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Oh Jackie, don't be afraid of the big apple-- I'll let you stay at my place-- then after a day of excitement, you can retreat to a place where the crickets will sing you to sleep-- but if i invite you, well, i'll everyone-- we'll follow up our fancy dinner with a cookout under the stars-- I'll put the boom box in the gazebo, and light all the candles and lanterns-- What do you say-- do we go with a keg and have the beer on tap? but are then limited to one kind or make it a BYOBeer party-- and have a selection?
I've got a queen size futon on a frame in basement-- and another futon with out a frame-- and then there is the queen sizes sofa bed in the living room, and a double bed in the guest bedroom-- and if pushed, a single loft bed! (You can all sort out sleeping arrangements-- but the hostest gets her own room and her own bed-- she becomes cranky and irritable with out a good nights sleep!) but anyone can bring a tent, or sleeping bag, and pitch a tent in the yard-- or sleep in the gazebo (but with a concrete floor, the ground is most likely softer...) This presumes that after the party it will be late to get back to anywhere--and everywhere in NY is so expensive! (hotel rooms off season run $250 to $300 + 17% tax!-- there are some small hotels cheaper--only $125 to $150 -- but who would think to put onlynext to $150?)
Not that I'de mind if we did it in Kentucky-- It a beauful state i here tell, and Faldage is in NY, we could meet up somewhere and split the driving-- maybe even have WOW come down from Maine and have the three of us in one car -- more drivers..
You'll do a cook out? and we can have some potluck? We'll all bring the food and refreshments-- and you provide the Derby pie? and yes, do tell is it like chess pie? or something else?
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Derby Pie is a copyrighted trademark of the restaurant here in Louisville that created it. The pie is a very rich, caramel-y custard, with a layer of chocolate in it.
. . .and here I was thinking it was like a cow pie but made by the horses on the race track. . .
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I'm game. I have been known to drive all the way down to Florida (several times) to vacation at Disney World, so Kentucky or N.Y. is too easy. I’ll bring the Québec favorites – Sugar pie and Gateau au chomeur. Can we choose who we get to share sleeping arrangement with (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)? Just kidding guys, I know y’all are all happily married. Wouldn’t want to be known as the Jezebel of the North American continent  .
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AnnaS did solemnly pledge When I am rich (either by winning the lottery or, better, by earning my worth) I would like to host a dinner party: for all of you... Plane fare will be included in your invitations.Sounds great - The Aussies can bring some jumbo prawns for the barbie, and I'll get my wife's whanau to teach me how to lay down a good hangi - you haven't lived until you've tried hangi'd eel! 
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Max-- whanau = family? I couldn't find hangi, but I can't imagine what it would take to get me to eat an eel!  
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Gor Jackie, and any curious gastronomes, http://www.jgeorge.com/nzfoods.html#hangi And yes, Jackie, whanau does mean family, but in the sense of extended family - heavy stress on the "extended"! Here in NZ a trend is developing to use the English word for the Anglo-Saxon nuclear version, and whanau for the Polynesian version. Interestingly, the word in Cook Island Maori is "anau", but apparently most Cook Islanders here have adopted the NZ Maori version, and say whanau instead.
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MaxQ, that sounds quit lovely, however, call us on the day you try to sneak jumbo prawn and eel through U.S. customs? We shall start saving up for the bail bond right away .
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MaxQ, that sounds quit lovely, however, call us on the day you try to sneak jumbo prawn and eel through U.S. customs? We shall start saving up for the bail bond right away
Just so long as he doesn't try to sneak the entire hangi through customs ...
Prefer hangi pork/lamb to eel personally. The only way to cook food - if only you had time or a suitable number of reasonably husky slaves.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Hey, C.K.'s an addict! Er--congratulations?  From what I can tell, a hangi is a luau, or very close. Wow- you should have inside info. on this...
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It's the pits that make a difference. Never had a NZ or Aussue production but a luau in Hawaii with roast pig, papaya, and all the tropical goodies is similar to a New England clambake with its lobster, clams, corn and taters....in that they are both done in pits dug in the earth or sand and cook all day and are a HUGE LOT of work. Oh, they're both also scrumptions!
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