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[choucroute]

I need a 'grace' saying.. and I can't string thoughts together properly right now.

tomorrow for my kids. on wednesday I say 'grace' in english. my brother had one that I've forgotten, and of the two I know, one includes 'rub a dub dub' and the other the verb 'toot'

help?

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[snonsumr]

Wow! C'est nitsa en anglais! Here I was thinking that I would have to brush up on my French slang to read your other page.

About grace in English. My family does a serious Catholic one that's "Bless us O Lord for these, thy gifts we are about to receive Amen." Then there's the very not serious one for when the non-Catholics show up, "rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub. yay God!" Then again, my family doesn't take itself very seriously... except for holidays.

I'm not sure if this has been at all helpful, but they're the ones we use.

[bryghtboy]

The one that my Grandmother always used to make us recite was: "Lord Jesus be our holy guest,
our morning joy,
our evening rest.
And with our daily bread in part,
thy love and peace to every heart"

Not the least religiously smack you in the head... but it has some nice rhythm to it.

If you want something with a little more Hebrew in it:
"Baruch atah adonai,
Elohaynu melech ha'olam
Hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz"

(that is for bread specifically but a meal isn't a meal without bread in some ways)

[sandwell]

back in primary school in northern england, we had to recite the following, very very simple :

"for what we are about to receive,
May the lord make us truly thankful,
amen"

when you're a hungry 7-year old you'll say anything :)

[mart]

We had the same thing at my school, except we started with "For the food we are about to recieve".

When we were really young (<=7) it was even simpler: "Thank you Lord for the food we eat Amen". Short and to the point. I still remember vividly the sound of ~200 kids chanting that and slamming open lunch boxes before they'd even finished the word "Amen".

[ahartfie]

The one I like is, "Bless us, Lord, and this food we are about to receive, and keep us ever-mindful of the needs of others. Amen."

[murmbeetle]

my mostly-christian but very interdenominational, plus athiests & agnostics, side of the family had one that went, "good food, good meat / good lord, let's eat."

although i guess that discriminates against vegetarians.