50 Things All Greek Americans Know To Be True
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50 Things All Greek Americans Know To Be True

You have a constant craving for gyros, frappe and Yiayia's food.

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50 Things All Greek Americans Know To Be True
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No, our lives may not be a direct replica of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but it does get pretty close.

1. March 25 parade is national husband hunting day

2. What is a vegetarian?

3. Appetizers (μεζεδακια) are more important than the meal

4. The school week was 6 out of 7 days because you attended greek school on Saturdays

5. Probably a part of your church basketball/sporting team

6. Attended goya events

7. Greek nights are your favorite nights

8. First question you ask when you meet another greek is, what church do you go to?

9. You probably know at least one owner of a greek restaurant/place

10. You speak greek to your friends when you don't want others around you to understand you

11. Lamb on the spit during easter is a must

12. Post constant pics of Greece on social media because..nothing beats it

13. "Opa" just comes out naturally

14. Easter consists of girls being conscious of their hair so it does not catch on fire

15. Some of your best friends are greek

16. Most likely danced in a greek dance troupe

17. It's not a party till that ikariotiko comes on

18. Greek club is your life

19. The wooden spoon (koutala) is not your friends

20. Striving to be a nikokira in training

21. Teach all your non-greek friends greek swears

22. Any kind of gathering will leave you in a food coma

23. No we do not worship greek gods

24. All your friends wished they were greek

25. The frappe craving is real

26. When your complaining about your first world problems and then your dad goes into a 2 hour speech about his impoverished childhood and how he succeeded

27. Everyone knows the sentence: at your age.... and then i came to America

28. Every time you have a headache, you call those 5 people to help you get rid of the mati

29. When you hit 16 and everyone's expecting that engagement ring

30. And when you finally get married and you say "kai sta dika sou" to those younger than you

31. When you go through rush and recruitment and you have to specify that you're actually living the greek life

32. There is no such thing as "never hungry" to your yiayia

33. Feta kai Psomi is your theme song

34. And So Tiri is your idol

35. Stavento is the greek version of Kanye

36. When you tell someone your greek and they start making the bankruptcy jokes

37. When u grew up learning that greeks invented everything

38. When you ace all of your math and science classes because all the words are actually greek

39. When young greek girls feels liberated when you can finally get that unibrow threaded and waxed...

40. The only sport your family watches is soccer.. and every other sport is a "xazomara"

41. As soon as you hear that zebekiko everyone rushes to the floor

42. The only date you can have to your middle school dance is your cousin

43. When you get hooked onto the greek soap operas...especially when the grandparents are in town

44. When your priest is your best friend

45. When you have your own mati and koboskini collection

46. When a party has a ballpark of at least 300 people

47. Your middle school crush was Mixalis Xatzhigiannis

48. Your future husband to be needs to have thick enough skin to survive your overprotective family

49. You know there is a real difference between American gyro and greek gyro

50. You wouldn't change your big fat greek life for anything


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