I dedicate this post to you Danielle - especially the first one ;) (even if it took me a very long time post it!!!!)
You Know You're Dutch When…
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The temperature is so low in your house that 2 sweaters is a bare minimum if you want to be remotely warm (This would be Danielle's house to a tea when she first moved in....do you agree Carina?).
*During the winter it's warmer outside than it is inside.
*You open the freezer and are excited to find a container of ice-cream, only to open it and discover it's full of homemade soup or stamppot..
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When looking in the fridge, you never trust that the yogurt or margarine containers contain what the label says.*
You were green before it was popular. Why recycle when you can just reuse!
*You have a pair a wooden shoes in your house.
*Your china cabinet is filled with Delft.
*You like pickled herring.
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You've eaten oliebollen at New Years.
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You enjoy chocolate sprinkle (hagelslag) sandwiches.
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You have cousins who wear size 14 shoes and are over 6'4"
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You wash and reuse plastic cups and plastic cutlery.
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You have soup and open-faced sandwiches
for Sunday lunch.
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The most frequent phrase uttered growing up was "Turn off the lights!"
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You get a chocolate letter every year for Christmas.
*All the tables in your house are covered in tablecloths.
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You like krokets.
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You know that Vla is better than regular old pudding.
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You drink tea with breakfast, coffee at 10 am, tea at 3 pm, and coffee again at 8 pm (with cookies or biscuits of course!)
*You have an afghan knitted by your Oma.
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You collect coupons like they're going out of style.
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Your Oma had a calendar with everyone's birthdays & anniversaries spelled out in capital letters (bonus points if it hung in the bathroom!)*
You've been known to recycle aluminum foil. And ziploc bags.
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You own a special utensil that is only used for cutting cheese.
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You know that Gouda is the best cheese ever.
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You have at least 5 relatives with the same name (and somehow you always know which one is being talked about).
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You reuse teabags.
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When you hear all the "new ways to save energy" you yawn and say"I've been doing that all my life!"
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You eat your sandwiches open-faced. "
*You rarely have both meat and cheese on the same sandwich.
*You have never met half the relatives at your family reunion
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You have 100 roles of toilet paper in your house because they were on sale.
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You put a little water into the jar of tomato sauce and shake it to make sure you got it all out.
*You have trouble shopping for hats. There should be at least two sizes: 'one size fits all' and 'dutch'.
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You wipe the last of the butter out of the container with your bun.
*All your cookies taste like almonds.
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You make the bed in your hotel room.
*You have lace on your windows but not on your underwear.
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You like dubbel zout drops, and have occasionally tricked a friend into trying one.
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You've put mayonnaise on your french fries.
*Your kitchen is filled with milk bags drying, waiting to be reused in the freezer.
*You drink Heineken out of pride.
*You have a front room but nobody sits in it (or it's only used for special occasions).
*You have a spoon collection.
*Your favourite mustard comes in jars that can be reused as drinking glasses.
*You leave a window open year round to get fresh air.
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You eat stroop waffles.
*You love the colour orange.
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You have a vegetable garden because there's no way you're paying that much for veggies at the grocery store.
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Your fridge is always stocked with leftovers. Throw out food? Never!
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You go to the "Dutch Store"
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You have pictures of windmills around your house (still in boxes, but to be put up sometime!).
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Everything is Do-It-Yourself - it's cheaper than hiring someone.
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You use "washandjes" (facecloths that you can put your hand into).*
You have to explain what 'om' and 'tante' means when you're discussing your relatives with non-Dutch people.
*You own tea towels and oven mitts patterned with windmills and dancing women in clogs.
*You call it "MELK" not "milk".
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All your cousins have the same names as your brothers and sisters,because everyone is named after Oma and Opa.
*And finally, you know you're Dutch when...
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You're laughing along with this list because you can relate to most it!
