“Summer is the season when a man thinks he can cook better on an outdoor grill than his wife can on an indoor stove” is a jocular saying that has been cited in print since at least 1995. Authorship is unknown.
Google Books
20,000 Quips & Quotes
By Evan Esar
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Books
1995, ©1968
Pg. 180:
Summer is the season when a man thinks he can cook better on an outdoor grill than his wife can on an indoor stove.
22 July 1995, Daily Globe (Ironwood, MI), pg. 63 (?) ad:
Summer is the season when a man thinks he can cook better on an outdoor grill than his wife can on an indoor stove.
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Summer is the season when a man thinks he can cook better on an outdoor grill than his wife can on an indoor stove. ~ Anonymous
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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