Tri Tip the New Fundraiser

It seems that every club on the high school campus is having a tri tip dinner.

The originators, the FFA A(Future Farmer of America) put a on a pretty good 8 dollar dinner. It includes salad, beans and a roll.

The band decided to do exactly the same thing this year. They are going to march in the Tournament of Roses (the Rose Bowl parade) so they had a 10 dollar a plate tri tip dinner.

The football team tried something a little different. They had uniforms to pay for. They advertised a dinner to feed four. It had a whole tri tip, a bag of salad, a clamshell of rigatoni, and a two liter of soda for 25 dollars.

I bought two tickets from the band. I used them and we had a great dinner. I bought one ticket from the FFA, and promptly forgot the date so they had the benefit of the unfulfilled ticket.

The football team one started out as a fiasco. I lined up with my fellow dinners in our cars since it was a drive through dinner (little cleanup needed since all you have to do is clean up the kitchen or the outdoor barbeque when done). The line was getting longer the longer I waited. I think the organizers did not think that that many people would actually show up and make them come through with the dinners that they bought. When they got to me they were totally out. They were mostly out the whole evening.

On Sunday the lady that gave me the rain check called and left the message on the answering machine that the fulfillment of the rain check would be on Wednesday night. So I arrived for the fulfillment of the trip tip dinner. They were waiting for the people to arrive. Four ladies with multiple bags of dinners were waiting to "service" the cars that arrived. Several "fathers" were their too. It looked like the cooking was long ago completed.

They apologized and offered an extra rigatoni serving because they had extra. I took it and gave it to my neighbor across the street. He was pleased because he wasn't sure what he was going to cook that night.

We had a couple of really nice meals from the set. The meat had both well cooked parts and rare parts. The salad was a "bagged type" but they through in an Italian dressing. The rigatoni was very good. Overall it was a great deal. 4 plus meals (Sue had a sandwich for lunch) for a 25 dollar contribution.

: ) Pat