Tonya Mosley

And their parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

So there wasn't a lot of food early in their lives or in their parents' lives.

So when they'd go to like a catered wedding or bar mitzvah, they would just like eat and eat.

And there's so many stages of food.

Like at the catered affairs they'd go to, there'd be a smorgasbord, which would have like sculptures of chopped liver.

And like Charmaine was the Chinese dish.

There were Swedish meatballs.

Dutch's potatoes.

Yes, and some kind of chicken and other side dishes and salad.

Then you first sat down to the meal.

And on the really lavish ones, like if you're going to somebody's catered affair who had more money, then after that, there'd be what was called the Viennese table, which was breakfast.

So it was like three meals in one event.

And then everybody would have a very sore stomach afterwards.

Oh, maybe it was dessert.

But then after that, I remember once there was a breakfast.

I mean – and I thought this is insane.

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