Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> In article <qDEGg.4671$W01.3178@dukeread08>,
> Faux_Pseudo > wrote:
>
> > _.-In rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' wrote the following -._
> > >> Does it really matter how the desserts were displayed?
> > >
> > > It does. :-P How am I going to uphold and protect my reputation as
> > > Dead Spread Critic Weirdo if I doesn't comment on presentation? Really!
> >
> > After checking the link in your sig I couldn't help but think of a
> > nice big coffee table book of food for the dead. Recipes and tomb
> > stones.
>
> I like it. Do we collaborate? You do the rocks and I do the spreads?
>
> > While looking at the pictures in the link I was thinking that massive
> > comfort foods would be at a funeral, not ham sandwiches. Where are
> > the big ol' pots of stew, the potato dishes or cheese cakes that are
> > so heavy that one spoonful or slice could cause the folding table to
> > buckle under the load?
>
> Those are things of the past. A sign of the times. I talked to my
> pastor (suburban church) yesterday about it and the lack of 'real food'
> at the Dead Spreads and he told me how hard it is to get anyone to
> volunteer to SERVE the meal much less *prepare and donate* food for it.
> I told him I wanted to be on the serving committee. :-) (My photo ops
> are about to increase!!)
>
> Working folks don't have time and not much inclination to make time for
> such an occasion. I'd hoped that since this was a small town funeral,
> things would be different. El Pastor pointed out that farm folk are
> busy and maybe couldn't be bothered to do a serving plate thing -- one
> more plate or dish to wash.

Two of my cousins passed away in the last year, and services were
held in a local funeral home that has a meeting room and they will cater
the lunch....sandwiches,veggie nibbles, desserts, tea and coffee, milk
and juice........Sharon