Turkeys

Today was my first sort of a day off in November, sort of, because this morning, I did go to the store that I manage in Downtown Portland. I assisted The Husband as he did new displays for me. I do my own displays most of the year, but for the holidays I needed to pull out the big guns & the store does not take well to being too merchandised. I brought in my own designer. We were done by noon. We returned home & had the rest of the day off, both of us, at the same time. I am not certain that this has ever happened in this decade.

I supervise, school, schedule & support a rag-tag selection of 15 young people, 19-32 year olds. I put together a little publication I'll call, let us say- Stuff It With Steve. It is rather like a cross between the school paper & community bulletin board. The document has several regular features: Sales Goals, Sampling Schedule, Snippets, Steve's Stuff. I start the piece with a quote about food & next, a food trivia question.

I just had to know. I had been puzzling over the crew for a few months. How motivated are they? Just how smart? In this week's edition, the quote & the answer to the trivia question were the same:

Food Quote Of The Week: "I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country...The turkey is a much more respectable bird, & withal a true original native of America." Benjamin Franklin

Food Trivia: A bottle of sparkling wine- Krug, for the first correct answer (no Iphones!)- Who Famously Said: "I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country.....The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America."

 
Only one young person got the trivia answer & he used his Iphone.