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09-05-2012, 05:46 PM
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Opinion Please
If I send food with my son to a small fraternity pregame party will it make him look like a mama's boy or will the eats just be appreciated?
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09-05-2012, 05:50 PM
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My experience with college guys is food is always appreciated, but your son would be the best one to tell you if it would be appropriate.
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09-05-2012, 06:09 PM
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Aw, this is a cute question. My mom used to bring baked goods by my brother's fraternity house, and they were appreciated, but again, ask your son.
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09-05-2012, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Dixie_Amazon
If I send food with my son to a small fraternity pregame party will it make him look like a mama's boy or will the eats just be appreciated?
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Is he already in the fraternity?
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09-05-2012, 06:59 PM
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Guys love food and they'll probably ask their brother (your) son to bring more food next time  If your son is ok with it, do it.
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09-05-2012, 07:50 PM
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I'm assuming you are sending him with enough to share with everyone right? If so, those were always a hit at my fraternity house.
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09-05-2012, 08:28 PM
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He is a pledge. They are a small house and I would be sending a large batch of brownies or a sheet cake.
I just wanted to bounce it off of y'all before I asked him. Thank you for the input!
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09-05-2012, 08:33 PM
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Where I come from: male college students getting free food that they don't even have to cook.
Send the brownies (after checking with son of course)!
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09-05-2012, 08:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixie_Amazon
He is a pledge. They are a small house and I would be sending a large batch of brownies or a sheet cake.
I just wanted to bounce it off of y'all before I asked him. Thank you for the input!
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Eh, I don't know if I'd send any food with him being a pledge. This may be seen as trying too hard to get a bid. And a cake is a little.. weird to me. I guess? I don't know.
I'd wait until after he's in the fraternity. Then send all the food you want! (with his permission, of course)
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09-05-2012, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
Eh, I don't know if I'd send any food with him being a pledge. This may be seen as trying too hard to get a bid. And a cake is a little.. weird to me. I guess? I don't know.
I'd wait until after he's in the fraternity. Then send all the food you want! (with his permission, of course)
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He already has signed his bid if he's a pledge.
He may become known as the food pledge. Not a bad thing.
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09-05-2012, 09:33 PM
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He already has signed his bid if he's a pledge.
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Right. But if Teke is like most other fraternities, he's not a brother until he's initiated.
I think I'd wait until after he's initiated to do things like that. Then have at it! 
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09-05-2012, 10:03 PM
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I don't know the answer to your question, but it took me back to my college years - my sister-mother's mom used to send things with her or have us (and/or an entire small fraternity chapter of our friends) over for dinner regularly. It's so nice when parents are local. Those dinners were so awesome.
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09-05-2012, 10:16 PM
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My son has signed his bid but is not an initiated brother yet.
I have no Greek experience and I am so glad I found GC. Thanks for the input.
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09-05-2012, 10:34 PM
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He already has signed his bid if he's a pledge.
He may become known as the food pledge. Not a bad thing.
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Sorry, totally not what I meant. Haha. One of those moments where I knew what I was saying, but not really. I meant trying to hard to be "liked"... it comes off a little desperate.
I don't know. I just wouldn't do it until I was a brother, I guess.
But then I also think it depends on the chapter and the "campus culture," so to speak.
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09-05-2012, 11:10 PM
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Right. But if Teke is like most other fraternities, he's not a brother until he's initiated.
I think I'd wait until after he's initiated to do things like that. Then have at it! |
I agree, wait until he is initiated and then send him with brownies, cookies, bags of chips, dips, cut up sandwiches, etc. (skip the sheet cake ).
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