CRUST-LESS PIMIENTO SANDWICHES

Are you longing for crust-less pimiento cheese sandwiches cut into little triangles? Deviled eggs on the side and the meal topped off with a chocolate sheet cake. Then you're ready for the departure of a loved one, or maybe not so loved, even a passing acquaintance will do in a pinch. Depends on you're craving, but pimiento cheese, deviled eggs and chocolate cake is the essential menu of every funeral in the Mississippi Delta. If you're past twenty-five then it's high time, and no dilly-dallying around, to make PLANS. I mean big plans. First the the negotiation of where to be buried, this takes great diplomatic skills. The Treaty of Versailles was a cake-walk compared to the Final Arrangements which includes menu, casket, music and finally your plot in relationship to the other members of your family. Buried at Mama's feet, for example is a prime spot but its been promised to seven other people. So if you really want a specific place you may have to blackmail, bribe or wangle a contract that everyone signs, and no one pays any mind to after you're dead. Here is the kicker, after working out the details, you spend the next forty years repeating your instructions. Believe me, when I was four, I didn't know the alphabet, but I knew my Grandmother's funeral plans. She died thirty-two years later. I sure am craving pimiento cheese.