At St. Paul’s, we traditionally have supper together every Wednesday evening after the children have their music rehearsals and lessons and before the service. Nowadays, it’s take out, like everything.

Today, the menu has an Octoberfest theme: sausages, potato salad, sauerkraut, cucumbers, and German chocolate cake, which, by the way, has absolutely nothing to do with Germany.

 It isn’t from Germany and is actually named after the blend of sweet chocolate used in the cake, and is named for the man who developed that specific blend. His name was Samuel German. So the cake isn’t “German” as in the country, it’s “German” as in the chocolate.

Looks pretty good anyway and it’s bound to be better than the ubiquitous Black Forest cake from the ’70’s.