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(Message started by: Lalamel on Mar 8^th, 2005, 8:01pm)

Title: What happened with dinner?
Post by Lalamel on Mar 8^th, 2005, 8:01pm

Ok, maybe you heard this one already... but here it goes...

A wife cooked dinner for her husband and oversalted it... in fact, she dropped over 1kg of salt directly in his dinner... she was pretty worried what the husband would say when he tried it...
as he came home, she served the dinner... as he started eating, he asked if she could get him some salt. she did,and he added a bit of salt to his dinner... and of course, ate it with great delight...
What did the woman cook?

Title: Re: What happened with dinner?
Post by Lalamel on Mar 8^th, 2005, 8:04pm

oh, and sorry - just realized that this should be in the "what happened" section...

:o

Title: Re: What happened with dinner?
Post by Grimbal on Mar 9^th, 2005, 2:18am

Boiled eggs? But I don't know why she would want to add salt to the water.

Title: Re: What happened with dinner?
Post by Lalamel on Mar 9^th, 2005, 4:25am

Well, I said she was his wife.. i didn't say she had any brains whatsoever! ;D

Well, guess tihs one's really TOO easy...

Title: Re: What happened with dinner?
Post by towr on Mar 9^th, 2005, 6:45am

on 03/09/05 at 02:18:33, Grimbal wrote:

Boiled eggs? But I don't know why she would want to add salt to the water.

It's common practice actually. The reason most people that do it do it, is because their moms did it, and their moms did it etc. Why anyone started to do it in the first place isn't entirely clear. It has been suggested the water will boil at a higher temperature, and such things, but anything short of a kilogram of salt wouldn't make much of a difference :P

Title: Re: What happened with dinner?
Post by Lalamel on Mar 9^th, 2005, 8:25am

Yeah :)

well, i was thinking of sth else: it is really strange that she dropped a bit over a kilo salt, caus, at least in my parts, salt is packed in kilo bags, so it would be really hard to drop more than a kilo, esp. by accident...

well, since it's an old OTR, or as it is, orally transmitted riddle, maybe the part with the quantity of the salt is redundant... how bout sayin: a lot of salt ;D

Title: Re: What happened with dinner?
Post by Sjoerd Job Postmus on Mar 9^th, 2005, 8:39am

on 03/08/05 at 20:01:58, Lalamel wrote:

Either this is a huge meal, that needs a lot of salt, or it is encased in something to protect it from the salt at first.

For instance, if you boil an egg in water ( with or without salt ), and then lift it out of the water and 'peel' it, bye bye salt. Since boiling eggs don't necesarily need salt, I guess this answer would mostly be correct.

But, I'm not really certain if this is the correct answer.

Title: Re: What happened with dinner?
Post by Grimbal on Mar 9^th, 2005, 9:38am

Another far-fetched explanation.

She was doing spaghetti for herself and boiled eggs for her husband. She thought: why bother with 2 pots, just cook everything together. So, when she added salt, her own meal was terribly spoilt. But she has her pride and tried very hard to pretend nothing happened. But when he innocently asked for a little bit of salt, it was too much. It ended in a divorce.

Title: Re: What happened with dinner?
Post by Lalamel on Mar 9^th, 2005, 10:16am

the egg is the righ answer, but i sure do like the pasta theory ;D