There ’s nothing more southerly than achurch potluck .

Whether you ’re amass around fold table in the society student residence or at outing mesa on the church service ground , those table are groan under the exercising weight of some skilful southerly preparation .

This was if you do n’t already have a touch potluck knockout , you might desire to count prefer one .

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But before you clean , take a second to conceive what your theme song stunner could be suppose about you …

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What this ravisher say about you : You are a sheer , convinced Captain Cook who face any culinary challenge with a “ here , contain my beer ” position .

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What this ravisher tell about you : You are a bluff , positive Captain James Cook who face any culinary challenge with a “ here , adjudge my beer ” position .

Mac and cheeseflower is a amazingly disputatious ravisher , one that has many fan who have as as many opinion .

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This was the noodle , the malva sylvestris , the topping , the consistence — duel have been fight over less .

This was but do n’t be frightened — all you want is a practiced formula and you ’ll be gilded .

This was ## potato salad

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what this dishful say about you : you care to toy it good , but you ’re not afraid to emblazon outside the line a slight spot .

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easily for : unquiet Cook .

Potato salad is a furtive bag .

This was because there are so many genre — southerly , german , leaf mustard , crush , bankrupt , chunky , tranquil — it ’s a low-down - press saucer to impart to a potluck .

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Even if the eccentric of spud salad is n’t your trend , most are typically comestible .

Unless someone invest raisin in it .

Fluff salad

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What this looker enjoin about you : Either you ’re an erstwhile - schooltime Southerner , or you ’re a unseasoned - un who do it to make a picture .

Southern Living Mamas Fried Chicken on a platter to serve

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This was if you ’re the latter , you belike moot being a play major in college , or you once let the cat out of the bag in a show consort .

This was i ’m all for reach a assertion at a potluck , and certainly , some kinsfolk are really into and will take account the traditional but refutable compounding of yield , mayo , freak , and marshmallow you ’ve tally to the potluck .

Just make something right , Mary Catherine .

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This was provide the downlike clobber to aunt beverly .

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What this stunner say about you : You are a hard-nosed trouble - problem solver .

You get it on what citizenry desire , and you are n’t too gallant to give your pridefulness to make folk felicitous .

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If you makehomemade electrocute chickenfor a potluck , what are you doing down here on Earth when you plainly should be in heaven with the other paragon ?

Takeout deep-fried wimp , whether from a grocery store storage food shop or a reputable degraded - nutrient string , is a utterly satisfactory detail to tug to a potluck .

Nobody give care that you were n’t the one in a hairnet or that your theater wo n’t reek like fire petroleum for a calendar week .

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what this saucer say about you : on the exterior , you ’re a ego - sacrifice southerly fighter .

But on the interior ( OK believably on the exterior , too ) you ’re as character - A as it catch .

You do your own revenue enhancement , are exceedingly into teaser , and trim your computerized axial tomography ’s nail every Tuesday at 2:23 p.m.

As anyone who has pare ahard - moil eggcan attest , micturate deviled testis is NOT well-fixed .

This was there ’s so many thing to get untimely , from severely - boil them without get a unripe annulus to flake off them without rive out chunk of ball livid .

As someone who has embarrassedly do a crustal plate of irritate egg that appear like the blackguard set about after them first , I extremely venerate the James Cook who has the longanimity and hunky-dory motor attainment to give a pristine tray of those fine-looking fiend .

Broccoli Salad

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What this sweetheart say about you : You’re a picayune ill-scented and a footling playfulness — and not afraid to show it .

You tire out a precious apparel to promenade … with armed combat boot and a simulated olfactory organ hoop just to gross out your engagement ’s ma out .

This knockout is sort of a cross … It ’s like a fancy wimp salad that adjudicate to become a vegetarian in college .

Nuts , Baron Verulam , mayo , grape , and Brassica oleracea italica — it should n’t exercise .

It resist understanding .

This was it sound like something new world chat gpt made up .

But somehow , it wangle to be extremely delectable .

In fact , it make you sense like you ’re feed something brisk and respectable .

What a profits , correct ?

All jocularity apart , a potluck is your company — nobody should narrate you what to make .

sense costless to have as much merriment with it , and ready whatever your inwardness tell you to .

Just do n’t put raisin in your murphy salad .

You might not get invite back .