Food, Drink & Dining Out Food Fights

[SweetLeftFoot]

Interesting discussion at work just now with a design dude about how long it has been since we’ve been involved in a proper foodfight.

At my high school – Melbourne High – foodfights were a common occurrence, especially at South Yarra station after school when mighty barrages would be exchanged between various warring factions on the differing platforms. Was good times would lead to regular tellings off at Assembly by the vice principal.

Indoor foodfights in the Dining Hall tended to be a more guerrilla type hit and run affair.

Since then I can only think of a drunken foodfight in a hostel in Toronto that could even come close.

Anyone else have any good food fight stories?

 

[yummy6]

Not food fights as such but used to target innocent students from long range and bombard them with apples, mandarins, grapes, oranges etc.
One time in year 9 we had a group of students bake and sell hot spuds with sour cream, ham and cheese. One kid got sprayed with some sour cream and from then it was all in.

Now working at a school you regularly see groups of boys standing around looking sus waiting for you to turn around so they can piff some fruit.

 

[NAUGHT5]

About 10 years ago -

Mate was sitting on one side of a school bus. Threw an apple straight threw one of those little bus windows at the top. Hit a chick right in the face who was on the pavement waiting for the bus to go past before she crossed. Would have killed.

 

[yeah_nah]

I got hit in the elbow with one of those long range apples at lunch time one year. Had no idea what it was, found out a bit later that day and asked the guy who threw it wtf he threw it at me for.
Told me he was aiming for some fat kid but missed. Squirted him in the eye with some mandarin juice the next day for revenge.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Not food fights as such but used to target innocent students from long range and bombard them with apples, mandarins, grapes, oranges etc.
One time in year 9 we had a group of students bake and sell hot spuds with sour cream, ham and cheese. One kid got sprayed with some sour cream and from then it was all in.

Now working at a school you regularly see groups of boys standing around looking sus waiting for you to turn around so they can piff some fruit.

Yeah, in my experience this is your more guerilla style of food fight: someone chucks and orange at you, you bide your time and retaliate etc.

Also, full marks for use of the verb 'to piff'.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

About 10 years ago -

Mate was sitting on one side of a school bus. Threw an apple straight threw one of those little bus windows at the top. Hit a chick right in the face who was on the pavement waiting for the bus to go past before she crossed. Would have killed.

Gold. Wish I was there for that.

 

[yummy6]

Yeah, in my experience this is your more guerilla style of food fight: someone chucks and orange at you, you bide your time and retaliate etc.

Also, full marks for use of the verb 'to piff'.

Looking back we probably thought we were really tough going with this method but in actual fact we were really too scared of the consequences of a full on food war

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Squirted him in the eye with some mandarin juice the next day for revenge.

An excellent tactic.

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was in Year 8. We had this kind of fat prissy rich kid in my class. He was always really girlish about hygiene and wouldn’t use the school dunnies etc.

Anyway, he always had loads of cash for lollies and shit and his folks would buy him stuff from the supermarket.

One day he comes to school with this big arse bag of M+Ms. They may have been the blue candy shell type ones when they first came out.

Fat bastard is walking around the playground sort of shielding from everyone else. My mate goes over and says ‘O hai *name of fat dude*, may I please have an M+M?’

The fat dude was impressed by this sucking up and held out the bag. My mate grabbed a handful of M=M (like a big handful), swirled them around in his mouth, then spat them back into the bag.

The fat **** stood there dumbfounded. My mate calmly took the bag from his hand and said ‘You won’t want these anymore I don’t reckon’ and gutsed himself on them all day long.

Good times.

 

[Dazb86]

When I was a teenager and used to park drink we used to wait for the tiptop bread delivery at the local safeway and wait for the driver to go inside the store. Then we'd ransack the truck and fill up a couple trolleys full of bread.

We'd go back to the park and have bread fights. Loaves to the head or scrunched up slices into bread balls. Would be 20 odd people pretty much playing dodgeball but with bread.

 

[yummy6]

The fat dude was impressed by this sucking up and held out the bag. My mate grabbed a handful of M=M (like a big handful), swirled them around in his mouth, then spat them back into the bag.

The fat **** stood there dumbfounded. My mate calmly took the bag from his hand and said ‘You won’t want these anymore I don’t reckon’ and gutsed himself on them all day long.

Good times.

I bought a bag of those chocolate freckles. The chocolate with the 100s and 1000s on them. Sucked off the 100s and 1000s and put them back in the bag. Offered them to a few mates who weren't too impressed to find out what the packet said after they had finished them

 

[Knife Wrench]

A few years back on the bus home from school a guy a couple of years older than me pegged an apple at a bus stop shelter and it smashed between 2 people's heads against the window behind where they were sitting.

Same guy also threw a (less than fresh) cheesecake at a parked car.. hit the inside of the open door absolutely covering it.. would not have been an easy clean up.

 

[Notorious_29]

Quite a few years back when I was playing some representative under age cricket, we were staying in boarding school rooms in Balina. On the first night when we were sleeping one of the other teams ran into our rooms and pelted us with water bombs. So on the second night after we played cricket during the day, we used to have these massive buffet dinners for all the teams. Our whole team collected up fruit/pudding cups/ice/bread rolls/tomato sauce sachets and the list went on. Only problem is the team that waterbombed us the previous night saw it happening and started collecting their own collection of food fight materials.

We get back to the dorms, about an hour goes past and the lights go out and what not and it was on. 10 minutes of pelting food and anything we could get our hands on at each other. The funny part of the story is that one of the guys from our team somehow had his box thrown over in the fight, and then thrown back filled with deep heat. So we saw an opportunity and chucked the box back in his bag and didn't let him know. Let's just say it wasn't a pleasant following day for him

Good times.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

Used to fairly regularly go the apple at school, - you can get really impressive aerodynamics with a overripe golden delicious, the ultimate was when you ditched it hard enough to splatter when hit.

I remember there was this huge hill near my school, sloped away in all directions, and from up there and you could see a couple of rows of houses and backyards to more streets. Me any my friends always used to hang there in yr 7.

One day a kid in our year (imagine him as that massively fat red haired kid who was in your yr 7 class and indeed basically every year 7 class in australia) was yelling out and pulling finger signs at us from two or three streets away, and then as he turned to walk away a friend pegged an apple off the hill, and we watched it sail off into the middle distance, before curving down and intersecting perfectly with the back of ranga fatty's head. It made an audible thock as it splattered all over him, the echo of which had just reached us by the time we legged it in the opposite direction.

Was an awe-inspiring throw- would have travelled 150-200 metres thanks to the height of the hill and it had fatty's name on it from the moment it left his hand.

 

[half_back_flank]

About 10 years ago -

Mate was sitting on one side of a school bus. Threw an apple straight threw one of those little bus windows at the top. Hit a chick right in the face who was on the pavement waiting for the bus to go past before she crossed. Would have killed.

This exact event happened about 10 years ago to my sister. And yes SLF, i was there.

Spent years throwing cherries, plums, kumquats and anything else we could find at cars during my youth. Had a few food fights in Boarding school, nothing is more satisfying in a food fight than throwing a squashed up ball of mashed potato at someone and seeing it splatter on the side of their face imo.

 

[kwame]

when i was in high school we would bring our school bags full of fruit to throw at each other during lunch time.........was usually about ten blokes throwing it at one particular kid.....a bit mean in retrospect......kids being kids i suppose