"Best Snack While Wargaming?" Topic

What do you recommend?

I prepare about half a dozen platters of Hour d' oerves. These are the small crackers with various concoctions on them.

They have the advantage that they are quickly consumed as finger food and do not require messy or unsightly platters to clog the table top. Vegetable trays are nice, but you have the dip bowl unless you keep it off table.

Chips and stuff requires boles and worse , Salsa which can drip on the table, terrain, and figures.

For beverages I prefer bottle wine. Beer in cans again winds up with empties left all over the table top and people forget which can is theirs and open a new one. Same with soda, a lot of it gets wasted. Iced tea in pitchers is fine. I buy big plastic goblets from the party store and write people names on the disposable glasses or paper cups for BOTTLED soda, kept on the side.

For the wine I have made special ice buckets which fit into large constructions like mountains and forest which are placed on the corners of the table top. They have tops on them which when opened reveal the ice bucket inside.

The aim is to keep the clutter and the trash off the table top and out of sight.

Later after the game I have a big sit down dinner so most people can bide their time till that.

Otto

The Dulles Wargaming Club has a tradition. Whenever someone loses a valuable piece, they eat a Hostess Ho Ho. It soothes the loss and tastes great.

Cheese curds, beer, pretzels, and enemy figures.

Freshly made popcorn.

Tea'n'bikkies and plenty of both.

Best or Safest!?!

Our group has a few individuals who are not the neatest or most careful with touching things…

..Pretzels…

Pretzels

Salty and crunchy, and no greasy fingers

Agree pretzels – the rest for after the game

Beef Jerky

Yup, Pretzels.

Don

Hot wings, fried chicken, spare ribs.

+1 for pretzels. Then you gotta wash it down with a nice cream soda.

Potato Chips, Beer and M&M's.

VICTORY!

Or, failing that, revenge. Which is best served cold.

Usually we have chips or pretzels – chips can get figures greasy though. According to the knucklehead that used to play with us (although he never invested any time or money in any figures of his own) cheese curls were the best snack. That way, you could get orange fake cheese crap all over everyone else's figures.

Surely Cheetos, right?

We tend towards pretzels (which I am not crazy about), or chips. Used to also guzzle Mt Dew too, to fuel our debauchery, but we're all getting old and the caffeine keeps us up, or aggravates the diabetes…

Damon.

Igor bars of course.
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Winner of the war game gets the insulin.

Jaffa cakes. Jelly babies. Lashings of ginger beer.

Don't eat and game – greasy fingers are a recipe for ruining paintwork. Ok if they are your own figures you are marking.

I hate food/drink of any kind at the gaming table….

hard salami and assorted cheese cubes,

The souls of mine enemies….

M&M's -- no grease, little possible mess. Also make great status markers when you can't find your Shield Point or Broken Morale counters quickly. And enough red ones (peppermint M&M's this time of year) can mark casualties.

What are pretzels ? RavencraftCybernetics, you being an American, you really astound me…

I don't eat snacks while gaming. That slight feeling of hunger that gnaws at me gives me the edge in combat.

Blood and marrow of my enemies,

You game or you eat! Not both at the same time!

Lembas -- Elvish Waybread!

Pretzels.

Carrot and celery sticks with homemade hommus and tzatziki. To avoid drips on the table, use a plate guys. All washed down with beer or wine, to avoid who's drink is who's hand out different design stubby holders then there is no mix up…. duh!

Sorry chips and other salty food are just so yesterday and encourage more drinking and more delays from toilet breaks. Fatty foods and sugary stuff frag your ability to think clearly, therefore increasing your chances of losing. I've also served up cheese and fruit platters, cocktail meatballs and falafel's with dipping sauces. Gaming is a social event and good food and drink enhances the occasion, it gets relaxes people and gets them talking.
Some of you may cringe at these healthier snack choices, but it all gets eaten and when you are in your fifties like me you cant afford to eat rubbish especially if you want to still be gaming in your eighties and nineties. :)

Beer.

It's so much more than just a breakfast drink.

Tea and biscuits.

martin

Chocolate Chip blueberry oatmeal cookies. They are the best snack for everything.

Pirogi.

Agree with pretzels and would add beer.

Bottled water, cap kept on unless drinking it and not placed on the gaming table.

Hmmm…glad you asked…

I start by hanging two greenland sharks to dry for about 4 months prior to the games day. I also begin to force feed a goose around the same time.

Just before everyone comes over I prepare a tapas in at least seven varieties, all foraged and prepared as finger food but non-messy. I have also perfected a mist essence I spray on hand harvested vegetables that coats them in dip flavors then dries hard, which avoids the need for dip bowls.

For beverages, I prefer brandy snifters all around. We start the game with a small glass of Louis XIII de Rémy Martin. I have carved a bust of Napoleon out of French Oak which sits next to the table, rub his ear twice and the bottle is exposed at the base of his neck. If you sip from the wrong persons glass,we take a break from the game for duel (Irish Code duello of course), winner gets both glasses.

The aim is to appear as sophisticated and gentlemanly as possible.

After the game, we feast on sumptuous Foie gras, and a duo of Deconstructed Hákarl, and market Tofu with a lemon foam.

I made reuben sandwiches once.

Belgian beer and single malt whisky. In that order.

None. I'd rather not have the gamers' fingers any greasier than they already are.

Toss up between:

* Tea n bikkies, very tasty

* Bits of salami and cheese, very fortifying