Sometimes brownies don't even make the cultural divide

Companies create their own rites to celebrate. Here at Metavante women who are newly pregnant announce their status by bring in a dish of home baked brownies. On the surface, this appears quite innocuous. However, a large number of the software developers are from India. Brownies are not part of their normal diets and the art of baking brownies is not part of their skill set.

Today a lovely young Inidan woman brought a large dish of brownies into the break room. Smiles and congratulations were extended all around. Innocently, I pick up a small brownie and returned to my desk. It was a brick. I suspect that woman pulled the brownies out of the oven when the instructions said and couldn't believe that they were done. They probably were very soft and perhaps a little runny. She put them back in until they were "set." (For those readers who may never have baked brownies, you should not over bake as they dry out very quickly.)