One year at Thanksgiving when we were younger, my aunt decided that she wanted to try and make a fruit salad pudding concoction for dessert. She got all the ingredients together and started cooking, but something in the middle of the process didn’t go right. By the time dinner was ready, it was apparent that the dessert didn’t come out how it was supposed to. Now, on a different but related tangent, we always make it a point to play lots of games when my family gets together, and one of the most popular to play is called Balderdash. It’s a game where when it’s your turn, you get to draw a card that has a word and the definition of the word. Then, everyone gets to try and make up a definition of the word that they think the other people will pick as the right one. Then, everyone gets to vote on what definition is the right one, and the person with the most votes on their definition wins. So, the same year that the dessert didn’t work my family was playing the game when the word “zizzyvau” came up. Someone decided that the definition of this word should be the leaky dessert that my aunt had attempted, and put that down as their definition. Hilarity ensued, and over a decade later my aunt still makes the drippy dessert and we still call it zizzyvau. It’s things like this that I love, just the random traditions that wont ever go away. And this year, the zizzyvau was just as good as the first time.
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