One of my favorite family traditions was that we would wake up and go to Mass on Sunday mornings at 9 am (not that part). Mass never really lasted all that long so we would usually get out around 10 am or maybe a little bit later. After shaking the priests hand and fighting the traffic to get out of there we would go and get Chik-Fil-A breakfast every week. It was always fantastic.

Post your favorite family traditions.

1/3/2011 7:11:31 PM

I drink to get drunk
I smoke to get high
I live out all the songs I wrote.

1/3/2011 7:12:07 PM

^^Is Chik-fil-a being closed on Sundays a relatively recent thing? I remember them being closed as a teenager

1/3/2011 7:13:10 PM

too bad Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sundays

1/3/2011 7:13:48 PM

Quote :

"Sunday"

Quote :

"Chik-Fil-A breakfast"

lies

1/3/2011 7:14:33 PM

We have a long-standing tradition of ignoring the shit of one another

1/3/2011 7:14:52 PM

Chik Fil A has NEVER been open on a Sunday. If my memory serves me correctly, even the one at North Hills (way back when most of you were makin' doodies in your britches) was closed on Sunday.

Oh, and our favorite family tradition is getting into shouting matches that damn near come to blows...

[Edited on January 3, 2011 at 7:16 PM. Reason : fayum-lee tradishun!]

1/3/2011 7:15:23 PM

Yeah Chick-Fil-A has never been open on a Sunday.

Lock suspend.

1/3/2011 7:17:05 PM

Forgive the guy. He's stoned.

1/3/2011 7:17:31 PM

http://www.truettcathy.com/pdfs/ClosedonSunday.pdf

[Edited on January 3, 2011 at 7:21 PM. Reason : a]

1/3/2011 7:21:28 PM

yeah, I don't see the company having become any more religious as time passed and deciding that being open on a sunday is a bad thing

1/3/2011 7:23:43 PM

in before the pic of the stripper, spread wide open, on the living room floor

1/3/2011 7:25:46 PM

Lolwut.

1/3/2011 11:07:56 PM

i, too, saw chick-fil-a + sunday = bullshit

1/3/2011 11:09:31 PM

http://www.getspicychicken.com/

this link = thread FAIL

1/3/2011 11:34:24 PM

Mass religion => shitty fast food

The total American experience

1/3/2011 11:37:50 PM

we would eat black eyed peas (along with corn bread) on new years day in a big pot that had a dime in it. anyone who managed to find the dime in their bowl would have good luck for the whole year. i kinda cheated once to get it the one and only time ive managed to...and ive seemed to have shitty luck before and after

[Edited on January 4, 2011 at 12:06 AM. Reason : g]

1/4/2011 12:06:03 AM

shitty being the key word. dimes are dirty

1/4/2011 12:07:20 AM

collard greens, hog jowls, and black eyed peas! (New Years)

1/4/2011 12:07:31 AM

lol im sure my mom cleaned it off before she put it in there...i cant recall ever being sick the day of or after eating the meal.

1/4/2011 12:08:06 AM

Every year at Thanksgiving my dad reads an excerpt from Ben Franklin's autobiography in which he goes and meets some indians to write a treaty but mostly ends up giving a hilarious account of their alcoholism. The funniest passage involves the morning after when they come to apologize for their behavior, which goes something like this:

"First they apologized but excused their behavior by blaming the rum. Then they excused the rum by saying that the great spirit had created all things for a purpose, and the purpose of rum was for indians to get drunk with."

Every year it gets a laugh.

1/4/2011 12:14:59 AM

our family reunion every summer in ohio. out in a town where there is no movie theater or bowling alley. they just got a walmart outside the town. best part is the farm one set of cousins own and the offroad stuff we got out there. plus the crazy stuff we do there and then the golf course the other cousins own in the town where we do a huge 20+ person golf tourny.

1/4/2011 10:57:30 AM

Fourth of July = Big family get together at my parent's place.

The Sunday between Christmas and New Years we do an oyster roast at my parent's place.

1/4/2011 11:08:25 AM

table presents at christmas
gumbo for christmas eve
fighting with dad on the airplane home

1/4/2011 11:10:07 AM

Hell yeah, bout to go get some right now.

2/20/2011 6:58:17 PM

Only tradition that comes to mind at the moment is getting drunk at wakes.

Oh and my mom always makes eggs benedict for Christmas breakfast

2/20/2011 8:44:23 PM

Lolwut.

2/20/2011 8:46:07 PM

We used to go to Pizza Hut for thanksgiving when my my sister and I were young. No point in cooking a big bird and fixins for 3 people when kids like pizza more anyway. The place was always empty.

2/20/2011 8:48:32 PM

I would have been a sad panda without Thanksgiving turkey as a kid

2/20/2011 8:52:59 PM

Family reunion ever summer.

Family cookout every september.

Family christmas dinner, right before christmas every year.

Family soul food dinner, every winter (Tonight)

[Edited on February 20, 2011 at 9:12 PM. Reason : a]

2/20/2011 9:12:29 PM

Every Christmas my dad's whole side of the family (him, his 4 sisters, all their spouses, and all 12 cousins) draws names for gifts. The gifts have to be a certain theme (this past year's was dealing with food).

But the fun part is you have present the gift via a song from another theme (we've had a crapload of themes, this past year's I think was a motown song). After everyone has had some drinks in them, its a fantastic hilarious time

2/21/2011 12:08:57 AM

Bloody Marys on Christmas Morning.

The first time they did it I was 10.

I saw them drinking and I asked what they were drinking and they told me.

I said, "Nothing says the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ like a Bloody Mary" and my Mom fell on the floor laughing.

2/21/2011 12:18:37 AM

Whenever we'd go to New York to visit family we'd always get dim sum.

3/25/2011 11:00:01 AM