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kranmars said:
My mom turns 80 on Saturday. While I do not know about her lateral movement, I do know she can still wield a wooden spoon — and not always to make sauce — with the best of them.
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Had congress banned wooden spoons decades ago, italian boys would have been spared the weapon of choice of their moms as a disciplinary tool.

One of my favorite uncles passed away 2 years ago in his 90s. When my grandfather passed away in the 1960s, my grandmother moved in with my aunt and uncle. My aunt, with three sons, broke many a wooden spoon on those boys. My grandmother hated the practice.

So my cousins recalled at my uncle's wake that long after my grandmother had died he had replaced the kitchen stove. When they hauled the old stove out, behind it they found more than a dozen wooden spoons my grandmother had thrown behind the stove to hide the weapons from my aunt.
 
Beasts of the East said:
Had congress banned wooden spoons decades ago, italian boys would have been spared the weapon of choice of their moms as a disciplinary tool.

One of my favorite uncles passed away 2 years ago in his 90s. When my grandfather passed away in the 1960s, my grandmother moved in with my aunt and uncle. My aunt, with three sons, broke many a wooden spoon on those boys. My grandmother hated the practice.

So my cousins recalled at my uncle's wake that long after my grandmother had died he had replaced the kitchen stove. When they hauled the old stove out, behind it they found more than a dozen wooden spoons my grandmother had thrown behind the stove to hide the weapons from my aunt.
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When my grandmother passed at 90, my dad & I were cleaning out her apartment. One of the two items I personally kept were her wooden spoon. I saw her use it my whole life as did my dad. It was so worn it has an indent either from thumb or banging on side of sauce pot. Decades old, it can't be sanitary even with boil wash but swear it made her sauce better than anyone elses. I have used it a few times to reflect on her and sauce is better.

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RedStormNC said:
When my grandmother passed at 90, my dad & I were cleaning out her apartment. One of the two items I personally kept were her wooden spoon. I saw her use it my whole life as did my dad. It was so worn it has an indent either from thumb or banging on side of sauce pot. Decades old, it can't be sanitary even with boil wash but swear it made her sauce better than anyone elses. I have used it a few times to reflect on her and sauce is better.

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Vin, that's such a sweet story. What a great thing to have as a memory of her. Without fail early every Sunday morning my mother would start a big pot a sauce. Never out of a jar, God forbid. There are also some southern Italian things she would cook that I've never tried to replicate nor are they on restaurant menus. Lost art.
 
Beasts of the East said:
Had congress banned wooden spoons decades ago, italian boys would have been spared the weapon of choice of their moms as a disciplinary tool.

One of my favorite uncles passed away 2 years ago in his 90s. When my grandfather passed away in the 1960s, my grandmother moved in with my aunt and uncle. My aunt, with three sons, broke many a wooden spoon on those boys. My grandmother hated the practice.

So my cousins recalled at my uncle's wake that long after my grandmother had died he had replaced the kitchen stove. When they hauled the old stove out, behind it they found more than a dozen wooden spoons my grandmother had thrown behind the stove to hide the weapons from my aunt.
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Just so we are all clear. My post was purely an attempt at pushing the boundaries of my normally unfunny sarcasm.

In no way did I intend to take this thread hostage and endorse child abuse.

Oh and by the way, it is sauce. Not gravy.

Thank you.
 
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