Hi ho MMMLogerinos!

We hadn't heard from the Kansas Heckler in a bit, so when this rolled in today I thought I'd share this little taste of a different culture . . .

The Kansas Heckler writes:
We went to a fundraiser this morning in [some place Kansas]. [A local fellow]has had surgery, complications, etc., and the bills have mounted high. Amish don't have insurance. So, this morning, starting at 6 a.m., there was a pancake and whole hog sausage feed at the school. When we got there at the fashionably late hour of 8 a.m. there were 20 or 30 buggies parked about, as many cars, and the place was, to use the local vernacular, terrible full. [Other friends] met us there and we had a delightful time eating and greeting. They are previously Amish and either knew or were related to half the folks there. From working at [that wretched other place]I even knew a fair amount of them - made me feel special! My only trepidation about the affair had been, what on earth is whole hog sausage? Do they grab it by one warty old hoof and drop it through the grinder? Are there eyeballs? Do they grind the innards? Anyway, I called [my friend] on Thursday to query and was reassured that it simply meant they used all the meat, not just the fatty and otherwise inedible scraps. It was delish! So, the menu was coffee, water, orange juice (actually ersatz Tang), pancakes and sausage. They kept coming around with more helpings. I looked at the tally sheet, and they had fed over 200 folks before we got there. That's a lot of pancakes. They also had a bake sale but [my guy] said after donating $20 for breakfast he wasn't in the mood to spend any more. Ahhhhh.

The word terrible is used as a salt & pepper descriptive word. They sprinkle it on everything around here. He's terrible handsome. The car went terrible fast. The room is terrible hot. And my favorite, "we had a terrible good time."

And so have we, dear Kansas Heckler. Thanks for the terrible good sharing!

Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMmmelinda