Ages ago, I was at a covered dish dinner at some friends’ house. One of the contributions was a pasta casserole with tuna and peas in a white sauce. Our hostess chuckled when she saw it and asked the woman who brought it if her husband had gotten any of it yet. The answer was “Yes. You see that big scoop already out of that side of the dish.” and they both laughed.

I asked what was funny about the casserole.

The cook said, “Ken loves this casserole and always asks me to bring it if we’re doing a covered dish. A couple of years ago, I gave him the recipe so he could make it himself between parties. He called me 2 days later and asked if I’d left something out because his didn’t taste right. So, I told him to walk me through what he did step by step to try to figure out what was wrong. He said ‘Well, I didn’t have any tuna. But, I had some canned chicken and I used that. And I didn’t have any peas. So, I used corn. But, I made it exactly like you told me to and it just didn’t taste right.’”

And, then, all three of us were laughing at him.