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The punchline about my mother-in-law's stew backfired hard at Thanksgiving
Last Thursday at my sister's place in Columbus, I cracked a joke about her stew being 'leftover from last year' right as my mother-in-law walked in with the exact same dish. She heard me, went silent, and then spent the next 20 minutes talking about her recipe's history in a super cold tone. Has anyone else had a joke land so wrong that you couldn't even explain it was just a bit, or am I the only one who should've read the room better?
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the_margaret1mo ago
Oh man, that timing was just brutal. But hey, you said your mother-in-law brought in the exact same dish, and that's the part I'm not sure about. She walked in with the stew, right? So she wasn't the one who made the stew at your sister's place. That means the joke was about your sister's cooking, not your mother-in-law's. Your mother-in-law still got mad, sure, but it was probably more about her thinking you were trashing stew in general, which is her thing. Anyway, 20 minutes of cold recipe history sounds rough.
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