A woman and a man get hitched.
A few weeks into the marriage, the woman decides to make her husband a delicious roast for dinner.
As the husband walks into the kitchen, he sees her slice a couple of inches off each side of the roast and toss them in the bin.
“Why did you throw them out? he asks. “Were they bad?”
“No,” replies the wife, “That’s what my mother always did. I never really thought about it until now.”
So, she calls her mother. “Hey, Mum, why did you cut off the ends of the roast when I was growing up?”
“Well, that’s what my mother always did. I never really thought about it until now,” she replied.
So her mother calls the woman’s grandmother. “Hey, Mum, why did you cut off the ends of the roast when I was growing up?”
“Well, that’s what my mother always did. I never really thought about it until now,” she said.
The great-grandmother wasn’t alive anymore, but her husband was.
“Hey, Dad, do you know why Mum always cut off the ends of the roast when I was growing up?”
“Well, when we were married, the roast was always juuuust too big for the pan.”