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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Did she wear the babushka cloth hat and everything? Mine did when it was cold out or in the summer when we went to the beach or something lmao!

I remember I thought they were cool, like capes but for your head!

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Not her, but my great great grandmother used to wear them all the time. And she used to call us "little cabbage heads" in Polish.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Little kapustas?

I had a Polish science teacher in high school who taught us the metric system. I was the only one who know what a decikapusta was on the test, even though I didn't know what a kapusta was.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's it!

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Aw I wish I got to meet my great grandmother!! My grandma passed young unfortunately, only a year or two after that.. she was still in her mid 50’s. And yours was polish?? Haha the Romanians have respect for the polish, they say they’re very tough people (being land locked like they are, I’d assume they’d have to be). I’m sure she was funny too.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think she was Polish but lived in Austria. All my great grandparents were immigrants, and I think my family in general was from mostly Eastern Europe/Slavic countries.

My great grandmother was a stern woman.