Church picnic ruined when couple breaks Li'l Smokies pledge

LarkNews.com: "TACOMA — Two hundred people who had anticipated Living Grace Church's annual picnic were gravely disappointed when the couple who signed up to bring a crock pot full of Li'l Smokies bathed in barbecue sauce forgot the dish.
One by one, attendees at Gann Park scanned the rows of food.
'Where's the Smokies?' one man asked his wife. She whispered the circulating rumor that they had been forgotten. In anger, the man cracked his plate in half and threw it in the trash, then repaired to a nearby tree to smolder.
The Moore family, who had volunteered to bring the Li'l Smokies, sat with grim expressions. Nobody approached them, save one reporter.
'We blew it,' Doug Moore said. 'We signed up for it, and then forgot.'
A few feet away, people had left a spot on the table by the card that read, 'Moores: Li'l Smokies,' hoping that the picnic favorite might miraculously appear. Some stared at the spot in silence.
'We remembered the A&W root beer,' Sandy Moore said, trying to inject a note of grace."