My favorite is the year they changed the Crisco fat content. My grandmother sent away for a Crisco cookbook sometime in the mid 1940s and we used it for our family pie crust recipe for the next fifty years (I know, I know, I use butter now, but Crisco rolls very nicely so please don't judge). In the early 1990s, she and I were making Thanksgiving pies but our crusts were falling apart almost entirely. We couldn't figure out why so we patched what we had together with milk, and it looked like a jigsaw puzzle. I said, we'll have to tell the family and apologize, but Grandma said, no we will not - they're not in here and what they don't know won't hurt them! She was right - somehow nobody noticed! We were so busy with our secret that we laughed until we cried. I wrote to the company a few days later and learned that indeed, they'd changed their product, and by way of apology, they sent us a new cookbook. Shared baking fails are the best kind!

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