Next week there is a week long conference happening where many directors from our organization come from around different parts of the world (about 35 people in all). A friend and I have been asked to cater lunches each day next week for the conference.
Keep in mind that most everything you cook here is from scratch. Making pizza involves making your own pizza dough, your own Italian sausage, etc. Making hamburgers involves homemade buns. Having tacos requires homemade tortillas (actually we buy these from a Papua New Guinean woman who makes them each week.) You get the idea, right?
Well, my friend and I sat down planned out the menu, made our shopping list, and off we went to the store to buy a whole lot of food. Our menu for the week includes tacos, sloppy joes, and hamburgers, all of which require ground beef (or mince as it is called here). Well, we encountered one large problem... the store is out of mince. It has been ordered, but the store truck is currently out of commission and there is no way to go pick up the order. Well, we explain to the store manager, we're making lunches for the DIRECTOR'S conference next week and we need a whole lot of mince. What can we do? The store manager assures us he will try his hardest to find a solution for us. So, we thank him and wait. A while later we are told that, since they were unable to get a truck to go pick up the meat order, they have decided to to buy a local cow and slaughter it themselves. How is that for service? I guess when you mention the directors you have a bit of pull around here. Something tells me that if I wanted a bit of mince to make burgers for my family they wouldn't have killed a cow for me!
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