Baked fish

One day a mother was teaching her daughter to bake fish. The mother placed the fish in a baking dish after cutting off the head and the tail. The daughter wanted to know as to why the mother had done that. The mother thought for a few minutes and shook her head. “Don’t ask me for the reason because I don’t have any. I have been taught by my mother to do so and I have always done it like this,” she said. The girl was

unhappy because she was not satisfied with the answer.  She decided to go and question her grandmother about it.

“Grandma, why do you cutoff the head and tail of the fish before baking?” she asked.

“I don’t know dear. My mother always used to do it that way. May be you should ask her about it”, grandma said.

So off went the girl in search of her great grandmother to clear her doubts. The daughter asked the old lady the same question.

Great Grandma thought for a while and smiled. “I did so because my baking dish was too small to accommodate the full fish”. The daughter burst out laughing on hearing this.