Currently soliciting players to send me food to play with. The food should be non-perishable, i.e. not require refrigeration, and be good until at least the end of the year. I request either the food be unique and interesting, or the method of sending it to me be unique and interesting. I should receive food by November 15th at the latest.

People from Portland may send me perishable food after Nov. 15th, but before Thanksgiving. I shall play with, and construct something with the food obtained on Thanksgiving day, and the result shall be my Thanksgiving dinner. I am not allowed to eat anything else for Thanksgiving dinner, and am not allowed to count this towards Death Kava, no matter how scary the result.

I thank relet for being the only person to actually send me anything for a part of this task. Not due to inattentiveness of sf0 people, but my own procrastination in telling people.

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As it turned out, I was bad at convincing people to send me food. However, on the Monday before Thanksgiving, I posted to my facebook, and other places I frequent, that I was taking requests for what to prepare for my Thanksgiving meal. The requirements: it cannot be a traditional Thanksgiving food.

The menu:
* Rakfisk (sent to me by relet, from Norway), pita bread, and aquavit (liquor)
* White Castle cheeseburgers (frozen)
* Black Bean and Jicama salad (recipe provided by phyzome from geohashing)
* Red Thai curry with chicken
* Spicy shrimp
* Jerk chicken (both breaded chicken tenders, and a baked chicken breast)
* Polenta

I will preface the rest of this by saying that I did in fact make a bunch of this stuff from scratch (well, base ingredients (dang you Carl Sagan!)). The Rakfisk was pre-made, the white castle burgers as well, and the jerk sauce I used was bought from the store. The other part of this is that I am not typically a very good cook. I have, in fact, failed so badly at preparing easy-mac, that it was, without explicitly trying to make it so, inedible.

I did most of the shopping for the ingredients on Monday, and, for reasons I won't disclose here yet (it involves something which is related to another tasking effort), I didn't drive to the grocery store. There were a few ingredients I still needed that weren't at my typical (for without a car) grocery store, so I walked to a different grocery store from work, and got those ingredients on Tuesday.

Wednesday, I left work a couple hours early, and began the food preparations by making the black bean and jicama salad, thai curry, and spicy shrimp. It took a total of about 2 hours of cooking/preparation in order to complete all of that food.

On Thursday (Thanksgiving Day, for those not in the US), I made the rest of the food, and a friend joined me for the meal. I spent about 1 hour cooking/preparing the food. I didn't play with the food for all that long, but when I did, I came up with the following:

The result is a temple to the mightiness that is rakfisk.
The polenta obelisk was molded by hand (and collapsed soon after the photo was taken), the other obelisk is the jerk obelisk. They symbolize the humbleness and blandness of real life, and the fact that all people are jerks when compared to the great rakfisk. The pita bread makes the temple which houses the rakfisk, protecting it from the unbelievers. The shrimp are the worshipers, on their knees, and in their ceremonial hats. The black bean and jicama salad are the decaying remains of sacrifices, and the white castle burgers are the sacred mounds. They are sacred because nothing will ever grow there. Since the curry never really thickened up, it didn't really fit in with the playing with the food.