There is lots of free food around if you know where to look. Church bazaars, pot luck dinners at schools or community functions. And in New Zealand, they serve food at funerals. One man was attending four or more funerals per week and stocking up while politely paying his respects to the dearly departed whom he didn’t know.

From Reuters here:

A New Zealand funeral home has stepped in to stop a fake mourner who was attending up to four funerals a week to stock up on food, even filling up tupperware containers to take home, according to media reports.

The “grim eater” appeared at up to four funerals a week in March and April to enjoy the finger food but clearly did not know the deceased.

“Certainly he had a backpack with some tupperware containers so when people weren’t looking, he was stocking up.”

He said the man was “always very quiet and polite, and did as the rest of the mourners did in paying his respects.”

I think at my funeral I want my body to hold a big bowl of onion dip and my casket can be filled with potato chips. Until I read this story the thought of serving finger foods at a funeral was completely alien to me.