YOU KNOW YOU ARE DUTCH WHEN………
Real Estate Broker - Toronto And The KawarthasCHESTNUT PARK - CHRISTIE'S INTERNATIONAL
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Arthur Parks - Son Of Guusje de Bruyn Kops
• You leave a window open year round to get fresh air.
• You open the freezer and are excited to find a container of icecream, only to open it and discover it’s full of homemade soup or stamppot..
• You have a pair a wooden shoes in your house.
• Your china cabinet is filled with Delft.
• You like pickled herring.
• You've eaten oliebollen at New Years.
• You enjoy chocolate sprinkle (hagelslag) sandwiches.
• You have soup and open-faced sandwiches for Sunday lunch.
• You get a chocolate letter every year for Christmas.
• All the tables in your house are covered in tablecloths.
• You like krokets.
• You love poffertjes
• Your Oma had a calendar with everyone's birthdays & anniversaries spelled out in capital letters (bonus points if it hung in the bathroom!)
• You own a special utensil that is only used for cutting cheese.
• You know that Gouda is the best cheese ever. Out-Steak-Can't!
• You eat your sandwiches open-faced. "What?
• You have 100 roles of toilet paper in your house because they were on sale.
• All your cookies taste like almonds.
• You have lace on your windows but not on your underwear.
• You like dubbel zout drops, and have occasionally tricked a friend into trying one.
• You've put mayonnaise on your french fries.
• You drink Heineken out of pride.
• You have a spoon collection.
• You eat stroop waffles.
• You love the colour orange.
• You go to the "Dutch Store" because the smell brings back so many childhood memories.
• You have pictures of windmills around your house.
• You use "washandjes" (facecloths that you can put your hand into).
• You own tea towels and oven mitts patterned with windmills and dancing women in clogs.
• Speculaas Cookies Are A Staple
• And finally, you know you're Dutch when..You're laughing along with this list because you can relate to most of it!
• I am really only half Dutch - Dutch Canadian - but have a huge Dutch family in the Netherlands - The Dutch Love The Canadians
• The Canadians were largely responsible for freeing the Dutch during the Second Would War - My father who was an officer in the Canadian Army fell in love with my mother after the war
They were married in Hilversum Holland and my mother became one of the first war brides to arrive in Toronto in early 1946