Hide the Women and Children...

12 years ago

Funny Story:

I have a friend that is into preserving meats. He makes jerkies, smokes, etc but he's never thought about canning. Well, the other night we meet for drinks and I take him a half pint of strawberry balsamic preserves. The next day, he demolished the preserves in about an hour...and he wanted more. So, he looks up a recipe online and goes to AJ's (he's a single, childless, very successfull man that has more money than he knows what to do with) and buys about 8 pounds of strawberries, an ungodly amount of sugar, high end balsamic vinegar, and half pints. He proceeded to make 36 (36!) half pints of Strawberry-Balsamic Jam. I asked him, "what are you going to do with 36 (36!) half pints of Strawberry-Balsamic Jam?" He replied with, *shrugs* "Eat it". He then proceeds to tell me how he's buying all these pint & half pint jars in bulk. I have a feeling he's going to preserve anything he can get his hands on now.

Hide the women and children, I think I've created a monster!

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Comments (6)

pixie_lou
12 years ago
Too bad he wasn't around back when I was single. A man who actually likes to make jam - my idea of a dream man!
ahbee01
12 years ago
Sounds yummy! Is the recipe on here? Oh you make sure he is canning safely before you eat anything LOL!!!
bcskye
12 years ago
Great job, uaskigyrl! All men should be taught to can. Think of how happy he'll make a woman someday.
Trishcuit
12 years ago
recipeeee! we want RECIPEEEE!!!
kikistreehouse
12 years ago
I have done this jam and it is awsome . I love it. Good luck on his canning adventure.
wertach zone 7-B SC
12 years ago
"All men should be taught to can."

I beg your pardon! I think that should read "All women should be taught to can." ;)

I have been married twice, dated more women than I care to admit, and I have never found one that could cook, much less can food! LOL

I was the youngest of 5 boys growing up on a farm, so I was Mom's "helper". I was cooking by age 7, canning by 10. My brothers are a lot older than me and were too "grown up" to do that sort of thing!

Dad would put me on the tractor, at about 8 years old, fill it up with gas and put me to plowing while he went to work at the mill. After it ran out of gas I would walk back to the house and start supper! Mom worked too.

I can cook anything with a recipe, almost anything without a recipe and can food! LOL!

No brag, just fact! :)