The lost and found Tupperware table.
For the last 10 years, I've attended modern churches. And by modern, I don't mean missional or postmodern or millennial focused or emergent or a word that hasn't even been invented yet but your friends who liked Mumford & Sons before you are already using. I just mean the churches I've attended lately have more lasers than stained glass windows. But recently I started taking a class at an old school church in Franklin, Tennessee.
The other night my wife and I got lost in the belly of it. During our journey into the depths we stumbled upon something that the North Point Community Church and Cross Point Church did not have. (I apparently only attend churches with the word "point" in their title.)
What did we find?
The lost and found Tupperware table.
A mainstay of old school churches, the lost and found Tupperware table is like the island of misfit toys from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. What happens is that after a potluck, I can't bring myself to say "pot blessing" because I've had some dishes that weren't blessings, someone will leave their Tupperware behind. (Sometimes it's on purpose because no one even took a sympathy scoop out of their dish.) Slowly it will make its way through the church until at last it comes to its final resting spot, in hopes to one day be reclaimed or taken home by another family.
When I found this table, which is the Tupperware equivalent of an elephant graveyard, I snapped a photo with a dish so wonderful I had to share it with you. Check out what this fallen Tupperware once held:
Though I've long professed my deep love for the rotund concierge of deliciousness that is the Crock Pot, I never knew we were putting candy in it! Combining crock pot and candy is such a powerful duo. That's like "Karate Mentos" or "Puppy Kittens" or "Lamborghini Pringles."
What do you think is in "Crock Pot Candy?" Clearly, this person put in peanuts, which I think is a mistake. Putting nuts in brownies and cookies to me is like putting in a handful of gravel. It's a near flavorless, mouthful of small rocks in an otherwise delightful dessert.
I feel like this should be the official food of Stuff Christians Like, like Papa John's sponsoring the Super Bowl. If you were going to make up some sort of batch of "Crock Pot Candy," what would you put in it?
