Carefully Pair the Person With the Present
Please stop giving my favorite gift category a bad reputation. Quit sending the boxes filled with processed cheese spreads that are mostly chemicals and the unidentifiable tubes labeled as some sort of sausage. Extend the protest to include those tree killing enormous boxes that contain a couple apples or pears. I can find apples and pears that are just as good in my local super market.
You see, I love food gifts. I enjoy giving them, but I enjoy receiving them even more. But when I send a food gift, it is given with thought and is always high quality; please return the favor. Oh, and by the way, high quality is not the same as easy to buy from a temporary, seasonal kiosk in the mall. Food gifts deserve at least as much careful thought as that after-shave you bought your dad year after year in your childhood–oops, not a good example, perhaps.
Instead of that big brand name box of gelatinous cheese spreads from the mall, consider a assortment of gourmet cheeses from some cheesemaker who actually understands what cheese is and what it can be. Let’s keep the goats and cows happily employed instead of just putting more chemicals in our food. Speaking of myself, and I’ll bet you, too, I would much rather have a small amount of a real cheese instead of an overpriced huge box of the fake stuff.
A beautiful wine gift basket will be a perfect gift for the appropriate recipient. Just be sure that the person to whom you send it appreciates a good wine. You see, I haven’t had a drink in years, because I’m an alcoholic. While my sister would be properly grateful for a wine basket, I would not. She knows how to sip and savor; I remember only how to gulp and refill.
We all have a special friend or a dear relative who has moved away. Consider a gift of live lobsters or a couple complete lobster dinners. Indeed, after you read this article, I hope you feel friendly toward me, because that is a gift that I would enjoy!
I made light of fruit gift baskets a while ago, but, if you take the time, you can find a basket of gourmet fruit–the kinds of fruit that I can’t find in my own back yard. This can be a truly thoughtful gift for someone who is into fitness or who has started the sort of logical diet that allows the consumption of fruit.
See? If you give a food gift the thought that it deserves, stay out of the long lines at the mall kiosks, and hasten the journey of the boxes filled with fake cheese to the garbage bin, which is where they are going to end up if you send them to me. Spend an evening with me, shopping from my home office, using the Internet for all my food gift shopping. Just remember that you’ll have to bring your own wine, but I’ll supply the real cheese.
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