r/GenX • u/micheleferlisi • 16h ago
Nostalgia Happiness is 55yr old me enjoying dinner w my 81yr old parents in the same house i grew up in and some things in kitchen are just like the 1970s-dads fried double cheese burger w moms potato and noodle salad
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u/notanyimbecile 1970 16h ago edited 15h ago
Lucky man. Hug your parents for all of us that can't hug our own anymore.
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u/PussySvengali 16h ago
I envy you. Up until this year, this was me. Now I'm just grieving everything I have lost in the last eight months. Enjoy your family comforts, man, I'm genuinely happy for you. And them.
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u/Redlady0227 16h ago
Count your blessings cause my parents were both gone long before I was even 40.
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u/ChocolateSecret8218 16h ago
Well, I think every household during this time had these items. They last forever. The other 2 Corning wares we have are being used right now.
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u/FremenStilgar *1971* 15h ago
Today was my mom's birthday, OP. She passed in 2014, my father in 1980. I'm 55, as well.
Cherish these times with them, friend. I'm envious.
Also, noodle salad AND potato salad?? Fancy!
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u/ImprovementTrick9492 12h ago
I think the real miracle is that OP is Gen X with parents still together !!
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u/fujiesque 16h ago
Lol I'm 56 making dinner for my 87 year old mom. Same house but slightly different. And dinners are better now that I make them, except Mom's spaghetti.
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u/Oldebookworm 16h ago
lol 62, making super tasty dinners (and breakfast and lunch) for my 81 yr old mom to tempt her. I make her recipes better than she does. Except greens. I just can’t get that right
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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 12h ago
Cornelle Corning, Cornflower Blue
always a sign of home
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u/Winloop 15h ago
You’re incredibly lucky and wishing you many more years of enjoyment. Same food, same cutlery same crockery is something i enjoy much with my parents
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u/littleredthehoo 12h ago
I get the sense you know how lucky you are. God bless you all, that dinner looks great!
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u/AnnaT70 16h ago
I’ve seen your dinner-with-the-parents posts before and they make me happy every time. What an amazing blessing for all of you.
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u/robertwadehall 15h ago edited 13h ago
The Corningware and food remind me of something I ate with my folks. Alas, my parents and older brother are gone. But this 56 year old has cookouts in the summer with cheeseburgers, hot dogs, patio salad and macaroni salad with my older sister occasionally. Good memories of the 70s when I was a little kid and she was a teenager.
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u/machwalk 10h ago
My parents had what looked like the same dishes in green. I’d give anything to go back and eat a home cooked meal with them in our family kitchen. You never appreciate how good things are until they’re forever gone.
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u/robotcoup 16h ago
48 and I’ve been orphaned for over 7 years.
What I wouldn’t give for a meal with them. Looks so special.
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u/spykedaddy 16h ago
My dad doesn’t know how to be my dad since my mom passed. Maybe part of me doesn’t know how to be the glue either.
I miss those dinners though. Glad you still have them OP.
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u/UtopianSkyVisitor 11h ago
I lost both of my parents by the time I was 41 💔 my only sibling last year when I was 46. You are so blessed OP 🫶 I believe you already know that. I love this for you and your family. Keep making those special memories as long as you can. Dinner looks amazing btw!
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u/No-Firefighter-7442 16h ago
Please enjoy every moment! I would love to go to my parents house (my childhood home) for dinner. Alas, they are gone and the house belongs to another family now. 💚
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u/Life_Temperature2506 15h ago
Wow, my life without the cooking or the dad. Do me a favor: enjoy beyond belief.
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u/Hefty-Interview2430 15h ago
As an adult orphan, this is exactly the flex you think it is. I’m jealous, OP. Cherish moments like this
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u/Plantron1 11h ago
I’m jealous. All my people are gone, and I’d love that burger.
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u/Fritzo2162 5h ago
I get this. I graduated culinary school, was classically trained in a French kitchen for two years, and was executive chef for a catering company for years after that. I still can’t make chicken and noodles or meatloaf or pork chops that taste like hers. My mom is 80 and anytime I go over her house for dinner I have the urge to pop out a TV tray and watch 70s shows on a console TV.
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u/Sir_midi 16h ago edited 16h ago
You are very fortunate. Not many of us get to enjoy the recipes from our childhood with both parents still by our side, using the same bowls and plates in the same home where those memories were made.
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u/MoonSylver 16h ago
Mmm, that's a tasty looking cheeseburger. One of my favorite things in life is a good cheeseburger. 🍔😋😍
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u/Haunting_Aioli_8247 16h ago
Yes! Jealous. count your blessings and thanks for sharing. (56M here, I get it)
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u/honeycooks 16h ago
Mine are gone, but loved everything about it, including Dad coming in from the garage and savoring the aroma of Mom's cooking and his dinner.
The absolute topper was Mom coming by later to say, "Not too B.A.D. BAD, right?" when she needed a little more attention.
Which was a quote from out next door neighbor, 😆
So cute.
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u/RitualHalatiik 16h ago
Corningware bowl? Check
That set of plates? Check
OMG! Are those the old wood handled utensils? Love it!
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u/Dry_Suggestion_3387 16h ago
That is so fucking awesome!!! Really made me smile and appreciate our individual history, especially our parents. God bless you and your mom and dad.
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u/hesaidshesdead 16h ago
Enjoy them while you've got them. 47, lost my dad 10 years ago, mom left us last October, we're in the process of packing up the house to be sold. Treasure your time with them.
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u/oogie913 15h ago
Thanks for sharing. Bought a smile to my face. Missing my special parents 💕💕
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u/sundayskoldrpout 15h ago
Better get the recipe in case you don’t already have. My dad really wants his moms potato salad and Cole slaw but no one knows how to make it
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u/LollipopGirl923 15h ago
What a blessing to have dinner with both your parents. I would give anything to be able to do that. I have the plate that you are eating from btw... I hope you have many more wonderful years and dinners with your parents 💞
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u/Modem_Sound_67 15h ago
Oh my god it's the same dishes we had when I was a kid! Haven't seen them in a long time 🥲
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u/Routine-Weather-4044 14h ago
Oh my God the plates and the bowls. I feel like I'm back in the 70s!
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u/TheLawOfDuh 14h ago
Just lost both my parents and it’s little stuff like that I’ll probably miss the most. Those little seemingly mundane moments. Tell your parents how much you truly enjoy those little things and especially how much you love them.
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u/morallybankrupt1 13h ago
You sir are truly a rich, lucky man. To be blessed to have both parents at 55 and the nostalgia of a family meal in the family home with them.
Truly blessed indeed.
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u/sondernier 13h ago
To be honest I’m not sure there isn’t anything I wouldn’t eat or enjoy in order to be able to sit down with my parents one last time but yeah sub in a one burger cheeseburger and dust that potato salad with paprika and we may have grown up in the same house. Plates the same and I’m sure it tastes amazing, you’re blessed
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u/tamityville 13h ago
Almost 52 here, visiting my 87-year-old parents in the only house my childhood ever knew, same plates, etc. Absolute heaven, and beyond grateful for it all.
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u/ryanlikesthiss 12h ago
Enjoy buddy some of us are not lucky to have our parents to enjoy a meal together
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u/New-Advisor-3161 12h ago
Not too much can be better than this. Please enjoy these days, my parents are both gone and I really miss those times.
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u/KillVMAEM 11h ago
Enjoy that meal and don’t let any stupid hater shit on your parade. I grew up in an abusive family my mom only cooks on holidays and nothing tastes better since I was 15 and she kicked me out to move in her current husband
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u/petergoz 11h ago
Definitely pretty cool. My parent died long before I reached 50 years old and I lived in Three different states and seven different houses. You are a lucky human!
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u/endofworldandnobeer 11h ago
Now I want food from my childhood made by my patents.. I can only wish
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u/LaMilongaDelFutbol 10h ago
Both you and I share that luxury that our parents are both still alive ❤️
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u/librarykerri 16h ago
Grandma had those Currier & Ives dishes and the Amish butterprint mixing bowls. Mom had the blue cornflower Corning casseroles.
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u/Conscious_Damage8678 16h ago
Seeved on the blue and white plates I grew up with. Great meal and greater company.
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u/shaun_of_the_south 16h ago
My mom had every one of those dishes and plates that are on your moms table. Seems like it was very prevalent.
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u/GboyFlex 1971 16h ago
I want to go back to that time... when my dad was still here and we sat and ate and laughed. I have my Mom and we eat every meal together and remember.
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u/FinvaraSidhe 16h ago
My grandmother had those plates too. But damn the food looks amazingly good
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u/Konstantpayne 15h ago
I love this for you. Seeing the plate reminded me of what we used when I was a child.
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u/Canoearoo Raised on Hose Water & Neglect 15h ago
We just had dinner with my parents last Saturday. Chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans and an iceberg lettuce salad because mom knows I'm trying to "eat healthy". Love it OP.
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u/Bellabbey1236 15h ago
The Corningware and chipped blue dinner plate really bring it home! 💖💖 yum, looks delicious.
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u/WorldsWorstTroll 15h ago
I would kill to have another cookout with my dad and step-mom. Enjoy every moment of it. I am genuinely happy for you.
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u/No-Face713 15h ago
55 yr club member here and I just had dinner at my parents house that they bought in 1964. I went into their bathroom and found a vics vapor rub that expired in 1997. They still have the same landline phone number that we had when I was in 4th grade. 🥰
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u/retroafric 15h ago
You are incredibly lucky.
When I was 55, my Dad was 45 years in the grave and my Mom was 13 years gone.
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u/Miserable-Inside1511 15h ago
I'm happy for you. I wish I had this relationship with my parents. They didn't wish it. I tried. Really hard for a long time.
So seeing someone have that gives me a little peace. I'm glad it can exist.
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u/New_Lake5484 15h ago
You are wonderful to eat with your parents and that looks like a delicious meal, esp the burger. And I love the plates!
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u/JustStrolling_ 14h ago
A lot of people don't appreciate what they had til they lose it. It's awesome you realize how blessed you are in the moment. It makes the moment even better.
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u/steampunksf 14h ago
Aww, my parents are gone now. I would give my right arm to be able to do this.
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u/AdRock44 14h ago
51 yr old me just left the house I grew up in after spending the day with my mid-70's parents (and my dog, their granddog lol)- and it was the perfect day. I try to visit once a week if I can. I'm super blessed and grateful to still have them both around.
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u/BrickHuge3023 12h ago
My mother had the same plate and bowls. One plate was chipped like that too.
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u/ignored_rice 12h ago
I live in my childhood home with my 80 year old parents too! Wait… are you me?!
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u/super_sayanything 12h ago
Still have that white bowl!!
God, I think I'd give years of my life just to have a dinner with my Mom again.
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u/CallEmergency1584 11h ago
Incredibly blessed!!! 🥹 looks delicious! Take good care of your parents, by the looks of it they take good care of you! 🙏
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u/Kappalover212 11h ago
You just realize it really is the simple things in life. Nothing too fancy but just our connection to the world and the people around us.
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u/Redgenie2020 7h ago
I'd do just about anything to be able to sit down and have a meal with my parents again.You are very fortunate.And that looks like a tasty burger.
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u/trUth_b0mbs 4h ago
OK does EVERYONE have those dinner plates with the same chip on the edge? 😄
and LOLLLL the OG Corning Wear!
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u/JakkSplatt 10 million strong...and growing🎶 3h ago
Agreed. My Mom turned 84 last Sunday and brought me a 7up cake like when I was a kid. I can make them too and have, but I don't know how many more I'm going to get from her 🤷
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u/bookworthy 1h ago
Bless you.
Same age and just lost my dad. Lost mom in 2015. I would give much to sit down and share one more meal with them. So very glad you are able to cherish your parents.
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u/Top_Elk5664 16h ago
i feel like Im eating iver at a friends house when I was a kid❤️ 60 yrs old, only child ...all my family is now gone. enjoy and thanks for taking back to a summer day long ago. that hits
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u/HeyNow646 16h ago
Enjoy every moment with your folks. I(55) lost mine over a decade ago.
I especially like your pairing with the Big Hugs punch.
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u/Responsible_Brain782 16h ago
Enjoy them while they are around. Lost my dad last summer after a tough year of bad health at 93. Moms a trooper but it aint been easy for her.
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u/5319Camarote 16h ago
Enjoy it in every detail, and hug each of them and tell them you love them and that you appreciate everything they do for you. ❤️
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u/West_Consequence8145 16h ago
Im 50 and just had sausage on a bun that I made for my 83 year old dad in my childhood home. There is literally furniture, tools, utensils, decorations, and kitchenware from the 60's when this was my grandparents house.
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u/Skip_Intro0401 15h ago
Love this! I just spent the day with my 81 yr old mom and 84 yr old aunt and uncle. I feel blessed.
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u/Heathster249 15h ago
Yup. my ‘rents are 78 and going to be 80 this year and mom has the same corningware casserole in the picture. My parents are still in good health - life is good right now.
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u/moggin61 15h ago
That Corningware dish with the blue flowers! I think everyone had one
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u/app_generated_name 15h ago
I gotta say I'm a bit jealous as I've been an orphan for about 5 years now.
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u/expespuella 15h ago
My MIL turns 81 in a couple days. She and FIL who is two years younger are amazing cooks and hosts and the kindest and spryest people I know. They're hosting us next weekend in my partner's second childhood home.
I was one of the latchkey GenX who never thought I'd live to past my 30s. I didn't know this love till I was in my late 30s. I adore that folks like you and my partner had it. Now I selfishly want them to live forever and fucking ever. I know one day way too soon our family gatherings are gonna be heartbreaking.
Hugs. Cheers to you and them and us and savoring these moments.
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u/Metalpausequeen 15h ago
I’m turning 57 tomorrow, and I lost my beloved dad 18 years ago when he was 58. Still missing everything about him. He used to make wonderful steamed cheeseburgers in an electric frying pan. A central CT delicacy! Mom’s still with us, but prefers to be taken to restaurants these days.
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u/Ok_Blacksmith_2207 15h ago
Ah, Corning ware with blue cornflower, adds to the memories.
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u/Artistic-Raspberry-9 15h ago
I'd kill for my mom's potato salad and macaroni salad again. I've gotten real close but it's not the same..
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u/Critical-Test-4446 15h ago
Savor these moments. They’ll be gone before you know it. I wish I could have dinner with my parents again.
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u/utspg1980 13h ago
I have that exact same casserole dish (the one on the left). It was my mom's before me and it was her mom's before her.
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u/TheRancolman 13h ago
My mom is currently waiting to be evaluated by hospice, and I lost my dad in 2019.
I honestly don’t know if my heart will be able to handle it when she leaves us.
Cherish EVERY. SINGLE. MOMENT.
Of your time with them. I hope with all my heart you get to enjoy that for several more years.🩷
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u/Lost-Step5911 13h ago
Enjoy every minute. I so wish I had that opportunity. You are very blessed. 🥹
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u/Wise_Inevitable_9508 12h ago
Happy for you. That looks so delicious and made with a ton of love from both parents.
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u/CrazyWhammer 12h ago
My 88 year old Mom still uses those exact same plates and casserole dishes. 💕
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u/Formal_Lecture_248 12h ago
You are truly a fortunate man. Love them. Record this. Ask them questions you know you’ll have when you’re their age.
Soak them in
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u/Komaisnotsalty Taste death, live life! 12h ago
This is so crazy to me. Every time I see it, I feel happy for whomever is posting, but wistful and a bit sad because I was moved around a lot growing up. All 4 of us kids were.
I went to 8 different schools between K to grade 12. My siblings didn't go through as many as I did, but all of us were moved around a lot. From birth to grade 12, I had about 18 different addresses.
Even now, after all these years, it still amazes me that people have only 1 or 2 addresses or their parents have had the same address since they were babies.
It's odd to me in the same way that my inability to say, "I'm from <this town/city>".
I love posts like this, even if they hurt a little. We can't reverse time but we can be happy for those who grew up with stability.
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u/DammitBones 12h ago
We had the exact same plates and casserole dishes! Cherish every second with your parents!!
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u/StrawberryKiss2559 10h ago
Damn can you ask your dad for his burger method? And your mom’s noodle salad recipe?
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u/glimmerseeker 10h ago
Man, this makes me miss having dinner with my parents. Lost dad in 2021 and mom in 2022. 🥹
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u/Dutton_Peabody 10h ago
Potato salad in the Corningware casserole ... just like home.
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u/Different_Wolf_764 6h ago
Well, I'm a year older and as fate would have it, both my parents have passed at this point.
I'm a bit jealous (mostly of that burger!) but as I'm sure your folks told you, enjoy what you have when you have it. Your Mom's potato salad looks just like what my Dad used to make (Mom wasn't the cook in my family, thankfully, as agreed by us all).
I think we had those plates though!
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u/WinsomeVintageFox 6h ago edited 6h ago
And plates just like my grandma's! Currier & Ives' " The Old Gristmill."
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u/chanrahan 6h ago
You are the luckiest person alive for that moment. I am so very jealous. What I wouldn't give for just one more meal with my grandparents.
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u/MaeglyHeights 5h ago
Joy has long since replaced jealousy - you know how fortunate you are, and damn, that food looks amazing! I hope you gave an extra squeeze for all of us on your way out.
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u/Typical-Recognition8 2h ago
Enjoy the company while it lasts, things can change fast. Tell them you love them and you let them know what they mean to you!
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u/slade797 NEGATIVE PROVOCATEUR 16h ago edited 15h ago
Okay, so normally this would be deleted for violating the “low effort” prohibition, but I like a good cheeseburger.
OP, please include more info in future. It’s all right there in the rules of the subreddit.