I Iza West Indian Because....................

Subject: I Iza West Indian Because.................... Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:38 pm

don't walk on the sidewalk ... I walk on pavement.
I know that bake is not baked!!
I know what it is like to be "sent for de belt"!!
I believe that children need discipline.
I walk wit my own pepper sauce!!
"A beer is a Carib"....so is : Stag, Banks, Red Stripe, Guiness, Hairoun,
Royal Extra but these are also refreshments: ... Ting, Chubby, Mauby, Irish
Moss, Sea Moss.
Sorrel is a Christmas drink, not eggnog.
I soak my cake in rum!!
My favorite topics of debate are: 1. Rice and peas vs Peas and rice.
2. Pelau vs cookup rice.
3. Curry chicken vs chicken curry.

When I reach home I change into my home/house clothes!!
Licks is not a restaurant.
Everyone is my auntie, tantie, uncle or cousin!! (courtesy family)!!
Moth balls are everywhere in my house.
I have a freezer in my basement or back room.
Shadow is not a ghost...But a jumbie or duppy might be!!
No matter how old I am, I call my parents mummy and daddy.
I know the meaning of "dahl", "channa", "anchar", "kurma" and
"buss-up-shot".
I love soca (goes without saying) and dub.
I can call my fellow country man by an ethnic name fondly and it would be
Okay. E.G.: darkie, reds, dougs, chinee-man, yellow, Creole, red-man,
White-boy.
"You betta study yuh book" is what I hear when I got 98 out of 100 on a
Test..
My parents ask me "what de ass .. Happen to the other 2 marks??"
I have someone in my family that is a mechanic,a nurse, and a contractor.
I don't go to the grocery store I go to the market to make groceries.
I know that bake goes with: bigon, bulljol, smoke herring, salt fish.
I've washed and re-used plastic and Styrofoam cups..to go with the
Plastic take-out spoons and forks cutlery set in the draw.
It is not vegetables it is veg-ey-tables.
Tripe is a delicacy, fish is brain food.
Castor and cod liver oil is good for you.
I have a wall unit in my dining room filled with the "good dishes"!!
I know the difference between wine, whine and wine!!!
Someone in my family has a cd or mini boxing gloves with my flag on it
Hanging from the rear-view mirror in your car.
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