I host the gaming sessions, which run from around 11 AM to 6 PM.  Usually various vegetables and cookies appear on the table right off, and people take turns providing the meal for a circa 2 PM lunch break: two of the players usually pop for a run at the corner sub shop, my wife and I'll cook.  (It was homemade chicken fajitas this past Saturday.)

We have some good pizza places in the area, so usually some of that. A few of us are into beer so we go buy interesting things for everyone to try or bring some of our homebrewed stuff. Occasionally someone will go hit up a Thai or Mexican place and grab food from there.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;907834I think it was Melan once posted a thread about the food they had at the game table. He had cheese fondue. Fucking cheese fondue! Now that's taking your snacks seriously.

Hah! We often do a big crockpot with chili-cheese dip and tons of chips... and that's almost as often just the side-dish. Sucker lasts all night.

If that's the normal spread for Benoist - yeah, he's got us beat. But I think we can give him a good run for his money. I love his selection - we're a bunch of Texans... so it's usually red meat and carbs. But one of our players is a trained chef, when we can get him off his ass to cook, it's pretty amazing.

The AFK Tavern in Everett is cool. It's so chill and the gamer vibe is very welcoming - they like nothing better than for gamers to show up and game out all day. There's on in Renton, WA too. It's too bad their menu is down on the web site because it's hilarious. Oh, here is a link to a version of it on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150502113457/http://www.afktavern.com/menu/ some of it is written up in PDF like a game manual: https://web.archive.org/web/20150426011300/http://www.afktavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/taverndrinkmenu5e-1.pdf

This thread is also reminding me of the session where the party slew a giant snake, and cooked and at some of it, and lunch time came around in real life, and we decided to head out to a rare meat shop we knew of to see if we could buy some snake meat... but when we got there, the shop was closed.

I love snacks! But I deliberately go to LFGS, also known as the Gamer Bar, to avoid the temptation of the refrigerator. When I have to start paying by the snack or can of soda, my inner miser kicks into overdrive. Comparing this to sitting at home eating the known-universe, you can see why though as much as I love snacks I have to put the kibosh on it.

It's how I quit smoking, too. Stop buying and bum cigs shamefully until you can't stand being a shitheel. Avoidance technique.

Trust me, if we lived any closer and wanted to splurge in great feasts of food we could. But I already avoid regular attendance of the exrended family's weekly gathering because it was affecting my health. Attending a potluck buffet twice a week would be the primrose path to a myocardial infarction.

Quote from: Skarg;907868The AFK Tavern in Everett is cool. It's so chill and the gamer vibe is very welcoming - they like nothing better than for gamers to show up and game out all day. There's on in Renton, WA too. It's too bad their menu is down on the web site because it's hilarious. Oh, here is a link to a version of it on the wayback machine: ttps://web.archive.org/web/20150502113457/http://www.afktavern.com/menu/ some of it is written up in PDF like a game manual: https://web.archive.org/web/20150426011300/http://www.afktavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/taverndrinkmenu5e-1.pdf

This thread is also reminding me of the session where the party slew a giant snake, and cooked and at some of it, and lunch time came around in real life, and we decided to head out to a rare meat shop we knew of to see if we could buy some snake meat... but when we got there, the shop was closed.

That place sounds so cool and yet as normal im shocked and appalled.
Like with every bar i have ever been in they lack my stapels.
No MR.Boston rum,No MR Boston brandy,No lost lake, and most importantly No La cross.
How can one survive?

But they do have Glenlivet 21.

the gauntlet is thrown...

Quote from: kosmos1214;908060That place sounds so cool and yet as normal im shocked and appalled.
Like with every bar i have ever been in they lack my stapels.
No MR.Boston rum,No MR Boston brandy,No lost lake, and most importantly No La cross.
How can one survive?

They got Hendricks and Bombay Sapphire, I'll live.

This place looks amazing.

Quote from: The Butcher;908271They got Hendricks and Bombay Sapphire, I'll live.

This place looks amazing.

But but its not what i drink.

Question is, how do we handle the junk food hangover? After 33 years I still don't have a solution.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;909033Question is, how do we handle the junk food hangover? After 33 years I still don't have a solution.

Better quality food.

I've noticed the difference after gaming with processed snacks vs. fresher "real" food. I not saying replacing potato chips with carrots, but replacing shitty corporate chips (or crisps) with a better brand. That said, I really like baby carrots & hummus.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;909033Question is, how do we handle the junk food hangover? After 33 years I still don't have a solution.

That's how you strengthen your body for the next session!!!

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;909033Question is, how do we handle the junk food hangover? After 33 years I still don't have a solution.

Last time we were shopping for gaming food I realized for $10 I could buy a roast chicken or ham. I think we got both. Why would someone even consider junk food when meat is available and easy to obtain?