We’re “Greece—appetizers” for International food night

[Anonymous]

Trader Joe’s has a frozen cheese pastry that’s delicious too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if you are Greek or does the school randomly assign the contributions.

I wish mine randomly assigned contributions. We didn't attend because we didnt' really fit their "costume, dance and country of origin" guidelines.

What? You are from a place that doesn't have a national dress and traditional dance? I'm confused. This is literally everyone unless you are like a 10th generation WASP....even then English people have tradional culture too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were recently in Greece for 3 weeks. Food I never saw: hummus, stuffed grape leaves, lettuce in Greek Salad or baklava; I don’t recall seeing Spanakopita but I think we might have had it once and it wasn’t at all like how we eat it. Notably, the olives, tzatziki and real Greek salad were absolutely to die for (and so much better than what I’ve eaten here).

Hummus isn't Greek so I have no idea why you included this in your list.

NP - neither are stuffed grape leaves. Hopefully after 3 weeks in Greece you realized that it’s different than the Middle East.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Olives (the Trader Joes ones are really good).
Feta cubes with tomatoes and oregano
Spanikopita

Where are these — fridge, open barrels, jars?

Spanakopita is in the frozen section.

What about the olives?

Not in the frozen section.

[Anonymous]

If this is for a school, skip the grape leaves - no one will eat. I don’t think you need to be super accurate. Go for pan- Mediterranean. Slice feta ( buy the good stuff in the brine at Trader Joe’s- none of the already crumbled abomination),add pitted Greek olives, sliced tomato, sliced cucumber and sliced red onion- Arrange on tray so people can take what they like. Drizzle with dressing that has olive oil, lemon, a little white vinegar and oregano. All this from Trader Joe’s . Add a huge stack of pita cut into triangles ( I like the Trader Joe’s Mediterranean flat bread)purchase a big tub of hummus from Costco- doctor with olive oil, garlic and lemon. Spanakopita is good but expensive for a crowd

[Anonymous]

Horiatiki & sliced pita

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were recently in Greece for 3 weeks. Food I never saw: hummus, stuffed grape leaves, lettuce in Greek Salad or baklava; I don’t recall seeing Spanakopita but I think we might have had it once and it wasn’t at all like how we eat it. Notably, the olives, tzatziki and real Greek salad were absolutely to die for (and so much better than what I’ve eaten here).

Hummus isn't Greek so I have no idea why you included this in your list.

NP - neither are stuffed grape leaves. Hopefully after 3 weeks in Greece you realized that it’s different than the Middle East.

5 pps recommended grape leaves.

[Anonymous]

Spanakopita was the only thing I ate in Greece and like the Americanized version better. Everything else in Greece tasted better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do you live? Mediterranean Bakery in Alexandria has a great selection of apps.

No. Do not go there. I was a loyal customer for decades until I found the most incredibly disgusting, food unsafe items in some baklava.* I called Mediterranean Bakery, thinking it was some kind of horrible oversight in the production process or maybe they had a problem with their suppliers--and the management at the bakery yelled at me over the phone and denied any problems. They didn't even offer a refund. It was so strange and gross. No more Mediterranean Bakery for me.

***TRIGGER WARNING---SKIP IF SQUEAMISH**

*Animal teeth. Like rodent teeth. A mouthful of baklava and rodent teeth. I still have the photos on my phone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

If this is for a school, skip the grape leaves - no one will eat. I don’t think you need to be super accurate. Go for pan- Mediterranean. Slice feta ( buy the good stuff in the brine at Trader Joe’s- none of the already crumbled abomination),add pitted Greek olives, sliced tomato, sliced cucumber and sliced red onion- Arrange on tray so people can take what they like. Drizzle with dressing that has olive oil, lemon, a little white vinegar and oregano. All this from Trader Joe’s . Add a huge stack of pita cut into triangles ( I like the Trader Joe’s Mediterranean flat bread)purchase a big tub of hummus from Costco- doctor with olive oil, garlic and lemon. Spanakopita is good but expensive for a crowd

But hummus isn’t Greek and I don’t know why you’d think it was. And Costco sells spanakopita in a pack of 60.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you live? Mediterranean Bakery in Alexandria has a great selection of apps.

No. Do not go there. I was a loyal customer for decades until I found the most incredibly disgusting, food unsafe items in some baklava.* I called Mediterranean Bakery, thinking it was some kind of horrible oversight in the production process or maybe they had a problem with their suppliers--and the management at the bakery yelled at me over the phone and denied any problems. They didn't even offer a refund. It was so strange and gross. No more Mediterranean Bakery for me.

***TRIGGER WARNING---SKIP IF SQUEAMISH**

*Animal teeth. Like rodent teeth. A mouthful of baklava and rodent teeth. I still have the photos on my phone.

My god.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if you are Greek or does the school randomly assign the contributions.

I wish mine randomly assigned contributions. We didn't attend because we didnt' really fit their "costume, dance and country of origin" guidelines.

What? You are from a place that doesn't have a national dress and traditional dance? I'm confused. This is literally everyone unless you are like a 10th generation WASP....even then English people have tradional culture too.

REALLY, PP????
You can’t imagine a situation in the US where someone doesn’t know WTF their country/íes of ethnic origin is/are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if you are Greek or does the school randomly assign the contributions.

I wish mine randomly assigned contributions. We didn't attend because we didnt' really fit their "costume, dance and country of origin" guidelines.

What? You are from a place that doesn't have a national dress and traditional dance? I'm confused. This is literally everyone unless you are like a 10th generation WASP....even then English people have tradional culture too.

REALLY, PP????
You can’t imagine a situation in the US where someone doesn’t know WTF their country/íes of ethnic origin is/are?

No I totally get that!!! But I read the comment differently!! Not that they didn't know their heritage- but that they do know their genealogy but they didn't think the place had a costume and a dance. I could of course be mistaken and your interpretation could be correct.

[Anonymous]

I can’t get past the we’re.

Do you mean where are? That isn’t a contraction for that. We’re is we are.

[Anonymous]

Grilled halloumi - you can buy halloumi stuff Trader Joe’s.