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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
10 Of Grandma's Favorite Fruit Desserts
From dump cakes and cobblers to pies and cakes, Grandma certainly loved her fruit-studded treats, and so do we. All of these recipes are delicious served à la mode or with a generous helping of homemade whipped cream, only if you can manage to get them on to a plate before stealing a bite! These Southern classics are so irresistible, we plan on taking some forkfuls out of the pan, just like Grandma MyRecipes, your personal recipe box, you can save and organize all of your Southern Living favorites and thousands more in one have to say, Grandma was onto something with her strawberry pie filling obsession. We love this cake for many reasons, but its simplicity cannot be beat. It comes together with a few of the store-bought favorites that the family matriarch seemed to always have on hand. Strawberry Dump Cake To feed a hungry crowd during the summer, a slab pie is the perfect way to show off stone fruit at its finest. The best part is that the recipe comes together in just four steps. Get The Recipe Enjoy making this fluffy, delicious cake year-round by keeping some blueberries in your freezer. For the freshest fruit, pick some up from your favorite farmers' market, sort through your berries and freeze them on a cookie sheet before transferring them to an airtight container. Get The Recipe Grandma loved to make impressive desserts, but only she knew the smart shortcuts she took to dazzle the crowd and pull off a complete luncheon spread. In this retro favorite, the cookie crust and cheesecake-like filling come together in a snap. Get The Recipe Grandma taught us how to make many classic pies, but in the summer months, it's hard to beat a Peach Custard Pie. This recipe's most important ingredient? Patience. Let the dessert cool at least two hours before serving so that it has time to completely firm up. Get The Recipe Fresh summer strawberries are truly celebrated to their full potential in this pretty trifle recipe. We love that it comes together in just 30 minutes. Get The Recipe We don't use the title Best-Ever Lemon Meringue Pie lightly. Follow Grandma's lead and delight your crowd with a slice of cool, creamy citrus-flavored pie. Get The Recipe If you're looking to replicate Grandma's famous banana pudding for your next potluck, this recipe is your ticket. If the sky-high meringue doesn't assure you, one bite of the creamy pudding will. Get The Recipe This is the most searched no-bake recipe in the South, and for very good reason. The combination of graham crackers, cream cheese and fruit is like nostalgia in a pie. Get The Recipe Pineapple cakes are a favorite of grandmas everywhere, but one bite and this easy dump-and-bake dessert may just push the classic upside-down version out of the top spot. Get The Recipe Read the original article on Southern Living
Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
College Student Calls Out Her Stepdad for Major Lie at Her Graduation Dinner
A woman turns to the internet for advice on how she handled a situation with her stepdad Her stepdad tried to take credit for getting her through college, despite not paying for her education The woman called him out on it, and now a few family members say she was in the wrongA recent college graduate found herself at the center of family drama after she called out her stepdad for lying about helping her through college. In a Reddit post, she wrote that before going to college, her stepdad told her he wouldn't pay for her tuition because she wasn't his 'real responsibility.' Her maternal grandparents ended up paying for everything, and she worked part-time through school to pay for other expenses. However, once she graduated, her stepdad tried to take credit for financing her degree. 'At my graduation dinner, he stood up and gave a speech about how proud he was and how 'we worked so hard to get [me] through school.' I asked, 'We? What exactly did you contribute?'" she wrote. "My mom kicked me under the table, but I didn't back down. I said, 'Everything I have is thanks to Grandma and Grandpa. Not you.' " Her stepdad turned red and told her she was being ungrateful, to which she replied, 'No, I'm being accurate.' Now, several family members are upset and blaming the college graduate for embarrassing her stepdad, insisting that she should've let it go. However, most commenters sided with the poster, arguing that she was in the right to say something and stand her ground. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. 'He is trying to take credit for something that he didn't even contribute to because it was not 'his responsibility,'" one user wrote. "Good for you on giving the credit to your grandparents. Also how are you being ungrateful when he did not contribute to anything.' Another commenter posted, 'If anything, he embarrassed himself by lying. You just set the record straight. If you care to you can tell the family members that intervened that you didn't want to diminish your grandparents contribution by letting your stepdad claim credit for something he had no part in. Or you can just ignore them knowing you did the right thing.' Read the original article on People
New Indian Express
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
Sonia Aggarwal Interview: Films are now deliberately made to create controversies
However, these films have also sparked discussions of whether they have aged well over the years. 'If given a chance, I wouldn't change anything about my characters in these films. If we do so, neither the audience nor I will be able to accept it. Don't you think people today deliberately make controversial films?' she probes. 'At least what we did was raw and real. Maybe it hit hard for certain people. We didn't intend to make it controversial. Today, most people are deliberately making it controversial to gain publicity. It is almost like nobody is interested in a project unless they can create some kind of controversy out of it. Do the makers think that is the only way our audience will look forward to a film?' she elaborates. Sonia points out that the differences in the industry's machinations were more starkly visible when she returned from a five-year sabbatical with Vaanam (2011). When questioned whether the break changed how filmmakers saw her, and the kind of roles that came her way, Sonia says, 'It did change. I would like to be very honest about it. I feel that is how the industry works. If a female actor is getting married and takes a break for a year or two, people should still consider her for leading roles as long as she looks fit. As long as she's performing well, looks good, and is fit, why should her personal life matter? Earlier, marriage often meant the end of lead roles for female actors, and I did face those consequences. But I think things are finally changing.' This also meant Sonia was frequently offered mother roles and had to face ageism in the industry. 'I wanted people to stop asking me to play a mother of a 25-year-old when I was like 30 or 35. However, people continue to call me for these roles. My manager shows them my recent photos and we ask them, 'Do I look old enough to play such a mom?' Let me become that old first!' she exclaims. While Sonia highlights that she is open to working in all genres, her recent films have been horror-thrillers, and she understands that it is important to ride the trends in cinema. 'Once a genre clicks, everyone rushes to make more of the same. As an artist, you don't always have much choice there. There was a time when horror and thrillers were in demand, and naturally, I started getting more scripts in those genres. As long as I am happy with the script and role, I take it up,' she says. Does she sometimes miss playing light-hearted characters? 'I've done all kinds of roles,' says Sonia. 'From playing a physically active character to a naive, innocent girl like Anitha, to bold ones like Selvi. Then came roles like Grandma, horror films like 7/G, and raw and gritty films like Dandupalayam. My only agenda has always been to do something different every time,' she states, underlining that the kind of role and script matter more than working with a well-established production house or a star.
Buzz Feed
21-05-2025
- Health
- Buzz Feed
26 Last Words From Deathbeds You'll Never Forget
Recently, we shared a post where Quora users shared their experiences being present for the final moments of someone's hearing their last words. Well, as it turns out, BuzzFeed's readers wanted to share their experiences hearing someone's last words too, so we rounded them up here: "A young woman was being run by gurney to the operating room, but the staff didn't think she would make it in time and charged into a room in the intensive care unit. The young woman had carried a full-term but not alive fetus for a couple of days and came to the hospital septic and bleeding out. During all the chaos, she was conscious. Within minutes, an emergency hysterectomy was attempted, during which she coded. I was positioned by her head, and she spoke, 'I'm going,' before her head fell to the side, and she was gone. I'm not sure anyone else heard. Was she announcing her passing to tell us we could stop? It was a gentle utterance within a nightmare." "My girlfriend, gasping for her last breath, looked at me and said, 'You're next!' That spooked the crap out of me, and I made a quick exit!" "I was a respiratory therapist, and a man said, 'Look at all the beautiful flowers!' He then passed away." —anonymous "My son passed away at 35. He had an addiction to alcohol. In April 2022, he was admitted to a hospital in San Francisco and had to be revived by the staff in the ICU. Magically, he survived that incident. On the day he was released from the hospital, I walked with him, and he told me the ICU nurse advised him, 'Don't come back here again! People never survive a second time in ICU with the illness you have.' He told me it scared him, and he would do what it took to be sober. That same year, he called me on Thanksgiving day and said, 'I wish I were with you in Hawaii so we could walk together again.' That night, he was rushed to the hospital. We were never able to talk again as the brain damage caused by his heart-stopping for 15 minutes was too much. I still long for a walk with my boy." "As a hospice nurse, I had the privilege of hearing many last words, but the most beautiful one came when I entered a patient's bedroom and almost sat down in her bedside chair. She stated: 'Oh please don't sit there — my angel is sitting there!'" "I'm a former pediatric emergency registered nurse and have a heartbreaking one. I'm crying even now remembering it. A 5-year-old girl was about to die, and she said to her mother, 'Oh, look, Mama! Grandma is coming to take me to that park! She said she loves you and we'll see you later. Love you, Mama! Bye bye.' She fell asleep. And she was gone 15 minutes later." —awfulpenguin75 "I once cared for an elderly gentleman with dementia who was slowly declining. He didn't speak much, and when he did, he didn't make sense. One of my co-residents had developed this very nasty rash around his eye, and when we went to see this patient together, he sat upright. Looking horrified, he pointed a finger at my co-resident's face and said, 'What happened to your eye?!' That night, he was transferred to the ICU and passed away. That was the last thing he ever said." "I heard a dying mom say to her 45-year-old son: 'I know you so little but love you so much.'" "A friend of mine, a Buddhist, was dying of cancer. It is said that when you die you will be greeted by a thousand Buddhas. After being comatose for several hours without opening her eyes she began saying 'Hello' and 'I'm feeling wonderful, thank you' and 'I'm pleased to meet you' and similar phases for about 10 minutes. She then passed away with a smile on her face." —pinkraptor928 "My father-in-law was known for his lectures on life. It drove me up the wall when he'd come over unannounced. It was then you'd know you were in for a 'lecture' and couldn't just hide or, better yet, lie and tell him we were leaving. So, anyway, in his last 10 years, he was experiencing a lot of health issues, and they didn't diagnose him with mesothelioma until six months before he died. When he went to hospice, I was the only one who would sit with him." "Our youngest son had many health issues from severe hemophilia and HIV, as well as primary pulmonary hypertension (which is what did him in at age 32). As he lay on the floor in my arms at our local drug store, felled by his bad heart, he struggled to sit up as if he recognized someone or something and said, 'Y'all gotta be kidding me!' We were not Southerners, nor did we live in the South. I'd never heard such a deep and incredulous Southern accent from him before. And those were his final words. I felt the life leave his body then, and I told the EMTs to stop with the CPR. He was gone." "I'm an ER doctor. One afternoon, a young man in his late 30s came in with chest pain. He was having an ST elevation MI (heart attack), which was surprising given his young age. I called the cardiologist, and as we were getting him ready to take him to the cath lab to open up his coronary arteries, the patient told me that he didn't want to go until he saw his wife. She was still about 45 minutes away from the hospital. He looked absolutely terrified. I told him that time was muscle and that the sooner we could open his arteries, the better he would be. I looked him straight in the eye and said, 'You're going to be fine. We do this all of the time.' I promised that I would meet his wife as soon as she arrived and bring her to the cath lab. He died on the table. His artery dissected (tore) during the procedure. It haunts me to this day." —anonymous "My husband died of ALS in his 50s. In the ER, he opened his eyes, and his last words to me were, 'You're the best.'" "My dad had serious heart issues but felt well enough one Sunday morning to go on a trip to Florida. He woke up and told my mom this was the best he had felt in years. A few minutes later, he told my mum his stomach was really hurting. Mum told him she would make him some tea. When she returned to the bedroom, he was down on his knees talking to some unseen person. He looked at my mum, said, 'I'm going now,' and then passed away. Mum always believed some heavenly person had come to get him." "Years ago, my uncle was in the process of dying. He took in his last breath, then woke up and said to his mother, 'Oh, Mom! You have to get ready — it's so beautiful over there.' He died peacefully, having given the family a glimpse of heaven." —anonymous "My husband had a tragic accident with multiple broken bones and punctured lungs. Before he lost consciousness, he said, 'I'm so sorry. I love you.' He died two days later, having never regained consciousness." "I was on my morning walk with my late husband when he grabbed his heart and said, 'I'm fine, keep walking.' I sat him down on a bench in a gazebo and saw his last breath — he died in my arms. That was 24 years ago (he was 54). He made dying look so peaceful." "Working as a paramedic, a lady in the ambulance looked up at me and said, 'That's it, goodbye.' She went into cardiac arrest and died." —anonymous "My 89-year-old mother told my father, 'Bill, let's make a break for it.'" "A young man in his 20s received a cut at work that would not heal. He went to the doctor to find out he had leukemia. Treatment failed, and he went into hospice care. When he asked us to call his family to his side, we knew the time was close. After loving goodbyes to his loved ones, he stated, 'Time for me to go. The Angels are here.' He died shortly after these last words — a beautiful exit from this world." "My brother-in-law was dying. It was sudden. My husband, his brother, and I stayed during the night shift. His breathing took a bad turn, and the nurses said we should call in family. My husband left to do that, leaving me in the room with him. He shot up suddenly, reaching out toward something, and said one small word: 'Oh!' It was said with incredible reverence, and it was like he was shocked and overwhelmed, but in a good way. It was a pure moment of total vulnerability and innocent beauty. And then he laid there and just died. I was in awe of it, and I still am." —anonymous "A friend's brother-in-law was dying of cancer when, near the end, he got very excited and said, 'He's here! He's here! He's all around us.' The man then put his head down on the pillow, went to sleep, and never woke up." "My Dad collapsed suddenly in our hallway. After he fell down, I yelled, 'Should I call an ambulance?' and he clearly replied with 'No!' despite already no longer breathing. We did, of course, call emergency services immediately after realizing it was serious and started reanimation. The emergency doctors took over and tried everything for almost an hour before one very kindly asked whether they should carry on and transport him or stop." "My friend hadn't spoken for days when, out of the blue, she said to someone unseen, 'Where the hell are we going?!' Those were her last words. She was 106." —Anni Eddie "I was working as a nurse in a nursing home, doing the morning med pass. We had a husband and wife on our unit that the family had requested be in different rooms because although she had Alzheimer's (and was otherwise in great health), she would wear herself out taking care of him and fussing over him as she had done for all of their marriage (he had significant medical needs). I was in front of his room with the med cart when she pushed past it. I reminded her she wasn't supposed to go into his room until he was out of bed. She said, 'I just need to say goodbye. I'm going to see my mother, and I probably won't be back.' I chuckled to myself, thinking (since she was 85), If you're going to see your mother, you definitely won't be back. (Of course, I assumed it was a declaration she had made because of Alzheimer's dementia)." "My father served his country for 24 years in the United States Air Force and always gave great life advice. For example, he told me that once you become a parent, the job is for life until the day you die. Anyway, my father was on his deathbed at the age of 86. Two days before he passed, my younger brother and I started to fuss about Dad's condition in the ICU. I saw my father move his head and say to my brother and me without missing a beat: 'Cut it out!' I had to laugh, but in my laughter, I started to cry because right then and there, I remembered that he told me in my 20s that the job of a parent lasts a lifetime until death does us part. Dad winked at me and said, 'I'm ready to go home, son.'" Did you hear someone's last words that really made an impression on you? Let us know in the comments below or via this anonymous form.
Buzz Feed
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Nostalgic Products That Have Vanished Forever
Though trends and products are often reimagined and revisited every few decades, many end up vanishing from present-day society completely!! So we recently asked the older folks (Boomers, Gen-X, and older Millennials) of the BuzzFeed Community to share which trends or products were once popular but have since disappeared. Here are their responses! "Department store catalogs just before Christmas and going directly to the toy section in the back to circle what you wanted for Christmas." —homeychef856 "Napkins that fit on your lap. They are all so small and thin now, they don't even lie across your leg, nor do they do the job when wiping your hands. Even using several modern napkins together doesn't really work…so we all look like rude slobs now. Good luck finding a decent hand towel when you use the washroom… if they exist, hope that 3' worth helps, if you can get the dispenser to cooperate." "The decline of civilization began when they stopped putting toys in cereal boxes." —sparklesthecupcake"In the 70s, cereal boxes had single-song cardboard 'records' on the back that you popped out and they played on a phonograph. My first was 'Sugar Sugar' by The Archies."—emoswan12 "Event television. There were shows or programming that, if you missed it, there wasn't any other way to watch unless there were reruns. You had to watch it at the time it was airing and talk about it the next day." "Prank Calls! It was so much fun to make a silly, anonymous phone call to your friends, your enemies, or even your grandmother. It would be hard not to laugh while changing your voice to pretend to be someone else. To this day, Grandma still doesn't know how Elvis got her phone number." —Anonymous, 46, North Carolina "The Avon Lady coming to your house and leaving those tiny lipstick and perfume samples." "Paper maps. I grew up with one of those thick Rand McNally map books in the car when we took long road trips. Navigating in a completely foreign area was a fun activity." —syringistic "8-track tapes and their players. Sometimes the song would click to the next track while it was playing, and you couldn't rewind to listen again." "Kids will never know the joy of going to Radio Shack and checking out toys, gear, and all the batteries you could buy! Walkie Talkies! Tesla Lightning Globes and Tandy Tandy Tandy toys! It was Best Buy before there was Best Buy!" —tendtomebollocks "Remember stores where you could listen to CDs with headphones before buying?" "Play places at fast food establishments. There aren't that many that still have them." "Voiceovers in movie trailers. For some reason, I can't think of when exactly they died out. I just remember that they were a thing, and then they weren't." "Does anybody else remember that trend where handlebar mustaches were put on everything? Pillows, shirts, etc. Like, some people even got them tattooed on their finger so they could put it on their lip and pretend they had one?" "Oatmeal used to contain a small milk glass or dish towel as a free gift, packed inside the oatmeal container. When I was a child, the milk glass was actually made of glass! It's scary to think about it now. By the time I was a teenager, it was a plastic cup. Now you get nothing!" "Salad bars. In the '80s, every restaurant had one, even some fast-food burger places like Wendy's." "Cracker Jack boxes had real prizes in them, not paper or little pieces of plastic. I remember the first time my prize was a piece of paper. We stopped buying it. The box before that had a yo-yo in it, and another had a watch." "Cigarette lighters/ashtrays in cars." "Quality of clothing. In the eighties, I wore Forenza, OBR, Benetton, to name a few. In the nineties, I was all about Old Navy and Gap. As I write this response, I'm wearing Gap jeans and a Gap shirt. Years ago, I could get a tear in an article of clothing, and it was barely noticeable. Now, if I get a tiny tear, the material is thinner, so it tears easily." "One trend I miss is simply being in the moment — before smartphones turned every experience into a photo op. There was a time when vacations, concerts, family gatherings, or even a simple night out felt more genuine because we were actually present. Now, even if I choose not to record something, the moment is disrupted by others who feel compelled to document every second. Let's be honest—no one's going to rewatch that shaky, overexposed video of last year's 4th of July fireworks." —Anonymous, 41, Oregon What other once-beloved products and trends from the past have completely disappeared? Let us know in the comments!
