demars wrote:
"Ah crazy finnish"
That's what my lawyer said when I woke up him in the middle of the night carrying your answer to the previous offrer !
"How could he imagine bribing you with finnish croissants ?"
Well, I said, that's a good comment.
So , what is your gastronomic speciality that you love to eat, in the Santa Claus country ?
- dear ?
- fish ?
- potatoes ragout (added with some 97% alcohol) ?
Please let us know, we are aware of your answer.
Wagner wrote:
Alright, you've got a fair point there, as French kitchen is one of the finest (if not THE finest) in the world - how could Finns create a worthy croissant for French food connoisseur, that has an acquired taste... Hmm... Maybe I'll raise my offer to a reindeer stew, especially now that lawyers are already included in this matter ;)
Plus, if needed, we can make that a non-traditional version (Finnish reindeer stew meets France) of the stew by adding a bit of cognac into it, if that's what's needed to seal the "more than 1 season in a row"-HGL deal.
As far as what I (and we as a nation in Finland) love to eat, someone told me there's 4000 character limitation in these posts so maybe it's better that I don't get started on this subject here due to that - from which you could probably conclude, that I love to talk about food.. probably more than most people would like to listen... xD
As for steaming stews, as mentioned, I'm afraid it'd become too much of an off-topic should I continue on that (on this thread).
But having gotten an easy bridge to another subject from those steaming stews, may I just state couple of things:
A) generally I do like to think before proposing something/proceeding into action/change something (and 'don't fix it if it ain't broken' is also a good philosophy) and sometimes I'm shy in proposing some ideas on forums that may never be actually implemented,
B) Having said that, I have plenty of ideas in terms of HGL (and HGL related things),
C) I do think we have and excellent community here in HGL,
D) What's a steaming (reindeer, or some other) stew without good company to enjoy it with?
Where am I getting into with this? I think community is one of the strong points of HGL.
One of my long term ideas for HGL - which I'm simultaneously eager and shy to propose, as financial constraints might prevent the actual implementation for me personally at least - would be to suggest 'an official HGL meet' for participating managers, taking place on certain intervals. That could be for instance in one of 4 Seasons or so.
Place could be changed from time to time, and possibly the person(s) living in HGL country in question ('hosting country') could be hosts/guides for visiting managers as they're local experts anyway. This way we would also end up visiting countries and/or cities where we possibly haven't been before... (And yes, we might be able to find the most delicious croissants with the help from demars, or with the help from Coach Faz, or WiMaOl, and so on - I'm sure everyone got my point).
Yes, like I mentioned, for financial reasons unfortunately likely only Finland as a meeting place would work for me currently, and I realize it's/it'd be very hard to make schedules work out for most managers simultaneously - but it's an idea worth exploring at some point I think. What kind of thoughts this (at least semi-off-topic) arises among other HGL managers, may I ask? :)
Last edited by Wagner at 10/25/2025 7:34:26 AM