9 Things Lebanese Kids Remember From Visiting Their Grandparents

Weekends spent at your grandparents’ house is a memory you’ll cherish forever. With jeddo’s stories and teta’s food, there’s so much that you look back on. Here are the highlights.


1. Sleeping with your 46 cousins in one room on makeshift beds (mattresses on the floor) = hours of giggling and bouncing around




2. Listening to teta and jeddo’s lamma kenna zghar stories




3. Manouchet Zaatar and Bonjus for breakfast all day every day




4. Endless supply of Riz B 7alib in the fridge



Or if your grandma was really cool, you got the custard with a Gandour biscuit at the bottom.


5. The antiques you were never allowed to touch, look at, or breathe near




6. The white crochet cloth covering every surface in sight




7. Black and white family pictures AKA naked pictures of your parents when they were kids




8. A wealth of books and encyclopedias for hours of entertainment




9. And you’ll definitely find strange cedar wood ornaments