Things you assumed were normal

My Dad always sliced a mars bar then shared the slices out between the family (they were a much more generous size then)
It was a real treat and we were all very happy with our little slices.
The standing up to wipe your bum thing. I do this and thought that was the norm. I'm amazed that it's not! Twisting round while sitting on the toilet seems like it will be very awkward.

I will now have to do a survey of as many people as I can to get percentages of who do and who don't.

I can do the ear rumble. Those of you who say you can't. You must 'hear' it when you yawn though? It can't be helped surely

My Dad used to put a Mars bar in the fridge, then cut it into slices to eat it

That's exactly how I eat a Mars Bar too, it's far too sickly otherwise. Am feeling strangely happy that it's not just me

Elouera - 'mock duck' sounds as though it started out as a wartime recipe. That's the sort of thing they used to call weird sandwich fillings made of cheaper/obtainable ingredients that weren't drastically rationed.

'Savoury duck' on the other hand is a different term for what we (in my Northern childhood) knew as faggots.

I'm enjoying this thread - I eat the whole apple including the core, have cold milk on my Weetabix and I have a sneaking love for digestives with butter and cheese Oh, and Dh has cold custard on hot puddings...

I also put grated cheese on soup, but first make croutons from cutting a piece of toast into cubes, add this to the soup, put the grated cheese on top, then mix it all up together. That's my standard WFH lunch!

I think the whipped jelly/evaporated milk/jelly fluff desert was a quite common 1970's desert.

I also made this in school.

You can do a 'diet' version with sugar free jelly and muller light yoghurt.

We had a rather strange cheese cake desert which my mum made from a recipe my aunt gave her which involved the normal crumbed biscuit base but a topping of canned pineapple and cottage cheese mixed and set in jelly. Sound horrible but it was really nice. I was surprised when I discovered this wasn't 'normal' cheese cake.

My Dad used to put a Mars bar in the fridge, then cut it into slices to eat it.

@GlomOfNit - I always put cheese in soup as well!
Used to put SO MUCH cheese onto tomato soup (and Heinz spaghetti as well) that you could pretty much eat it with a fork instead of a spoon!

Now I'm a bit more picky and like to put Brie in my homemade leek and potato soup - one son follows suit, the other likes grated grana padano on his.

I also thought sneezing when looking into a bright light was an involuntary reaction, isn't that why you do it to clear a sneeze?

I thought this! Whenever you need to sneeze but can't you look into a light. Everyone knows this surely!

Jelly and evaporated milk was a standard pudding in the 1970s and 80s wasn't it? Everyone ate it when I was growing up, I remember having it at large guide camps so it must have been pretty mainstream.

I also thought sneezing when looking into a bright light was an involuntary reaction, isn't that why you do it to clear a sneeze?

@sun go for it, it is really nice just make sure the egg is cooked through otherwise it can be sloppy ( and so can your guts be later

Hot Ribena and hot lemonade when not feeling well

Salted tomatoes eaten like an apple

Yorkshire puddings with chilli con carne

Bovril as a drink or on buttered toast or crumpets.

These are all things I've done which some people have mentioned are maybe not the norm!

This thread is making me hungry! I've always just had sliced cheese on toast under the grill but I really want to grate it with an egg and some seasonings now. That might be my lunch tomorrow!

Glom my mum did the cut chocolate bars into teeny pieces too.

Excuse spell check above

Keeping shoe's on going into a house.

Giving them a good wipe first, and if it's been a raining or muddy, take shoes off.
Otherwise, keep ingredients shoes on. Growing up all friends and family also had shoes on. Large expensive houses, small tiny flats... Always shoes on unless the above.

It was such a shock to suddenly have this almost manic shoes off sprouting around me. It's talented me a long time to get used to it.

My mum makes a pudding called jelly fluff.

My mum used to collect 1920/30/40/50 ephemera. One thing she had was a set of cards that came with packets of jelly with recipes on. She had them framed in the kitchen. One recipe was jelly fluff.

If I have a sneeze that won't sneeze, I always look at a light or the sun. It's a common thing to suggest or say in my world (friends, family, colleagues)

I sneeze at a bright light.
I read once that it was a recessive genetic thing. People who sneeze at a bright light don’t make very good hunters.

@BertieBotts I sneeze in bright light.

Sneezing is weird. DS2 sneezes when he looks into a bright light. I had heard of this, but never met anyone who does it.

@CigarsofthePharoahs I love that jelly!

When I was liltle I used to have ready break (not runny) but then would stir a handful of cornflakes or rice krispies into it- crunchy and yummy!

@mytypeonpaper- my husband also sneezes if he has eaten too much, so does his mother! I've never known anyone else that does it till now.

@Elouera, my grandmother made that but called it mock crab.

I’ve always liked cold roast potatoes with salad cream, rich tea biscuits sandwiched together with butter and mince on toast with a poached egg or grated cheese on top (not all at the same time!).

mintymabel it’s a legend www.snopes.com/fact-check/grandmas-cooking-secret/

I always sneeze when I'm full and I assumed Evrryone did but they don't!?

Re mini "no cook" cheesecakes - also works with digestives or hob nobs, too with cream cheese and a dollop of jam or lemon curd.

Mini "no cook" tarts - biscuit of choice, topped with jam then a squirt of whipped cream from a can - and no I don't want to know the calories!

Oh, I know something I do that people think is odd. I can't have a bowl of tinned tomato soup without crumbling up chunks of cheese in it. They sink to the bottom and are all stringy on the spoon. Cheese in ALL soup is pretty essential, tbh.