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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Anythingand I do mean anything, that has lemon in it, is automatically 'special'. Stems from the time mum made up a pasta sauce recipe, told us it had a special ingredient, and we found lemon zest was that ingredient.
Also, as we have many dogs, there is often dog hair in our food. Since my wee sister is a bit of a pansy, she would always whinge about finding a dog hair in her food. Hence I introduced the 'lucky dog hair' rule. The first person to find a dog hair in their meal has the lucky dog hair, and is thus going to have a good day. I started this when I was 6, and it's still doing strong more than 20 years on. I realised other people don't do it when I pulled out a long hair from a meal at a friend's house recently, and said 'ooh, lucky human hair tonight!'.
That sounds quite repulsive now that I've written it down.
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ascorbate, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 14:00,
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eugh"lucky human hair tonight!"
gross
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