I learned one of my mother's secrets today, and it wasn't pretty.

Yes...time for a #Christmas #MomStory.

My mom is competitive. She was recently named the international croupier of the year...my mom, five-fingered Peggy, beat out the top dealers of Monte Carlo and Vegas.
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She's a top predator when it comes to competition. Don't let the sweet little 84 yr old lady act fool you. She's a piranha who just ate your lunch.

For my WHOLE childhood my mom has made this special salad. It is incredible. "The only salad I can get your father to eat."
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She has carefully guarded her secret wilted lettuce leave salad recipe from all housewives who begged for the salad that their husbands gobbled down at my mom's table.

My mom has never shared the recipe. I think she's lost friends because she wouldn't share this recipe.
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It is a magical salad-Bacon-onions-wilted lettuce-vinegar.

My mom has always boasted about how healthy we all are for eating her crack-like salad.

"My men will always eat a salad!" She'd boast to those wives whose husband would never eat salad. Then she'd prove it.
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SO this year my mom delivered a box of ready made Christmas dinner, including her addictive salad.

In a container, marked with the directions: "BOIL and pour on salad" was her secret dressing. I would finally see what it was made of!!!

I opened the lid and... and...
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All those lies my mother told me over the years about her "healthy salad" came crashing down.

MY MOTHERS "HEALTHY" SALAD HAS A CUP OF BACON FACT BOILED AND POURED OVER IT.

SO DISGUSTING!!!!

I thought we were eating something healthy!!!

MOM LIAR!!

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Then we boiled all that fat and vinegar and God knows what spices and ate the whole heaping bowl of salad because... um...because... you all, I swear, it is the best salad ever.

OMgosh...I'd eat another one right now.
Don't miss it @iamsurfe !! A #momstory!
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