A young woman was preparing a ham dinner. After she cut off the end of the ham, she placed it in a pan for baking. Her daughter asked her, "Why did you cut off the end of the ham?

And she replied, "I really don't know but my mother always did, so I thought you were supposed to."

Later when talking to her mother she asked her why she cut off the end of the ham before baking it, and her mother replied, "I really don't know, but that's the way my mom always did it."

A few weeks later while visiting her grandmother, the young woman asked, "Grandma, why is it that you cut off the end of a ham before you bake it?"

Her grandmother replied, "Well, dear, that's the only way it would fit into my baking pan."

一位年轻的妇人正在准备火腿晚餐。她切掉火腿的尾部，然后放到盘子里准备烘烤。她女儿问她，“你为什么要把火腿的尾部给切掉呢？”她回答说：“我也不知道，但我的妈妈每次都这么做，所以我认为你也应该这样做。”

过后当她和她的聊天时，她问她为什么在烤火腿之前要把火腿的尾部给切掉，她妈妈回答，“我也不知道，不过我妈妈总是这样做。”

当她几个星期之后去探望她的外婆时，她问：“外婆，你为什么要在烤火腿之前要把火腿的尾部给切掉呢？”

她的外婆回答说，“嗯，亲爱的，只有这样我才能把它们放进我的烘烤盘里去。”