Good Day DU (December 14, 2021)

[EarlG]

Today in History: December 14

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Question of the Day: Does your family have any weird traditions?

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[Aristus]

1. In my birth-family, as opposed to my marital family,

we traditionally have Chinese food on Christmas Eve.

[Ocelot II]

2. We used to have oyster stew on Christmas eve.

By "we" I mean my parents. I wouldn't touch it; thought it was nasty. Still do.

[rsdsharp]

3. We did that when I was a kid. I think it had been a tradition in my mom's family.

That lasted until I was about 10. She finally realized that she and my older brother were the only people who really ate it. Most of us just sort of spooned the liquid, and avoided the oysters.

That’s when we switched to pizza.

[Ocelot II]

4. I just read that it was originally an Irish Catholic tradition

dating from when oysters were cheap and plentiful and fish was eaten on fast days. However, my family is Scottish Protestant on my father's side and Norwegian Protestant on my mother's, so I don't know where or from whom they picked it up.

[rsdsharp]

5. My mother's family was German, and my father's was English.

Both Protestant. We were the only Protestant family in a Catholic neighborhood, living one block from the Catholic church, but I don’t think that had anything to do with it.

I loathe cooked oysters. I can eat them on the half shell, but that’s it.