Crazy Kitchen
This meal takes a LOT of planning, and the leaders don't get to eat until afterwards while the girls are doing their duties. But it is a LOT of FUN. Works best with Guide-aged girls and up.
The Setup:
Send everyone on your site fancy dinner cards, inviting them to dine at, say, 6pm, at your fancy restaurant (give it a ritzy name like "Chez Susan's" or something).
When the girls arrive, take them in groups of 6-8 and seat them at assigned tables. The tables should be decorated like a restaurants' -- tablecloth, vase with flowers, napkins, glasses, plates. NO cutlery. What works best is to assign a leader to each table as their personal waitress, and to have the rest of the leaders working in the kitchen. Leaders should have costumes to fit their roles too!
Give each girl a menu (for more on the menu, see below). Note that the menu is full of crazy items, like Birds Nests, Hot Rocks, Intergalactic Lubricating Goo, etc. There should be either 12 or 16 items on the menu in total. For each course, the girls must pick 4 items from the menu (for a total of 3 or 4 courses). For large groups, it is best for the table as a whole to choose the same 4 items in each round (keeps the waitress from going crazy). Once the waitress comes back with the food, the girls must eat everything (or at least sample everything) on their plate before ordering the next round. By the end of the meal, everyone has sampled everything from the menu. The fun of the game comes from some of the weird combinations of foods!
Another little hitch is that the cutlery is included in the menu! Therefore it is quite possible for someone to order Jell-O or pudding and have no utensils with which to eat it! What fun!
Sample Menu
Here's an example of what the girls order, and what they actually get!!
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