The shuls that have the biggest, craziest kiddushim that I’ve been to are all chassidish (meaning on a regular basis – I’m not referring to when there’s a simcha). My brother davens in a chassidish minyan, and he’s told me how pretty much every week, there is probably over $5,000 worth of liquor being consumed by the people there. No, it’s not a huge crowd of a few hundred people, it’s just a standard minyan size.
Just this past Shabbos, I was away, visiting someone. Friday night we davened at a minyan in someone’s house. After davening, they decided to have a minyan Shabbos morning due to the heat. They had a few concerns to work out – such as ensuring that there would be a minyan, having someone to lein… and their biggest concern, that they spent the most time figuring out, what will they have for Kiddush? Since this was decided on Shabbos, how could they arrange food? So each person had to say what they were going to contribute to it!
After davening on Shabbos morning, I didn’t stick around for the kiddush. But by Mincha, one of the guys starting saying loudly how the kiddush was lacking, and next week, he’d “go all out”, and would be purchasing lots of fancy foods to serve.
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