Beef Stew During Grief

when i was 22, my father, stumbling drunk and suicidal, fell and hit his head. he died instantly. that’s when i realized, in the midst of my grief, how much i love beef stew. for this recipe, you’ll need a slow cooker,

A fake tweet delivers a brutally tragic story about the writer’s father dying, then abruptly turns into a beef stew recipe. The punchline is the shocking tonal shift from grief and suicide to an ordinary cooking instruction, creating dark, absurd humor.

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