Well,the dead spread was a disappointment and the pastor thought he was a stand up comic. I'm okay with a certain level of casual at ceremonys, but I hate it when the presider tries to be funnier than I am. (No, I did not speak at this send off.) The newly departed should be spinning in her grave (I believe she's now there - or at least en route).
I want a sociological study about what's happened to decent ceremony food. On second thought, I think there's no point to such a study except to fatten some university prof's budget. Fuhgeddaboubreast. This may be the worst side effect of The Women's Movement. Never mind the disintegration of The Family Unit as we knew it. Encouraging women to the workforce has degraded the quality of The ceremony Lunch. Feh! Ptooey!
Instead of preparing Hotdish, Jell-O Salad, and Bars for the reception, they're in an office writing briefs, proposals, sales plans, loveual harbuttment policies, and marketing surveys. More's the pity.
The spread for Evelyn M consisted of ham and turkey roulades, buns, fake cheese slices (yellow and white, cut into neat triangles that don't fit anything), tasteless potato salad, black and green olives, bread & butter pickles (limp), baby dills, potato chips, coffee, iced white cake, nekkid angel food cake, and iced carrot cake from Sam's. Evie was regarded as a fine cook Ñ this was an insult to her memory.
The judges awarded (OK, the judge awards) House of Prayer (ELCA) a 4 for content and difficulty, and a 6 for presentation (they had flowers on the serving table and the ham and turkey portions were rolled rather than laid flat on the plates). Points were lost for mustard and mayo in plastic packets. An award of merit was presented to HOP for Excellence in Coffee.
St. Olaf Roman Catholic (downtown) gets 4 for content and difficulty, and 4 for presentation. Pretty bad. No, really bad.
I can see that I'm going to have to be really specific about the lunch served after my pbutting, Make a note: no paper sugar packets, no condiments in little plastic tubes, and no plastic tublets of half and half. Paper napkins are okay, but please use the china or crockery and not paper and-styrofoam or plastic utensils. Ugh I get the shivers thinking about it.
I sat down with the ceremony Director for this matine and asked him where the best dead spreads get served around here and he was of absolutely no help. The motorcycle escort, however, recommended I become a Jew Ñ their dead spreads are worthy of the name. I'm thinking, I'm thinking. . . .
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