One day a little girl was watching her mom make a roast
beef. She cut off the ends, wrapped it in string, seasoned it and set it in the
roasting pan.
The little girl asked her mom why she cut off the ends of
the roast. Mom replied, after some thought, that it was the way that her mother
had done it.
That night grandma came to dinner and the little girl and
her mom went to her and asked why she had cut the end off of the roast before
cooking. After some thought grandma replied, that was the way her mother had
done it.
Now great grandmother was quite old and in a nursing home.
But the little girl went with her mom and grandma to see her and again asked
the question.
Grandma looked at them a bit annoyed and said, "So it
would fit in the pan, of course."