We have to struggle sometimes to question what we've always been told and taught.
A woman was preparing dinner for her new mother-in-law. The woman came early to help her daughter-in-law with the dinner. She watched the young woman take a beautiful roast out of the refrigerator and cut off the end, throw it in the trash, place the meat in a roasting pan and then pop it in the oven.
She asked why the end of the roast would be wasted in such a manner. The young bride said: because that is the way you prepare and cook a roast.
A discussion ensued and they were both became very angry with one another. The old woman saw gross waste and the young woman saw only unreasonableness and was convinced she was doing the roast correctly, even though she couldn't explain why the end had to be cut off.
After the dinner was over, dishes had been done, and the mother-in-law left, the young bride called her own mother to tell her how awful the dinner had been.
She said, mom, that woman was just awful to me and kept insisting I was doing the roast wrong because I cut the end off and threw it away.
The mother said: why would you cut the end off and throw it away?
The daughter replied, because that's the way you always did it!
The mother said, dear, I only did that because I didn't have a roasting pan big enough to fit the roast in.
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Others might say, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Human nature has certainly not changed.
