To ask the most basic thing you knew knew/misunderstood until adulthood - take 2

[Smotheroffive]

the last one ran out of space OP, is it too rude to do a continuation here?

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On arriving outside a pub never before visited with a car full ready for a drink, we looked for the sign to see we had arrived at the correct one, when the front passenger calls out convincingly, no, this is not 'X' pub, this is 'Fine Beers and Ales' (30 yr old)

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...and here's the OP
ChanandlerBongsLeftShoe

I feel like a completely ridiculous excuse for an adult but the other day I found out the difference between cottage pie and shepherds pie.

I am in my 30s and gobsmacked (also feel a bit stupid now it's so obvious). I genuinely thought they were the same thing.

Is there anything you discovered as an adult that was just common knowledge to everyone else? Or perhaps there's a phrase you've found out you have been saying wrong all this time etc...!

Help me feel a bit better.

[Smotheroffive]

That prunes were once plums, yeah,but I remember the point I realised sultanas were white grapes, and currants black grapes.

[Smotheroffive]

Calling someone Groin-y.

But this!!!! Bowchica lol
OH actually thought that wasps made chutney hilarious!!!

[sashh]

I feel like a completely ridiculous excuse for an adult but the other day I found out the difference between cottage pie and shepherds pie.

Pre BSE they often were considered the same thing. I once asked a butcher for minced lamb (I wanted to make moussaka) he looked at me like I had three heads.

Now you go into any supermarket and you can get minced lamb, beef, pork even turkey.

[ChanandlerBongsLeftShoe]

YOU BEAT ME TO IT, damn sleep

[sweetcheeksmahoaney]

place marking 😁

[ChanandlerBongsLeftShoe]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3530412-To-ask-the-most-basic-thing-you-never-knew-misunderstood-until-adulthood?msgid=85545752#85545752

Original thread.

[hugogino]

Not so long ago my Fiance convinced me that everyone has the ability to 'zoom in' with their eyes!! I spent ages trying to zoom in on the television and was fuming that no body had ever taught me how do it

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hugogino zooming in! Well that's him making fun of you,rather than you not being aware of something. I hope it was a one-off and not something he does routinely!

[longtompot]

@Pinkginxx The other thread ran out of space, so couldn't post on there. Prawn crackers are made of prawns, but they are made into a paste formed into tubes and then dried. They are then sliced onto thin circles and fried and they puff up like magic!

[YepImafraidImgivingmyopinion]

joy

If it makes you feel better...the name is a play in 'Suburban town'.

And it is most definitely real.

[Smotheroffive]

Kuala Lumpar land of the oompa lumpa's

[jenthelibrarian]

Don't know if anyone else admitted to this in the original thread but I always thought my parents enjoyed music by Ellafitz Gerald and by Natking Cole.

[PregnantSea]

When I was little I was obsessed with drinking wine because I wanted to be grown up (I don't even drink as an adult lol).
To placate me my mother told me that wine was like cordial, and you just put a tiny bit in the glass and then filled the rest up with water. I thought I was drinking glasses of wine with grown ups until I was at least 11. Don't remember the exact day that I realised but it still makes me laugh when I think back to it now!

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Por-TAKKA-bin (from last thread)

[Worlds0kayestmum]

On microwave meals when I was younger, it would say 'ensure hot throughout' and I would be really confused about how to maintain the heat in the meal whilst eating it

I also used to think a bookmakers was an old fashioned shop which made shops. I even wrote about our local one when I was young in a school project about the history of my town. I still shudder with embarrasment when I think about it

[Worlds0kayestmum]

*books not shops

[Haveacupofcoffee]

I thought a Dalai Llama was a breed of animal.

I also asked my mum if I could get a pet hate for my birthday.

Surprisingly, I’m not a vet.

[Paraballa]

I was 19 when I found out that tarmacadam is pronounced tar-muh-caddum not tarMACuhdam.

[Smotheroffive]

There was a time, early driving days,when I waivered about leaving my car in a short stay bay as I read the sign saying no return within 2 hours I wondered if I might get into trouble with someone who lurked trying to catch people returning to their cars too soon!

[MrBobLoblaw]

Aged approx 8, I , very sincerely, asked my mum what a 'zig-a-zig-aahh' was

[PutOnYourDamnSocks]

Why Shawn the sheep is called Shawn the sheep. I am highly educated and 40.

[MigThePig]

DH's friend was stunned to learn in his mid twenties that you have to actually pay for water!
It just came out of the taps and it never occurred to him to think any further.