This is rumble strip and this is part 11 of what class are you Ashton

Let's cover that with Tinpo before we bring it out because I don't want people

grabbing at it thinking we're ready. We can't have a big reveal before the chicken comes out.

That's Ashton Allen right before a community meal that involved eight stuffed

pork loins and 120 chicken drumsticks.

Asgen runs a concrete business when he's not serving meals at the American Legion in Hardwick.

He grew up in Morrisville and spent a lot of time with his grandparents up in Belvedere, population around 358. We sat down to talk

about class, which then turned into a conversation about eating and how eating together

as a community seems to blur boundaries between people of different backgrounds.

Here's Ashton.

Okay, so what class are you?

Boy, that is a tough question once it's posed.

I would say probably middle class.

I don't have an overabundance of anything, but I'm not broke.

What were you growing up?

I would say we started kind of on the lower end of things and in 91 my father started his own contracting business.

He's a general contractor.

After that, things were noticeably better.

Dinners at home got a little nicer. My parents' cars got

newer, but I feel like one of the wealthiest people in the world because my parents

are still together. They still love each other.

And I came from an incredible family on both sides

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