billr mused the title above re this:
I guess something about lemons at a lemon funeral, but who would serve long pig at a human funeral? For that matter, who serves refreshments at the funeral??
When death hands you lemons…
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Why can’t this be a wake where such things are common?
TedD: Cannibalism is common at wakes? OK, you meant refreshments. I guess. Still…
Is this seriously a CIDU? If someone sent this in and said, “But lemons don’t have mouths, arms, legs, eyes or hands and don’t have funerals or can talk or drink from cups with straws so this makes no sense at all” we’d all realize anthropomorphism is a staple of jokes and comics and wonder why they don’t get that. Cannibalism at a wake/funeral is the joke. It’s been done many, many times. Questioning whether refreshments are served is just incredibly picky.
OK…I guess I haven’t seen the cannibalism trope before! Once one starts questioning things, it’s hard to stop, eh?
I think that the casket top may be a lemon squeezer.
Kevin: Ewww!
(Interesting, that comment got put to moderation–six-letter word beginning with “c”, maybe? Or last word?!?!
Our congregation does “memorial services” rather than “funerals”, and it would be unusual NOT to have refreshments.
The original questions summed up all that must be going through the other lemons head quite nicely, judging by it’s expression.
TedD, could you elaborate? Cannibalism at a funeral is a trope I’ve seen used seriously as a way to differentiate a new or alien religion, such as in Stranger in a Strange Land. I’ve never seen it used with reference to an existing religion, such as at a wake, or in reference to the world as it is. Anubis in Sandman performs ritual cannibalism as a mortician while preparing the dead, but similarly that’s a work of magical realism and very serious.
Googling gives me just anthropology articles about the prehistoric world. TVTropes has a “freaky funeral” article but the examples I see seem similar to mine: A normal practice in some fictional religions in serious works.
Do you, by chance, have examples of it used as a joke easily available? I’m curious now.
Recalling a Far Side where a chicken served soup to her bedridden mate, assuring him it was beneficial and nobody they knew.
“Sherman’s Lagoon” had the shark attending a wake and mistaking the deceased for the buffet. It was treated more as an oafish faux pas than an outrage.
“Pogo” had the swamp folks preparing for a football game, preceded by a chicken barbecue to welcome the visiting team. It turned out the chickens, bought off Wiley Katt, WERE the visiting team.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade