Well, the Boys will be HERE, specifically, this weekend for an “epic LAN party.”
If you don’t know what that is, I don’t blame you. It’s what high school boys do if they’re not into drugs, sex, or rock n’ roll. The event involves hauling multiple large computers to someone’s house, and playing internet-based games until all hours of the night and early morning while inhaling junk food and energy drinks.
I would have really loved to plan to be AWAY this weekend, because it’s not really that interactive. Read: Super Boring unless you’re playing also. I’m more of a system gamer, so maneuvering via keyboard and mouse feels super clumsy to me. I’d rather not engage.
So, as long as I’m here, listening to the intermittent roars of victory and defeat, I’m thinking about what guy food I’m going to try making.
Nealey Dozier of Dixie Caviar does some of her best food blogging during Football Season, when her fiance Walt (who made this viral LEGO engagement video) plunks down to watch the games. I’ve been meaning to try these “Football Sandwiches” for months.
What do you all make for your men when they’re gaming (either watching Football or geeking out online, as the case may be)?
The only gaming in our house is rugby and I’m in there yelling at the ref rather than cooking! On the flip side he makes great sausage and egg muffins when I’m working nights at the weekend!
I have two siblings, both brothers that are older than me, so I am all too familiar with LAN parties, having witnessed them from a tender age. My fiance is partial to a LAN too, but it doesn’t happen these days cos his LAN buddies are all back in Auckland. Such a shame…
In my experience, during LANs they either will be so absorbed in it that they are barely aware of what they eating, or they want to revel in the debauchery with the very worst of junk food. Copious packets of chips, red bull, and meat lover’s pizza fit the bill. Personally, I would never make the effort of making something special for these events – but then maybe your husband and his friends are a tad more civilised than my one mate who got so sucked into it that he gamed for 48 hours straight without sleeping.
Nope, not more civilized. In fact, the “meat-lovers pizza” is a little too gourmet for them. They’re pepperoni with extra sauce boys, all the way. You’re right. I’m going to leave them to it, insist they get me my own thin-crust Deluxe Feast pizza, and make some Persian food for my food blog. Which they will not eat, and that’s ok.
We will too eat said Persian food should it be made! Also, football sandwiches look tasty as well. That said, don’t go out of your way at all for us. And, if you want, we will hook up an xbox controller to a PC and you can join in if you do want to engage without a mouse and keyboard!
You make them nothing. They want to order Dominos because they have a coupon that somehow gets them two large pizzas for absolutely no money, then they leave for a while to TP someone’s house. You wait in the car asking yourself how the hell you ever got involved with these people, and when they return you hear all about who peed on what while the antics were afoot. Then you go back for 4 more hours of watching someone else play a first-person shooter, and wish you hadn’t asked to be included in the first place. There is one other girl there, but you can’t relate to her because she is rude, smelly, unkept and throws mean looks your way.
I hate LAN parties.
Doesn’t sound like any LAN I’ve been to; parties of any variety or theme will generally end up reflecting those who are going to them though, I suppose.
ROFL Oh man. I sincerely hope there is no peeing or TPing involved this weekend. And no swimming in the apartment lake, or assaulting the resident ducks. But yes, I will do all I can to avoid staring at someone else play a one person shooter. That gets old fast.
Oh yeah! The LAN parties! I remember them well. I still have no idea how they all fit into his room way back when. I do remember watching guy after guy walk through with computer after computer! Hope everyone has a grand time. And they do appreciate the food. Been there done that!