How you know you are more Greek American than Greek Greek

1 You try at all costs to eliminate body odor (if Greek Greek, well, you can go without deodorant, walk around with huge sweat lakes around your armpits)

2 You cannot stand waiting in line or for anything for more than 10 minutes tops (if Greek Greek, well, you know it’s the way of life)

3 You like to hang out in places that are really top quality (if Greek Greek, well, it’s more important to be in the “in” places even if their quality is shit)

4 You prefer to be comfortable and cool (if Greek Greek, well, it’s more important to be dressed out of a cat walk or model runway even if you can’t walk, are straight jacketed, or are just going to buy cigarettes at the psilikatzidiko)

5 You need quiet time to yourself to reflect and go on an “inner journey” (if Greek Greek, you are forever flocked by friends and over-noisy family and the notion to want to be by yourself is a sign of depression)

6 You try to keep away from cigarettes, overconsumption of alcohol and have become a vegetarian (If Greek Greek, “trelathikes paidaki mou?” what’s the use of life if you do)

7 You keep the fasts and go to Church every Sunday ( If Greek Greek, well, you must have a thanatos complex or else you’ve been hanging out with your giagia and papou too long)

8 You limit your caffeine intake to one or two cups of coffee a day (If Greek Greek, well, a frappe every hour on the hour is de facto)

9 You try to be faithful to one partner (If Greek Greek, well, what’s the fun in that? Life is a box of “gomenes” you don’t know what you got till you try everyone to see how they taste on the inside)

10 You are married with two kids and a mortgage definitely by age 40 (If Greek Greek, well, never mind “den vargiese” we got time)