<p>I finally thought of another one.</p>
<p>A soldier.</p>
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<p>Corn, treated with an alkali solution, yeilds hominy. If you want to find it in your own childhood, re-read “Little House in the Big Woods” or google “Ma makes hominy”. The high pH solution makes corn kernals swell up and shed the tough outer hull. Hominy, dried and ground, is grits.
Cooked with a liquid, grits is a yummy corn dish that can vary substitute for mashed potatoes or breakfast food.</p>
<p>ooh, and Emaheevul07 reminds me of another:
my first friend who was older, married and a parent. Vietnam vet. It was a serious stop-check to see life from his view-point instead of that of 19 year old single person.</p>
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OMG - that was EXACTLY my first experience with BBQ, though not at Six Flags 
When I asked “Barbecue what?” the waitress responded “Barbecue”. Me: “Barbecued what?” Waitress: “Barbecue!” This went on for a couple of rounds. Both of us were totally confounded by the other…it was like an Abbot and Costello skit…</p>
<p>So now that I know what grits are, what the hell is “scrapple?” I asked a waitress when my family went on a trip to Philadelphia (to see TWISTED SISTER in 2005 or 2006, somewhere around there) and she just laughed at me and I never figured it out!</p>
<p>ema,</p>
<p>Scrapple is a kind of pork with some random other stuff in with it and usually eaten for breakfast. It’s usually cut in flat square slices and is cooked in a frying pan. It’s very popular up here but I personally can’t stand the taste or the smell of it. The official definition on wiki is: mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then panfried before serving.</p>
<p>I can’t really think of anything that was a “first” in college. I think I may have officially met my first ever very wealthy family. They were completely down to earth and when I met the kids (who were students that commuted) I had no clue… till they invited me over to hang out and saw their giant house with the mercedes and bmw’s in the drive way. My best friend married one of the guys so we’re all still very close. :)</p>
<p>Students with famous parents or heirs from famous families. It was kind of fun to “peoplewatch” when the parents would come to visit.</p>
<p>Although I never saw him, a floormate regularly saw the son of Bing Crosby, who was on the golf team at my college.</p>
<p>Being from the south, going to the University of Miami, which was even more cosmopolitan than my hometown of New Orleans, I met plenty of firsts.</p>
<p>A Jewish person. </p>
<p>A Yankee.</p>
<p>A person from South America.</p>
<p>A Middle Easterner, very freaky since it was during the Hostage Crisis.</p>
<p>A Haitian.</p>
<p>A Cuban.</p>
<p>A lesbian.</p>
<p>A gay college student. Plenty of gay grown-up men in New Orleans.</p>
<p>A homeless teen who supported himself by working as a male prostitute.</p>
<p>A girl who had an abortion.</p>
<p>A cocaine addict.</p>
<p>Someone who smoked pot.</p>
<p>A college football player.</p>
<p>A professional musician.</p>
<p>A person from the Pacific Northwest. </p>
<p>A person from the Midwest.</p>
<p>A couple of people from Nebraska who could scuba dive! Where did they learn?</p>
<p>A person who spoke multiple languages.</p>
<p>A Mormon.</p>
<p>A Mormon who liked Adam Ant. </p>
<p>A person who did not believe in God.</p>
<p>A person who committed suicide.</p>
<p>And my personal favorite:</p>
<p>Bucket of Beer Night!</p>
<p>People who didn’t know Jewish people.</p>
<p>People whose parents had gone to college.</p>
<p>People who had gone to Europe (as opposed to having immigrated at some point in recent memory).</p>
<p>Nobel laureates.</p>
<p>Poet Laureates.</p>
<p>Feminists.</p>
<p>Orthodox Jews without black hats.</p>
<p>Frat members.</p>
<p>Someone with a summer house.</p>
<p>People who knew how to ski.</p>
<p>People who lived on streets that were PROPER NOUNS (not numbers).</p>
<p>(I was a working class Jewish kid from a neighborhood in Queens, NY)</p>
<p>Another former A2 student here…</p>
<p>People who knew a lot about current events and paid attention to the news.</p>
<p>People who came from families where kids were treated as more than just “seen/not heard” entities.</p>
<p>Parents who encouraged their son to have his gf sleep in his room when visiting (this was my bf – I was SHOCKED – and embarrassed)</p>
<p>People who put leftover hamburgers in the fridge and ate them cold the next day</p>
<p>People who actually studied for standardized tests (SAT, GMAT, etc)</p>
<p>A student whose parents were divorced and remarried and divorced.</p>
<p>Students whose parents spoke Yiddish at home, students whose families kept kosher.</p>
<p>A student who was surpirsed that my famly lived more that 15 minutes from a major highway.</p>
<p>Firsts for me:</p>
<p>A self-identified, practicing Pagan. </p>
<p>People who swore in the classroom. </p>
<p>People leaving class to go to the bathroom without a hall pass. </p>
<p>Stereotypical Long Islanders.</p>
<p>People who wore leggings as pants. </p>
<p>International students.</p>
<p>I responded to this once before but I will add some more… I grew up in a middle-class family from Queens, NY -pretty sheltered and had not travelled at all by myself, plus I did not turn 18 until the end of my first semester so I was younger than most. I had never met people who made an activity of going out and getting drunk, I also met my first lesbian couple -sophomores who roomed together, people who had boyfriends and fiances in the military, people who intentionally slept through an entire semester and never went to class, people who grew up on farms, international students…</p>
<p>sheltered undergrad- but med school- doritos, taco bell, margaritas</p>
<p>Emaheevul07 took mine…a Marine!!! We became very good friends and he was best man at my wedding!</p>
<p>Also, I had my first MARRIED friend. I couldn’t imagine being that “grown-up” :-).</p>
<p>Two girls from “Persia” (which was really Iran by then, but they preferred to say Persia).</p>
<p>My first Chinese friend!</p>
<p>I never actually met a gay person until just a few years ago. And made my first Jewish friend he year before that! I don’t know if there WERE Jewish people in Louisiana (where I grew up). There probably were, but everyone just assumed they were Catholic (as was 98% of the population) :-).</p>
<p>I never actually met a gay person until just a few years ago.</p>
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<p>Bet you met a gay person long ago … you just didn’t know it. :)</p>
<p>Ice hockey players, Nordic skiers, Native Americans, and people who played stringed instruments.</p>
<p>People who lived in my own state, New Jersey, but identified with Philadephia rather than New York. I never knew there was a “North” Jersey and a “South” Jersey.</p>
<p>I wonder how today’s college students would be responding to this thread.</p>
<p>^I did, and I don’t think I ever came up with much of anything besides soldiers. There wasn’t much I hadn’t seen before.</p>