That's the answer shared with the masses to keep them from digging further. It's a secret club, and we're not members.
Don't you see it? Death, the secret ingredient is death. Sacrifice of a relative for the best pasta in town.
The secret is MSG if your Gramma is Asian.The secret is Cough syrup if your Gramma is a boomer/silent generation.
Or a bartender who wants to claim all the credit for the hot new drink that’s taken the town by storm
Makes me think about that one simple shooter game you could play online with the queen, Hillary Clinton and Bush
The secret is that the recipe was taken from the back of a bag of flour in 1963.
This guy grandmas
Bonus points if Granny still has the original strip of bag she cut the recipe off of.