You might wonder why I chose Meat Loaf for Two from Favorite Recipes 1977 (Troy Mills Christian Women's Fellowship, of Troy Mills Disciples of Christ Christian Church) as a funny name entry. It's not really a funny name. The ingredients are not particularly interesting for a meat loaf, either: ground beef, carb crumbs, milk, egg, some seasonings.
And then you get to that very last line: Serves four. Did Mrs. Tim (Mary K.) Johnson forget the premise halfway through? Did she just assume that everybody likes leftovers, so it was meat loaf for two twice? Was she really bad at math? Or maybe it's meat loaf for two large dogs or for four people, and she assumed most people would just feed this to the dogs after they tasted it? If you have any additional theories, feel free to share!
Considering that I will eat a pound of ground beef for a meal with some eggs on the side, I could make the case that it serves one if you get rid of the milk and carb crumbs. Either way the math still doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteWe are built very differently! I'd be, to put it delicately, "indisposed" the rest of the day (at least) if I had to eat a pound of ground beef with eggs on the side.
DeleteLoL, you have to work up to it.
DeleteWe also have extremely different priorities.
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