Remember the food tokens at conventions!!

haujobbz

They were the good old days, in the uk about 10 years ago were able to purchase food tokens to get our lovely hot food supplied at conventions i used to really look forward conventions then,then all of a sudden voila no hot food supplied at assemblys no more i was "gutted" i really missed the currys and sunday veg mmmmmmmmm. But why did they stop doing it, i think this really upset most having to bring your own grub.They do give free water at them now though

BluesBrother

You are speakin here to an ex food token overseer. Some big deal!!

Nostalgia still rules whenever my wife and her sister get together and remember the good old days of burgers and ice cream at assemblies.

Nothing upset the r and file more than the loss of the food service ..

Pubsinger

The demise of the food tokens and food at assemblies was yet another case of WT spin.

The reason given was "simplification"

They said that cutting out the food service would enable hundreds more brothers to be with their families and enjoy the "rich spiritual food". This of course was a huge joke, because the only reason most people volunteered was to get OUT of listening to the programme.

The REAL reason that the food was done away with was because, as with the sale of literature, the government informed WT that they would be TAXED on any profit they made on the sale of food.

At the time of this "simplification" my circuit had just finished building a new assembly hall (Hellaby) with purpose built kitchens costing hundreds of thousands of pounds, only to have to dismantle them.

FiveShadows

sounds like the mark of the wild beast that no one was able to buy or sell anything unelss they ahd the mark! tehe! ~FS

Eric

They said that cutting out the food service would enable hundreds more brothers to be with their families and enjoy the "rich spiritual food". This of course was a huge joke, because the only reason most people volunteered was to get OUT of listening to the programme.

Yes, I remember volunteering when I was about thirteen and being able to finagle a job in the kitchen at a circuit assembly. I got to stand on a stepstool over huge stainless steel vats of steaming hot boiled potatoes in the heat of the kitchen and mash them with an industrial size wooden-handled potatoe masher. Once I'd gotten them broken up enough a brother would chuck in bricks of butter and some reconstituted milk, and I would blend that in. Vat after vat. For hours. Mind-numbing, repetetive grunt work. All-in-all, far preferable to sitting on a metal folding chair in the audience listening to the mind-numbing, repetetive clap-trap...

Eric

13th_apostate

wow, this thread brings back memories. once I was talked into volunteering for food service. it was just in the distribution though, not the making. it was so disorganized. some of the young ones slyly tried to show me how it was preferable to sitting and listening. but I think I preferred sitting. at some point during my time with the dubs, I learned to bring my journal and write in it during the talks. my mom thought I was taking notes, but I was writing poetry and shortstories. I think I even learned how to sleep with my eyes open at one assembly.

will

SYN

13th: Hehe, Dubs are world record-holding when it comes to sleeping with your eyes open. No brain is required when attending a Convention - just a spine will do.

Thankfully I was never forced into labour at a Convention (I'm a lazy SOB hehe), but it really sucked when they stopped selling food.

ISP

Yep I remember the food tickets........bacon barms were good in the morning!

ISP

Simon

Remember the proper sit-down meals with waitress service at Northenden assembly?

First thing in a morning you would rush to get a food ticket which had a letter on it and you could go for your mean when they put your letter on a board on the platform. You had to queue up the side stairs to the right as you wen in through the main doors at the front.

Of course, seating and feeding so many people took far longer than he lunch beak allowed so when the afternoon sessions started there were still people eating and waiting for their turn.

Half way through a talk someone would come on the platform and hang the letter 'G' on the board and lots of people would get up and walk out ... off to have their lunch.

Ha ha ... it was fantastic. I guess the physical food was much better than the 'spiritual food'. Now you get neither.

sisteract

oh ya

i remember all that great FOOD at the assemblies and conventions!!!! after they got rid of the hot food and the icecream machines, it was all down hill from there!!! hey, remember the hoagies and the "bag-o-fruit" and the borrittos?!!! it insured all to have really bad GAS by the afternoon when you were dying listening to that great 3 part symposium on the book of EZEKIAL!!!!!!!!!!

AH THE GOOD OL' DAYS

Remember the food tokens at conventions!!

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