Something is definitely up.

She went to work, brought home bags of groceries, then proceeded to cook a dinner with fresh meat and vegetables. Not a brand name on anything.

She made a very weird dessert. Strawberries with cream and brown sugar. But it was sour cream, not whipped cream. She said it was Strawberries Romanoff. I said That's not a very nice trick to play, making it look like something it's not. She replied that yes, whomever invented it and their entire family should be shot, and she and Alice chuckled at each other.

I don't get American humor at all.