A little girl is watching her mother prepare the Christmas ham for dinner in the way that she always does every Christmas. As usual, she notices her mother cutting off the edges to make it into a square shape before putting it into the oven.
\nThis year, she was curious and asked her mother, \u201cwhy do you cut the edges off the Christmas ham?\u201d
\nHer mother stopped and paused for a second and said, \u201cThat\u2019s a very good question. When I was a little girl, I used to watch my mother doing the same thing. Let\u2019s call Grandma and see what\u2019s up.\u201d
\nSo they called up Grandma, and they said, \u201cwhy is that you used to cut the edges off the Christmas ham?\u201d
\nAnd Grandma said, \u201cwell, that\u2019s because every year Grandpa used to get a ham for a bonus. And our oven was so small that I had to cut off the edges to make it fit.\u201d
\nAnd so they realized that it was no longer necessary to cut off the edges and from that moment onwards, they decided not to cut the edges off the ham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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