How does your family say grandma and/or grandpa?
Bubba & Jedo
If you’ve been following our company at all, you’ll already know that the paternal side of my family calls grandma “Bubba” – thus “Bubba’s HomeBaked.” We grandchildren unknowingly misspelled baba, which is Serbian for grandmother. We did a similar thing with our name for grandfather. Dzedo is Serbian for grandfather, but we grandkids spelled it “Jedo.” We were familiar only with the spoken words and never saw them written out, so we spelled them the only way that made sense to us – and none of the adults ever said otherwise. Honestly, I was an adult before I knew any different.
So, what do you call your grandmother and/or grandfather? If necessary, please explain it for us!
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my daughter calls my parents Pappy and Gramma. Her other Grandma is Grammy.
Well no suprise again as in Chrystas, but mine was Bubba and Popeye, (no reference to the cartoon character)Don't have a clue where the Popeye came from, just know that was what I called him. (Paternal grandfather)His name was Stephen Thomas,Mine is Thomas Stephen, hers was Annie in english. this was 57 plus years ago in Johnstown,PA. They had a farm high atop the Alleghenies. She wore the famous babushka and made Pierogies,halushki,goulash,babka,poppy seed loaf,nut rolls and all those "hunky" goodies. My maternal was Gramma Sarah. I never knew my maternal grandfather. Your site is great.
I call my grandma (my mom's mom) Mimi. When I was born my grandma decided that she did not want to be called grandma because she felt that it would make her feel old, therefore she decided we should call her Mimi…
I called my grandmother, my mother's mother: Nana (pronounced Nuh-nuh)
I called my grandfather, my mother's father: Tata (pronounced Tuh-Tuh).
My Tata was the first to immigrate from Croatia to British Columbia, Canada in 1928, then came my Nana and my mother who was 4 and her older sister who was 6 in 1929. They immigrated from Lika, Croatia and grew up in the interior of British Columbia then moved to Vancouver.
My dear mother used to make nutroll like "Bubba's Homemade". She is 85 now and not able to do this anymore due to infirmity and old age. In my family an endearment to old ladies everywhere is "Stara Bubba" (old woman).
We so appreciate what you're doing! Keep up the good work! I chose you over other nutrolls because you're located in a very Slavic part of the U.S.!! I knew you'd be good! 🙂 And also your name was a tip-off!
Just met your son John at church this AM and during our discussion, found out he was involved in this enterprise! I shop at McGinnis Sisters quite often and found your nut rolls there. They are great. On my Mom's side of the family, I did call my grandparents Bubba and Jedo. And Bubba made some of the best nut rolls around. Chock full of nuts and moist. So many of the ones you by now are dry and I have to ask "Where's the nuts?" Looking forward to my next nutroll. do you make Easter Bread (pasqua)? Not sure of the spelling. I have not looked at you enter website. Perhaps you do.
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My sister and I called our paternal grandparents Situ and Jidu, Syrian for grandmother and grandfather. On Mom's side, it was simply Gramma and Grampap. You might wonder what I'm doing on your site. I grew up in Western PA (Greensburg), and our next-door neighbor was Mrs. Fetzko, my mother's friend. Mrs. Fetzko made the most delicious nut rolls in the world, we thought. She kindly and painstakingly taught my mother the art and, although of Scotch-Irish/German heritage) Mom was an excellent student. Afterward, she made delicious nut rolls and poppy seed rolls by the dozen every year at Christmas. So glad you're keeping the tradition alive. It's one that should never be allowed to die!
My grandmother was born in Hannastown PA, lived her life in Forbes Road. and worked in Greensburg. We called her Bubba and she signed her cards and letters with that spelling. She married my grandfather who was an italian immigrant miner there. She used to make all the familiar good food you mentioned- pierogies, nut and poppy seed rolls, halupky and halushky. Unfortunately all that ended when she died in 1974. She didn't write anything down and preferred not to have anyoneelse cooking in her kitchen. My siblings and I have been trying to find recipes that equal the taste of her goodies but continue to fail in that endeavor. Maybe it is the combined warm memories that made the food taste the way it did.
I miss those days and will continue in my search for that elusive replica of her recipes.
My Serbian Grandmother went by Majka(mother) and Grandfather was Dedja. She did't ever see herself as a Bubba, so she opted for Majka. She taught me Walnut torte, the sweet dough for rolls , and the do-nut Crofne. We often have Polichinka, and Chesnitsa, in my house around the holidays. The other Grandparents were Romanian, so they showed thier versions of all these as well as Mamaliga, and Cozonac. that we called kolock. With all this in my blood its realy no suprize i ended up as a chef, and married a pastry chef.
I'm Polish so we called our grandmother, Babcia & our grandfather,Dziadziu.
I’m from Slovakia and love the rolls,my mom makes them with dairy chese and coco powder mixed with sugar,but they all teste very good,I’m glad you posted on facebook,will have to order some and have my frends try them ,so they can see what are they missing.