Main course being jambalaya and crab legs with gluten free hushpuppies, deviled eggs w/ smoked fish, a lemon poached shrimp dip, French bread and baked corn pudding. My wife did the heavy lifting in the kitchen and I made hurricanes/kept the wine flowing
Also everything in my picture is for show. My family never eats like this except for holidays when extended family is coming to visit. My parents are petty bourgeois putting on airs. This house is massive but so far in the sticks that a studio apartment in my neighborhood in the city costs an equivalent amount of money. The gold napkins are hilarious too when you realize that normally they don’t even use napkins with a meal they just keep a roll of paper towels nearby.
There’s something to be said about a 70 year gap between my pic and the Rockwell painting but I also think there’s a cultural difference in the facade put on by people trying to emulate a class lifestyle they can’t normally afford and going overboard because they weren’t raised in that class culture to have the “manners” of that class. I could write a book on my family’s weird political economy-caused psychological ticks