son of sfgh

[moominmolly]

So we did this thing at Burning Man called Snack Food Glory Hole, right? The premise was simple:



Line up, kneel, get a mysterious snack from a stranger shoved through a hole into your mouth. It went over pretty well. But, alas, we're not doing Burning Man this year, and Snack Food Glory Hole is taking a little hiatus. However, it turns out that someone else took the concept and restaged it at CONvergence! Photo evidence: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Apparently there is some kind of law of conservation of snack foods at work here.

Comments

[devichan.livejournal.com]

I THOUGHT that sounded familiar, but couldn't place where I'd heard it before!

I didn't indulge at CONvergence, but from what I hear it went over beautifully.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh, wonderful! I hope they had a blast.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's...kinda weird! How many other SFGHs are there running around out there that we don't know about?

Also, I think they should send you a button in tribute.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I have a Google Alert set up, so I've been watching these guys for a while. I don't think there are others. Yet. ;)

Also, the tribute button is kind of a genius idea! I should write and ask for one.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely! Buttons would be just the right level of acknowledgement. Imagine the collection you could get. Hope it has year and location so you could keep them straight.

What *was* the mystery snack?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Wait, I mean... That camp was my idea, not I went to that camp! :) the mystery snack was often very mysterious but rarely predictable.

[veek.livejournal.com]

BUTTONS! I want cleavage buttons!!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

ME TOO!

[sconstant.livejournal.com]

You should totally SUE!

Oh, wait, that's probably not the reaction you wanted, right?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Well, really, it is a little odd! But mostly I'm charmed, and fennel reports that someone asked him last year if they could reuse the concept, and he said something like "sure! but go ask moominmolly!" and maybe they asked me and maybe they didn't but if they had I would have said "yes just be sure to send me photos" and now I have photos.

[cuthalion.livejournal.com]

That group of space cheer leaders that came and cheered us is bunch of MN girls who started doing that at CONvergence. As far as I can tell from the flickr contacts this person doesn't know them.

Incidentally, after a few years of me doing Luftwaffle, The Onion had one of those front page story summary things that made the same wordplay (they also used my backup joke: Blintzkrieg). I have no idea if they came up with it independently or not.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

We're antifamous!

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

We'll miss you on the playa!