For sure! We were all very understanding...but it was still frustrating.
You may have noticed that I refer to this food research as "Foodie Finds" in my blog posts. Also if you look back at this post right here, you'll see where I said that I "shared my Chicago Foodie Finds with the group chat."
That's because since 2022 (for two years now! and posting about it here almost daily for two years!) I have been running a WhatsApp group called Megan's Foodie Finds (first mention was via a Friends Only LJ so idk if you'd ever seen it: https://taz-39.livejournal.com/192290.html there were also quite a few public posts about starting the group tho: https://taz-39.livejournal.com/204274.html In fact I know you've seen this post because you commented on it to say, "I'm glad so many people have joined in your foodie fun." sooooo you already knew the answer to your own question lol)
Any time you see me say something like "I worked on Foodie Finds for the cast" or "I shared foodie finds for [city] with the group," that's me sharing all of my food research with the entire touring company, since they do not do this research themselves but they have expressed that they like it when someone provides this info for them :) I did this for Tootsie and am doing it for My Fair Lady.
Everyone is definitely NOT as OCD/organized about researching food in each city, which is why I put in a lot of work to research every city we visit and share a weekly (or per-city) info sheet with menus, maps, descriptions, etc. Here is our Megan's Foodie Finds sheet for Chicago, which I shared to our group last night in preparation for getting there today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ST96bG3reCcbCbiaeRJwZrKfvjRVOLyO4pP7VUPwJyM/edit?usp=sharing
Enjoying awesome food in each city is a personal hobby, and this started out as research that I did just for myself; when I did it just for me it wasn't nearly so detailed and organized. But on Tootsie, people expressed that they wanted to have these experiences too...so I built them a group. It's been a huge success on both tours! And makes me feel like I contribute something positive and fun to everyone's experience :) People are always coming up to tell me how much they appreciate the information. Anyway sorry to blab for so long about it, I do put a lot of work into it and am pretty proud of how useful it is to others.
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You may have noticed that I refer to this food research as "Foodie Finds" in my blog posts. Also if you look back at this post right here, you'll see where I said that I "shared my Chicago Foodie Finds with the group chat."
That's because since 2022 (for two years now! and posting about it here almost daily for two years!) I have been running a WhatsApp group called Megan's Foodie Finds (first mention was via a Friends Only LJ so idk if you'd ever seen it: https://taz-39.livejournal.com/192290.html there were also quite a few public posts about starting the group tho: https://taz-39.livejournal.com/204274.html In fact I know you've seen this post because you commented on it to say, "I'm glad so many people have joined in your foodie fun." sooooo you already knew the answer to your own question lol)
Any time you see me say something like "I worked on Foodie Finds for the cast" or "I shared foodie finds for [city] with the group," that's me sharing all of my food research with the entire touring company, since they do not do this research themselves but they have expressed that they like it when someone provides this info for them :) I did this for Tootsie and am doing it for My Fair Lady.
Everyone is definitely NOT as OCD/organized about researching food in each city, which is why I put in a lot of work to research every city we visit and share a weekly (or per-city) info sheet with menus, maps, descriptions, etc. Here is our Megan's Foodie Finds sheet for Chicago, which I shared to our group last night in preparation for getting there today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ST96bG3reCcbCbiaeRJwZrKfvjRVOLyO4pP7VUPwJyM/edit?usp=sharing
Enjoying awesome food in each city is a personal hobby, and this started out as research that I did just for myself; when I did it just for me it wasn't nearly so detailed and organized. But on Tootsie, people expressed that they wanted to have these experiences too...so I built them a group. It's been a huge success on both tours! And makes me feel like I contribute something positive and fun to everyone's experience :) People are always coming up to tell me how much they appreciate the information. Anyway sorry to blab for so long about it, I do put a lot of work into it and am pretty proud of how useful it is to others.