The Joy of Being A Christian, American Housewife

I am in the middle of showing my youngest how to cook one of her favorite Arabic dishes, and thought I would look up some terminology for her.  We have a shelf of those old-fashioned book things, and one of them is The Joy of Cooking.  This edition was last copyrighted in 1975, but we certainly purchased it around the time we were married -- 1991.

I found this gem on page 149:  "If you are an American housewife, you may have added to your wanted-for-Christmas list a wok... Ironically enough, most of the East Asian brides living in our area happily substituted for it some while ago a good old-fashioned skillet with a tight-fitting lid."

Oh, the SCWAAMP.  I am now going to show it to my eldest.  We took a walk yesterday afternoon and I told her about SCWAAMP, and asked her to guess what the letters in the acronym stood for.  She guessed "sexuality" for the S, so I explained how it worked by cluing her in that it's "straightness."  I was amazed at how quickly she guessed "American," because that one wasn't intuitive to me.  The only ones she had trouble with were "able-bodied" and "property ownership," although she did get them with prompting.  (I had asked her to picture a typical family in a commercial first, and then try to come up with the acronym words based on that family, so I asked her if anybody in the family was in a wheelchair, and for property ownership I asked her where they were, she said a "home," and I asked if it was an apartment or a car.)

We then analyzed some movies.  Her feeling is that Christianity informs many of the other components of SCWAAMP.