Fruit salad

March 31, 2023

This term Aone Mart and Ace Office Supply provided the necessary fruit salad ingredients.

The coconut gel and pear slices came from Aone. I think the pineapple chunks and two cans on the right might also have come from Aone. The Essential peach slices, Essential fruit cocktail, Dole tropical fruit, and Dole mandarin orange slices came from Ace Office. The cocktail picks were perfect and came from Ace Office along with the bowls. There were enough left over bowls that the new bowl set was not tapped.

The cans of fruit were purchased on Tuesday, 48 hours ahead of the class. They all fit into a box that was put in the refrigerator on Tuesday.

Thursday morning the bowl, ladle, and can opener were also put in the refrigerator. The glass bowl was larger than that used in past terms.

The coconut gel is in the bowl. I probably should have arrived earlier and set up the bowls in advance. I wound up dishing out fruit in real time with students present, which prevented a systematic loading of the bowls. The ladle did not always get a good a variety on the first scoop, so I was adding a second or even a third scoop on the fly without knowing if I had enough fruit salad to do this. A better approach would have been to lay out all of the required bowls and then doing passes: first pass one scoop, second pass a second scoop. I did not use all of the can: the larger cans of Fiesta fruit cocktail and Seasons tropical fruit could not fit in the glass bowl. Had all twenty-six students showed up for class I would have needed those cans and perhaps more. With only eighteen students showing up I did not need those two cans.

The glass bowl, when full, can provide 18 servings of fruit cocktail at a two ladle level. Of course had I laid out 26 bowls I would have had eight extra, but then those could be later redistributed as necessary.