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If we already have a thread on this, let me know and I'll merge [Edit: Done!], but I'd like comments on interesting, funny, good or bad meals you've served to missionaries (this thread should focus on the food, not the conversation or other non-culinary aspects of their visit). Like most wards, we do a good job of providing dinner to the missionaries every night. However, especially with the sister missionaries, perhaps because they tend to have cars not bikes, it seems we've been feeding them too much. Most hosts seem to provide them with multicourse meals, including dessert. Consequently, they've been beefing up. We want to give them good, healthy and enjoyable meals, but we don't want to change them from Orson Hyde to Orson Welles.
Anyway, tonight while I was working late at the office, Mrs. PAC provided them with a meal that consisted of jumbo prawns (eaten cold with cocktail sauce), a rice/quinoa thing, broccoli, and a fancy salad. Strangely, neither missionary had ever eaten prawns before and, although they were polite, they only ate one each, passing on the other couple of dozen they'd been given. The missus ended up giving them portions of last night's leftover Costco chicken which they happily consumed.
BTW, we usually have the missionaries on Sundays, and feed them a lot of beef, potatoes, veggies and a dessert, so we've been guilty of contributing to what apparently is a bit of a problem here.
Anyway, tonight while I was working late at the office, Mrs. PAC provided them with a meal that consisted of jumbo prawns (eaten cold with cocktail sauce), a rice/quinoa thing, broccoli, and a fancy salad. Strangely, neither missionary had ever eaten prawns before and, although they were polite, they only ate one each, passing on the other couple of dozen they'd been given. The missus ended up giving them portions of last night's leftover Costco chicken which they happily consumed.
BTW, we usually have the missionaries on Sundays, and feed them a lot of beef, potatoes, veggies and a dessert, so we've been guilty of contributing to what apparently is a bit of a problem here.