If you from Hawaii, you going figgah all this, make sure you shishi before you read it.
You can understand and speak Pidgin English...
You go to dinner and "make one plate" with all the extra food leftover...
You automatically take off your shoes/slippers in people's homes...
You learned to play the ukulele in elementary school...
You wear rubber slippers...
You eat rice every single day...
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It's "shave ice" not "snow cones"...
You think 70 degrees is freezing cold...
You call everyone older than you "Aunty" or "Uncle" even though they aren't related to you...
"You like beef" has nothing to do with what's for dinner...
You know what ukus are and have had them at least once before when
you was one little keiki...
You eat coconuts straight from the shell and drink the juice...
You know where all the creepy places (like burial sites) are on the island...
You have highlighted hair...
You eat arare...
You know what "tutu" means...
It's SHOYU, not soy sauce...
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To you, sushi means sushi, not RAW FISH!
You eat malasadas...
You have uku billion pairs of slippers in front your door when your family gets together...
You eat Portuguese sausage, eggs, and rice for breakfast...
You don't understand why anyone would buy less than a 20 lb bag of rice...
You would serve spam as a meat for dinner...
You can taste the difference between teriyaki and kal-bi...
You know why there are alphabets on trees on graduation day...
You know what lei day is...
You know what the "stink eye" is; and how to give it...
You can correctly pronouce Kalanianaole, Kalakaua and Aiea...
You know what "huli huli chicken" is...
You know the difference between being hapa and being hapai...
You know what it takes to get into Kamehameha School...
You say, "nori" not seaweed paper...
You say "Brah" not "Bro"...
Your jokes are about Portugese not Polish...
You call it "saimin" not "Top Ramen"...
You know pineapples don't grow on trees...
When you hear the words "fund raiser", you know it means Zippy's Chili...
You have said "wat, owe you money?", "karang your alas", or
"dakine"...
You call public transportation "da BUS"...
You go to Neiman Marcus "jus fo look"...
The mainland people no can understand your language...
You eat mango with shoyu and vinegar...
You like ume, daikon, and kim chee better than pickles...
You know you aren't supposed to whistle at night time, cross your chopsticks, or stick your fork straight out of your rice...
You never understood why adding pineapple and ham to a pizza made it Hawaiian to the rest of the world...
You measure the water for the rice by the knuckle of your index finger...
The condiments at the dinner table are shoyu, ketchup, chili peppah watah, kimchee, takuwan, Hawaiian salt and pickled onion...
Your philosophy is "bumbai"...
Your only suit is a bathing suit...
You drive barefoot...
You feel guilty leaving a get-together without helping clean up...
The idea of taking something from a heiau is unthinkable...
You can live and let live with a smile in your heart...
Nobody is sure exactly where "north" is...
Your cousin is Japanese-Chinese-French-Filipino-Korean-Scottish-Portuguese-Hawaiian, plus some stuff too manini to mention...
You watch your favorite shows "on top the TV"...
An approaching hurricane means only one thing? Surf’s up, brah!...
You are somehow related to your neighbors cousins uncles mothers >husbands nephew, and they are related to your other neighbors aunties nieces >daughters cousin who is related to your cousins uncles mothers brothers son...
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Hawaii.
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