
December 14th, 2005 at 12:25 pm
Our company graciously donated our 2005 Christmas Party budget to Katrina Relief but in the past we’ve alternated between a private, catered, “dress up” party with wonderful food and more casual outings (the bowling alley gig with free burgers and hot dogs comes to mind). But, we always have a potluck also and it’s interesting to see who brings what.
December 14th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
Two Christmas movie food scenes . . .
Christmas Vacation (w/ Chevy Chase): They bring out the turkey and when he tries to cut it, it’s so dry that it just kind of pops like a balloon.
Elf (w/ Will Ferrell): Telling his new family about the four food groups (candy, candy corn, candy canes and syrup), the Elf creates a concoction of spaghetti noodles, M&Ms, marshmallows, Pop Tarts and sugar, then coats them with maple syrup. Yum yum!
December 14th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
This being a gov’t installation & all that, we are only allowed catered or potluck food. This year, we are having a turkey & dressing dinner from Cotton Boll caterers on the 22nd, along with whatever people choose to bring for desserts, etc. I’m still thinking about what movie food scene is my favorite. Leslie, I see that Piggly Wiggly has standing rib roast whole or half for $4.99/lb. thru 12/27. In case you are having that again for Christmas, you might want to check it out.
December 14th, 2005 at 1:19 pm
Our IT dept. lunch was Monday. It was catered by Corky’s, and employees brought desserts for a bake-off. We had two categories, chocolate and non-chocolate. The chocolate was won by an Almond Joy cake, and the non-chocolate winner was a Yum Yum cake (yellow cake with crushed pineapple, cream cheese, coconut and topped with maraschino cherries). Neither of those were my entries! Even those the winners each received a $100 AMEX gift card, we only had 9 entries out of about 200 people. Does anyone else who has potlucks run into this lack of participation? Do you have any suggestions as to how we could get more people to bring food? We had to get our cafeteria to bake some cookies, just to make sure we had enough for everyone.
As far as the movie, my favorite holiday food scene isn’t a movie. It is a Thanksgiving episode of Cheers where everyone gets into a food fight at Carla’s house!
December 14th, 2005 at 8:16 pm
Well if you limit it to Christmas movies I’m kind of stuck, but if not, then “Yes, Georgio”, and I am not sure of the spelling. It is a move with Luciano Pavarotti. At one point he is trying to cook a meal with his love interest and they get into a “food fight” the likes of which you have never seen. Hard to find, but worth the effort.
December 14th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
The scene from Christmas Vacation at the table is a classic. Who could ever forget the aunt saying the pledge of allegiance as the prayer? That has to be the all-time best holiday movie.
December 15th, 2005 at 10:34 am
Big Night has got to be my favorite food-themed movie of all time. Stanley Tucci and Tony Shaloub are brilliant in it. You’ve gotta love the scene where they argue about taking the risotto off the menu. Classic.
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