My cousin, in her teens, left NL in the early 1960's to make a life in Toronto. She married at a young age and settled in to the married life. When it came to cooking she was very inexperienced but did her best in providing nutritious meals. She phoned her sister-in-law to find out the best way to bake potatoes. She told her to stick a fork in each potato and put them in the oven for about an hour. When her husband came home from work she asked him to fetch the potatoes from the oven. What a surprise he got when he opened the oven door and saw the 6 potatoes with a fork sticking out of each one! Thank the Lord they never had plastic on the handles.
P.S. A nice cartoon sketch would embellish this story well. Also a good idea for another submission contest could be "Funny experiences in cooking"   Submitted By: Ed Power