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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When my dad died, my sister and I and then
and my mom went over there, got a nice text
yesterday I went over there and cleaned out the house.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Right, Remember I took the cordless phone.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
My sister took like some uh like like some people
would call more sentimental things when when your mom or
dad died or even I'll even throw in.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Scott, my dad had been gone for several years before
my mom died.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
But then you cleaned out the house, right, did what
did did you did you keep anything?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I kept like like some rings and some jewel other
jewelry and like a sweater and.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, right, and when Scott, when Scott's parents unfortunately had
left us.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Did mom's still here?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
His dad the and his and when his dad died,
his mom stayed in that house for years.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And then mom left, right and went to to the home.
What did did you guys clean out that house?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
What did you do with the food?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
A lot of it? We just trashed some of it.
We took home.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Frozen food.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, did you really some there's a few things here
and there?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Did you save it and eat it so that it
like was like it was meaning a lot?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
She didn't have a lot of frozen stuff. I remember
specifically she liked occasionally to put a frozen raspberry in
or martini. So because I mean, you bring that home,
you throw that in a smoothie, right?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, so you didn't use it for that reason.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
No ooh.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I was reading something and maybe it comes off of
a little bit because it's Father's Day, but it doesn't
even matter just for fathers.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So and it wasn't all all.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Dads, but people who had cleaned out their parents' houses.
When they when they plots, they were like, like I
was reading one, they were like, my dad loved to eat.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
This could have been written by my kids loved to eat.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So when they went and cleaned out his house, there
were like some there was like some cake in there
that was frozen. There was like some lamb not lamb chops,
pork chops that were frozen.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So whatever, there was a bunch of like frozen food
in there.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And so they kept it and they took it home
and they said every so often when he was the
person who wrote I can't remember who was a son
or a daughter. Whenever they were like nostalgic or missing
their parent, they would defrost one of them and eat it.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is that cool? In't that cool? I like that?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now I don't have a lot of frozen food. I
am going to start freezing things though, but the well,
I don't need to. My test results were through the roof.
But isn't that kind of cool?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I never have either, and so, and I don't know
if it's because they just love to eat or they
were like my desert loved to eat. Like, yeah, so
there was and then one was like he had gotten
a gift. I don't know what a Caroline's cake is.
I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But he had it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's like a big I saw a picture like a
multi layered cake that they had frozen.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Oh wow, look at this.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And so when they when when they would feel sentimental
or an anniversary or something, they would defrost part of
something and eat it.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
A seven layered caramel cake that looks good?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Oh from South Carolina? Is that it?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
But they have other varieties of cake too, But that's
the one that that it's the classic.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Doesn't that look good?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
So you said feeling nostalgic. I imagine that may have been
important dates, but was it just also a random afternoon
if they were thinking about their yes parent.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah yeah, and they would get they would they would
they would eat something out of the freezer and just
kind of be there and be like, you know what,
this makes me feel better? Or if they were like
really and by the way, the person I'm reading about,
they it's not like there was a ton of frozen food,
but they stretched it out so it wasn't like, well, I.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Missing dad again.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Early on, you obviously miss him more than like when
you get used to them not being around, so you
purposely hold on to some And then when he ate
the last pork chop, I was just.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Gonna ask how long did it ultimately go?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
For it? I think eighteen months?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Whoa eighteen months?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
A lot of food safe?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
No, yeah, if it's frozen.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Last year's they were concerned about the cake because there's
some cream and stuff in there, but they're like, nobody
got sick.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But the last pork chop what they said, it was great.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Oh the last one, yea would be if you're saying
goodbye all over again.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh oh, I thought you meant like, how was the food?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Oh, Elliott?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The emotions, Oh bittersweet bittersweet.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I totally get that, but isn't that kind of cool?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I think I would never eat it?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
No, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No, no, no no. No.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
First of all, I would have probably younger Elliott would
have gone through their freez their freezer and just thrown
it out. You hate leftovers, Yeah, but this is a
special leftover. And I know as a younger me in
my twenties, I would have thrown it out. I don't
even remember what we did with my dad's food.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Tossed it.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Yeah, that's gotta be the most common thing to do
with a pantry full of food, yeah, or a refrigerator,
and it's I guess it's different if it's like huh, well,
I mean you always need sugar or you always need.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Salt, Like that's different, Like that's defox mac and cheese
or something.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, like that's different. You're just using that.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But this is like taking something that you have to
put a little effort into, unless, like your dad was like,
you know what my favorite thing in the world is.
You know I love mac and cheese. Then you hold
on to it or your mom or grandpa, grandma.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
And I don't even think you need it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is that Kristen.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I can't hear a word you're saying. You know that
I can't hear a word. My mom's still here too, No, okay,
but her dad isn't. Why you give me a look.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, but it's like they were still in the same house.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The No, but they may have saved something for my
grandma when she died. Thank you grandma?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Did you so you kept her frozen food.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Her homemade buckeyes and homemade chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh were they good?
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Did you eat them on special occasions?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Did you really?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
All the grand like she did above and beyond, she
doesn't know how to never made, didn't know how to
make like just a dozen or two dozen cookies, so.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, right, same with buckeyes.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
So there's enough for all of my aunts and uncles
to take them home, and then everybody stashed them in
the freezer. I think my dad got the last buck eye,
but it was like a he tried so hard to
like wait until the very last moment. Sure, but yeah,
was it like maybe two years after she died. Wow,
(07:09):
finally demolished all of them.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Isn't that kind of cool?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Though?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I know my.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Cousin said, and this is crazy I kind of gave
her like a face. Almost two years ago, she said,
she finished off Grandma's cookies, and my grandma died in
two thousand and eight.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But if it's frozen, I don't know how long cookies
will hold you. But it's frozen. Yeah, And did they
get sick?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No, no? What made her? What made her finally dig
in on the last one? Do you know.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
She was just missing like our family and everything, and
there you go and Grandma's cooking.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I wish I was nostalgic like that. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Kristen says, at most a year for frozen No way.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
No way. Yes, I know somebody that ate.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Them like she didn't get sick, but I bet they
tasted like ass.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
They said this cake tasted good.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
It's not about the taste.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
That's like saying, oh, we saved a piece of our
wedding cake and for our first industry, it didn't taste
very good. It's all symbolic. Who cares what it tastes like?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I think I would like, I won't. I want to
be able to enjoy that cake. I don't want to
sit there in my in my fields and the whole time.
I'm there going I miss him? God does this taste
like ass from Phil?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Cleaning out my grandmother's room at the home, she had
a frozen pizza in the freezer.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh that's a great one. That's a great one.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I was a college student, so I made sure to
claim it when I got back to school. I made
it and ate it. Someone realized the boxes expiration date
was seven years ago. It had me shooting out both ends.
Thanks Grandma.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But that was used. That wasn't used for nostalgia. That
was just used as, hey, here's a frozen pizza. Oh
so you don't think I don't think he took it
always like.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I'm gonna no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I don't think you mentioned in the story with the
cake and the lamb chops or pork chops, how it
was that cooking and eating food were a very big
part of the father's life.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I don't think that necessarily has to be the case.
I agree someone to do this.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I agree, I agree, even if it was even if
it was just something that you took out of their freezer,
like you know what I think of honestly, like I'm
I'm I don't come from a family of hunters. But
don't hunters always have like freezers of venison and all
kinds of crap. If you if if if you're, if
you're if your old man died or grandpa died and
(09:32):
you went emptied out their freezer of venison, like wouldn't
you wouldn't you eat that like on special occasions to
like remember grandpa?
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Or if there's so much? I bet in those cases there,
did you give it a family donations or no?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No, no, no, but I meant, but yeah, if you
donate it, the guy eating it doesn't care where it
came from.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
No, he's not eating it nostalgically.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
No, but instead of it's better than just throwing it away.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh yeah, I get that, although I do bet most
people just trash the frozen stuff.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well, especially if you don't live nearby the Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
We had to throw away a lot of stuff because
I was like, Jesus, how old is this?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Like like pasta? Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Was it frozen?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
This was like the box stuff you eat that unless
there's bugs in it. No, I mean like stuff that
was like twelve years old. I was like, man, that's
not worth it. I'm not going to risk getting sick
for a box of elbow.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
But how nice, how nice would have been to sit
down and go, you know what, you know what, Pearl,
I'm thinking about you.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'm going to have this pasta.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That would have been nice and have like a little
mental conversation with her while you're reading.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And then I'm on the toilet.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I feel like I'd sob through the entire meal, the
last meal. You would, well, certainly that, and I told
you I probably wouldn't need it, But like, just to
have to eating things that remind me of those in
my family who have passed upsets me so. And that's
not from their house or from from their apartment at
the nursing home. It's like just connecting that to them.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So yeah, but that doesn't make you sad, that should
make you feel good.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
But if this was supposed to be eaten by them,
well it's their food, Yeah, yeah, it'd be an emotional moment,
but you got it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You can't save it. They're not coming back to eat
it now, So what are you gonna do? Save a
piece of cake? And then when you die?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Then what my mom was telling my kids how my
grandfather would always cry at graduations, especially when they'd play
a pomp and circumstance, and they told her that reminded
them of their father.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yep, let me grab line for hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Hey, so I started smoking because my grandpa.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Did you start smoking his cigarettes?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Yeah? Yeah. So when he died, I was about fourteen,
and we got his work van and I was going
through and kind of cleaning it out, and I found
an unopen pack of his Lucky Strikes and I'm like, oh,
he always smoked like that, right, he was always smoking
unfiltered cigarettes. So I lit one and just just sitting
in the van like incense. Right, it was just kind
(12:25):
of smelling like him. And then I just smoked the
whole pack after that. And I've been smoking for I
don't know math years. I'm forty one now.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
All right, that's an interesting way to get started.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's an interesting way to go.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'll take that though. I'll take that.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
From Collette. My grandma frozen can corn and tomatoes from
her garden, and I am already planning on getting all
up in my feels over some spaghetti later this year.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Wait, did they die?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Sounds like it.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I hope that's written with the grandma having passed, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Or maybe just like really on the edge right now,
Well you don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well then I hope for recovery the yeah. But how
about that they're planning on doing it. I've never even
heard of that.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Here's a confirmed death. My dad died on four twenty. Yeah,
he had a hundreds of this isn't food though. He
had hundreds of rolls of toilet paper. Okay, I took
it all, and it will take me a year to
get through. Every time I botty, I will think of him.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But you're just taking that for use.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You're not taking although maybe you are, Like maybe you
get all up in your fields when you're when you're wiping.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So you're waiting. Maybe you really are at that point
sitting here broken hearted.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
You'd like Collet though blue Sky. You'd like her to
just let how grandma's either not or is doing. Let
me grab line too, Hi, Elliet in the morning.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Hi, my name is Diana, and my grandma died about
twelve years ago.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
And she used to eat those little root beer bo barrels.
You know, I'm talking about the sugar free one.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Come on, eat the sugar ones, and she loved them
so much.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
We still have a big jar of them, and we
actually put them in her urn, in the bottom of
her urn, and we put the bag of her ashes
on top of it.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
We don't eat them from the urn, but we do
eat them from the jar. Renown and Muslim in my mom.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
But so does your mom do it?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Like when she's feeling like nostalgic or like just kind
of missing her.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Usually on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh, like it was grand It was my grandma's favorite holiday,
and she usually does it on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
But like I said, they're old, I will.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Not touch them.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
How many are left?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Gosh, she had about eight bags of them.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
They're big bags, so there's quite a few.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Love my mom's not a majority of them.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I have some of them, right, I got you see.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But that's a good one. That's a good one because
that was Grandma's thing. All right, very good, very good?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Yes Tyler from Instagram. My great grandparents had canned green
beans every single night with dinner. When we cleaned out
their house in twenty sixteen, we found a can that
expired in nineteen ninety five. My grandma kept them, but
does not intend to eat them.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Can can? I can? I? I listen, I get it.
You hold on right, which.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Sounds like you're not down with people saving it if
there's not no consumption plan.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I'm not. Like it's like you're you're gonna be just
fine without a can of green beans.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
But they had it every single night.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
That was their thing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
So then eat green beans every so often. You don't
need to keep a can.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Do I don't. And again, I'm not telling somebody how
to grieve.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
But but here's how to do it.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
But no, I said the same thing to you like
that I could never eat it. Then you're not you're
not moving forward.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
What about if someone's doing it for animals? What do
you mean from Instagram? I saved my last frosty paw
from my sweet bulldog for three years in the freezer.
I threatened my husband for years not to touch it
or throw it out. I wanted it to be for
her sister she would never meet, and did eventually give
(16:28):
it to the next English bulldog.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Elly's making a smug look on his face.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I mean, again, far be it from me to tell
someone no.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
One loves dogs more than you. You've had many, did
you ever save something of theirs, and not like a toy,
but save something of theirs that they were supposed to
eat for a future dog.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh god, no, no, we donated food. I'm more likely
to donate food for a doll than I am like
a human's food. Like I promise you, whatever was in
my dad's fridge, it went in a garbage bag and
right into the trash. But now I've never done that
(17:12):
with with dog food. I would save, like if there
was canned food, I would save.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
So you'd want this to stay just within the human realm.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, frozen like a frozen what did they call it?
A put bar or something like that.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I was not familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Lying two, Hi Elliott the morning? Yeah, Hi, who's that?
Uh Trevor, Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
My grandpa, he's a solid ham every Thanksgiving. I was
just kind of his tradition and he's hanging up on
the back court and then he cut off it, you know,
throughout the day if he ever wanted a little snack.
And after he died, we ended up taking it back
home and it probably took me a good six months
to get through that thing.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Now, let me ask you this were you sentimental? Did
you get all up in your fields when you would
eat it? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (18:02):
No, that was definitely a daring where it's just you know,
you'd take him minute to stop this thing about the
fact he was gone, and we're like, don't look like
that and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah. And when you got to that last bite, was
it rough?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (18:15):
That well, and yeah the thing with a ham like
you can get starting baiting with yourself. Well, there's a
little bit here, I can scrape ball a little bit there, and.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I'm making I'm making something with that hambone, like I
got a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Soup.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh yes, throw that in some pea soup. All right,
very good, very good, thank you sir.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Yes. Tyler co let Us followed up, Oh, oh yes,
this is about the corn. There is the grinning face
with sweat emoji and the sentence she passed last month.
Oh no, no, but she would have loved this idea.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh great, great, Wait, so when did she say she's
gonna have the corn?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Oh just later this year.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
So it sounds like this wasn't maybe the plan until
she's heard of this story.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh so you think she had no idea and was
just holding onto the corn to be sentimental, but now
she's going to do Oh, I'm glad I helped her
with her grieving process.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Yeah you didn't tell her how, you just told her
how she could.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, oh you could turn that into like a Mexican
street corn. But you do whatever you want. Just some
butter and some salt. You're good to go.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Look at this, So then she has I guess there
were instructions on everything in her home and what to
do with it. This is a photo wait from the
Grandmother from from Kollet's grandmother sent over as a blouse
with a post and on it that says, take these
to Goodwill when I'm gone for good.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
What if Collette wanted to keep that though? It was
like I.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Always love there's something that she kept.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Idea on your deathbed, don't leave me Errands, I took.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Dead.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
No, no, A lot of that stuff does get donated.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Like wait for my dad, we donated a bunch of
his stuff, but I also took his I found a
woman who does like like need to work projects and stuff,
and I had his neck ties made into like a
little mini quilt and then like pillows for some of
my siblings that's nice.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, that's very nice.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Let me ask you this, what would you have done
if there was a note on them that said, please
donate these ties to good will?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I would have taken them in a good will?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, because you're not honoring his wish.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
I would have never stopped crying.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Like this.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
This is obviously a difficult process to go through and
clean out a home or a department or whatever. Maybe
if I'm getting these messages throughout the house, I like
it would be so it would take what is already
a day's long process literally take me multiple days.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
To go through it just because of the notes.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, can I I don't want to be like I
don't want to be rude to Collette, who whose grandma
did this? But you know what my wish would be
then instead of spending your last days making up notes
like you're doing something well.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
She could have written that in years.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
I think that they were done right before she passed,
so you think like when she thought.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
About it, like, oh, you know what I want to
I want to.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Make sure that this goes to good will. I'm going
to write a note about it. I'll just put a
sticky note on it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Let the family figure that out.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's the whole sweetish death cleaning thing is you're supposed
to do it beforehand, so you you weren't taxing your
family with this after year go yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
But then let my family do with it what they want.
If they don't want it, they're going to go to goodwill.
I swear to God if my Summit series Jersey ends
up a goodwill.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
See, I'm gonna be pissed.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
That's why you need a sticky note.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm also not going to know.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
From your pal has a piece of grandma's brisket in
the freezer? Yeah, grandma died in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Eat it.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
See in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
No, you could eat that?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Is that a record?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
God?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Ninety oh three? You could eat that?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You would eat something that was frozen from that year.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
From nineteen ninety three. Yes, a piece of brisket. I
bet that hold, I bet that hole.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
One nine one.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Ask a chef Steve.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
He's probably sleeping.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
He had a busy day yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, oh, they were probably past Jesus Elliot, Hello, listen
to the excitement. Hey Mendino its Elliott. Please don't cuss.
You're on the air.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Okay, did I wake you. Hell, oh good, A question
for you. Question for you. Context doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
But if I had a frozen brisket for since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Three, is that still is that still edible?
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Okay, that's that's groggy, chef.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Let me ask you this, Would you eat it?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Would I eat it?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
I'd have to look at it. I'd have to look
at it first, but.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, but that's okay, it's great.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I don't know that, chef. She doesn't know that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, you'd have to look and you'd have to look
and smell, right, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
We'd have to warm it up, see what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
But if it's been frozen the whole time, you you could,
you'd be good on that.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's twenty years, thirty years. Yeah, I'm very good. All right,
thank you, thank you, chef. All right, very good, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Now, Diane.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
He was up.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Seriously, And it is worth pointing out Grandma died in
ninety three. Oh for years when Grandma put it in
the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Oh my god, it's probably from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So that's seven Yeah, that's twenty five, that's thirty years.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, but there's nothing wrong with it. It's fine.
When my dad died, my sister and I and then
and my mom went over there, got a nice text
yesterday I went over there and cleaned out the house.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Right, Remember I took the cordless phone.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
My sister took like some uh like like some people
would call more sentimental things when when your mom or
dad died or even I'll even throw in.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Scott, my dad had been gone for several years before
my mom died.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
But then you cleaned out the house, right, did what
did did you did you keep anything?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I kept like like some rings and some jewel other
jewelry and like a sweater and.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, right, and when Scott, when Scott's parents unfortunately had
left us.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Did mom's still here?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
His dad the and his and when his dad died,
his mom stayed in that house for years.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And then mom left, right and went to to the home.
What did did you guys clean out that house?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
What did you do with the food?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
A lot of it? We just trashed some of it.
We took home.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Frozen food.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, did you really some there's a few things here
and there?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Did you save it and eat it so that it
like was like it was meaning a lot?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
She didn't have a lot of frozen stuff. I remember
specifically she liked occasionally to put a frozen raspberry in
or martini. So because I mean, you bring that home,
you throw that in a smoothie, right?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, so you didn't use it for that reason.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
No ooh.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I was reading something and maybe it comes off of
a little bit because it's Father's Day, but it doesn't
even matter just for fathers.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So and it wasn't all all.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Dads, but people who had cleaned out their parents' houses.
When they when they plots, they were like, like I
was reading one, they were like, my dad loved to eat.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
This could have been written by my kids loved to eat.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So when they went and cleaned out his house, there
were like some there was like some cake in there
that was frozen. There was like some lamb not lamb chops,
pork chops that were frozen.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So whatever, there was a bunch of like frozen food
in there.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And so they kept it and they took it home
and they said every so often when he was the
person who wrote I can't remember who was a son
or a daughter. Whenever they were like nostalgic or missing
their parent, they would defrost one of them and eat it.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is that cool? In't that cool? I like that?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now I don't have a lot of frozen food. I
am going to start freezing things though, but the well,
I don't need to. My test results were through the roof.
But isn't that kind of cool?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I never have either, and so, and I don't know
if it's because they just love to eat or they
were like my desert loved to eat. Like, yeah, so
there was and then one was like he had gotten
a gift. I don't know what a Caroline's cake is.
I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But he had it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's like a big I saw a picture like a
multi layered cake that they had frozen.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Oh wow, look at this.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And so when they when when they would feel sentimental
or an anniversary or something, they would defrost part of
something and eat it.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
A seven layered caramel cake that looks good?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Oh from South Carolina? Is that it?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
But they have other varieties of cake too, But that's
the one that that it's the classic.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Doesn't that look good?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
So you said feeling nostalgic. I imagine that may have been
important dates, but was it just also a random afternoon
if they were thinking about their yes parent.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah yeah, and they would get they would they would
they would eat something out of the freezer and just
kind of be there and be like, you know what,
this makes me feel better? Or if they were like
really and by the way, the person I'm reading about,
they it's not like there was a ton of frozen food,
but they stretched it out so it wasn't like, well, I.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Missing dad again.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Early on, you obviously miss him more than like when
you get used to them not being around, so you
purposely hold on to some And then when he ate
the last pork chop, I was just.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Gonna ask how long did it ultimately go?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
For it? I think eighteen months?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Whoa eighteen months?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
A lot of food safe?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
No, yeah, if it's frozen.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Last year's they were concerned about the cake because there's
some cream and stuff in there, but they're like, nobody
got sick.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But the last pork chop what they said, it was great.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Oh the last one, yea would be if you're saying
goodbye all over again.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh oh, I thought you meant like, how was the food?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Oh, Elliott?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The emotions, Oh bittersweet bittersweet.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I totally get that, but isn't that kind of cool?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I think I would never eat it?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
No, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No, no, no no. No.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
First of all, I would have probably younger Elliott would
have gone through their freez their freezer and just thrown
it out. You hate leftovers, Yeah, but this is a
special leftover. And I know as a younger me in
my twenties, I would have thrown it out. I don't
even remember what we did with my dad's food.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Tossed it.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Yeah, that's gotta be the most common thing to do
with a pantry full of food, yeah, or a refrigerator,
and it's I guess it's different if it's like huh, well,
I mean you always need sugar or you always need.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Salt, Like that's different, Like that's defox mac and cheese
or something.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, like that's different. You're just using that.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But this is like taking something that you have to
put a little effort into, unless, like your dad was like,
you know what my favorite thing in the world is.
You know I love mac and cheese. Then you hold
on to it or your mom or grandpa, grandma.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
And I don't even think you need it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is that Kristen.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I can't hear a word you're saying. You know that
I can't hear a word. My mom's still here too, No, okay,
but her dad isn't. Why you give me a look.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, but it's like they were still in the same house.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The No, but they may have saved something for my
grandma when she died. Thank you grandma?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Did you so you kept her frozen food.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Her homemade buckeyes and homemade chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh were they good?
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Did you eat them on special occasions?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Did you really?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
All the grand like she did above and beyond, she
doesn't know how to never made, didn't know how to
make like just a dozen or two dozen cookies, so.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, right, same with buckeyes.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
So there's enough for all of my aunts and uncles
to take them home, and then everybody stashed them in
the freezer. I think my dad got the last buck eye,
but it was like a he tried so hard to
like wait until the very last moment. Sure, but yeah,
was it like maybe two years after she died. Wow,
(07:09):
finally demolished all of them.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Isn't that kind of cool?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Though?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I know my.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Cousin said, and this is crazy I kind of gave
her like a face. Almost two years ago, she said,
she finished off Grandma's cookies, and my grandma died in
two thousand and eight.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But if it's frozen, I don't know how long cookies
will hold you. But it's frozen. Yeah, And did they
get sick?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No, no? What made her? What made her finally dig
in on the last one? Do you know.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
She was just missing like our family and everything, and
there you go and Grandma's cooking.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I wish I was nostalgic like that. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Kristen says, at most a year for frozen No way.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
No way. Yes, I know somebody that ate.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Them like she didn't get sick, but I bet they
tasted like ass.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
They said this cake tasted good.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
It's not about the taste.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
That's like saying, oh, we saved a piece of our
wedding cake and for our first industry, it didn't taste
very good. It's all symbolic. Who cares what it tastes like?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I think I would like, I won't. I want to
be able to enjoy that cake. I don't want to
sit there in my in my fields and the whole time.
I'm there going I miss him? God does this taste
like ass from Phil?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Cleaning out my grandmother's room at the home, she had
a frozen pizza in the freezer.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh that's a great one. That's a great one.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I was a college student, so I made sure to
claim it when I got back to school. I made
it and ate it. Someone realized the boxes expiration date
was seven years ago. It had me shooting out both ends.
Thanks Grandma.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But that was used. That wasn't used for nostalgia. That
was just used as, hey, here's a frozen pizza. Oh
so you don't think I don't think he took it
always like.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I'm gonna no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I don't think you mentioned in the story with the
cake and the lamb chops or pork chops, how it
was that cooking and eating food were a very big
part of the father's life.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I don't think that necessarily has to be the case.
I agree someone to do this.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I agree, I agree, even if it was even if
it was just something that you took out of their freezer,
like you know what I think of honestly, like I'm
I'm I don't come from a family of hunters. But
don't hunters always have like freezers of venison and all
kinds of crap. If you if if if you're, if
you're if your old man died or grandpa died and
(09:32):
you went emptied out their freezer of venison, like wouldn't
you wouldn't you eat that like on special occasions to
like remember grandpa?
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Or if there's so much? I bet in those cases there,
did you give it a family donations or no?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No, no, no, but I meant, but yeah, if you
donate it, the guy eating it doesn't care where it
came from.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
No, he's not eating it nostalgically.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
No, but instead of it's better than just throwing it away.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh yeah, I get that, although I do bet most
people just trash the frozen stuff.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well, especially if you don't live nearby the Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
We had to throw away a lot of stuff because
I was like, Jesus, how old is this?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Like like pasta? Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Was it frozen?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
This was like the box stuff you eat that unless
there's bugs in it. No, I mean like stuff that
was like twelve years old. I was like, man, that's
not worth it. I'm not going to risk getting sick
for a box of elbow.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
But how nice, how nice would have been to sit
down and go, you know what, you know what, Pearl,
I'm thinking about you.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'm going to have this pasta.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That would have been nice and have like a little
mental conversation with her while you're reading.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And then I'm on the toilet.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I feel like I'd sob through the entire meal, the
last meal. You would, well, certainly that, and I told
you I probably wouldn't need it, But like, just to
have to eating things that remind me of those in
my family who have passed upsets me so. And that's
not from their house or from from their apartment at
the nursing home. It's like just connecting that to them.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So yeah, but that doesn't make you sad, that should
make you feel good.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
But if this was supposed to be eaten by them,
well it's their food, Yeah, yeah, it'd be an emotional moment,
but you got it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You can't save it. They're not coming back to eat
it now, So what are you gonna do? Save a
piece of cake? And then when you die?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Then what my mom was telling my kids how my
grandfather would always cry at graduations, especially when they'd play
a pomp and circumstance, and they told her that reminded
them of their father.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yep, let me grab line for hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Hey, so I started smoking because my grandpa.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Did you start smoking his cigarettes?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Yeah? Yeah. So when he died, I was about fourteen,
and we got his work van and I was going
through and kind of cleaning it out, and I found
an unopen pack of his Lucky Strikes and I'm like, oh,
he always smoked like that, right, he was always smoking
unfiltered cigarettes. So I lit one and just just sitting
in the van like incense. Right, it was just kind
(12:25):
of smelling like him. And then I just smoked the
whole pack after that. And I've been smoking for I
don't know math years. I'm forty one now.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
All right, that's an interesting way to get started.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's an interesting way to go.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'll take that though. I'll take that.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
From Collette. My grandma frozen can corn and tomatoes from
her garden, and I am already planning on getting all
up in my feels over some spaghetti later this year.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Wait, did they die?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Sounds like it.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I hope that's written with the grandma having passed, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Or maybe just like really on the edge right now,
Well you don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well then I hope for recovery the yeah. But how
about that they're planning on doing it. I've never even
heard of that.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Here's a confirmed death. My dad died on four twenty. Yeah,
he had a hundreds of this isn't food though. He
had hundreds of rolls of toilet paper. Okay, I took
it all, and it will take me a year to
get through. Every time I botty, I will think of him.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But you're just taking that for use.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You're not taking although maybe you are, Like maybe you
get all up in your fields when you're when you're wiping.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So you're waiting. Maybe you really are at that point
sitting here broken hearted.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
You'd like Collet though blue Sky. You'd like her to
just let how grandma's either not or is doing. Let
me grab line too, Hi, Elliet in the morning.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Hi, my name is Diana, and my grandma died about
twelve years ago.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
And she used to eat those little root beer bo barrels.
You know, I'm talking about the sugar free one.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Come on, eat the sugar ones, and she loved them
so much.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
We still have a big jar of them, and we
actually put them in her urn, in the bottom of
her urn, and we put the bag of her ashes
on top of it.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
We don't eat them from the urn, but we do
eat them from the jar. Renown and Muslim in my mom.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
But so does your mom do it?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Like when she's feeling like nostalgic or like just kind
of missing her.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Usually on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh, like it was grand It was my grandma's favorite holiday,
and she usually does it on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
But like I said, they're old, I will.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Not touch them.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
How many are left?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Gosh, she had about eight bags of them.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
They're big bags, so there's quite a few.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Love my mom's not a majority of them.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I have some of them, right, I got you see.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But that's a good one. That's a good one because
that was Grandma's thing. All right, very good, very good?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Yes Tyler from Instagram. My great grandparents had canned green
beans every single night with dinner. When we cleaned out
their house in twenty sixteen, we found a can that
expired in nineteen ninety five. My grandma kept them, but
does not intend to eat them.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Can can? I can? I? I listen, I get it.
You hold on right, which.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Sounds like you're not down with people saving it if
there's not no consumption plan.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I'm not. Like it's like you're you're gonna be just
fine without a can of green beans.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
But they had it every single night.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
That was their thing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
So then eat green beans every so often. You don't
need to keep a can.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Do I don't. And again, I'm not telling somebody how
to grieve.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
But but here's how to do it.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
But no, I said the same thing to you like
that I could never eat it. Then you're not you're
not moving forward.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
What about if someone's doing it for animals? What do
you mean from Instagram? I saved my last frosty paw
from my sweet bulldog for three years in the freezer.
I threatened my husband for years not to touch it
or throw it out. I wanted it to be for
her sister she would never meet, and did eventually give
(16:28):
it to the next English bulldog.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Elly's making a smug look on his face.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I mean, again, far be it from me to tell
someone no.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
One loves dogs more than you. You've had many, did
you ever save something of theirs, and not like a toy,
but save something of theirs that they were supposed to
eat for a future dog.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh god, no, no, we donated food. I'm more likely
to donate food for a doll than I am like
a human's food. Like I promise you, whatever was in
my dad's fridge, it went in a garbage bag and
right into the trash. But now I've never done that
(17:12):
with with dog food. I would save, like if there
was canned food, I would save.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
So you'd want this to stay just within the human realm.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, frozen like a frozen what did they call it?
A put bar or something like that.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I was not familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Lying two, Hi Elliott the morning? Yeah, Hi, who's that?
Uh Trevor, Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
My grandpa, he's a solid ham every Thanksgiving. I was
just kind of his tradition and he's hanging up on
the back court and then he cut off it, you know,
throughout the day if he ever wanted a little snack.
And after he died, we ended up taking it back
home and it probably took me a good six months
to get through that thing.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Now, let me ask you this were you sentimental? Did
you get all up in your fields when you would
eat it? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (18:02):
No, that was definitely a daring where it's just you know,
you'd take him minute to stop this thing about the
fact he was gone, and we're like, don't look like
that and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah. And when you got to that last bite, was
it rough?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (18:15):
That well, and yeah the thing with a ham like
you can get starting baiting with yourself. Well, there's a
little bit here, I can scrape ball a little bit there, and.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I'm making I'm making something with that hambone, like I
got a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Soup.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh yes, throw that in some pea soup. All right,
very good, very good, thank you sir.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Yes. Tyler co let Us followed up, Oh, oh yes,
this is about the corn. There is the grinning face
with sweat emoji and the sentence she passed last month.
Oh no, no, but she would have loved this idea.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh great, great, Wait, so when did she say she's
gonna have the corn?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Oh just later this year.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
So it sounds like this wasn't maybe the plan until
she's heard of this story.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh so you think she had no idea and was
just holding onto the corn to be sentimental, but now
she's going to do Oh, I'm glad I helped her
with her grieving process.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Yeah you didn't tell her how, you just told her
how she could.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, oh you could turn that into like a Mexican
street corn. But you do whatever you want. Just some
butter and some salt. You're good to go.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Look at this, So then she has I guess there
were instructions on everything in her home and what to
do with it. This is a photo wait from the
Grandmother from from Kollet's grandmother sent over as a blouse
with a post and on it that says, take these
to Goodwill when I'm gone for good.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
What if Collette wanted to keep that though? It was
like I.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Always love there's something that she kept.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Idea on your deathbed, don't leave me Errands, I took.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Dead.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
No, no, A lot of that stuff does get donated.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Like wait for my dad, we donated a bunch of
his stuff, but I also took his I found a
woman who does like like need to work projects and stuff,
and I had his neck ties made into like a
little mini quilt and then like pillows for some of
my siblings that's nice.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, that's very nice.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Let me ask you this, what would you have done
if there was a note on them that said, please
donate these ties to good will?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I would have taken them in a good will?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, because you're not honoring his wish.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
I would have never stopped crying.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Like this.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
This is obviously a difficult process to go through and
clean out a home or a department or whatever. Maybe
if I'm getting these messages throughout the house, I like
it would be so it would take what is already
a day's long process literally take me multiple days.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
To go through it just because of the notes.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, can I I don't want to be like I
don't want to be rude to Collette, who whose grandma
did this? But you know what my wish would be
then instead of spending your last days making up notes
like you're doing something well.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
She could have written that in years.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
I think that they were done right before she passed,
so you think like when she thought.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
About it, like, oh, you know what I want to
I want to.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Make sure that this goes to good will. I'm going
to write a note about it. I'll just put a
sticky note on it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Let the family figure that out.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's the whole sweetish death cleaning thing is you're supposed
to do it beforehand, so you you weren't taxing your
family with this after year go yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
But then let my family do with it what they want.
If they don't want it, they're going to go to goodwill.
I swear to God if my Summit series Jersey ends
up a goodwill.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
See, I'm gonna be pissed.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
That's why you need a sticky note.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm also not going to know.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
From your pal has a piece of grandma's brisket in
the freezer? Yeah, grandma died in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Eat it.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
See in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
No, you could eat that?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Is that a record?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
God?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Ninety oh three? You could eat that?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You would eat something that was frozen from that year.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
From nineteen ninety three. Yes, a piece of brisket. I
bet that hold, I bet that hole.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
One nine one.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Ask a chef Steve.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
He's probably sleeping.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
He had a busy day yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, oh, they were probably past Jesus Elliot, Hello, listen
to the excitement. Hey Mendino its Elliott. Please don't cuss.
You're on the air.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Okay, did I wake you. Hell, oh good, A question
for you. Question for you. Context doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
But if I had a frozen brisket for since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Three, is that still is that still edible?
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Okay, that's that's groggy, chef.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Let me ask you this, Would you eat it?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Would I eat it?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
I'd have to look at it. I'd have to look
at it first, but.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, but that's okay, it's great.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I don't know that, chef. She doesn't know that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, you'd have to look and you'd have to look
and smell, right, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
We'd have to warm it up, see what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
But if it's been frozen the whole time, you you could,
you'd be good on that.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's twenty years, thirty years. Yeah, I'm very good. All right,
thank you, thank you, chef. All right, very good, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Now, Diane.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
He was up.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Seriously, And it is worth pointing out Grandma died in
ninety three. Oh for years when Grandma put it in
the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Oh my god, it's probably from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So that's seven Yeah, that's twenty five, that's thirty years.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, but there's nothing wrong with it. It's fine.
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