How many spears of asparagus in a serving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's examine this from a game theory perspective.

Suppose there are 10 guests at the dinner party.

OP has allocated 3 spears per guest, or 30 spears. She is assuming rational decision making by all of her guests, and cooperation with the 30 spears. Is this a valid assumption?
What if the first five guests monopolize, for example, 25 spears, by allocating 5 spears each. There would be five spears left for the five remaining guests.

Competition at this dinner party for the remaining asparagus could segue into chaos.

You forgot about the children. Of course, Natalie and Steven's mom insisted they take one spear each (for "color"), and Amanda actually likes asparagus and took 3 and came back for 2 more. But the rest of the kids (5 in all) took nothing, leaving more spears for the rest of the guests.

So are we going to start hearing about incidents of vegetable rage at Washington dinner parties now?

[Anonymous]

just go get you some snakehead outta that there Potomac River

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's examine this from a game theory perspective.

Suppose there are 10 guests at the dinner party.

OP has allocated 3 spears per guest, or 30 spears. She is assuming rational decision making by all of her guests, and cooperation with the 30 spears. Is this a valid assumption?
What if the first five guests monopolize, for example, 25 spears, by allocating 5 spears each. There would be five spears left for the five remaining guests.

Competition at this dinner party for the remaining asparagus could segue into chaos.

You forgot about the children. Of course, Natalie and Steven's mom insisted they take one spear each (for "color"), and Amanda actually likes asparagus and took 3 and came back for 2 more. But the rest of the kids (5 in all) took nothing, leaving more spears for the rest of the guests.

So are we going to start hearing about incidents of vegetable rage at Washington dinner parties now?

DC has special "veggie patrol" for just such incidents. Call 311 and press v-e-g on your key pad.

[Anonymous]

Corn. Hehehe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corn. Hehehe.

We already learned that potatoes and salad were not vegetables. Doubt that corn qualifies.

[Anonymous]

Really?
109 replies about asparagus?!
Not even going to bother reading any of these, I can't imagine what 109 replies has degraded to

[Anonymous]

Why hasn't this been moved to the food forum where it so clearly belongs? Just sayin'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here -

I am also serving corned beef, chicken breast, roasted potatoes, and a squash/tomato/pepper mixture.

That meal isn't very green, so I would go more toward 5 skinnies, than three. I would suggest adding a salad to the mix. Dressing on the side if you want (so that it keeps till the next day).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why hasn't this been moved to the food forum where it so clearly belongs? Just sayin'.

This isn't about food- it's about morals and ethics. Can you be a good person if you only allot three spears per guest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here -

I am also serving corned beef, chicken breast, roasted potatoes, and a squash/tomato/pepper mixture.

That meal isn't very green, so I would go more toward 5 skinnies, than three. I would suggest adding a salad to the mix. Dressing on the side if you want (so that it keeps till the next day).

You are late to the party (literally, since it's over). Salad was already rejected as not a vegetable.

[Anonymous]

To the posters who created the no asparagus, no peace and this is spearta graphics....

I don't think I have ever laughed so hard at a DCUM thread. Laughing to the point of tears. I even had to show my husband because he was so curious about why I couldn't stop laughing.

This thread is crazy, and those graphics were hysterical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the posters who created the no asparagus, no peace and this is spearta graphics....

I don't think I have ever laughed so hard at a DCUM thread. Laughing to the point of tears. I even had to show my husband because he was so curious about why I couldn't stop laughing.

This thread is crazy, and those graphics were hysterical.

Ditto. And my husband thinks DCUM is so lame, but he was hysterical as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really?
109 replies about asparagus?!
Not even going to bother reading any of these, I can't imagine what 109 replies has degraded to

Something creative and amusing - a rare thing here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the posters who created the no asparagus, no peace and this is spearta graphics....

I don't think I have ever laughed so hard at a DCUM thread. Laughing to the point of tears. I even had to show my husband because he was so curious about why I couldn't stop laughing.

This thread is crazy, and those graphics were hysterical.

Hehe, thanks. I'm glad you and others found it as amusing as I did.

I sadly have to admit that I cracked myself up to the point of tears while creating the three graphics. My husband looked at me like I was crazy. Then I showed him what I was doing and he found it funny as well.

[Anonymous]

20:56 here. I was thinking those graphics might have come from the same person. Do you do graphics for fun or is it your line if work?

Very witty.