‘What’s the strangest tradition you’ve encountered in someone else’s home?’ – 22 examples to make your family look positively sane
12.
‘My in-laws bake a birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas and sing him the Happy Birthday song. They open gifts on Boxing Day.’
–villettegirl
13.
‘The whole family slept together in the basement of their house. In chairs and couches within feet of each other, three generations and guests.’
–zippity_doo_da_1
14.
‘Went to an Ohio wedding and the older sister had to dance in a pig trough because the younger sister got married first. This was in 2015 probably.’
–KevtheShow
15.
‘Absolutely no talking or laughing at dinner. Total and complete silence. And you must eat everything.’
–mookmook00
16.
‘In college I visited my friend’s family. Before eating everyone clutched their utensils upright in their fists and slammed them down on the table repeatedly chanting, ‘We are Romans, we are Romans’.
‘I knew that the family was Italian American but I didn’t realise there was such a hierarchy among people from different regions. They told me that Romans had the highest prestige.’
–fadedrosebud
17.
‘My dad’s family would ball up their napkins after dinner and one of his parents would stretch the neck of their shirt out. The kids then had to toss the balled napkin into the shirt ‘hoop’. Whoever missed their shot had to clean up dinner.’
–eeksie-peeksie
18.
‘Spaghetti dinner was a big bowl of pasta, a big bowl of ground beef and a bottle of ketchup.’
–2020grilledcheese
19.
‘They would do a dance with their dogs in the middle, watching them eat. And only after the dogs had finished, were they allowed to start eating.’
–Kris_303
20.
‘An old ex-girlfriend used to smash the birthday person’s face into the cake and bring out second cake to eat. Siblings would do it to each other during birthdays. They would do it to the little kids who didn’t understand and just cried.
‘It was very, very strange. Her family thought it was funny but it looked like a waste of a perfectly good cake.’
–Naramie
21.
‘They didn’t have individual drinking glasses. Just a community jug (plastic gallon milk jug) they would pass around and everybody would drink from.’
–learn2cook
22.
‘Nudism. Girl I dated in high school, I had to wait outside in the rain all the time while her family ran around and got their clothes on.’
–VeeEcks
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