When Is a Meeting Like a Ham?

The story goes like this: A little girl watches her mother cut off both ends of a ham before putting it in the pot. When she asks why, her mother says, “That's the way my mother always made it.” Curiosity now piqued, they call grandma and ask her why she cut off the ends of the ham. She said, “Because that's the way my mother made it.” So they call great-grandma, who laughs and says, “It was the only way I could get the ham to fit in the small pot I had!”