Bid Day Ideas

[DarDar216]

hey! does anybody have any ideas about a bid day activity for an island theme? thanks for any help!

[PenguinTrax]

I would recommend against using anything to do with the 'Survivor' TV-show (and related shows). It would be thumbing your nose at those prospective members that preffed your chapter and weren't offered a bid.

Besides that...you could capitalize on island themed TV shows, instead of Magnum, PI (for example), you could use Vanderbilt, D.Z.

Barbara

[SLOTheta]

I would make it more into a Hawaiian Theme and have tiki torches, and fun little games...fun food is always a great conversation starter.

[DarDar216]

[Dianne]

We always have a pool party on bid day. It would be very easy to incorporate an island theme with that!

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[Chiocutie]

One of my sisters just threw a Hawaiian themed birthday party and it was really fun. She had BBQ food, a pool, tiki torches, hawaiian deco's, and she rented a karoake machine. It was a blast!

[SKYGIRL]

Chiocutie,

For a COB party, I am already planning on doing a BBQ...but I am also planning a luau for another party. You had said that one of your sisters served BBQ at her hawaiian theme party...so I was wondering if the food included the typical BBQ food like hamburgers, or did she BBQ other special foods? I am trying to think of inexpensive dishes to serve that go along with the hawaiian theme. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks!

You know, I usually cringe when I read about Hawaiian-themed parties that include tiki torches and other items that are not really Hawaiian. Culturally, I've always been offended because these parties are really un-Hawaiian...it's a stereotypical opinion of Hawaii. That's just my opinion and I mean no disrespect to any organization that holds these theme parties.

*stepping off soapbox*

So--to avoid doing what a friend of mine did at Dartmouth regarding Hawaiian theme parties (it's a very long agonizing story that happened a few years ago), here's a simple and inexpensive dish that you can serve for a "Island" theme party--it's my mom's recipe:

BANANA PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Ingredients:

• 3/8 cup butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 mashed banana
• 1 cup crushed pineapple
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
• 1/3 cup butter
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
  
  Procedure:
  Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg, sift flour, baking powder and salt, add gradually with milk to butter mixture. Fold in mashed banana. Melt butter and sprinkle brown sugar through it on bottom of pan, 8 inches square or small angel food pan. Add crushed pineapple and chopped nuts. Pour batter over this mixture and bake in pre-heated oven of 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

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[This message has been edited by OohTeenyWahine (edited July 19, 2001).]

[dzrose93]

I'm showing my age here, but I think a Fantasy Island theme would be interesting. (I just got this crazy mental picture of the new girls running up to meet their new sisters and a little guy in a white suit saying, "The pledges, the pledges!" instead of "De plane, de plane!" heehee)

[Tom Earp]

Thanks OTW, put a recpt. on the site and I still do not have mine from you!!!!!
If you rember of course you would have to bring the secret ingredinets to Ks TOTO! LOL!!!!

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

[Tom Earp]

Ah YES, who could forget a TOGA PARTY FROM DTX!

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

[SKYGIRL]

Thanks OohTeenyWahine! You gave me something to really think about. Thanks for your input.