There is a commercial on TV these days that pokes fun at the infamous "green bean casserole" and rightly so, in my view. It would appear that what Rick describes has also evolved at church socials and such. Fortunately, though, backyard gatherings I have attended, (some of them musical,) have nearly always included the roasting of some manner of beast or fowl.

Being the omnivoire that I am, I have nothing against vegetarianism; but when I encounter a table that contains nothing else I think of a favorite line from the film, "Crocodile Dundee" (if I remember it correctly) "Oh, you can eat it, I guess; but I wouldn't want to have to live off of it."