A few years back on a quick business trip to New York City, I ate at Madhur Jaffrey's wonderful Indian restaurant - Dawat - at 210 East 58th Street. Anyone been there? It was a quick one day trip in and out by myself. That night I wanted some fancy pants Indian food, not the stuff you get in the East Village, which is nice but not elegant. Anyway, I ordered quite a few dishes and had lots of left overs. They packaged what I didn't eat very well. Foil trays with carboard covers. I put them in my hotel refridgerator. The American West folks stashed the containers in the airplane's refigerators and when I got home to Portland, everything was still nice and chilled and quite fresh. That night I was able to serve my wife some totally awesome Indian from from one of the nicest places in NYC. Got a few brownie points for the effort. Tell us your favorite 'take out' story.

Krispy Kreme's

before they went public and tried to rule the world with their freshly glazed doughnuts, you could only find them in California, Las Vegas, and the Southeast where they originated. i was going to college in the State of Washington at the time so you couldn't get them, or so i thought...

my dad came up with the genius idea of overnighting me Krispy Kreme's, dozens at a time to help justify the shipping on overnighting doughnuts (he owns a relatively small company so paying for the shipping wasn't a problem, but still...)

well, one particular package consisted of close to 10 dozen original glazed doughnuts... so being the nice person i am, i popped a few dozen in the oven before class to heat them up a little - so in Intro. to Microeconomic Theory, we're all eating Krispy Kreme's...

what happens next is pure comedy...

the college i went to was a small (less than 3,000 students), private school - i always thought of it as the place "Corporate America" sent their kids who didn't get into an Ivy League, etc... a few kids of CEO's, or Sr VP's, of Companies most all of you probably have heard of were my peers - so it wasn't rare to meet the child of someone either famous, wealthy, or both... well, word got around campus about the kid who brought 4 dozen Krispy Kreme's to class, and enough people knew my dad was the President of a company that it wasn't a secret, and before the end of lunch, there was a rumor floating around school that my dad OWNED Krispy Kreme! i had people i barely knew of coming up to me, "Dude, does your dad own Krispy Kreme?"

too funny...