I was going to leave this as a comment at Minutia Press, but I started ranting too long and figured I'd post the whole thing here. Ron posted about the CS faculty/grad student holiday party. Whoever ordered the catering obviously did not have graduate students in mind:

1. caviar.
2. smoked fish on bagel chips.
3. "mini beef wellington" that contained no actual meat.

These are not fill-em-up grad student foods. Such appropriate hors d'oeuvres would be:

1. those mini hot dogs wrapped in croissants
2. scallops wrapped in bacon
3. cheese cubes

I stress the cheese cubes, as these are the most important of all. If you know me in real life, you've probably already heard that my wedding will take place on a hovercraft and will feature Less than Jake for musical entertainment. Forgetting for a moment that I have no girlfriend, never mind one tolerant enough to let me butcher our eventual wedding with punk music, I have now decided that for food at the reception I will have the above three items along with those big, soft cookies with the M&M's in them that they sell at Sam's Club.

Unless the future Mrs. Hill Festival is vegetarian, in which case I guess we're stuck with just the cheese and cookies. And I'm sure Ron will send along some pizza.