First Post... I think... here's a starter set... I listed the person who 'owns' the quote, followed by the quote... and then the short story.
Possibly the most used Grandpa (affectionately known as Gandpar in our house) phrase of all time...
Gandpar - 'If you play your cards right, you'll never pay for... again.'
Grandpa would take every advantage to get supplies for free. Napkins, salt, pepper, ketchup packets, soy sauce, etc. On Candota I don't ever recall seeing a napkin that wasn't from Burger King. Anytime we see something for 'free' we use the Grandpa phrase that pays... 'If you play your cards right...'
Gandpar - 'Hot Seeds'
Known to the rest of the world as the spice crushed red pepper. Gandpar always said 'Gimme the hot seeds'. We say 'hot seeds' in restaurants and at home all the time. We have friends who NEVER say crushed red pepper... only 'hot seeds'.
Gandpar - 'If you're looking for a 'regular fry'... don't go there.'
Gandpar talking about a Lake Geneva restaurant named CLAWS. He was telling us about a new kind of french fry which was the only fry they offered. It was a waffle fry which dad hadn't seen before. He was encouraging us to go there... but not if we were looking for a regular fry.
Larry - 'If you can't eat it, eat it anyway.'
Not sure about the origin here but it probably had to do with not wasting food. One of my kids can probably fill in the blanks. I think it was Eric who used this phrase as his Senior year high school words of wisdom in the Lake Zurich High School Yearbook.
"If you can't eat it, eat it anyway" was first said at a Taco Bell on vacation. I had ordered one too many tacos, and was staring at the last one on the table hoping Paw or Matt would step in and save me from over eating (more than I already had). At first, the sentence sounded like I was off the hook: "If you cant eat it...
ReplyDelete"it's okay, throw it away"
"it's okay, I will eat it"
"don't worry, you can bring it with"
"don't make yourself sick"
But we know how the sentence was really finished. And I ate it. And my one and only quote in my Senior yearbook was in fact "If you can't eat it, eat it anyway" - Larry Benrus
You have to make this it's own post. OMG super funny. No one will notice it here in the comments at the beginning. POST!
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