# Food fight!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 5, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615 "2006-01-05T19:28:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 16\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/21 "2006-01-06T18:39:21Z")

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/me lobs a sack of dried pinto beans and watches as six people skid on the beans and land on their butts.

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/22 "2006-01-06T18:41:55Z")

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_slips a bucketload of greased banana peels onto the floor, squirts chocolate sauce everywhere, slimes everyone with a big pot of pea soup_

_shrieks as **Anaamika** ’s Jello tips out over her head_

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/23 "2006-01-06T19:18:25Z")

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Eyeing **Kythereia** covered with grape syrup and jello.

Scrambles on the floor for not-quite-empty cans of whipped cream.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/24 "2006-01-06T19:26:21Z")

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> [@Harborwolf](#):
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> A food fight without cream pies? Ya’ll should be ashamed of yourselves.
> 
> _Brings in a cart of pies and starts flinging them every which direction, starting with Ivylass for beating me to the zit bit_

Which I adroitly duck, and begin flinging chili back at **Harborwolf** …oooh, too bad about that nice white shirt!

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**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/25 "2006-01-06T19:38:00Z")

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::walks in and stares horrified::

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

::turns to leave and slips on greased banana peels, slamming into **Mr Bus Guy** as he scrabbles for the whipped cream cans::  
:: **Chanteuse** and **Mr Bus Guy** land in crumpled heap against the far wall::

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/26 "2006-01-06T20:50:19Z")

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Ok folks…sorry about the coconuts. I’ve been instructed on the “no rock-hard food throwing” rule, and will try to be a more careful participant in the future.

_starts whipping around generous portions of Cherries Flambé_

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/27 "2006-01-06T21:47:09Z")

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In a rare, spontaneous act of bravery, shoves **Chanteuse** before the Flambe hurts someone.

Empties the vending machine and starts lobbing stale Twinkies at **Idle Thoughts** and juice boxes randomly around the room like so many cardboard grenades.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/28 "2006-01-06T21:49:50Z")

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intercepts one of the twinkies, and munches on it while pouring coffee down **Hal Briston** ’s back

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/29 "2006-01-06T21:50:03Z")

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Walks in with watermelons and a sledgehammer and starts imitating Gallegher…

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/30 "2006-01-06T21:52:53Z")

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> [@anyrose](#):
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> intercepts one of the twinkies, and munches on it while pouring coffee down **Hal Briston** ’s back

(not to worry. the coffee is kind of luke warm, it’s been sitting on my desk all day)

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/31 "2006-01-06T21:57:30Z")

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3 large onions  
2 cans beef stock  
1 tbs dry sherry  
1 tbs worchestershire sauce  
1 Tbs butter  
French bread  
Gruyere cheese, grated

Peel and thinly slice onions. Sweat over low heat with butter in large fry pan until carmelized. Add wet ingredients and bring to a simmer. Place a slice of bread in a heatproof bowl and fill with soup. Top with cheese and broil until cheese is golden brown. Pour down **ivylass** ’s blouse.

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**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/32 "2006-01-06T22:14:46Z")

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:: Runs in with a large sausage and starts flailing away ::

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/33 "2006-01-06T22:29:05Z")

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Hey, no fair flailing! The Official Guide Of Food Fights says you must toss, dump or fling. Flailing was prohibited in the Madagascar Covenant, back in’55.

- Ducks a flying sausage, and empties the ice tray onto the floor\*

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**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/34 "2006-01-06T22:32:28Z")

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::rises, grabs two pitchers of beer from table, using one to douse small flame in **Mr Bus Guy’s** hair::

::hurls beer from second pitcher at **Hal Briston** ::

::drops to slippery banana-peel-and pinto-bean-covered floor and crawls toward the door in desperate bid to escape::

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**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/35 "2006-01-06T22:53:29Z")

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:: wearing a string of sausages like a bandoleer ::

Heh. Heh.

:: Tosses sausages in every direction ::

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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-fight/338615/36 "2006-01-06T23:19:54Z")

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While this is the best action I’ve had since lunch, a food fight is a bit too game-ish and pointless for this forum. (Plus, you know, you get all sticky and stuff and have to explain it to the missus when you get home.)

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