No One Can Cook Like MeeMaw

[@hollyr.1139]

"Once you're able to decipher her writin', you'll experience the thrill of converting MeeMaw's measurements." Reminds me of a recipe card from my grandma that lists a half-eggshell of water as an ingredient.

[@susangailes9461]

I saw one recipe that measured flour in fistfuls.

[@kirstenkelley9864]

Grandma's egg noodles: put "enough" flour (a few handfuls) on the (bleached clean) countertop and make a well, add one or two eggs and mix by hand "until it feels right" before rolling out "thin enough" and cutting them into strips. Dry on towel placed over a wooden chair and cook by boiling in water until they float. Serve with margarine.

[@watcherwriter]

Several of my Grandma's dessert recipes call for some certain number of "ten cent Hershey bars." We just keep guessing random quantities of chocolate.

[@B2WM]

@@kirstenkelley9864 That, to this day, is the proper measurement of flour for great-grandmother's Moravian cookies. "Flour? There's no amount listed for flour." USE ALL THE FLOUR!

[@stephenolan5539]

@@watcherwriter IIRC when chocolate bars were ten cents they were about a quarter to a third the size of today's chocolate bars. Usually you remember things as bigger than they were but chocolate bars were smaller. I think there was once a cocoa shortage that raised the prices up, and a sugar shortage did the same later. And rather than reduce the price they made the bars bigger.

[@joshuawells835]

Next step: invite Meemaw inside to have supper with you. It's rude to just make her stand outside.

[@Meela234]

Especially since she brought the pie.

[@geechie119]

I don't remember Meemaw eating much of the meals she cooked. She was too busy spooning more food on our plates.

[@dontaylor7315]

@@gregbrown357 Granny's long departed but I visit my cousin in San Antonio for about a week three times a year and I've yet to see her sit down with us at a mealtime. At night after she's in bed she sends her boyfriend to the kitchen to get her a plate.

[@CosmaPaulaton]

@@geechie119 my grandma instead is always fiddling around with something else while we wait for her, because instead of starting one project at a time, she chooses to do 9 at the same time. One second she is getting the dog food, the next she's folding laundry, and then she is sewing something back up, and then it's been 2 hours and the dogs are not eating. She's never ever focused on anything.

[@TeviaRocks]

Y’all, his MeeMaw is dead. She’d have to be to give up her recipes.

[@klyffjohnson]

The portion size is what cracks me up. Seeing as my mother didn't have daughters, I'm the son that got all the family recipes. Imagine my surprise when, as a single guy, I discovered the recipes for Mac and Cheese, Collard Greens, and Baked Beans were 5 quarts, EACH.

[@catherinegarmon3027]

LOL

[@rocklesson86]

Haha

[@krisbiebs8507]

I bet you learned your fractions really quickly.

[@GoddessNeith]

so small servings then. :-D

[@klyffjohnson]

@@krisbiebs8507 Oh I did, but some of the recipes can't be reduced to a "reasonable" amount, lest you be left dealing with a fraction of an egg. The REDUCED sweet potato pie recipe, for example, makes 3.

[@mwood65]

If my grandma could see your plate she would keep giving you more food. I learned to spread out the rice so she wouldn't see and bare spots.

[@salaltschul3604]

My grandma was Czech and grew up during the war. Any time we'd say that we were full, she'd say, "full has to eat too," and put more schnitzel and potatoes on your plate.

[@oriona8648]

@@salaltschul3604 Your grandma sounds wonderful

[@younglaster]

Your plate wasn't fixed if there was an empty spot!

[@rwind656]

I grew up with full Southern dinner plates and remember coaching a college buddy (who was preparing a first meal for someone they were dating) on how it was not acceptable in my eyes to have only one meat, one starch, and one vegetable on a plate! (Looking back I later realized this practice was because of huge families coming in working from the fields, who would have two meats and many different sides... To feed such a huge crowd every day. ) Time passed, and I had reformed as an adult. Our plates looked more like what we would see in a restaurant. (Before American restaurants started giving way too much food for one person to eat, I should clarify.) So the day came when I prepared dinner for a couple of married friends... and after all the food I had prepared was served, they each took a fork and pushed the foods aside, so that there would be more room on the plate for servings of extra vegetables and meat -- but there was no more to serve! They were just used to having more servings, being raised in the South the way we all were. ROFLOL!

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

@@salaltschul3604 That is heartbreakingly sweet omg

[@angelawagner3181]

I kind of expected everything to be packed in Country Crock containers so you could play "which one's the margarine?" That game was always a fan favorite at Grandma's house.

[@butterflyqueen9260]

I like their video too

[@susangailes9461]

My son would start going through my containers looking for butter and each time he would open one up and say, "I can't believe it's not BATTER."

[@butterflyqueen9260]

@@susangailes9461 ctfu

[@gretchenbarr1578]

I was goin to give your comment 100 thumbs up and one hundred cry-laughing emoji's but the only option was the single thumbs up or thumbs down. You had me rolling with that guess which butter container is ACTUALLY storing the butter !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chereecargill355]

My mom grew up on a farm in a family of 12, plus all the farm hands who were working. She learned to cook for 15 to 20 people and she never changed. Once my husband and I were going to Sunday dinner with just four of us -- me, hubby, her and Daddy. She called me to say, "I've cooked a roast but that might not be enough. I'd better fry a chicken, too." This is a true story, swear to God!

[@samanthajo1987]

I love the lady that plays MeeMaw! She's one of my favorite people on this channel!

[@dgeneeknapp3168]

I adore her too. She looks and sounds sooo much like my only remaining aunt. She's a tiny little woman with a cherubic round face and adorable puggy nose and sooo sweet...but still SOMEHOW a little scary 🤣. Oh, and she's in NC...where I think they make these. A really pretty and sweet little southern woman one best not cross...just take whatever she's giving without arguing 😏😁.

[@WizardToby]

she hasn't thrown out expired ingredients since the Nixon administration XD

[@violetopal6264]

What's really bad is when whole kitchen smells from the freezer. Still had to argue with her while throwing the something out. Not even sure what it was.🤦

[@michaelakindley9644]

Omg ... me

[@juliepdem5275]

🤣🤣💖💖🤣🤣

[@kathleenkirchoff9223]

Oh this is my husband's step mom. Her daughter and I have to sneak out expired things from her kitchen and basement stockpiles.

[@marywebb_22]

My grandma and I still argue over that cookie mix we baked with (it tasted awful after we cooked it but she still keeps insisting that wasn’t why) it expired TEN YEARS prior, but she “just bought it” 😂 she doesn’t even do the shopping 🤦🏼‍♀️ she doesn’t have dementia, btw. She can remember fine lol she just wanted to make cookies. I still win but she still think she still does lol. Edit: grammar. I can’t type apparently haha

[@Skywal5677]

I was seriously expecting a cast iron skillet to come out the box

[@martabachynsky8545]

Maybe that's why it was so heavy.

[@GoddessNeith]

I was too! where's the cast Iron chicken pan & the cornbread pan? that all goes with the bacon grease.

[@HosCreates]

Yep

[@tammycenter8757]

LOL that is exactly what I was looking for.

[@jekku4688]

omg ME TOO! I have one and the rare times I'm forced to use soap & water to clean it....I feel really guilty. Does that count? Don't tell MeeMaw on me! 😫

[@Meela234]

When she said "cut a switch", I felt that and flinched. Lol

[@sunnybigmc90]

Same! 😅

[@eeduranti]

Me to except I always had to cut my own.

[@nickhawkins2938]

Yeah same here but it wasn't my grandma it was my papa made me cut a switch my grandma wouldn't whoop me 😂 papa in the other hand had no problem wrappin a limb around my shins hahaha

[@HolgerDanske]

We used to have to cut our own switch. If it wasn't supple or snappy enough we had to cut another one.

[@tracigresham7164]

And the whelps I would have on my legs ‼️😬

[@emery6049]

“Or the Duggar family from TLC”😂

[@TheoPhilpot]

I BURST out laughing 🤣😂😂

[@rhyfelwrDuw]

I was in stitches when she said that! 🤣🤣🤣

[@michellebrown3563]

I laughed so hard at that part!!!

[@abbymorris9155]

😂😂😂

[@Persassyproduction_fanpage]

That was hilarious

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

An abuela's best dish is a heeping dose of *c h a n c l a*

[@keithjohnston5936]

It was like that in LA where I grew up. Abuelita was small but mighty.

[@kevinramsey417]

Fear the chancleta!

[@economycollapseimminent]

Hahahahahaha YESSS

[@firegal9105]

Yup 😂

[@nickhawkins2938]

I was engaged to a beautiful hispanic girl when I was in my early 20s and her abuela loved me and made this white boy awesome snacks! Sopapias 😋 me and the girl split sadly because we didn't agree on having kids but still love her and weeta

[@nathanjplatt]

Man i wish the was a service. I miss Grandma's cooking. Nothing was better then family around the table at her place, or Mom and Dad dropping us off and spending the night and getting a massive dinner and a great breakfast.....Didn't happen after 2003 when she moved to NC, but childhood was fantastic. When Grandma came up to visit she always brought something. She passed in August 2019...leaving me with no more grandparents.....life just hasn't felt the same since. I'd give everything to have this....and a grandma watching.

[@Meela234]

I feel ya. I'd even take a switch beating to have my grandmothers back.

[@brittaniesidebottom]

I feel this comment completely!! My grandma Hallie passed in 2014, and the family hasn’t been the same since. We no longer get together for holidays (it’s now my mom with her kids and my aunts with their kids in their own houses. We used to all come together at grandma’s house). My brother has kids now, and they have cousins their age. They don’t get together for play dates with the cousins or anything like that. My grandma’s house was bought by one of her cousins, and they tore it down. Broke my heart to see nothing but the frame left (we don’t live in the same area, so we go by to check on it when we are in that area). I remember so many sleepovers at her house, all of us cousins in the pole barn out back with the wood stove going to keep us warm. Grandma would bake cookies and send us all a ziplock bag full of them home. She made me one giant cookie too once (like literally as big as the pan lol) and told me not to tell lol (although knowing her, she probably done that for all of us 😂❤️). I remember she loved cooking and baking, but it had to be from scratch. Even as she was battling cancer. Our last thanksgiving with her she insisted on helping bake the pies, even though she could barely stand. My aunt suggested store bought to save time and my grandma’s energy, and grandma flat out refused and actually got grumpy at my aunt for even thinking about it (she was the exact opposite usually). She said no store bought pie was coming into her house 😂. She was that passionate about all of us eating good food. I miss her terribly 😔😭💔

[@jenniferbraswell9634]

Agreed!💯

[@kimgilson7903]

My MIL had a whole set of cupboard's dedicated to recycled plastic containers including cracked freezer containers! When she passed and we were cleaning out ,I asked hubby why she kept them. He said"Mom knew what to put in them and how much so they didn't leak." 😂

[@user-neo71665]

Those damn cool whip bowls always cracked at the top

[@cayannap6752]

Been there, done that.

[@दोस्तमित्र]

m not a southern, but my mumma also use to store recycled plastic containers 😘. Ps. we still have them!

[@vikithomasson7772]

Yep! And if u r silly enough to buy the knock off Cool Whip, the lids don’t stay on for left over storage! Oh! Um I can’t believe I just confessed #1 I’ve ever bought knock off Cool Whip #2 my fridge and dedicated cabinet is full of various sizes of Cool Whip containers!!

[@user-neo71665]

@@vikithomasson7772 Great value knock off cool whip aint bad and the tubs work pretty well

[@hillbillydiva1309]

The difference between a Southern Meemaw and an Italian Grandma is Southern Meemaw's ask you how your doing and all the niceties. Italian Grandma's the minute you open the door Are you hungry. I has one of each.

[@salaltschul3604]

Czech grandma will stand over you until your plate is clean and then say, "full has to eat too," when you can hardly breathe from the food crawling back up your throat.

[@lindaburley9813]

@@salaltschul3604 How did you get my Gramma? Her idea of "full" was two plates past your breaking point.

[@hillorisartin6129]

My mom isn't even italian, but she will still tell my son what she has to eat and drink when he walks in. She is from west virginia so they act kind of the same way with food. My dads side is italian so I got it on both sides!! Our whole lives revolved around food.

[@terynb4407]

I feel like that's grandma's period they always asking if you hungry I gotta tell mines no about 10 times before she say okay

[@vikithomasson7772]

Hillbilly Diva 1 I’m blessed to b Italian and from the South! My assumption is that EVERYONE comes to my house to EAT! Refusals r unacceptable- unless u r sick. N that case, I can have homemade chicken soup made n less than 20 minutes while u wait n the recliner/bed, covered up nice and warm!

[@jb6712]

I'm a Michigan native, had never been to the South prior to 1980, when my now ex-husband and I went to KY to visit some of his (many!) aunts and uncles. It was right at lunchtime that we arrived, and being a Northerner, I expected that something simple such as soup and sandwiches, or a salad, would be lunch. I was stunned when I saw no less than 27 different dishes on a HUGE table, and I was expected to take a heaping helping of every single dish! I was roundly chastised, though, for not being able to eat as much as the aunts believed I should be capable of putting into my stomach. It was mighty good food, and the ridiculous amounts of it appeared each meal, 3 times a day, plus huge "snacks" multiple times a day, every day that we were there. I wasn't thought of in a good way by any of my husband's relatives from that first day on, and one of the aunts said out loud in front of everyone, "Well, it looks like Joyce just isn't going to fit into this family at all (we'd already been married 7 years); she ain't got the appetite to eat Southern!" Husband and I divorced 18 months later, though his aunts' cooking had nothing to do with that 🤔....I think.

[@jerrykinnin7941]

At Nannie Nannies after your 2nd plate your rubbing your belly looking at 3 different desserts on the counter. She looks at you and says "Y'all sick? You havent ate a bite. She passed away at 100 years and 38 days old. May we ALL be that Stubbornly BLESSED.

[@Nurichiri]

My sis has turned into a Southern Meemaw. Her favorite line is "you sure you don't want more?" and then she gives you a fridge full of leftovers.

[@debbiethomas2622]

I know, right!

[@gseric4721]

What's so bad about that? lol

[@Nurichiri]

@@gseric4721 Nothing, just that we're notherners.

[@gseric4721]

@@Nurichiri Oh, that makes all the difference then XD

[@Laneous14]

I gotta say, that sounds wonderful. I can eat Thanksgiving leftovers for the next week and be happy.

[@janiceharris5475]

OMG, margarine and cool whip containers included. Don't take it without permission though, they have them counted down to the last lid.😂😂

[@FelisTerras]

..that's not a Southern thing. A 'friend' of mine once burrowed the lower half of my tupperware box. We're on talking terms, but I have never trusted her with a single spoon ever.

[@cindyg3358]

😂😂

[@morganhinton5519]

And then wash and make sure to return them!!😂

[@eilisnugent]

I wonder where the margarine containers came from when “you know we don’t use margarine in this house”

[@beebeetee2926]

Yes lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnmarkconnolly6414]

Makes me miss my Mammaw. How was she able to fry a whole chicken, have two (or three) vegetables, a fruit salad, a copper-penny salad and a cake and a pie for dessert in a kitchen smaller than my bathroom and in what seemed like ten minutes? They were truly different stock.

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

At least yours could cook lmao. Mine wasn't a bad cook, but decades of smoking killed her taste buds, so her food tasted like absolutely nothing because she didn't bother to season it. Her own plate, however, looked like Vesuvius hit it there was so much salt and pepper on it

[@johnmarkconnolly6414]

@@candicehoneycutt4318 well, when her eyesight started to fail her, Mammaw’s cooking took a decidedly downward turn. But it could barely dent the impression she made during my growing up.

[@stacimentus316]

@John Mark, I said the same thing!!

[@catherinegarmon3027]

Aw, feel like you described my grandmother.

[@dianeabbey9202]

Back in the day, I could have a full course meal cooked and on the table in about 30 minutes... not anymore! Takes forever

[@janinelew2483]

My grandma used to put a piece of masking tape on her containers and write her name with a Sharpie to make sure she got them back.😂🤣😂🤣

[@tracigresham7164]

Yes!!

[@hopecox]

😂

[@donnaleeah5075]

Lolol I do that!! I love in the north and am a grandma. Yes, I reuse the containers from whatever. Lids, bowls. Why throw them out? Ohhh if my Gram saw me now.

[@krisbiebs8507]

Mine used the mail return labels she got in the mail.

[@HosCreates]

Yep thats what ya do at potlucks too

[@lacyhay9022]

I miss my grandmother cooking. God called her home over 12 years ago. I'm thankful she taught me how to cook.

[@susanhlavaty9500]

When my parents passed one in 2012 , we actually found food that expired in the 70s . There was frozen food in the freezer that expired in the 90s. We laughed so hard, because no one knew what it was.

[@reflectionsinthebible3579]

Gross. TMI.

[@antilogism]

50 YO spices are trippy. Like plastic fruit, they only look the part.

[@stevenalexander4721]

@@antilogism 😂spices are lucky to make it a month in my house before I need to go buy some more.

[@barbaraburke6682]

My younger grandson called me Meemaw when he first started to talk. It took me a while to figure out why. Human brains are amazing.

[@debco12]

My granny made everything from scratch and grew her own vegetables. She’d have enough food on the table to feed an army and after you ate two platefuls, she’d worry you hadn’t eaten enough and try to feed you more. Then she’d bring out dessert.

[@S_Cooper0404]

"Don't make me go cut a switch!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 LOLing from Southern South Carolina. 🖐🏻

[@cindybubbles]

Yeah, especially since Nintendo Switches are very hard to cut! :)

[@bubbles9975]

@Shelia Cooper // I live in South Carolina as well 🥰

[@languagelearningdabbler]

Real southerners know you have to go get your own switch 😂

[@darrellhall6508]

My mamaw would say "Go cut me a switch...It better be a good'un."

[@lscblackwell9202]

Mine would get either a forsythia switch or a spiria switch (aka a keen switch), depending upon which was closer! 😱

[@sosouthern615]

Minus the expired food and the not legible recipes, WHY ISN’T THIS A REAL THING?!?!?!

[@RobHoffman83]

But the expired food and illegible recipes are what makes MeeMaw's the best!

[@watcherwriter]

Because they'd have to include nutritional information, and customers would die of cardiac events from reading that before the food even got to their arteries!

[@elizabethj6717]

@@watcherwriter seriously! 🤣 we always joke that my Grandma's cooking should come with a Cardiologist...especially when the recipe calls for butter by the POUND!! 😳

[@tammycenter8757]

Because young people are not going to cook meals that take all day to cook.

[@OnceUponAMidnightDreary]

I imagine there is a lot of demand for this... How is this not already a thing?

[@patrickbateman5387]

As a southern person I can’t deny any of this.

[@pennybean6851]

"don't make me go cut a switch." LOL! Yeah, that brings back memories except I had to go cut my own switch!

[@willp.8120]

@@slippersmomma We were whipped with two in case one broke.

[@kaylizzie7890]

Are you guys ok? If I heard a child I was caring for say that I would be calling CPS!

[@guardianoftheduat]

@@kaylizzie7890 🙄

[@limrockthe1st]

Meemaw just used the “S” word! Everybody run and scatter! Stick padding in your britches and remember to tape on oven mitts to protect your hands! Best of luck to all y’all. God bless, good luck, and hope to see y’all again!

[@julialewis8794]

That's an imposter meemaw! A real meemaw makes you cut your own switch and Lord help you if it brakes before she's done...

[@kungfuhustling4832]

I made the mistake of brining in a dead limb that I found in the yard. I was sent back out to cut a switch from the Althea bush.

[@queenbunnyfoofoo6112]

You aren't kidding....trying to pick one that's meemaw approved, but won't hurt too badly.😁.

[@younglaster]

The one summer I saw my grandma braiding three limp switches together... So glad I never caught that wrath.

[@tracigresham7164]

@@younglaster 😯 OUCH

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

@@younglaster that is legit terrifying omg that's like some biblical level punishment

[@user-neo71665]

This ol boy was taught how to cook by my granny, we don't use no recipes or measuring devices. Anything she wrote down she left out something to make sure you couldn't make it just like hers. Only way to learn was shut up, stand there, and pay attention while she was making it. You damn sure wouldn't be playing on a phone back when she was alive.

[@Keemanchic]

I have never in my life seen something SO DANG ACCURATE!! This is my Mema to a T. We always grew up saying “Mema always cooks for an army!!” It was Mema who first invented “cook once, eat all week” lol That woman would cook and we would have leftovers for DAYYYYSSSSS.

[@032319581]

When they said expired ingredients , I cracked up. They most have gone into my mother's pantry. I threw out expired spices from 1990's...she yelled at me.

[@wolfgod6778]

Oh boy, don't you know that spices outlive everyone? Never throw out spices unless he container is empty, sometimes not even then.

[@AerCloud]

I work for a spice merchant. Exportation and importation. The amount of extremely expired stuff I've seen. I have seen paprika so old that it was liqufying.

[@ChibiPanda8888]

@@AerCloud holy cow I didn't even know that was possible

[@dgeneeknapp3168]

@@wolfgod6778 "and sometimes not even then." 🤣🤣🤣 You've been in our spice cabinet I see.

[@JasonMoir]

The Cool Whip and Country Crock containers were perfect. I still use those for storage in my house.

[@alostrich]

MeeMaw is still at my house and I haven’t watched anything but Wheel of Fortune and Young and the Restless for days.

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

Sorry, dude. I bet you can get her to leave by putting her cast iron in the dish washer, lol.

[@michelleferguson9104]

But I bet you’re eating good Matt! Wear your elastic waistband pants, more room for food lol

[@tracigresham7164]

Matt....😂 I can relate. My grandmother also watched her "stories" (that's "soap operas" for people that don't know) lol

[@stephaniemckenzie3552]

Hilarious!! Memaw's cooking looks wonderful! I would never dream of not having seconds! 😂💜😋

[@kartavianmacrath7219]

I need this in my life... I live in Colorado and it is hard trying to find the ingredients, so just to send the recipe and ingredients alone would help...

[@Gmacrone]

OMG, she gave everyone *The Look*.

[@meldilly7756]

Don't make me go cut a switch....my granny always made me get my own switch, and if I was funny about it, she used what I got her AND got her own to follow up....mad respect for granny

[@lilsisasu]

Love this! 😂 Seriously though, I’d give anything to have my Grandma’s persimmon puddin again. She always made me one for my birthday. She’s been gone for 2 1/2 years.

[@thistlegal2154]

Never heard of that pudding. How,what did it taste like?

[@nancykilbourn836]

I so miss persimmon puddin. But from wild persimmons. So delicious. The same recipe using domesticated persimmons (supermarket) tastes like wet cardboard. But there are no persimmon trees in California.

[@galamander_1327]

This is every Polish, Italian, or Philipino mom/grandma ever. They act hurt if you don't stuff yourself to the brim, and then stuff in some dessert and tea. If you're so full you can't move, it means you'll stay and visit longer.

[@evelyntorberson409]

The first time Matt hasn't been excited to eat 🤣

[@danicegewiss862]

I was thinking that. 😆

[@TheOldPCTech]

I knew what that bacon grease was as soon as he pulled it out of the box !! 🤣 My “Memaw” (just Maw) in my family didn’t use a glass jar though, she always used a Crisco can to store hers in (back when they were metal of course...) 😁🥰

[@pxn748]

Milk carton

[@catwhisperer9489]

Yep, mine, too (Crisco can)---and my great aunt, a coffee can!!

[@adrianchatman5734]

My grandma and my aunties when they serve me 3 lbs of food EACH and I'm having the meat sweats: "You sure you got enough, baby?" 🤣🤣

[@HappyJesusFreak]

Oh my gosh you all would make a bundle on those meal boxes.

[@SheepdogSmokey]

I'd sign up for "Sunday supper all taken care of" boxes, no hesitation, other than having the $$ since I'm still building. Wait, I don't have a kitchen yet, better hold out.

[@catherinegarmon3027]

Getting Cracker Barrel takeout is pretty much the next best thing.

[@batman96160]

I was able to learn grandma's recipes from the source. She has now made me the house cook

[@krisbiebs8507]

They teach you to cook then they retire. 😂

[@zd3365]

Lost it at the "in keeping with MeeMaw's commitment to sustainability..." part. Great stuff.

[@helenel4126]

"Seconds are mandatory." Y'all were spyin' on my granma when we ate at her house! And that meant second on *everything*!

[@championkathryn9936]

We had an aunt that made us have thirds. By the end of it, when it was home time, we all begged our uncle to drive us home slowly! The queue for toilet the next day was looonnnnng!!!!!!

[@turtleface25]

Seeing the southern grandma say "swag" just made my day

[@debbiecooper1677]

I wish mine would show up at my door. its been 14years ago today she passed

[@michelleferguson9104]

My granny died when I was 8 years old. I still remember her canning jelly and jam with my momma. Oh and making hollandaise sauce, she had a special bowl for that. I have it now, along with her favorite wooden spoon. Good memories. Now I want to make a huge dinner lol

[@paul16451]

If she actually did show up at your door now, I'd get thee to a psychiatrist...or hope that your life insurance was paid up, as she would likely be there to take you with her.

[@Rxanne28]

:( May she rest in Heaven.

[@TeviaRocks]

me too

[@Kit.E.Katz45]

💖

[@happycook6737]

MeeMaw's dress is hillariously perfect! 🤣

[@stephanginther9051]

This reminds me of my dad's stories about his one grandmother, a Russian born German (common prier to ww1). He says she'd make these amazing cakes and other deserts but she had some interesting ideas on how much was 'not enough to save.' He says there'd be nearly half a cake left and she'd dump the whole thing on your plate saying in her more or less German accent, 'finish this, its not enough to save.' and yes, you *_were_* expected to finish it.

[@Xianne027]

Yes, cake is a serious thing in Germany. Like pie in Southern US. They each have their own specialty.

[@rwind656]

I have some cherished recipes that look just like that, in hand writing, on stained notebook paper. The recipes are interspersed with directions and comments like, "Add some ___, that'll taste good." 😊 Those were the days...

[@k.p.1139]

When I first got married, my grandmother asked us over for "lunch". My husband said sure! We get there, and there were 14 dishes on the table. He said, we are not here for supper!?!? She said...SUPPER? Shoot, this aint supper, this is just lunch! LOL

[@jakecarter9920]

I'm confused, not one part of this video was parody or exaggeration. Every. Single. Part of this video is a perfect reminder of every Sunday dinner from the time I was born to the time my Meemaw (and I DID call her that) passed away. I came to this video expecting a laugh, not a Feels Trip and crushing loneliness. I miss my Meemaw.

[@yvonneyvonne2513]

Hugs to you, dear one, I miss mine too. Honor her by passing stories to the next generation. They need to know the awesomeness from which they sprang. "Well, there was this time my 3 year old took off his Sunday dress shoe, heaved it clear across the living room and whacked his great-grandmother dead in the shinbone with it. She was still talking about it the year he graduated high school. Love you, Miss Lena." 🤣

[@normalperson659]

God bless. I hope your Meemaw is happy in heaven with the Lord and his angels.

[@diamondstuddedpunchingbag4718]

Y'all...y'all!! So we called my paternal grandmother MeMaw...and she owned resturaunts from New Orleans to SC and then down to Alabama!! She even made an incredible cook book!! So when I say this video felt like home...y'all....it REALLY felt like home!!!!

[@steamedclam1]

Awesome! Which restaurants in New Orleans?

[@susangailes9461]

Which cookbook?

[@diamondstuddedpunchingbag4718]

@@susangailes9461 miss ruby's southern creole and cajun cuisine...it's a great book full of old southern dishes and how to pair them with the best wines and how to serve it. Some of her recipes I don't care for...but her nanna pudding one?!?! 🤤🤤 It's a staple in our family!! She also has a great gumbo and jumbalia recipe too!!

[@susangailes9461]

@@diamondstuddedpunchingbag4718 Thank you.

[@delinpeter8954]

Hello Susan👋👋👋👋👋how are you today?

[@barbaraborgia3289]

This is the funniest episode yet. Lots of good memories

[@languagelearningdabbler]

Mee Maw said you betta clean that chicken bone! 😂

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

We don't waste meat around here lmao

[@yvonneyvonne2513]

I still cringe when I see how much meat my younger family members leave on the bones! And chewing the soft, calcium enriched bone ends is a family tradition that has been lost by them. There's a reason Miss C has a smile with mostly her own natural teeth when she will be 70 next year. Still chews the soft ends of the bone. Says it helps her facial muscles defy wrinkles. Well, she could pass for 50, so....

[@Birdbike719]

@@yvonneyvonne2513 yep. Still do and sometimes suck out the marrow. That's how my Dad did it and so that's how I do it

[@martabachynsky8545]

@@Birdbike719 Marrow! 🤤 My husband thinks I'm weird, and his family is freaked out by my love for cracking bones. "what are you, a dog?" :sigh:

[@yvonneyvonne2513]

@@martabachynsky8545 And yet won't blink at $5 a pint artesian "bone broth". 😁

[@RareEmerauld86]

Y'all know that neighbours are considered family too, right? If you're single, you invite the neighbours over! Edit: Obviously NOT during the pandemic, gosh darn...

[@garrettmeador7884]

Sometimes, some can be buttholes, I don't have neighbors

[@cugehock9986]

Like a good neighbor stay over there.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Not the best time for that though

[@tennesseebackwoods4816]

Ehh my neighbors and friends come over every time I cook because they know if I'm cooking I'm making enough to feed a small army due to the way I was raised

[@barbkeen1221]

@@cugehock9986 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏

[@heidimarchant5438]

I just realized I've turned into mee maw 😮

[@violetopal6264]

I was laughing at having to convert measurements. Don't measure anything unless baking. Guess right amounts when share recipe. 😄

[@SheepdogSmokey]

I'm a 43YO guy and I turned into Mee Maw when cooking a few years ago.

[@tracigresham7164]

@@violetopal6264 😁 yeah, my daughter will call and ask how much of something to put in what she's cooking and I'll say, "I don't know. I don't ever measure it. I just put it in there and she'll ask how long do you cook it for and I tell her (again lol) I don't know I don't ever time it. I just check on it.

[@teenacherry4958]

@@tracigresham7164 Thank you, I can now tell my daughter other mothers tell their daughters the same things I say to her. How am I supposed to know measurements of things and how long it takes. I tell her to keep trying she'll get it eventually.🙃

[@daphi479]

sAmE

[@nancykilbourn836]

I never heard the word "memaw" until about five years ago when my husband found a frozen kit to make gumbo. Then I heard it used on "The Big Bang" on TV. Decided it was a Hollywood term. The word I heard and used was "mamaw." Still use it and I am almost 81 years old. And It is reserved for your mama's mama, no one else. Where did "memaw" come from? And it was my mamaw that mostly taught me how to cook, no recipe book. My husband loves Southern cooking and he's from Southern California.

[@BelowTheYellowLine]

Amen! Always loved going to my MiMi's and Poopaw's house in Bayou Meto Arkansas when I was 3 or 4. We'd always get there on a Friday night during the fall and meet other family members. Mimi would cook creamy taco or wasetti on Friday night and fried chicken on Saturday and we called in my uncle from his combine to come eat. Then steak for dinner and her and Poopaw would make pancakes and bacon for breakfast both days. It was always sad having to leave after church and lunch on Sunday and now at 14 and Mimi gone its still sad to leave what I believe is heaven on earth and where I really feel at home. Rip Mimi. Yall, always treasure those Friday night suppers and fried chicken lunches, because you never know which one will be your last. God bless all yall. Hello from Arkansas.

[@captainskippy6622]

Wish my grandmother was still here. Lord I lover her cooking. And now I’m craving her fried chicken. And coconut cream pie. And....

[@melissawittman]

I'm the seventh of eight children in my family. That's what the dinner table looked like as we were growing up. Homemade biscuits for every meal too. I miss my mama.

[@karli5303]

I love this channel!!! I love watching all the vids on repeat

[@maddieeffler6362]

"Seconds are mandatory!" "Yes ma'am." That's what I thought, yes ma'am.

[@j.darrel517]

These guys need to be on prime time on a major Network. They are just too good ! the acting is better than anything I've seen, probably ever. And the writing, oh come on, it's so unique and hysterical I just scratch my head at how they come up with these ideas. Some Network needs to snatch them up, but until that time I am so grateful that they are here on KZbin.

[@theresaszufel7936]

Lol...I was just thinking about my grandmother's cooking...especially since I was craving her fried catfish...🥰... and buttermilk bisuits...🥰

[@theresaszufel7936]

And ...yes...bacon grease was one of the secret ingredients...🥰

[@thorivaldic]

Nailed IT! I am from Texas, but it was exactly the same there!!!! Everything down to storing leftovers in ol' butter dishes. Thang is, I still do that too 40 years later...

[@LynnHavenAloha]

The Cool Whip container; "why is it stained red inside?" Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[@TheDavidN]

The containers of Country Crock.... oh the memories of opening my Mother's fridge trying to find butter, and hope it's not something trying to establish a new fungal kingdom.

[@Khaleesi_Jack]

Legit at 2:03 I had to pause cuz I was laughing so hard, then out loud said, 'STOP PICKING ON MY GRANDMA.'

[@younglaster]

The accuracy

[@delinpeter8954]

Lol😂😂😂😂😂

[@alyssacartwright3300]

Man. I was full watching him trying to eat.

[@GamelanSinarSurya]

“ Why is this stained red inside?” “Don’t make me go cut a switch!” lol 😂

[@lindawasion8825]

The bowls for leftovers, love it, back in the '80's my mom would save them bowls. 😂😂

[@Maeglin7936]

Cheaper than tupperware.

[@kristymabe8477]

Loved this. Chuckled, but it also made me said because it reminded me of my Maw Maw (my daughter's MeeMaw) who passed a couple years ago. She loved cooking for us. I often say there's no one that cooks like hers!

[@crystald8465]

The bacon grease is extremely accurate 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kathleenkirchoff9223]

Yep check out the pickle jar lid.

[@sunii4264]

A little bacon grease makes potato salad cook out worthy 😋

[@Xianne027]

That was hilarious! 😂

[@maces1405]

I'm from Oregon and married a southerner. This video is 110% correct!! Family get together of seven will feed 40+. And okay. I reuse Chinese food containers. The big plastic one's, but WTH? Cool Whip containers? At least the Chinese food containers are dishwasher and microwave safe.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

MeeMaw can feed our army anytime

[@literallyhenry380]

Omg comrade it’s you

[@deborahholland7274]

Love this video..That's my granny down to the bone. I miss her and the best fried chicken on the planet!!

[@KellyF105]

Grandma starring him down was HILARIOUS!!! You don’t say no to grandmom

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

"I said no to my grandma once...........once☝️."

[@KellyF105]

@@SirMoeThe2nd how are you typing as a ghost?

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

@@KellyF105 I'm allowed one hour of on earth time, lol.

[@laceysimms2385]

I think it would be cool if y'all did a video on how many ways you can use a bread tie and a close pin. We wrap up so many things with bread ties like chip bags, left over hot dogs and hamburgers in reused bread bags, also used for tying up cereal bags. Same with close pins you can hang clothes up with them, use them to hold the mash potato's box closed, and also can use them for keeping your pot holders together in the drawer. There are probably a bunch more things we use them for that i ca't think of at the moment. Also a video on typing how we talk because I can't even tell you how many time I have wrote a paper and read back over and it sound ok to me but some one else reads it and says you write how you talks.

[@justynfreeman9884]

This needs to be a real thing, I would 100% use it

[@scotto9591]

I'm absolutely screaming. 😂 With the included bowls for leftovers, I lost it. And the pickle jar with bacon grease... Thank you. I needed that laugh/memory.

[@travishairgrove3428]

I'm Southern, and neither of my grandmothers (Grandma and Oma in my family) cooked very well. My mom, though, got bitten buy the foodie bug when she took her high school home economics class in the '60s, and became an avid cookbook collector. Between that, and growing up on a ranch, where we had two refrigerator-sized freezers constantly full of meat (one full of a cow that had been slaughtered that year and another filled with two feral hogs) meant that I always ate well growing up, lol.

[@Xianne027]

"And I brought the dessert too-ooo-oo!" Cracked me up! 😂

[@lemon.3579]

It hurts how accurate this is.

[@brendamawdsley9127]

This is hysterical. So much truth! Whoever wrote this is brilliant.

[@stevep7608]

Somehow Mee Maw strong armed me into calling my granny.

[@KimberRose16]

Stepmom and I were helping my nana to move in with us last summer and we literally ended up making a game of finding spices in her cabinet. I got the 70s, 80s, mid to late 2000’s, and 2013. Stepmom got the other year up to now. I can’t even tell y’all how many things of pepper and paprika from the mid 70’s and late 80’s I’d found 😂

[@monique7885]

1:21 was that the canned cornbread?! Meemaw would never

[@davidhoffman1278]

Canned dinner rolls?

[@monique7885]

@@davidhoffman1278 yeah Matt did it on his channel

[@krisbiebs8507]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@kolbywilliams7234]

The coolwhip country crock containers for leftovers was so spot on. I laughed way too hard. That’s what my grandma does.

[@brittanysmth90]

If this really was a food subscription service, I’d buy it!

[@Callylily7]

I shared this in Facebook. My southern friends will love it.

[@LisaMichaelBrown]

Y’all know how true this is😆My mom saves every butter bowl and sends leftovers home with me in them😆😆

[@delinpeter8954]

Hello Lisa 👋👋👋👋

[@kimtodd1803]

That's really good idea!!! Lot people may not has meemaw or granny or like mom too who could good ole home cook meals. Especially chicken fried steaks. Children today lot may not even now. From home full warm heart cooking

[@susanjohnson9584]

I wish this was real bc I miss my grandmother's cooking.

[@kirstenkelley9864]

I've been collecting and typing recipes to make a family cookbook during quarantine sparked by the fact that NOBODY knows how to make (maternal) Grandma's potato salad. This month makes 8 yrs that she's been gone, and despite culinary school and many attempts to recreate it, I can't get it right. "The babies" were not allowed in *her* kitchen when I was younger, and due to dyslexia, she didn't use cookbooks. On the upside, she did show me how to make her homemade noodles when I was in high school: put "enough" flour on the (bleached clean) countertop and make a well, add eggs and mix by hand "until it feels right" before rolling out "thin enough" and cutting them into strips. Dry on towel placed over a wooden chair and cook by boiling in water until they float. Serve with margarine.

[@supergene256]

Oh my!!!!! That hit too close to home. I'm still LOL'in!! Great vid!!

[@aloralindt1730]

The 2 dislikes are from the people who want to eat all the food