nerdfishgirl:

runicbinary:

jennyanydots42:

just-shower-thoughts:

One day, that “secret family recipe” will just be that recipe their ancestor looked up online years ago and everybody liked.

I found out one of my family’s “secret recipes” is on the back of the pudding box. Uncle Rich bakes up some lies.

While researching his book The Nordic Cookbook, chef Magnus Nilsson found that every family in Sweden has a special, unique family recipe for pickled herring passed down secretly from generation to generation. He got about 200 of these. They were all exactly the same. He traced the origin point back to a popular cookbook published in the late 1960s. I think the moral of that story is everyone’s grandma is a liar.

This can be really fun though, like when my family found out that the traditional “german” cookies we make – are actually Hungarian/Romanian – apparently they’re the result of cultural mixing in Transylvania over the course of several centuries.

We found this out by seeing them in the grocery store – where they are VERY expensive.