Saturday, October 24, 2009

Is Lying OK If You Are Being Nice?


Shannon was newly married and trying out some new recipes from her Mother in Law’s regular meal rotation. The day she had decided to make Chicken Broccoli Casserole, she received a phone call asking her to bring dinner to a family whose baby was in the hospital. She doubled the recipe of noodles, cream of chicken soup, mayonnaise, cheese, chicken, broccoli, sweetened condensed milk, curry powder, and lemon juice. Oops did I say sweetened condensed milk? No it should be evaporated milk. But Shannon did not know that there was a difference. She had taken the dinner to the other family and served it to her own before her husband took a bite and nearly gagged from the sweetness. Shannon’s family ate Taco Bell that night and called the other family to offer them Taco Bell too. They had already eaten and said it was fabulous. Then they went further to ask for the recipe.

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