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Pressing-On · #51 02-07-2013, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

thanks, AYR, I bookmarked that page

I like the idea and look of the galvanized pails also, but I wouldn't especially like them for an indoors theme. The cheapest I could find a 5-inch pail was $2.79 x 130 ladies, for anyone extra showing up. That would be $362 for what are essentially plates. Not sure I would spend that much.

Pressing-On · #52 02-07-2013, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

I hadn't thought about brisket. I wonder how that would go over with ladies?

On the other hand, how will they feel about fried chicken? that's kind of a finger food, in my opinion. Very hard to eat with (plastic) silverware, even if we get the really good plastic (which we will)

I've been trying to think of traditional southern dishes to have. Bean soup comes to my mind. But do we need soup AND a salad? And if we do bean soup, we definitely will not do baked beans. One or the other maybe.

We want traditional southern foods (like Kentucky/Tennessee type southern foods). But we also want foods that the ladies will enjoy. So I hesitate with things like bean soup for that reason.

The other thing I am trying to decide is how to serve these foods. In the past we always had them get up table by table and go into the next room where the food is laid out buffet style. We can do that. But I really don't like doing it that way.

So my other two options are:
1) We can have the men fix their plates for them, then bring them in on serving carts and pass them out. or
2) We can serve the foods "family style". I would get a whole bunch of disposable (but nice) serving platters and bowls. The men could put enough chicken on a platter and enough of the other stuff in the bowls to put at each table. Then the ladies could pass the food family style.

What do you think? What would be your preference?

I like Number 2 and I would especially like it if the men would clean the kitchen afterward.

AreYouReady? · #53 02-07-2013, 09:23 PM

Get a galvanized #2 tub and put all the chicken in there then and a bunch of tongs.

Pressing-On · #54 02-07-2013, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

Get a galvanized #2 tub and put all the chicken in there then and a bunch of tongs.

OR get one of those galvanized water troughs and put ALL of the food in it, with a bunch of tongs.

AreYouReady? · #55 02-07-2013, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

OR get one of those galvanized water troughs and put ALL of the food in it, with a bunch of tongs.

Margies3 · #56 02-07-2013, 09:30 PM

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I like Number 2 and I would especially like it if the men would clean the kitchen afterward.

Actually, the men will do that

While we are enjoying our program in one room, they will have the rest all cleaned up by the time we are done in the other room. No wonder I love this church, eh!

Pressing-On · #57 02-07-2013, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

Actually, the men will do that

While we are enjoying our program in one room, they will have the rest all cleaned up by the time we are done in the other room. No wonder I love this church, eh!

Oh my gosh, I want to attend your church!!!!!

MissBrattified · #58 02-07-2013, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I like the idea and look of the galvanized pails also, but I wouldn't especially like them for an indoors theme. The cheapest I could find a 5-inch pail was $2.79 x 130 ladies, for anyone extra showing up. That would be $362 for what are essentially plates. Not sure I would spend that much.

I didn't mean as individual serving plates!!! LOL!!! Just something as an alternative to platters on a buffet. Lord, help--I would never spend $300+ on just serverware. I spent about $400 or so on Hannah's entire 16th birthday party. (not counting her gift--a horse.)

AreYouReady? · #59 02-07-2013, 09:54 PM

Oh...in that case...Lowes has galvanized pails. A lot of fried chicken can fit in those pails.

Some of the men might mistake those pails for a single serving.

MissBrattified · #60 02-07-2013, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

Oh...in that case...Lowes has galvanized pails. A lot of fried chicken can fit in those pails.

Some of the men might mistake those pails for a single serving.

This is more what I was thinking, maybe a little bigger:

It's just a cute take on a "bucket of chicken."

You could also pile it into big iron skillets.