Family codes and ritualsFreddy Woo writes, "as a child we used to have a 'whoever cuts doesn't choose the slice' rule with cake. It worked brilliantly, but it's left me completely anal about dividing up food - my wife just takes the piss as I ritually compare all the slice sizes."
What codes and rituals does your family have?
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chthonic, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 18:05)
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Slaps! Folds!After dinner, my dad and I would always have rounds of jam sandwiches to finish our repast. These would be made with Robinson's jam, on Hovis brown bread, with a thin scraping of Flora. They were always to be prepared by my mother and they came in two forms.
The "Jam Fold" was one slice of bread, loaded with jam and folded in half, for the high jam to bread ratio; or the "Jam Slap" which was a traditional jam between two slices of bread construction, for the purist.
Jam Slaps were to be requested by slapping one's hands together, one for each sandwich required. Jam Folds were ordered by adopting a claw-like hand gesture.
At the end of dinner, my long suffering mother would stand up to enter the kitchen, at which point my dad and I would start clapping and gurning like a pair of spastic seals to order our butties. This was made more interesting when we had visitors...
That's the only thing I can think of that became a long standing tradition. Well, apart from schizophrenia.
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What an edearing image!I like this very much indeed. :) *clanks*
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 11:45,
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I can actually picture this...So have a click.
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snee held his breath since, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 12:03,
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This is my favourite so far."...gurning like a pair of spastic seals..." made me laugh quite loudly.
*clicks*
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Moey, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 12:13,
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