Meeting the (Crazy) Family
Let’s face facts, people. Some of us come from families that are a little…eccentric. You have to be sure that when you bring someone home for the holidays they can actually handle seeing you in your family element.
If you are brave enough to take someone home for the holidays this week, you should warn them about what to expect. Especially if you have a wide cast of crazy characters in your family that could possibly embarrass you. Let them know what to expect!
Have you ever gone home with your date for the holidays? Did it end well? How do you know if it is a good time to bring someone around your relatives? May I suggest you watch Meet the Fockers for homework before bringing someone over. You can learn what to do when you meet crazy relatives of your date!
Who is the most outrageous family member that you actually worry about introducing your date to?
What are your Thanksgiving Day plans this year?
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For Real
November 24th, 2009
2:49 pm
“Jesus” – Man Mase definitely not get any for Thanksgiving now.
Raqi: Hey baby company will be here in 20 mins. Lets get a quickie in before they arrive.
Mase: Bet! (while taking off his clothes) Who did you invite?
Raqi: (while taking off her clothes) Doc, her husband and Jesus
Mase: (while sucking on….) that cool… WTF!!! Did you say Jesus?
Raqi: Awwww yeah baby do it like mamma likes!!! Huh, yeah I invited Jesus. Now come on and give it to me fo dey get here.
Mase: Umm baby I kinda lost the mood with Jesus coming over. I mean I ain’t exactly been forthright on my taxes and I didn’t mean to kick that dog but he was fin-too ish in our yard and how was I to know that collection box was Ronald McDonalds House? I mean it was just sitting there with all that spare change.
Raqi: Here this will take your mind off Jesus.
Mase: Awwww yeah baby that’s working!!! What time did you tell them to be here?
Raqi: (smack!) Umm 4:30
Mase: 4:30 huh, dayum it’s 4:25 and you know Christian folks show up early.
Raqi: (slurp!) Well hell Mase do you want me to stop?!?!
Mase: Naw, keep going. (Doorbell rings) Awwww hell, girl get that out yo mouph Jesus at the doh!!!
Melo
November 24th, 2009
2:49 pm
@mqew
http://www.yumyum.com/recipe.htm?ID=17871
Dream_n- 2 days til turkey day
November 24th, 2009
2:50 pm
i’ve seen the sugar on grits and salt on watermelon too
cbratz
Aint no other way!
Luvbug
November 24th, 2009
2:50 pm
mustard in food=Hell No
Gotta have mustard on my big soft pretzel and turkeydog and veggie burger and hot/cold sandwiches
ketchup in fries=Hell Hell No,i mean NO!
Blasphemy! Fries with out ketchup…that’s like a squirrel without a nut sir.
I would invite Frederick Douglass…that seen he describes in his book when he fought the guy in the barn/shed…sometimes I think about it when I’m at work…I think we all have those moments…or at least think about em.
mqew
November 24th, 2009
2:50 pm
Most from above the Sip will put sugar in grits. I prefer not to even eat them, as they ARE gritty and just make Cream of Wheat. BUTTER AND SUGAR made with milk! That’s good eating!
SexyCool - The Upgrade
November 24th, 2009
2:50 pm
Yeah…I have some family elders that I’d invite too. There are a lot of grey areas in my family history that I would like some light shed on.
Love, Beautiful
November 24th, 2009
2:51 pm
@Raqi
spill it! i can’t stand when y’all hold back. you and anutha blogger do that all da time. ugh!
Raqi
November 24th, 2009
2:52 pm
Melo, it’s pretty much grits then. Or hominy.
Corn porridge, hominy, grits all the same.
Luvbug
November 24th, 2009
2:52 pm
scene
MsM
November 24th, 2009
2:53 pm
Did I say I’m 46 and s/o is 52… He knows who’s who…Now the only person I really have uneasy feelings about s/o meeting is my brother Why you ask? My brother is the type that will ask you for money and when you say no he will proceed to drop dimes (old ones at that) LOL (old, forgotten or just plain nobody else’s business, period!). Oh, bye the way I’ll be see him Thanksgiving (Lord help me!)
Leggs
November 24th, 2009
2:53 pm
I’m from the North and sugar in grits is blasphemous. Salt on watermelon is crazy. Could never get with that combination.
I am under my desk. That was a gut buster!
Dream_n- 2 days til turkey day
November 24th, 2009
2:53 pm
Blasphemy! Fries with out ketchup…that’s like a squirrel without a nut sir.
@ Leggs.. thank you! lol
Melo
November 24th, 2009
2:53 pm
Mqew..that recipe i put out there is for the fufu(thicker) than the breakfast porridge(thinner).
Made the same way but for the breakfast porridge,u dont add any more corn meal once u done mixing raw.U just let it boil to cook and then serve in same state as u wld,ur grits…
Raqi
November 24th, 2009
2:54 pm
ForReal you are a fool boy. LMBO
mqew
November 24th, 2009
2:54 pm
Muchas Gracias – Melo
Dream_n- 2 days til turkey day
November 24th, 2009
2:55 pm
oops i meant Luvbug..
Melo
November 24th, 2009
2:56 pm
off da chain For Real!
Luvbug
November 24th, 2009
2:56 pm
My brother is the type that will ask you for money and when you say no he will proceed to drop dimes (old ones at that)
Hilarious
Love, Beautiful
November 24th, 2009
2:57 pm
ok kids, i’m outta here. leaving work early to do some errands and spend time with a friend.
*don’t get to comfy. i’ll be back tomorrow. lol*
mqew
November 24th, 2009
2:57 pm
GRITS – FAKE CREAM OF WHEAT
Leggs
November 24th, 2009
2:57 pm
@luvbug, I have a cut through path I take home when traffic is out of control. Every time I drive this way, I think of the runaway slaves running from the dogs. I can literally picture it in my mind when driving thru!
MsM
November 24th, 2009
2:57 pm
@ FOR REAL How do you come up with the skits… brilliant! LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Professor~First again?
November 24th, 2009
2:58 pm
Luvbug~I remember that part in Fredrick Douglas’ book…he would make an excellent guest.
Scool…I have done the research and can go a long way back in my family and I am so proud of them! I would love to tell them that face to face and just search their eyes.
MsM
November 24th, 2009
2:59 pm
My brother is 44 and still lives with/around mom.
Leggs
November 24th, 2009
2:59 pm
That was hysterical ForReal!!!
Tazzee - a little crazy myself
November 24th, 2009
2:59 pm
Leggs – everytime I hear that song Grandma’s Hands I cry. It’s a doggone shame… One time I was in church and I held hands with this elderly woman – her hands felt just like my Grandma’s.
Yeah – Grandma’s are the best, well at least mine was.
Dream_n- 2 days til turkey day
November 24th, 2009
3:02 pm
@ mqew
You are funny.. Fake Cream of Wheat..
For Real
November 24th, 2009
3:03 pm
While dressing…..
Mase: Go get da doh!!
Raqi: Where is my bra, and why you can’t get the doh?
Mase: You invited him!
Raqi: Fine! Who is it?
Jesus: It I your Lord and Savor Jesus.
Mase: Oh my dayum! You going to hell Raqi!
Leggs
November 24th, 2009
3:04 pm
@mqew, couldn’t get with the Cream of Wheat but loved Wheatina!
Sassy Me...juicy fruit...there can be only one :-)
November 24th, 2009
3:04 pm
Don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it… salt on watermelon is delicious!
Ummm from what I’ve read about you(esp. that 101 course from last week), there are a few things you like to eat that I ain’t trying and that is one of them….lol. But to each his own.
Who started the sugar n grits thing?…for those that do it what’s the reasoning behind it?…I mean other than the obvious(taste) why sugar?
Melo
November 24th, 2009
3:09 pm
Now I didnt tell u what us africans in southern africa do with our crazy relatives when we have a big fam gathering:
If its a feasting ocasion like this or xmas,we bound to slaugher our own meat like goat,sheep etc…
the crazies are the ones we send to do that stuff while us gentlemanly folks of sober minds are jus talking and whiling up time eating snacks and what not…..
If its a funeral,the crazie will be didvided in 2 groups:
One group goes early in the morning to prepare the gravesite and clean up brush
2nd group preps and slaugherts the meat agaim!
Eating time: Crazies are sitted by association.
Dream_n- 2 days til turkey day
November 24th, 2009
3:10 pm
Sassy
1st.. that comment to swiss was funny
2ndly… Grits are gritty and bland w/out butter or sugar. What elese would you use to give it some flava!
Melo
November 24th, 2009
3:10 pm
seated
Dream_n- 2 days til turkey day
November 24th, 2009
3:13 pm
Melo your 3:09 scares me
czBrat
November 24th, 2009
3:14 pm
What elese would you use to give it some flava! i tend to douse them in butter.
so, Melo, i guess if you’re asked to go help with the grave digging or the slaughter that pretty much tells you where you stand with the fam?
Raqi
November 24th, 2009
3:15 pm
When cooked right grits are thick and creamy and IMO best served with salt, pepper and occasionally cheese. If you want to get country getcha some ham and red eye gravy.
Or some liver or breakfast steaks and gravy with homemade biscuits.
mqew
November 24th, 2009
3:18 pm
Sassy – DITO Why in the heezy do people eat grits with like salt and pepp. UGH!
Dream n – Exactly GRITTY!!!
Leggs – I remember Wheatina. I don’t think I’ve had it, though I thought it tasted like Cream of Wheat, NO?
Melo
November 24th, 2009
3:18 pm
pretty much….Czbrat
in most cases,crazies have no financial input in the dishes anyway,so they have no clout.
Dream_n..in the country,not city,we kill our own animals.
For Real
November 24th, 2009
3:19 pm
Raqi: JESUS! I am sooooo glad you could make it. I’m so happy I don’t know if I should bow and kiss your feet or what…. I’m sorry it to me so long to answer door. I was finishing my make-up.
Jesus: My child don’t forget who you are talking to. Here I brought a sweet potatoe pie. My God their is an unusual aroma in the air.
Mase passes out!!!
Raqi: Imma check on my husband. Jesus please make yourself comfortable.(slapping Mase in the face and screaming in a low voice) Wake up Mase!!
Mase: Awww baby you gon make me go to hell.
Raqi: We ain’t going to hell!
Mase: He know Raqi, he know….
Raqi: Mase calm down and so you can meet Jesus.
Mase: Awww I can’t meet Jesus now he will smell the bodussy on me!!
Raqi
November 24th, 2009
3:22 pm
ForReal LOL. You are a nut.
Imma tell him he ain’t going to hell because “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled”. That’s right out of Jesus’ book itself.
mqew
November 24th, 2009
3:23 pm
Raqi – Never had them creamy and still not gritty…. Don’t get it…
Now I will say though that Shrimp and Grits with the sausage cheese. I totally get.
Raqi
November 24th, 2009
3:24 pm
Never had them creamy and still not gritty
Mqew that’s because “Quick Grits” is an oxymoron. LOL
Grits are to be cooked slowly.
SexyCool - The Upgrade
November 24th, 2009
3:26 pm
My sister and her boyfriend went to Qatar to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. She just called me to tell me that they JUST GOT ENGAGED!!!
I’m going to be the Maid of Honor!!!
I think I’m more excited than she is!!!
Dream_n- 2 days til turkey day
November 24th, 2009
3:27 pm
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….. Some people will never grow up…. Negativity will surely consume them. I thank goodness for my bubbly attitude. It takes too much energy to constantly be negative.. Man it really shows ones character.
Tazzee - a little crazy myself
November 24th, 2009
3:27 pm
Sassy Me – I used to put sugar in grits when we ran out of Cream of Wheat, so mqew is on to something
I would make the grits with milk to make it a little creamier.
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November 24th, 2009
3:27 pm
Leggs, Melo and Professor: Wometimes when lurking, you guys are a riot but somedays, FIZZLE. Sure everyday won’t be knee slapping and side stitching but there’s only so many menu listings one can read.
Cemeeli
November 24th, 2009
3:28 pm
someone saying some’n sideways about grits? alright now!
as a part of Thanksgiving and Christmas tradition we have grits and fried fish for breakfast…There just ain’t no other way!
cream of wheat is a joke. <– wanna be
For Real
November 24th, 2009
3:28 pm
Qatar, so they getting married in Macon?
Raqi
November 24th, 2009
3:28 pm
One of my friends put milk or cream in her grits but I told her she does not have to that if she cooks them long enough.
Sassy Me...juicy fruit...there can be only one :-)
November 24th, 2009
3:29 pm
I remember Wheatina.
Almost sounds like a name from the hood….doesn’t it?