2. Going on a diet means eating a kilo of hummus with a piece of lettuce instead of bread.
3. Your earliest memories of alcohol involve your dad giving you a sip of arak. And you know you could ask for anything after your dad drank a bunch of arak baladi.
4. Nescafe from those sidewalk trucks just tastes better.
5. You get a twinge of Lebanese pride each time you choke back a doodoo shot.
6. Your mom’s answer to ‘I’m hungry’ is almost always, ‘There’s labne’.
7. Your mom makes the best mloukhiyye, no questions asked.
8. Riz b djeij will be served at every gathering, forever.
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9. Laban w khiar goes with everything. EVERYTHING.
10. You eat 15 fatayer as a snack before your meal, where you eat more fatayer.
11. Your mom disses store-bought foods any chance she gets.