See this innocuous-looking dish. It doesn’t look like it could break up a marriage, but you just wait. Bud chose this dish when he and his sisters divided his mother’s belongings shortly after her death. He brought it home, showed it to me, and told it was what she’d always made banana pudding in. Not realizing the significance of that statement, I callously baked a chicken in it less than a week later.. He came in, was delighted to see “The Banana Pudding Bowl” sitting on the stove. He attempted to lift the lid to admire the pudding and burned his fingers. I never heard such howling and deprecations before or since. I came to understand that bowl was only for banana pudding
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I don’t blame you. It looks like a baked chicken bowl to me. :)
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You won’t make that mistake again
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Hahaha. You don’t want to mess with childhood memories, especially if they’re good ones.
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He loved his banana pudding memories.
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We can get attached to things and it doesn’t always make sense.
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Golly!
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Oh my my.
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Who onew a bowl would be sacred.
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Hope you got the recipe for banana pudding absolutely correct – otherwise, you’ve had it!!
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It’s hopeless to compete with a man’s memories of Mama’s cooking but I did all right.
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In my experience, it is indeed hopeless to compete with a man’s Mama’s cooking, or absolutely anything else about her.
This is a double edged sword, for the only thing worse for your position long term than competing with Mama is not ever being able to live up to her.
It’s a lose-lose, but then, as Linda has pointed out very wisely in her books, neither logic nor reason have traditionally been considered actually necessary when fixin’ blame on the wimmin…
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Nice post 🌅🌅
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Thanks.
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Oh goodness, I suppose all you can say to that is, lesson learned. I’m guessing your banana pudding is wonderful and tasty.
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It is but it’s hard to mess up banana pudding.
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Hmm, I think I had on the mind, banana pudding from a box. I’m sure that you make it much better then that and I’m sure it’s not too quick and easy, but I’m sure it tastes amazing.
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I never got in the habit of using mixes but have had ox mixes. Even the instant ones are good.
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So you make most things from scratch? You rock!!! I’m sure you have one happy hubby there.
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I never buy mixes. I have a very happy hubby. I love to cook. He knows he’s got it good.
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That’s awesome. I love to cook too, however, I do cheat when it comes to some baking. Sometimes I just like to have a goody in the house, otherwise, everything is from scratch
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It’s good to have something to pull out of the freezer.
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I bet I’d manage to mess it up. Just give me one chance…
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