_.-In rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' wrote the following -._
>> 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?

I am too busy with ASCII art and satire pieces to be starting another
project. Besides I haven't the skills needed to carve recipies into
tomb stones.

>> 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!!)

Supprised you didn't ask earlier. This might be the begining of a new
business opportunity for you. "Dead Spread Catering". I can see
franchises located next to every mortuary in the country.

>> camera, wild hair and a jeans and a T-Shirt. I can only assume that
>> you are being invited so you have a leg up on me.
>
> Oh, heck yes. I don't crash strangers' services or plantings. What?
> You think I'm weird or something? <looks around suspiciously>

Now you can be part of the hired help.

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