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Can't you hear them? Can't you hear the waffles?

PhilipTheSnowmanPhilipTheSnowman Registered User new member
edited September 2010 in PAX Archive
Much in the fashion that Gabe so advocates here, I and my compatriots plan to dispense the privilege, no, the dream, of waffles at PAX this year. At this point, our only set plan is to arrive early in the Queue Room on Friday - toaster, eggos, and possibly extension cord in tow - and commence with the waffle-preparations. We will probably run out before the Queue is welcomed into the venue, but we will come with waffles to bear if we have a single one.

You will know us by our Eggos, and possibly by our screams from touching our janky toaster, which reaches the temperature of the sun at the instant it is plugged in. We will also be accepting donations to offset the cost of so many frozen waffles, but do not wish anyone to feel obligated.

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  • SaxicideSaxicide Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You're not actually supposed to bring outside food into the convention center (the food vendors the WSCTC have contracts with tend to get pissy) but I wholeheartedly support your venture for as long as it lasts! May the greencoats and enforcers be lenient!

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, distrubuting food is a big deal. Like, not-gonna-happen-type big deal. The cookie brigade gets away with it because they're discreet and mobile. Someone trying to set up a waffle cooking station is going to be shut down near immediately. If you're heartset on this idea you should look for somewhere offsite to do it.

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  • MetaverseNomadMetaverseNomad Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    This is a cool idea and it's great that you're being so generous, but please don't do this. The facility manager in me is screaming in agony. In public facilities (actually probably ALL facilities), you need food permits and food handler's permits to distribute food at public events. Cookies are one thing (and they're probably still skirting the line), and you might get away with pre-cooked frozen things like toaster waffles, but hot food falls into a different category and you can potentially get into serious trouble.

    I'm not the official voice on this, but I'm suggesting that PAX and the queue room are not the place for this. And anyway, what are you going to do for plates? What if people want syrup and get a syrupy mess everywhere? This is an all-around good-intentioned bad idea.

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  • LigerLiger Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I'm going to guess that this will be shut down rather quickly. Leave the toaster in your hotel room and offer friends a waffle breakfast, but it's probably a Bad Idea to cook food in the queue room.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, you absolutely will not be allowed to do this. Save yourself the headache and leave the toaster in your hotel room because they'll either confiscate it, or you'll have to waste time running back to your room to drop it off.

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  • savagehartsavagehart Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Druhim wrote: »
    Yeah, you absolutely will not be allowed to do this. Save yourself the headache and leave the toaster in your hotel room because they'll either confiscate it, or you'll have to waste time running back to your room to drop it off.

    I think we should create the.....
    WAFFLE BRIGADE!!!!!!

    Viva the Resistance!

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2010
    Sure. Good luck with that.

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  • frobearfrobear Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    savagehart wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    Yeah, you absolutely will not be allowed to do this. Save yourself the headache and leave the toaster in your hotel room because they'll either confiscate it, or you'll have to waste time running back to your room to drop it off.

    I think we should create the.....
    WAFFLE BRIGADE!!!!!!

    Viva the Resistance!

    Actually, please don't. I can just see this negatively impacting the cookie brigade, and they do awesome things already, right on the edge of what's allowed at the show. This is basically asking them to crack down. If you must have waffles... here's a suggestion. Go get 'em.

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