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"Lisa Ann" > wrote:

> Keep in mind, I've got a sick, twisted sense of humor...and very few sacred
> cows...so Barb's "Dead Spread" reviews don't seem disrespectful to me. To
> be honest, with Barb's interest in cooking, it seems sort of natural that
> she'd comment on things like that. It's sort of like amateur anthropology.

Thenkyew, Lisa Ann. Thenkyew. The term Dead Spread, by the way, is
from a book, Lutheran Church Basement Women by Janet Martin and Somebody
Else - local folks, here in the Land of Luther. "-)

And I gotta do research for my own Dead Spread -- Alex knows I won't
want people to be talking about my funeral lunch the way I've talked
about the ones at St. Olaf in downtown Minneapolis. <shudder> Ham is
good as long as it's not rubber deli ham on dried rolls. Eeew.

> Then again, I come from a family that expects certain things after the
> funeral...there should be ham, there should be a vegetable plate, there
> should be desserts...and (because our Dead Spreads are always at someone's
> house afterwards), there should be enough alcohol to render most of us
> legless.

LOL! From when my sister, her husband, and daughter were killed in a
plane crash 38 years ago, I have three memories: A close friend of the
family calling my brother and telling my SIL that she was sending over a
beef roast and a couple quarts of Jim Beam or something; sitting at the
my brothers and talking about the tragedy of it all and crying. And
then someone would tell a funny story about Ivan -- like when at a New
Year's Eve party, he invited everyone to their house for his Swedish
pancakes in the morning -- and they showed up. My sister liketa killed
him! He stood at the stove and made pancakes for hours! And Mary was
merciless. I come by it honestly.
>
> My $.02,
>
> Lisa Ann
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