- We were both talking about potluck etiquette earlier, and I wanted to ask your opinion about it. Single people have to bring a whole dish to a potluck, and you’d expect couples to bring two dishes, but we’ve noticed that most couples only bring one dish--
- You’re asking Greg about this? Okay, but be careful because he’ll have strong opinions about--
- Damn right most couples only bring one dish. Single people essentially act as a kind of potluck proletariat, forced to do most of the work to subsidize the entire event while couples do half the work and reap twice the benefit. It’s a class system that perpetuates itself time and time again. Couples should bring two dishes. There’s two of them. Hence the term “couple.”
- The funny thing is, we always bring two dishes. I think it’s because we were friends before we got married, so we’re still kind of independent, and we’re used to doing things separately, like bringing dishes to potlucks.
- Well, that’s why I’ve always seen the two of you as freedom fighters, of a sort.
- But whenever we bring two dishes, people are surprised. They say ‘We only expected you to bring one dish because you’re a couple.’
- That just goes to show you how our society gets used to injustice. When people see justice, they don’t recognize it. They’re like, ‘What is this? I don’t know what this is. It’s certainly not justice. It must be something else entirely.’
Posted by Greg at 02:04 AM on 07/26/04