Lost then Found (Why is it Done that Way?)

  One day after school a girl noticed that her mum was cutting off the ends of a pot roast before putting it in the oven to cook for dinner. She had seen her mum do this many times before but had never asked her why. 

So, this time she asked and her mum replied, "I don't know why, but it's what my mum always did why  don't you ask your grandma?"

So, the young girl called her grandmother on the phone and said, "Grandma, why do you cut the ends of the pot roast before cooking it? Her grandmother replied, "I don't know. That's just the way my mum always cooked it. Why don't you ask her?"

 Frustrated but determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, the girl called her great-grandmother and asked her the same question. "Why did you cut the ends of the pot roast before cooking it?"' Her great grandmother simply said, "When I was first married, we had a very small oven and the pot roast didn't fit in the oven unless I cut the ends off."

Of course the surface point is the waste of meat but the greater,more important point is that we will do things a certain way( following the customs and family traditions) unless we ask simple questions similar to the girl in our story.( and maybe hear humourous answers)

(By Digital Anvil)