[linda_22003]

Have you seen that cute book, "Being Dead is No Excuse" about funeral customs and food in the South? They maintain that social pecking order of religions, with each looking down on the other for the quality of their food offerings. :)

[AnAmericanMother]

I have that book! (I was disappointed in some of the recipes though, don't try the pound cake, it's not very good.) Like Southern Ladies and Gentleman it's remarkably accurate. The smaller and more rural the setting, the more that pecking order retains its validity.

To maintain their pecking order, though, the small Southern town Episcopalians are going to have to leave the national church, which has gone barking mad.