Do you do something that reflects your cultural heritage?

[hedgehog]

For example, I was 50 years old before I realized that most people don't serve potatoes every night! I always thought of pasta as something I'd make when I was in too much of a hurry to peel and cook potatoes! Guess my ethnic background, and the first two guesses don't count!

[mark414]

1. i drink...

guess where i'm from!

[Patiod]

3. And I feel guilty about everything

I'm thinking it's the same cultural heritage as the potato-eating OP.....

[Lisa]

101. hey, not specific enough ...

So do my relatives (you should see us singing and brawling at weddings!). Hint -- my ancestors came from an island and drank a lot of tea. Oh, and made sushi.

[1gobluedem]

2. I drink beer on St. Patrick's Day

And most other days, for that matter. To celebrate my Irish heritage.

We have potatoes almost every night too.

[ohiosmith]

4. Whenever I drink Guinness I get the urge to invade Poland.

Guess my heritage.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. one of my best friends is polish..and we always joke that its been about

50 years ..shouldnt germany invade poland again?

he is gay and thinks germany should invade poland.

[kwassa]

18. Confused?

though there were German symapthizers among the Irish.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. Ireland is going to invade Poland again?

Or just sit in a warm pub and plan the invasion?

Anyway, I have no clue as to your heritage. Ohio, maybe?

:rofl:

(go blue)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

36. I eat borscht, sit around brooding, thinking dark thoughts,

ignoring pain, wondering why I'm misunderstood.

All your potatoes are belongs in my vodka distillery!

:rofl:

[seemunkee]

37. I would say half German half Irish

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. dont wear shoes around the house.

[hedgehog]

44. Japanese?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

51. indian

[JVS]

7. I do not engage in greetings that involve much physical contact

For blood relatives, I can accept a hug upon greeting. But for others (including relatives by marriage) a handshake is the most physical a greeting gets, and more often a smile, a hello, and a nod is enough.

[kwassa]

19. True Brit.

I resemble that heritage.

[JVS]

20. No. A child of a Minnesotan of Scandinavian-German background

[kwassa]

43. It is all northern European behavior.

The Brits are no warmer than the Swedes.

[hedgehog]

45. I knew that.

Prarie Home Companion fan.

[murielm99]

73. That's what I am, too.

But my Scandinavian mother made boiled potatoes with nearly every dinner. I hated them before I was ten.

I never make boiled potatoes. I make potatoes for nearly every meal myself, but they are prepared any way but boiled.

[KitchenWitch]

27. ScandiHOOVian!

:hi:

[zingaro]

8. eh, the thought of slaughtering or enslaving thousands of

people just doesn't work for me.

But I've been known to drink me some beer. :)

[treestar]

9. I drink, feel guilty, and love to hear sad music

Also to tell jokes and sit around and shoot the bull.

[hedgehog]

48. I have to guess Irish.

The feel guilty part. If you drank, listened to sad music and got mad at the world, I'd guess Eastern Europe or Russia.

[trof]

10. 2 words: pot. likker.

If you know what it is, you know what region I'm from.
;-)

[hedgehog]

47. I like that answer

Some of us identify by region, others by national origin and others by race. Talk about a multicultural society. What's fun is that it usually isn't the obvious like which holidays you celebrate, but the little things like favorite every day foods that really mark a culture.

[Left Is Write]

11. I make lefse every fall and winter.

A long time ago, I thought EVERYONE knew and ate lefse.

[JVS]

12. You are Norwegian

[Left Is Write]

97. And you are perceptive.

;)

[Critters2]

57. Lefse is good. Not as good as kringla, but better than kumla. nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Never show up on time.

[ikojo]

34. Are you talkin' JST

Jewish Standard Time: 15 minutes late...although one of my friends is NEUROTICALLY punctual and she is VERY Jewish.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. Indian Standard Time.

:D

[KitchenWitch]

38. I always thought it was Pagan Standard Time!

Meaning, all things will start when the spirit moves us!

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

40. My spirit's on strike.

:D :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

42. Right on!

:hi:

[JVS]

63. I am almost always 5 to 10 minutes early

[HEyHEY]

95. I knew there was a reason I liked you

I'm the same way HATE people who aren't prompt

[Midlodemocrat]

14. I'm a major francophile.

[bluethruandthru]

15. I am a fan of cabbage/sauerkraut n/t

[Shell Beau]

16. Pass the peyote!

:shrug:


I have a lot of Native American in me, but also English and Irish. Just a good ole mutt!!

[Shell Beau]

68. I just now re-read the orignal post. I don't smoke peyote.

I thought it said "do something...."

I probably do need to celebrate my heritage in some way though!

[jobycom]

17. Eat junk food, sit around instead of excercising...

I'm American.

[BreweryYardRat]

21. I'm of French descent.

Thinking of taking up throwing the francisca (axe) like my most distant Frankish ancestors (at a guess-can't trace my lineage that far back) did.

[edbermac]

22. I wear kilts sometimes.

But never on a windy day. :rofl:

[Connonym]

23. There's something very appealing about a man in a kilt

I think part of it is that a man has to have a lot of self-confidence to wear one. Great, now I'm going to have naughty thoughts about men in kilts all day :-/

[Hosnon]

49. I plan on buying one when I can afford it. As of right now, I simply have

a medallion with our family's motto:

Disce pati: Learn to Suffer

A bit disturbing in a way...haven't done much research into its origin.

[kwassa]

61. Is where the term "arse" comes from ?

[Zookeeper]

24. I quilt...

I come from a long line of southern women, who created warmth and beauty from scraps of fabric.

[Strawman]

25. I enjoy the singing of Tom Jones

[REP]

72. I Eat Leeks

[KitchenWitch]

26. You are Chinese! j/k

I am half Irish myself. Loves me the potatoes.

[crim son]

28. Yes, I get all emotional and angry

and I try to kill my enemies.

[Kali]

29. Peruvian?

[leftofthedial]

30. drink beer, watch NASCAR, listen to Limbaugh, rule the world

all the usual straight white guy stuff.

















:sarcasm:

[ceile]

31. Drinking

Covers the Irish and the German.

[Kali]

33. I raise cattle

(American cowboy history is actually more Scottish than Spanish)

[skygazer]

39. Well, let's see

I drink tea on a daily basis - I'm about 3/8 English
I love horses, song and poetry - I'm about 1/8 Irish
And I could eat pasta at every meal - I'm 1/2 Italian

[Book Lover]

41. Plenty

Except for the plastic on the furniture - that will never happen in my home. But I am thinking of putting up an overwrought fountain in my front yard should we ever buy a house...

[hedgehog]

46. Plastic on the furniture is fun.

I can remember visiting someone's home with plastic furniture, white carpets and plastic runners on the carpets. We stayed in the kitchen!

Please don't flame me, but Greek, Polish or Italian?

BTW - is it true that some of us Irish are the worst house keepers?

[Book Lover]

50. Italian - no flames here!

I never knew Polish or Greek folks to have a love of tacky lawn statuary like we Italians...

[JVS]

74. I grew up in a town that had a huge Tacky Lawn Statuary store on the road in from the parkway

Brentano's Concrete Connection. Lots of birdbaths, lawn-balls, lions to put on each side of the driveway, and other cool things. Very Italian town.

[Book Lover]

81. Well, yeah, they can be nice to look at, in moderation

At least my father never went for the baby-pissing fountains!

[mentalsolstice]

52. My European origins are hazy...

But I love basketball, and I drink mint juleps on the first Saturday in May...

[caty]

53. For breakfast I have the traditional

coffee or hot chocolate with bread, butter, and jam. Sometimes I have a croissant. Sometimes soup and bread.

[Goblinmonger]

54. I loves me some kolache.

Mmmmmmm. Especially the prune ones. Poppyseed is good, too.

[hedgehog]

58. Did you know you can't get good pirogies in Houston?

My future son-in-law has vowed to stay in the North east after that devastating experience!

[Lisa]

102. come to Western Canada!

It's got both oil and pirogies. (The former is in Alberta and Saskatchewan -- the latter are available in most regular grocery stores, like Safeway, or church/community suppers.)

[NewWaveChick1981]

55. I eat grits occasionally...

:hi: But only if I put sugar and butter on them. That's a blend of my Southern roots and Southern mother and my Northern father. :P

[Critters2]

56. I love me some stollen. nt

[kwassa]

59. I drink scotch. What country would that be?

I stopped eating potatoes the moment I left my parents home and wouldn't touch them for years. Lotta rice and couscous.

[ZombieNixon]

60. I steal American IT jobs.

Virginia Republicans call me "macaca." :P

[SOteric]

62. Mine is Italian, and my boyfriend's is British.

I drink espresso and make a cosmic lasgna. He has a dry wit and mocks the French.

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

66. And how is he now a days?

And you too?


:hi:

[femmocrat]

64. I make the traditional dishes for the holidays.

And I'm really really good a keeping a grudge.

[philosophie_en_rose]

65. I eat with my fingers at home.

And I also don't wear shoes in the house.

[ChoralScholar]

67. Twice a year, I eat a big Bratwurst platter at

a German restaurant called the "Brauhaus". I wash it down with a liter of Spaten Oktoberfest.

[usaftmo]

69. Sure!

I'm half German, so I went to Oktoberfest in 2005 :party:

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

70. I'm a neurotic obsessive worrier

And therefore, I do my Jewish heritage proud.....

[CBHagman]

87. You'd be surprised how many of us fit that description.

:hi:

I'm a gentile, though I've heard rumors some of my Hungarian relatives were Jewish.

As for my heritage, I've watched my share of Ingmar Bergman movies, baked a few batches of Linzer cookies, and collected a huge stack of CDs that includes Gaelic Storm, the Clancy Brothers, and Dolores Keane.

[Orangepeel]

71. I eat white bread

unfortunately, I don't have much of a cultural heritage. I'm a Western European mutt whose ancestors melted into the pot like a big pat of butter.

:cry:

[Nikia]

104. Just celebrate all of your heritages or the one's that you like the best

The truth is that most people from almost anywhere, including Europe, aren't really ethnically pure either. Many of those countries had people from many ethnic groups, many of which are extinct culturually. If some of of us were in any other country and married exagamously for that many generations, we would be considered part of that country's main ethnic group.
Celebrate your heritage whether it be the lives of your ancestors or the cultures that they came from. That's what I do.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

75. hmmm

British on one side -- Should I try to oppress Catholics or something?

Scots-Irish on other side (Northern Ireland, oppressed Irish Catholics and tried to make staunch Presbyterians out of them).

I'm a girl so I can't wear a kilt. What to do other than listen to British geezer rock which is of course, the best kind!!

[sarge43]

80. You can wear a kilted skirt, Perragrande

The difference is mainly the length. A kilted skirt is longer than the kilt.

[sarge43]

76. I love potatoes, sausages, a good dark ale and bagpipe music.

Sometimes I'm overwhelmed with the urge to invade Poland or England or Ireland.

[fudge stripe cookays]

77. Drink some beer,

love cheese and sausage and fish fries, and speak some of the mother tongue.

But I don't own a pickelhaube, and I still have never attempted to take over a small European country. That's next on my list.

Deutschland Uber Alles, ya'll!

:D

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

78. I'm Invading Poland!!!

...wearing lederhosen and one of those spiffy alpine hats.

[dropkickpa]

79. So many of the things my family did

when I was growing up just seemed like what all families do. I never realized until I got older that a lot of the things we did were irish. Nobody ever mentioned it, I mean, we knew we were irish (hello, 6 kids and we sound like an Irish phone book being read whenever anyone names us all in succession). We were too busy getting into trouble and being yelled at.

There was always a great love of poetry and music in our home (though not a one of us can play an instrument to save our lives, we are a very appreciative audience and good listeners). Our home was always filled with people, and holidays were the greatest because we'd joke and laugh and tell stories for hours on end. I didn't realize that colcannon or thick stew with a mix of beef and lamb were Irish until I was about 10 years old. We always just called them "stew and potatoes".

We do the christmas thing where the tree and decorations go up Dec 8th and don't come down until January 6th (this is more a catholic thing, even though my parents are not practicing catholics and us kids have never been). There is always a holly wreath (has to be holly for some reason) hung on the front door. We leave bread, a drink, and a candle on the table overnight after cleaning up xmas eve dinner.

[youthere]

82. Every Christmas Eve I make Rouladen,spaetzle and red cabbage.

And we have a plum torte for dessert. This was the tradition when I was growing up and I still do it. I even use my Oma's original recipes.

[QMPMom]

84. OMG, that is a favorite meal around here!

I am American through and through - so much so we're not sure where the ancestors came from. But, I married a German and learned German cooking after we got married.

I make a wicked Rouladen. My husband said one day that mine were the best he had ever eaten - while his mother was sitting at our dining room table. She was NOT impressed!

I :loveya: my husband!!!

[youthere]

85. You have an awesome husband!

Now there is some debate over whether or not to pickles in it..some say yes, some say no.
My Oma's recipe calls for pickles and I can't imagine rouladen without it!

[QMPMom]

86. Rouladen without pickles is heresy!!!

:bounce:

I asked my mother-in-law for years and years for recipes, the Rouladen recipe being among them. She could "never remember" how to make them despite making them and us finding the leftovers in her refrigerator when we'd come to visit!

One night we were hosting my in-law's 50th anniversary party so I asked MIL's best friend how she made them and she immediately gave me the recipe. I have used her recipe ever since and it is the one that my husband said was the best he had ever eaten.

Do you use bacon in yours? Agathe told me bacon was the secret.

And yes, I do have an awesome husband. He has always said, "Julie and I have been married (insert number here) years and I have never had (insert number here) bad meals."

We're going on knowing each other 25 years and will have been married 22 years in July. He's a keeper!

[youthere]

96. Lack of Bacon is as heretical as no pickles!

LOL my husband says the same thing and our anniversary is in July too! We celebrate our twentieth this year.

[QMPMom]

99. July 13 is our anniversary. Yours?

[youthere]

103. The 18th.

[Redstone]

83. No. I'm an American Indian, but I only go to a powwow if it's not too hot.

Though I do offer salt and smoke to the four winds each day.

Redstone

[hippywife]

88. Cook some excellent Italian food! n/t

[SPKrazy]

89. :shrug:?

I'm a melting pot of culture

most of it lost

got nothing

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

90. I drink.

Often.

[Saphire]

91. make gumbo, and pretty darn good!

[Trigger Hippie]

92. I make gumbo too!!!.

[u4ic]

93. Hi

:hi:

You haven't been around for awhile, have you?

[Trigger Hippie]

110. no,

can't really post at work and got semi-hooked up at home just recently. But mostly I just like to lurk. :hi:

[u4ic]

94. I make pierohi, holubchi

and pysanky. :-)

[Pierre.Suave]

98. Yes

Half of me eats spaghetti before the other half invades poland...


if that made any sense, you know some history.

[Lisa]

100. I make sushi for potlucks

I've tried doing things like chicken wings or ribs, but I'm on the west coast and I know so many arty/health nut types that I pretty much have to resort to cucumber or avocado rolls unless I want to have to drag an almost-full dish home again.

No shoes in the house. And I have trouble disobeying my parents, even though I'm almost 40 and haven't lived at home for a couple of decades.

I don't own a kimono or do the tea ceremony (working-class peasants, like my great-grandparents, didn't go in for that as much). I do own a couple of swords, but they're European types (Roman and Viking designs), not katanas.

[Forkboy]

105. I like caber tossing?

[Burma Jones]

106. Sure, I make a lot of money off the backs of the oppressed

I'm a Straight White Presbyterian Highly Educated Married Male with Male offspring whose ancestors were here in the Colonial era.....

The rest of you are just visiting.......

Just In Case: :sarcasm:

[flamingyouth]

107. We celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a smorgasbord

And we celebrate Midsommar. We're Swedish. :)

[RetroLounge]

108. Nope. Not really.

I am German, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

It's all been wiped out by generations of living in the midwest.

Mostly it's in food and cravings I have for my grandmother and mother's cooking...

RL

[Okiojira]

109. As a caucasian male

I actively participate in the systematic oppression of women, gays & minorities to further the goals set forth by my white, pasty brethren.:P

Actually, I mostly sit around and make smart-ass, crotchety and occasionally cryptic remarks. Not sure if that's part of my cultural heritage, but it certainly is a proud tradition within my immediate family!