Today is National Cheese Fondue Day. I used to have a fondue pot. I think it got sold when I down-sized but I hadn't used it for years before that. At one time fondue parties were very popular. A group of six people (I only had six fondue forks) would sit around a table sticking chunks of bread (or cut up vegetables or meat) on long handled forks, then swirling the bread or whatever, in a melted cheese concoction and eating it one bite at a time. My fondue pot was an electric one and keeping it plugged in while on the table was a bit of a challenge. For extra fun we could also do dessert fondues. Melt a pot of chocolate and you can dip all kinds of things in it, fruit slices, marshmallows, cookie pieces, and of course those ever present chunks of bread. I'm trying to remember why I stopped using my fondue pot. I suspect it was because I decided it was a lot of bother chopping up all those bits and pieces of stuff to create a semi-satisfying meal. It was easier to make a pot of spaghetti.
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