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Sponsored Ads• Submit a suggestion for this page... You know you are a First-Generation Greek-American if... Submitted 5/29/2010 by Phillip in CA • If you didn't come fast enough when called your Mother or Grandmother would threaten and then throw a slipper at you. Submitted 5/13/2010 by Richard in IL • You forgot to add the names Yorgo/George to the male relatives that EVERY family has. Submitted anonymously • You have at least one relative who wore a black dress every day for an entire year after a funeral...or their entire life! • You spent your entire childhood thinking what you ate for lunch was pronounced "sangwich." • You ate peaches and yogurt long before "fruit at the bottom" became popular. • "Straaumbeeries" was your favorite fruit. • Your family dog understood Greek. • Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting your grandparents and extended family. • You've experienced the phenomena of 150 people fitting into 50 square feet of yard during a family cookout. • You were surprised to discover the FDA recommends you eat three meals day, not seven. • You thought killing the lamb each year and having feta, tsatsiki and olives on your dinner table was absolutely normal. • You were teased by your classmates for bring Easter eggs to school a month after Easter. Aren't they rotten yet? • You grew up thinking no fruit or vegetable had a fixed price and that the price of everything was negotiable through haggling. • You were as tall as your grandmother by the age of seven. • You thought everyone's last name ended in a "is". • You thought nylons were supposed to be worn rolled to the ankles. • Your mom's main hobby is cleaning. • You were surprised to find out that wine was actually sold in stores. • You never knew what to expect when you opened the margarine, after all you thought washing out and reusing margarine containers was normal. • You thought Orthodoxy was the only religion in the world. • You thought every meal had to be eaten with a hunk of bread in your left hand. • Your grandmother never threw anything away, you thought seeing washed plastic bags hanging on the clothes line was normal. • You learned to play backgammon before you went to school. • You have at least one relative who came over "on the boat" from "the old country." • You have at least six male relatives named Nick, John, Peter or Kosta. • You have relatives who aren't really your relatives. • You drank wine before you were a teenager. • You grew up in a house with a yard that didn't have one patch of dirt that didn't have a flower or a vegetable growing out of it. • You thought that talking loud was normal. • You thought everyone got pinched on the cheeks and money stuffed in their pockets by their relatives. • Your mother is overly protective of the males in the family no matter what their age. • There was an icon in every room of the house, including the bathroom. • Submit a suggestion for this page... |
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