Potluck at the park brings Eating Through the Pandemic Facebook friends together in real life

Potluck at the park brings Eating Through the Pandemic Facebook friends together in real life 1 of 2 Kim Hough of Roseburg, Oregon (left), and her mother, Rachel McGuire of Lincoln, dig into the dishes at the Eating Through the Pandemic Facebook group’s potluck on Saturday at Antelope Park. Alisa Kushner, who started the Eating Through the Pandemic Facebook group called the potluck “pretty amazing,” and estimated that 110 to 120 members of the group showed up to break bread in person at Antelope Park on Saturday. Claire Larson brought her sourdough bread — and her parents — to the Eating Through the Pandemic potluck on Saturday.They made their way through the line of homemade everything laid out on a long table at Antelope Park.Pasta salads and three-bean delights, deviled eggs and scones and fruit crumbles and chocolatey concoctions.“Your sourdough is beyond awesome,” said Darren Keen, the guy in line behind Larson, one of 9,870 worldwide members of the Facebook group started in the early days of lockdowns.Keen came to the potluck that kicked off the holiday weekend with his “elevated beanie weenie” to meet some of the people he knew only through tiny online profile pictures and shared dinner…
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