Are you entertaining this season? And do you have vegetables to get rid of? Although these questions may seem unrelated, the historical newspapers have the perfect recipe to squash boredom and turnip the fun. Read on for nutritious party games your friends will talk about for years to come. . . even if they stop talking to you.
The onion game is the latest fad in rural society, and it will doubtless interest city people who enjoy introducing unique features at their social entertainments. . . Six young ladies stand in a row. The hostess gives a “silver skinned” onion to the head of the row, who passes it along the line.
Some one takes a bite, and then the young men, who have been rigidly excluded from the drawing room, and imprisoned somewhere in the vicinity of the front hall hat rack, are called upon to guess who bit the onion. The young man who guesses correctly is allowed to kiss the fair biter of the tender vegetable.
The lady friends of Mrs. Herman Aper. . . surprised her Friday evening, the occasion being her thirtieth birthday. After a game of pedro had been engaged in, a pop-corn game in which parties were blindfolded and attempted to find the grains of corn was suggested by Mrs. Welcome Miller and afforded much amusement. It was a merry party which will be long remembered by all who participated.
Even if finding a figurative needle in the haystack isn’t your cup of tea, er, veggie broth, there’s no need to be a couch potato:
Potato parties, says an exchange, are the latest. A large potato, the more uneven the better, is placed on the floor, and a teaspoon is placed beneath it. The object is for the party, one at a time, to raise the potato on the spoon and walk across the floor with it without letting it roll off. While the game is not very classical it is amusing.
While peanuts are technically fruits, don’t let that stop you from driving your guests nuts:
Before luncheon a very novel contest, designated as a “peanut party” afforded divertisement. The game was to plunge a table knife into a large bowl of peanuts and carry as many peanuts as possible on the knife blade across the room to another bowl.
At the conclusion Miss Genieve Ewing was awarded the first prize, a letter opener in ivory and silver. The visitor’s prize, a very pretty bust, was awarded to Miss Hitchcock, of Rockland, Me. The consolation, a bronze donkey, went to Miss Flora Stifel.
This holiday season, lettuce toss out ugly sweater competitions and white elephant gift exchanges. For an un-beet-able party, all you need is a vegetable patch!
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OMG—of the best! Lettuce continue to second glance!
Elyse
Thank you so much! 😊 With or without the vegetables, hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
David
…and here I thought it was the height of hilarity to talk my very stoned friends into playing catch with a beach ball under a strobe light. Now I find that all I needed was some produce.
(I learned very early on it was more fun to be the only one at the party who WASN’T baked…)
Elyse
😂🤣 Good idea to save the baking for the vegetables! Vegetables and strobe lights sound like a great combination. Give it a try, and let’s see what bloggers make of it in 100 years!
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OMG—of the best! Lettuce continue to second glance!
Thank you so much! 😊 With or without the vegetables, hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
…and here I thought it was the height of hilarity to talk my very stoned friends into playing catch with a beach ball under a strobe light. Now I find that all I needed was some produce.
(I learned very early on it was more fun to be the only one at the party who WASN’T baked…)
😂🤣 Good idea to save the baking for the vegetables! Vegetables and strobe lights sound like a great combination. Give it a try, and let’s see what bloggers make of it in 100 years!