Yesterday Mrs. CW was in the checkout line at the grocery store, and the clerk asked her what she was making with some of the stuff she was buying.
Informed that she was planning a casserole, the checkout gal looked confused and said, "What's a casserole?"
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I told Mrs. CW that she should have written the recipe down for her, but in cursive.
The clerk was probably raised by a mother who didn't cook. When a young person asks me about things I think they should already know--I err on the side of giving them the info without making them feel foolish. It reminds me of Basic Training forty years ago, when one of the girls in my platoon asked me (a guy who was her age) how to work the washing machine.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. Dinner for these types consisted of frozen chicken nuggies, McD's chicken nuggies, HotPockets, Taco Bell. Sad.
DeleteRecently, I asked a young girl working at the local grocery where I could find the bottled Dehydrated water. She looked confused and replied "I'm not sure but I'll ask my boss".
ReplyDeleteYour wife should have asked the clerk: "Do you remember the singing group, The Mamas and Papas?"
ReplyDeleteWhen the precious little darling replied, "No."
Your wife could have offered up. "Well one of the singers was Mama Cass. And Mama Cass was a rather rotund lady. Often, Mama Cass would get down on the ground and roll around. They called her move, 'Cass A Roll.'"
A while back, I bought a few things at a grocery store and paid with cash. The young cashier correctly counted back my change to me in the way of the ancients. On impulse, I asked her, “You were home schooled, weren’t you?”
ReplyDeleteShe replied, “Yes! How did you know?”
Wow!
DeleteI'll never forget the first time my grocery bill came to $9.06. I handed the clerk $10.06. She gave me a confused look. I told just give me back a buck. She was still confused.
DeleteNemo
I know, I know!
ReplyDeleteA casserole is like a Stouffer's frozen lasagna you make at home but with different ingredients...
That’s very funny.
ReplyDeletei once asked a young restaurant server for some primordial soup. all i got was a blank stare. still worth it.
ReplyDeleteYou and Bogside could be accurately described as a "handful." But certainly lots of fun!
DeleteYa, dontchayknow. That's a hot dish in the upper midwest.
ReplyDeleteThose folks who know hot dish also understand lutefisk and lefsa.
Deleteya sure ya betcha
DeleteDone cha know?
DeleteSomeone is from MN. and is Swedish
DeleteThat's me at 10:15 AM. Not from MN, but my grandpa was from Norway and I gladly eat lefsa. He would eat lutefisk and grandma (from Cumbria in the UK) would also make finnan haddie. I can't say which is worse, lutefisk or finnan haddie. I was grateful my mother and aunt would not force me to eat either.
DeleteAahh. lefsa with home made black raspberry preserves. And salted codfish chowder and fresh baked bread.
DeleteScurvy
The clerk might have heard " Casa Roll".
ReplyDeletealso known as "cream of the bottom shelf" and my favorite. Helped my then young daughter to make a tuna casserole for 4-H she was so worried about measuring out the frozen peas, "It's casserole hon, just throw it in"
ReplyDeleteTuna casserole with peas! Man, it's been a while but that stuff was just darn good food!
DeleteOK, time for some deductive reasoning. If the clerk did not know what a casserole is, then she must be a godless commie...never been to a church social....
ReplyDeleteWhile in a postdoc I met a guy who always took the time to have a full hot sit down lunch at one of the university's many cafeterias. This was quite unusual as most of us brought a bag lunch from home to save money generally. I inquired eventually as to why. He responded: My wife doesn't cook. He was the best person to ask where a great Fast Food meal could be found as he was forced to discover them.
ReplyDeleteDan Kurt
It's not just the young'uns who don't know certain types of cooking. There was a gal I knew when we were both in our 50s. One day at her house, we were both hungry but didn't feel like going out to a restaurant. But she also claimed she didn't have much food at her house. I rummaged through her cupboards and found some macaroni noodles and a can of tuna. I put them in a large frying pan and added water to the pan. Then I added some frozen peas. While stirring the concoction while it was heating on the stove, I asked her if she had any flour or cornstarch. She asked me why I wanted those items. I told her that I would add it to the water in the pan and it would thicken it into a sauce. She was astonished. "You can do that!?" she asked. I couldn't believe that she didn't know that, but she was basically a "meat and potatoes" type. She also didn't like any kind of spices, no garlic, no paprika, etc.
ReplyDeleteFor that matter, I learned to bake cakes and cookies (from my mother) when I was about 8 years old. My father said to me, "Why are you learning to do that, kid?" I told my father, "If I like to eat cakes and cookies, I want to know how to make them!"
-- Rusty
Cooking food is the easiest shit in the world, people have been doing it for millenniums. Anyone that claims to not know how is a simpleton and meant to be ostracized.
ReplyDeleteHow much facial jewelry & tats did Isabella have?
ReplyDeleteI had a cashier ask my birthday once for purchasing wine with groceries, so I told her July blah blah. She rolled her eyes at me and said "Like, what number is July". I rolled my eyes right back and said "Like, seven". The future is not looking too bright...
ReplyDeleteMy wife, who I met in college in the 70s and we have been married 45 years, was at a grocery store in a area we had not been in and asked a worker there "where is the Produce?" The worker looked at her and said "what is produce?" She could not believe the dumbing down of America and went and found it.
ReplyDeleteHome economics is not part of any “Studies” programs
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