More on rice...and horses

Mum: Have some Jollof Rice.
Me: No thank you, I'm on some carb free muscle building diet
Mum: WHAT! Why would you want to build muscles?
Me: I knew you'd react like that. Last time I had a six pack you told me I looked like a man.
Mum: You didn't look like a man. You looked like a horse
Me: Why would muscles make me look like a horse?!!
Mum: Well isn't that what those muscle women use to bulk up? Horse Injections.....

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Aunt Jemima

Mum: I'm coming to NY soon. Hope you don't have that poor brand of rice anymore?
Me: Which one?
Mum: The one with the lady on it...wearing a scarf...Aunty something...she looks togolese?
Me: Um...Aunt Jemima?
Mum: Yes! That's the one
Me: ....She's definitely not Togolese...and I don't think she makes rice.

 

All controversy aside, I'm not sure why my mother associates pancakes with rice....or togolese women with scarves.