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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't have another culture, what are you bringing to the school multicultural potluck? Just a regular side dish? I tried to sign up for chocolate chip cookies and the organizers told me it should be a traditional food from my household.

I'm really trying here, but these events come up multiple times a year and there doesn't seem room for people who don't have other cultures. I mean we're mostly British and German but it's been a couple hundred years and we have no ties to any of that food. I don't even feel like we have regional foods from the US that my family regularly eats (they did not want regional US foods though). I sort of felt like chocolate chip cookies were one of my family's specialties. If we don't have one, should we just pick someone else's culture and make a dish? [/quote]

You bring something that is a traditional food that is incorporated into your family's life.  A favorite Christmas cookie you always make, or a recipe that's been handed down from parents or grandparents.  We're not strongly connected to another culture, and our families have been in the US for many generations, but MIL has a favorite Italian cookie recipe that was handed down to her, and now we do it for things like this.[/quote]

PP here.  Sorry, I just read your post more carefully, OP.  I'd write back to the person who told you no chocolate chip cookies and explain it's a special recipe in your family that you cook for special occasions, so it is a cultural food for you.  The organizer who told you not to bring them is a jerk or clueless or both.[/quote]

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