The "Family Eating Traditions" Story

It was an ordinary day. Went to lunch with our son, daughter-in-law, grandson and son #2. They all have recovered from bad colds and it was time to visit with them again. Stopped at a place near them called Trio. Soup and sandwich restaurant, but that's OK, since the visit was more important than the meal. Had fun talking and catching up on all the latest news from everyone. Talked about our summer vacation at Ocean City, NJ. We have stayed, including our daughter and her family from Maryland, at the same location in Ocean City for the past three four years. This year we were not able to go the same week as usual, and the week we now want had been rented. We had to choose an alternate spot, but it is a mirror image of where we had stayed, only across from that place. When I saw the photos of it online I thought they had put the photos in backwards until I realized it is all reversed. We talked about Caden, our grandson, and his friends at school. Then the conversation drifted to food. Doesn't it always? I had ordered a cheese burger and when it came I asked if I could please have some mayonnaise for it. My daughter-in-law looked at me strange. "Mayonnaise on a cheese burger?" she asked. Then she realized where her husband got that habit. We talked about what we like to eat with mayonnaise. Naturally lunch meat and other sandwiches, raw tomatoes, french fries, onion rings, potato chips, but our family also likes to eat mayonnaise on left over stuffing. We always make extra stuffing (we call it filling) whenever we make it for a meal, like at Thanksgiving, so that we can eat the leftovers by dipping them in mayonnaise. I learned that from my family. My brother and I always did that. My mom showed us how to dip the cold filling in it. She was the one that started me on mayonnaise bread. Used mayonnaise instead of butter or margarine when eating bread. Now, you never used it on toast when you wanted to put jelly on it and dunk it in you hot chocolate. That would be overboard. My daughter-in -law just looked at me as I told the story about the mayonnaise bread. Ah ha! She now knows where some of the strange eating habits of her husband originated. Got to try it some time Barb! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.