I suppose you’ve seen the new Café World Dish; Creme Fraiche Caviar.  This 30 minute dish will make you a whopping 72 coins and 22 total CP’s.  Plenty of people out there mad about it too; I’ve been reading in the blogs.  Everybody seems to think this dish is a total waste of time.  I sure don’t.

I made 1 batch.  With my 16 stoves that means I made 1,344 dishes to serve.  With my buzz rating and setup, that typically means 2 – 9 hours or so.  However I served this dish for almost 3 days at 8 coins a pop because I got thousands from my friends.

And I think this was the point that Zynga was trying to make here.  Their games give all sorts of bonuses to those with a big neighbor list.  And in my humble opinion that’s what this was; a block party dish.  When you make a new batch of something each day, you get the opportunity to give 100 of whatever it is out to your friends.  You do that, and gather up the ones your neighbors put out and serve it all up.  And it only took you 30 minutes to give out a dish to all your friends that made them each 800 coins!

That’s not a bad holiday gift.  Check out how long it takes to make other 8 coin dishes.  Of course the biggest gains in this dish were for the people that play in a community.  Like myself.

My neighbors have me trained, when a new dish comes out we all make it and we all share.  And we try to make as many different things each day as is reasonable.  The Gingerbread Houses weren’t a real good deal either in money or CP’s, but we all made ‘em.  Some because they cute, and some to share.  I made one batch, but I’ve been serving them for 5 days now, and I just got a couple hundred more.  Sometimes to see the point, you got to look at the bigger picture.

Bob, Crossroads Cafe

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