Things you assumed were normal

Butter on digestive biscuits
Treacle drizzled over Yorkshire pudding was our dessert of choice
OMG the memories
My ma gave me utterly disgusting butter on digestives. Why would anyone ruin a biscuit like that?
But I do love a sweet Yorkshire pudding. So make your Yorkshire as usual, then add double cream, or thick yogurt, or ice cream or cook with fruits or add jam.
I also love it with gravy and a roast.

Ok my ma made toast under the grill (remember them?) And only toasted one side.
I didnt even know this wasnt normal til I was 18, after a party I made my toast and everyone cringed at one sided toast. Sheesh. Embarrassed is not the word.

Ecci, perhaps your DH is related to my DH, because I discovered, on barging into the bathroom once when he was in there, that he also stands up to wipe his arse! And not with a little folded wodge of paper, oh no. With a long streamer of paper. WTAF? [sick] My eyes, my eyes. I cannot ever unsee it (and I'm now very careful not to barge into the loo if I think he might be on it). I asked him incredulously 'what are you DOING? Do you always do it like that?' and he was justifiably narked but apparently this has always been the way. Dragged up, I'm telling you.

My grandma was convinced that eating in public was Common. (She didn't have a grand upbringing herself but by adulthood had definitely bettered herself and probably wanted to maintain the distance.) She wouldn't ever let me eat an ice lolly on the way home from the village shop. Instead, the shopkeeper had to wrap up my Lemonade Sparkle in newspaper and we'd walk the ten minutes back to her house. It was always a bit too soft by then.

She also sliced Mars Bars into little 1cm slices and apparently did this with my mum too (we blame rationing). If I ever eat one, I prefer to do it like that myself now.

My mum makes a pudding called jelly fluff.
You make a jelly and wait until it's almost set. Then you whip up a can of evaporated milk until fluffy. Then you fold in the slightly runny jelly. Leave to set.
It's lovely. I've never met anyone else who has anything like it.

We made that in Home Economics once (in England)! It's like cheats' mousse.

@CigarsofthePharoahs my gran used to make jelly fluff when I was little and I've made it a couple of times but not for a long time. Really nice.

@Smelly50, yes, just like a mini cheesecake, but no washing up! I'm going to try with a digestive biscuit later cos they are bigger

@ladybee28 I do ketchup on my pizza as well!

I too have always been able to do the shivers/goosebump thing. Just thought I was odd!

Have just spent a good 10 mins here sending shivers down my spine! .
Small amount of goosebumps to match. I had no idea!!

Beef dripping (after it's had the beef cooked in it and set) spread on cheap thick white bread or the same bread toasted with a ton of salt.

@dawlish , have you tried the ginger Phili lemon curd combo. ?

@CigarsofthePharoahs that sounds very American! A wide variety of similar recipes are extremely popular in the US under the name of 'jello salad.'

We had this very ‘thing’ this morning. 3yo twins have always eaten weetabix with cold milk (and had the delight of smashing them accordingly). This morning DH said ‘would you like it hot?’ Because that’s how he was brought up. Safe to say it was a disaster. The three of us (me and the twins) were like ‘where’s the milk gone? Where’s the fun?’ 😆

Toast dipped into tea. My mum used to do this actually tastes quite nice

I think most Aussie kids would have had dry weetbix with butter or honey or bananas as a snack at some point. They were so dry!

My mum makes a pudding called jelly fluff.
You make a jelly and wait until it's almost set. Then you whip up a can of evaporated milk until fluffy. Then you fold in the slightly runny jelly. Leave to set.
It's lovely. I've never met anyone else who has anything like it. She got the recipe from someone at a church she went to as a teenager. My favourite flavour is orange jelly with mandarin slices. Use the syrup from the fruit can in the jelly and you bash up the mandarin slices with the evaporated milk.

I used to have Weetabix buttered as a kid. Bovril is lovely on toast or in sandwiches. My mum used to love toast and dripping 🤢 and condensed milk sandwiches 🤢🤢. I always thought that steak was always served well done and cooked in gravy because that's how my mum cooked it (much prefer it blue!). And we could never have omelette because someone might die! (Apparently, historically, a couple of relatives had died around the same time that omelette had been served by my grandparents 🤷). No wonder I'm a bit odd 😂

My Grandmother used to make “Savoury Duck”.

It didn’t contain any duck, but was made from liver and pork simmered together, then made into sausage shapes and baked. Usually served with pease pudding.
Although it was quite tasty, nevertheless, I was so thrilled to discover actual real delicious duck as a teenager!

@TokenGinger oh god mine too, I still haven’t figured out if it’s actually a ‘thing’ or not?! They still feed my children corned beef hash and they love it, it was one of my favourite meals as a kid.

Yes to bananas & chocolate. We'd melt chocolate over a pan then dip peeled bananas in to coat. Pop them in the fridge to set then have them after tea.

We also had ‘Ribena milk’ and something called ‘vappy milk pudding’ which was jelly made with whisked-up evaporated milk as well as hot water. It sort of separated as it set so there was a layer of milky jelly at the bottom and a mousse-like layer on top. Never come across that anywhere else.
We made this in school cookery lessons. They called it "honeycomb mould"
And yes to bananas and chocolate. We used to go to a creperie, and one filled with banana and chocolate was my favourite dessert.

Avocado for dessert.

I used to work with a young woman from Brazil. She said she found it odd that we eat avocado as a savoury food. She was used to mashing it up with sugar.

I'm with him. i love weetabix although it is a snack food not a breakfast food.

“Also, lollipops at the dentist and Lucozade as a health drink?”

Yes we only got lucozade when we were ill, so now the smell just instantly makes me feel sick!

I have a shocking/funny story about lucozade. As a trainee nurse we had a patient with diabetes who’s sugars were all over the place, and nobody could figure out why, he was being strict with his diet, resting regularly etc. Then I noticed his mum put a bottle of lucozade on his bedside table while I was changing the bed - Yep! He and his mother weren’t “counting” the lucozade (which is basically liquid sugar!) he was drinking - a litre a day! His mum said something like “but it’s a health drink I get it from the chemists that won’t be making him ill” it was the most extreme example of this but we frequently had diabetic patients supposedly keeping detailed food diaries who “didn’t count” drinks or snacks!

Toasted mashed banana sandwiches even better, try with peanut butter too.

@mollysilknose - my mum buggered her first microwave that way, shorted it out. I’ve blown up a couple by accidentally using plates with metal decoration. One I actually set alight as a tiny bit of foil got stuck to bottom of a ready meal.

French toast to me is neither savour nor sweet, egg mix is usually 2 eggs splash of milk dip the bread in and fry, can then be eaten either savoury with fry up or sweet with sugar/syrups/jam etc

“I grew up not knowing fish came without batter..... apparently mum didn't like the look of a 'real' fish” opposite here, mum would only buy fresh fish and was quite fussy about it. Catholic family so fridays was fish and chips night BUT usually home made. Many non-Scots, non-catholic friends who stayed or came to tea on a Friday were astounded to discover it was actually quite easy (the most amusing was the friend who until then didn’t know chips were made from potatoes!) - and fun - to make homemade fish and chips and it tasted far better than from the chippy too. 3 of us kids so usually it worked out well as one would flour the fish, one would egg dip and one dip in (bright orange bought paxo in a HUGE box that seemed to last ages) breadcrumbs.

Fish and chips fried in a chip pan for many years until we did indeed have a fire then we got a “safety fryer”

Homemade mushy peas too.

Lashings of salt and vinegar on the lot, pickles galore to choose from to go with. But if there was only one pickled egg left dad got it.

Erm no. But seems worth trying...

My Australian grandmother used to make 'mocked duck' sandwiches. I've never seen/heard anyone else having it. Its kraft, long life cheese grated, then cooked in a saucepan with fresh tomato, herbs, egg and butter to make a savoury sandwich filler.

Anyone else know this recipe?