I figured that talk about the Purdy Family Curse was all made up. And how back in the 1930's there was trouble with the Jarring Consortium, but I thought those days were long gone. Grandma Purdy's moved down into the root cellar and is telling all the cousins to get their guns and get ready for a rumble. She says it's worth protecting the family recipe at all costs! But I don't think the idea of getting all my hillbilly relatives excited and loading up their shotguns is a good idea at all.

My great aunt made super spicy pickles, and people said you could live forever if you kept on eating them. But they were so spicy nobody could ever get through a jar.

I was sent off to school with a case of them. Me and all my cousins. We keep trying to get rid of them.