Thursday, October 25, 2018

Chicken anyone?

Once a month, on the 4th Thursday, some other church ladies and I get together at First Pres to prepare a meal and feed people who live and/or work around the church.  Some live in adjusted rent apartments across the street while others are evidently homeless and a few work in the area.  They start coming in about 9:30am and we serve lunch at 11:30.  We serve good nutritious food which is generally well received but, once a year, in October we serve Kentucky Fried Chicken.  I'm not sure how the word spreads but we always have many more people eating when we serve chicken.  Today it was close to 100 people.  Many people had seconds, sone had third helpings and nothing was wasted.  The mashed potatoes rran out first, then the biscuits, then the gravy and coleslaw and finally the chicken.  Of course the cookies set out for dessert went in a flash.  One of the unexpectedly popular items was boxes.  KFC delivers their large orders in aluminum foil containers and these are brought in in very nice, sturdy boxes, about 18" x 24' x 12" deep, with attached lids,  Our order was contained in eight boxes and every box was claimed by the end of the morning. People also carried away the aluinum pans for recycling.  It was a bit like locusts cleaning out the place.  Then we played BINGO. I was the caller.  People get very excited about winning $1 prizes.  Much better odds than the mega-million lottery and it doesn't cost anything to play  All in all a very good day.

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