Tessa's Field Guide to the Suburbs - "The Barbecue"

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Town Barbecues

Organizer: New settlers in Chatswin

Attendees: Various local tribes

Ceremonial Dress: Casual Chic

Description: A rite of passage wherein new Chatswin residents bestow offerings of sacred meats, cobbed corn and fermented beverages upon the town elders in hopes of acceptance into their society. The ritual begins with the ceremonial lighting of the Kingsfords, which leads into assertions of dominance to determine who first partakes of the bounty.  There is also lemonade.  In the past, failure to comply with the custom resulted in banishment, but the standards have loosened of late and violators are merely shunned with no hope of status recovery.