Sunday, November 21, 2021

5338 - Long joke Sunday


A man was watching his wife while she is frying sausages in a pan. 

Before she puts the sausages in the pan, she cuts off the two ends, throws them away, and cooks the middle part of the sausage. 

Her husband looks at her, and then asks: “Honey, why do you always cut off the two ends of the sausage before frying it”. 

The woman answers that she doesn’t know, she has learned to do that from her mother.

The next day, they visit the mother, and the woman asks her why she has been taught to cut off the ends of the sausage before frying it. 

“I actually don’t know, that is what my mother, your grandmother always told me to do. We should go and ask her.” 

So the two women leave the house and go to visit the grandmother.

“Grandmother, why did you teach us to cut off the ends of a sausage before frying it,” the daughter asks. 

“It’s a family tradition, the grandmother says, I don’t know. I just did it because my mother, your great-grandmother did it. 

"We should visit her, she’s in the retirement home."

The three women go to visit the retirement home and meet the great-grandmother, who is a bit hard of hearing. 

“Great-grandmother,” the woman asks loudly, “Why did you always tell us to cut off the two ends of a sausage before frying it” 

The old woman looks amazed at them, and responds: “Wait, what, you're still using that little pan!”


15 comments:

Elephant's Child said...

A reminder that habits are made to be broken...

Bilbo said...

It's an old joke, but still great.

Lady M said...

Tee hee - that's so cute.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Hahahahahaha!

Shaw Kenawe said...

That explains many of my family’s cooking traditions!

Mike said...

Sue - Exactly

Bill - Here's a new rule for you on Saturday/Sunday jokes. You have to start off with a count of 'know it/haven't seen it'. Like 25/5. On Sundays, it will be simpler. Today would be 1/0.

Lady - Just like me!

Deb - Why? Because we've ALWAYS done it that way!

Shaw - Every 5 years there should be a family meeting about traditions.

jenny_o said...

Ha! I've seen a variation on this (cutting the holiday ham into two pieces for the same reason) and I STILL didn't see the end coming :)

Kathy G said...

Like jenny_o, the version of this joke I've heard always involved ham.

Mike said...

Jenny & Kathy - I don't remember the ham joke. So I looked for it and found it. Pretty much the same word for word except ... ham. But I also found this...

And here's another story in the same vein. This is a true story:

We had a student aide who, like so many of the students in a community college, was a "mature learner." She had done some hard living in her time -- including a period of her life when she'd had to move from apartment to apartment in search of the cheapest rent. It seemed like they were always packing and unpacking. It got so that they just didn't unpack anything they didn't immediately need. One day, when her life had settled down and she was in a house where she stayed for a while, she decided to go through the oldest boxes, and she found one box which had been moved, unopened, from one home to another from the very start.

She opened it, and what was in it?

Trash.

Not junk. Not stuff she wished she had thrown away a long time ago. It was actual trash which she HAD thrown away a long time ago. Food wrappers and packing material and tissues. She'd put it in a garbage bag and set it aside to throw out as she left that first house... and some helpful soul had kindly packed it in a box for her and stuck it on the truck.

And for a decade she toted that box of trash with her from house to house.

Cloudia said...

This is actually kinda deep.

Mike said...

Cloudia - I didn't do it! I try to be as shallow as possible.

allenwoodhaven said...

good one! Didn't see that coming...

Mike said...

Allen - That makes it even better when the ending is a surprise.

Cloudia said...

😆

Mike said...

Cloudia - :)