question on British funeral practices

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:
 
> After the funeral, there will be a reception of some kind. This 
will 
> be either held at a relative's house, and be for close family and 
> friends, or at a large room in a pub, and be for everyone. The pub 
> kind is usually more boisterous - the ones at home *sometimes* 
more 
> genteel. For some reason, there always seem to be pork pies. 
Alcohol 
> will be served.

This reminds me of that Victoria Wood bit where she's talking about 
funerals and says something along the lines of how differently we 
react to death - in some cultures, for instance, a wife might throw 
herself sobbing onto the coffin when her beloved husband dies, in 
Britain she'll drag herself into the kitchen and say '42 baps, 
Connie. You slice I'll spread.'

I think that sums it up quite nicely!