Rose: Stan, I'm gonna kill you. Do you know what this is?
Stan: Uh, yeah, it's a plate I dropped. I was gonna pick it up later.
Rose: This is not just a plate, mister. This is a family heirloom. It's Great-Great-Grandma Nylund's ceremonial wedding plate.
Blanche: Wedding plate?
Rose: Yes. The bride's family fills the plate with fruit and then at the wedding all the guests eat from it. And when the last piece is gone, that's when the bride and groom leave to start their wedding night, which takes place in a tent. Or a Best Western.
Blanche: A Best Western?
Rose: Oh, the Vikings have always been a very progressive people. Anyway, that's when it's time for the husband to symbolically offer himself to his new bride. On the plate.
Stan: Yuck. I ate a tuna sandwich on that plate this afternoon.
Rose: Stan, I'm never going to forgive you for this. My niece is getting married in the spring. What's her husband going to do?
Blanche: Well, I bet a gravy boat would work in a pinch.