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What’s the strangest family tradition in your family?


It might be strange, but we loved it:

When we were kids, Saturday night dinner was always popcorn and chocolate ice cream. It was the only time we got to have soda, too.

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I don't know how strange it is but growing up we always had oyster stew and sloppy Joe's on Christmas eve.
I have no idea where it came from.

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Cold Oatmeal with milk

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Weird.
That was our Easter dinner!

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It wasn't a holiday tradition, it was every morning, cold oatmeal\milk\white sugar.

An old Italian tradition, I guess

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Give me a scoop of Spumoni on top and I'm totally in.

I remember eating a lot of cold oatmeal when I was a kid too.
Now I think "really mom, you couldn't serve it warm?"

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Sunday's would be the hot oatmeal\water\brown sugar.

But weekdays, cereal or oatmeal after watching Hercules (cartoon) before school

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Hot oatmeal with water or cold with milk.
Sounds familiar. Why not just heat the milk.....
No time during the week. Had to get you crazy kids off to school.

Two kinds of sugar?
Were you rich?

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Yes we got 2 sugar at home.

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That is a rather un-traditional Christmas Eve dinner.

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On Christmas we went all out.
We always had turkey and ham. I think the ham was for me because Christmas was my birthday
and ham was/is my favorite.
I never asked why oysters and Sloppy Joes!
Somewhere in there I think we had Lutefisk too.

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you must be joking about the Lutefisk.

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I'm serious.
I know we had it quite often. I just don't remember if it was for an occasion or not.
I don't remember hating hit but I don't remember liking it either.

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Lutefisk is traditional around here since Swedish and Norwegian settlers were prominent in MN. Even though I'm Swedish, I have never tasted it and never will. Fish soaked in lye?? Which raises the question, who "invented" lutefisk?

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Thankfully it wasn't a English/Irish tradition.

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No butter, please! Ick. Just a little salt. I love popcorn, but the older I get, the less it likes me. Too much fiber, I guess.

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A Christmas tradition in Eastern Canada is Mummering. Still goes on to this day in small isolated towns.

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You dress up and go from house top house trying not to reveal your identity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummering

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We blame it on the British

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LOL! Not quite what they do!

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My first thought was the Mummer's Parade in Philadelphia. I had to look up mummering, though. It appears the it and the parade stem from the same old English tradition, but also has roots in Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Finland, and other European counties. I remember watching the Mummer's Parade on New Year's Day when I was a kid.

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When we were kids,if we don't eat all from the plate our parents won't allow us to see the cartoons

And it was sailor Moon,for God sake 😱

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