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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope all the other cultures are taking note of why "americans so easily cut off family" -- at least you guys are getting fed![/quote]
Yeah, I grew up in an Eastern European family where too little food was never an issue. My mother and aunts might have a host of personality issues,[b] but if they ever suspected one of their guests might leave the table hungry, they would have committed ritual suicide due to the shame. [/b]I’ve found this to be true of people of all non-WASP backgrounds.

Letting your guests go hungry is the sign of a terrible person.[/quote]

+1  Grew up Catholic and DH is African American - you don't exit our house without a go plate and that's on non-holidays.  [b]The idea of someone walking away hungry is genuinely upsetting to me, and as people in our families get older they may eat less personally but they're constantly checking on younger people to see whether they need seconds or are feeling peckish.[/b]  WASPs on these boards seem miserable in general, though.[/quote]

This is so relatable. I come from Irish/German Catholics on both sides. I have internalized this big time. Anytime I have guests, I go overboard on options and portions. For someone to be hungry is simply not an option. We can always have leftovers to snack on between meals if it's too much :lol:  Married into a semi-WASPy family. They aren't terrible, but definitely less food centric. Once my FIL asked me if I had a tapeworm, because I was having a snack.... I was a size 4 at the time  :roll: [/quote]

I come from the other kind of Irish-American. Filled with self-loathing, both distrustful of pleasure and highly addictive, horrible cooks and mostly taste blind. By the time I was a kid, they had mostly stopped drinking, so every holiday was sticky buns and coffee and cigarettes, followed by chocolate chip cookies and coffee and cigarettes. No meals until roast beef and potatoes at 6:00. I loved it.[/quote]

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