What are you bringing to the potluck?

A podcast?

Someone's already bringing that.

It's Schmanners! Oh, Hello internet. I am your husband host to Travis McElroy. And I'm your wife

host Teresa McElroy and you're listening to Schmanners.

It's extraordinary etiquette for ordinary occasions how low everyone happy it's not the

summer solstice yet is it when is the summer solstice? Not yet?

Oh, did we miss it?

Oh no.

Oh no, not again.

We'll get them next year, 2017.

We've either missed it or we're too early,

but I'm pretty sure it's not today one way or the other. It's the summer here in America and that

means a lot of things. It means vacations which we've talked about. It means you know water parks, pools, beaches which we

talked about traveling but it also means picnics and get-togethers and when I think

picnics I think potlucks and so that's what we're going to talk about today.

Well I think that the fact that you think potlucks almost immediately has something to do with your

Southern Baptist raisin.

You are not wrong because growing up we did a lot of like after church get-togethers or church-related

get-togethers where everybody would bring, you know, usually whoever was hosting it at the house

would provide the main dish and then everybody else would bring like some green beans,

a casserole, you know some broccoli casserole, some broccoli casserole, some cornbread, something like that.

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