Elsie: Yeah, he was there. Along with little Lars and his wife Sonja. They had stopped by after handbell choir to check on Hulda what with her sprained wrist and all, and what did they find but Irv drinking Jagermeister and swearing at the hockey game, and his boy Thor playing at the Dungeons and Dragons. Right there in the rumpus room!

(to audience) Don’t be shy, I know you’re starvin’ marvins. Come on up and grab yerself a plate.

(She and Betty start serving as audience members come up.)

I always think I should make something else, but if I do people are always asking, they ask "Betty, where’s that famous pea salad of yours?" So what’s a gal to do? Come without it?

Elsie: Oh, I didn’t have a lot of time so it’s just Glorified Rice. I was goin to make those little smokies with the grape jelly and barbeque sauce in the crock pot, but then the boys went and ate ‘em all up when I wasn’t looking. Little buggers.

Amy: Well, it’s supposed to be circus peanut salad, it’s a recipe I found in the Sons of Norway cookbook Aud’s Mom gave me, but it didn’t quite work out quite right. (she removes dish from bag).

Amy: Well, I started making it, but then I realized that I was out of orange jello. So I thought maybe I could make it with lime. But it came out, well, kind of grey.

Betty: (Taking dish and putting it towards the back of the table) Not to worry dear, I’m sure it tastes just fine. Limes and oranges are both fruit.

Elsie: Yeah, it might turn out to be the next big recipe, ya never know. Remember the first time Doris brought that Frog Eye salad? It was all green and had that macaroni that nobody could say….

Elsie : That’s the one. But then we all gave it a try and by golly, it was a keeper! So don’t you worry about your lime circus peanut salad - it’s just a variation on a theme and I’m sure it will be gobbled up in no time.

Betty: That’s just awful. I hope Mrs. Sorenson doesn’t recognize her recipe.

Betty: You have to give that girl credit for trying one of Lois Sorenson’s recipies right out of the gate though.

Elsie: Oh, she’s a brave one that. Say what you like about them Easterners but that one, she can drive a tractor straight as a yardstick from here to Tuesday.

Elsie: Well, everybody just thought they’d name him Aud, like all the Opperude men and his Dad before him. But Oppy (who never used his given name), he said "No way, no doin." He’d taken enough guff about his name and jokes about his dad bein’ odd "O-D-D" that he wasn’t going to saddle the little guy with the same name. He said he wanted the boy to have a normal name. An American name.

Elsie: Well that’s the kicker don’t you know? This gal Amy she says to Oppy, she says, "If you’re gonna move me out here to Karlsruhe on the prairie, and you expect me to make that stinky lutefisk for Christmas dinner, AND you propose to me at a Sons of Norway fish fry, by Golly our boy is getting a Norske name.

Elsie: Trigve Sundeen Opperude. Trigve from some Norsk legend she read about and Sundeen after her folks.