On 6 Nov 2008 16:37:09 GMT, Ken > fired up random
neurons and synapses to opine:

>Am I in the minority in that even well beyond the age of 70 I still make
>things the same way my mother and grandmother did, even though almost
>everyone else make them differently?

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Your post reminds me of a tale I heard years ago - in fact, I'm pretty
sure I posted it here years ago, too:

A man was watching his wife prepare a ham for the oven and inquired as
to why she cut the ends off the ham before she put it in the oven. Her
reply was, "Because my mother always did it that way."

When his mother-in-law next visited, in asked her why she cut the ends
off her ham before she put it in the oven. Her reply was, "Because my
mother always did it that way."

He was finally able to ask his wife's grandmother why *she* cut the
ends off the ham before she put it in the oven. Her reply was,
"Because that's the only way it will fit into the pan I have."

Apropos of nothing, really, but jarred a memory.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

- Duncan Hines

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