Cooking ham

Suzanne was preparing a ham dinner. After she cut off the end of the ham, she placed it in a pan for baking. Her friend asked her "Why did you cut off the end of the ham?"

She replied, "I really don't know but my mother always did, so I thought you were supposed to".

Later when talking to her mother she asked her why she cut off the end of the ham before baking it, and her mother replied: "I really don't know, but that's the way my mum always did it".

A few weeks later, while visiting her grandmother, Suzanne asked: "Grandma, why is it that you cut off the end of a ham before you bake it?"

Her grandmother replied, "Well dear,

Spoiler:

it would never fit into my baking pan".