You know you’re a Filipino if.. [Family | Food]
- You were raised believing every Filipino was an aunt and uncle
- Your dad or uncle was in the Navy
- Your mom or sister is a Nurse
- You get smelling kisses from your grandma
- Your parents call each other mommy and daddy
- You know someone with a name that repeats itself, i.e. Jon-Jon, Len-Len, Jong-Jong, or Bing-Bing [Mine repeats itself too! xD Cham2x. :P]
- You have aunt & uncle named Baby, Girlie or Boy
- You know a veteran dynamite fisherman called “Lefty”
- You have a dog named whitie, blackie or bantay [Not mine, sa relatives lang. Brownie pud uii!]
- Your parents call each other ‘Mahal’ and they call you ‘Anak’ or by your wonderful Filipino nickname you’ve had all your life (Jang, Cici, Meng, Choy-Choy, etc) ….and you KNOW they’re mad at each other or at you when they use actual names
You think eating chocolate rice pudding and dried fish is a great morning meal [I lovelove champorado with buwad! Yum!]
You order breakfast items like tapsilog, longsilog, or tocilog at restaurants [You’ve got no choice if sa silogan ka mag.eat. hehe.]
You always grab a toothpick after each meal
You order a ‘soft drink’ instead of soda
You dip bread in your morning coffee
You refer to seasonings and all forms of MSG as ‘Ajinomoto’
Your cupboard is full of corned beef hash, spam and vienna sausage
You appreciate a fresh pot of hot rice
You bring your ‘baon’ to work everyday [To school. :)]
Your ‘baon’ is usually something over rice
Goldilocks means more to you than a fairy tale character [Yeah. Cakes!]
You wash and re-use plastic utensils and styrofoam cups
You eat purple Yam flavored ice cream
You know that ‘chocolate meat’ isn’t really made with chocolates [Yeah. But I dunno what it is though. O.o]
You think half-hatched duck eggs (balut) are a delicacy [Yeah. But I don’t eat those.]
You have an ice shaver for making ‘halo-halo’
Your cloth tablecloths have telltale ‘tuyo’ circles on them
You have to have a bottle of Jufran handy
You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice
Neighbors complain about the smell of ‘tuyo’ on Sunday mornings
You fry Spam and hotdogs and eat them with rice
You eat rice for breakfast [For lunch and dinner too! Duh!]
You have a supply of frozen lumpia in the freezer
Your buy ketchup made from bananas and named after alien spaceships
You’ve eaten hotdogs made from worse things than lips and ass
You put hotdogs in your spaghetti
You consider dilis the Filipino equivalent to french fries
You know the meaning of double dead egg. double dead chicken
The pasalubong you want from Manila is cornik, which you snack on eight times a day in the office
Your idea of a diet is a diet coke with a McDonald’s meal
You serve coffee in small glass coffee containers
You drink beer with ice
