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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Friday - 02.28.2025 - Dinner Plans
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 18:13:43 -0500
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On 3/6/2025 5:53 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-03-06 4:51 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
>> On 3/4/2025 9:58 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 
>>> We had butter on holidays.  Looking back, it was cruel.
>>>
>> Yeah, we got to use butter on holidays.  That's when Mom would 
>> invariably put the dinner rolls in the oven and forget about them.  
>> "Mom burned the rolls again" became a familiar holiday refrain.  Don't 
>> ask me why she didn't use a timer for those rolls.
> 
> She could have done worse than just burning the rolls. When I was a kid 
> it was quite common for people to heat canned vegetables by sticking 
> them in the oven. Of course you had to pierce the lid. My mother used to 
> run the can opener around the top but leave it in place. One of my aunts 
> was hosting a dinner and stuck a can of peas in the oven but forgot to 
> open the can first. It was a good thing everything was ready by the time 
> the can blew because it blew the door off the oven.
> 
> 
Damn! I never heard of reheating canned vegetables *in the can* in the 
oven before!  Why on earth would anyone do that?  Didn't the cans have 
paper labels on them or were you supposed to peel them off first?  Sorry 
about your aunt's oven door but that sounds like a pretty stupid way to 
heat up canned vegetables.

Jill