Things you assumed were normal

Just remembered of another one.

Our breakfast on school days was a a shake of milk, Quick strawberry/chocolate powder and a raw egg. You could only drink it when you were half asleep. If my mum ran out of Quick she would use Kool-Aid powder instead 🤮

It took us years to work out it wasn’t normal because my cousins were having the same.

I recently read a novel in which some body saved all her apple cores and dried out the pips to make poison! No idea whether that's possible or not

Oh carnation jelly! Yes!

Just remembered another of my interesting sandwiches - mushed (of course!) banana and nutella/chocolate spread. SO good.

And cheese and jam - well, my favourite of those is Brie with blackcurrant jam, mayonnaise and black pepper. Still have that quite regularly. Actually, I tell a small fib - my ABSOLUTE favourite is Brie with turkey and cranberry sauce/jam, with mayonnaise and black pepper (and even lettuce). But it has to be real turkey, not deli slices.

As a child I hated bread & butter. Just as some people don't like sprouts, and some people don't like bananas, I didn't like bread & butter. It was, simply, not nice to eat. But I could never understand why we never had fruit cake because my dad didn't like it, yet we still had to have bread & butter (at every meal) even though I didn't like it. It wasn't until I was about 11 or 12 that I discovered why I found it so awful: the bread was always at least two or three days old. The system at home was First In, First Out, so a fresh loaf always had to go to the back of the queue and wait until the older bread had been eaten - thus becoming old itself. When I eventually challenged this, the excuse I was given was that fresh bread was indigestible!

@amazedmummy I love cold buttered toast too! Best thing about staying at a hotel. I'm too impatient to wait for it at home!

I've never had a sweet/jam omelette, but if you've not read Dorothy L Sayers Strong Poison, in which one features, do so immediately

@misspiggy100

A coke float!

Those are normal, they totally are. We used to go to Brucianni's which had the same menu from the 1940s to when it closed last year. Went with grandma in the school holidays for a treat and always had a Coke with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in. Then on the was home, when we got off the bus we'd stop in the corner shop and get a paper bag of rainbow kali. Me and my brothers would be given a teaspoon each and would sit and eat the Kali by the spoonful till we were sugared up little demons.

For anyone who doesn't know what Kali is, its coloured sugar with sour flavour added www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112818725007

I don’t see why the rodents cannot come in such a trip, unless there is a risk of over heating they are happier and safer with you, they are also far more portable than a cat or a dog!

I thought that it was entirely normal to eat breakfast cereals without milk/yoghurt. I would only ever add hot water to Weetabix and that would be it.

Now, I can't eat them together as it doesn't taste right

I never thought it strange that my parents took all pets (cat, Guinea pigs- cage and run, hamster in cage) caravanning with us. As an adult looking back I am baffled at this behaviour.

DH & I always took our pet hamsters on caravan holidays with us. Change of scenery .

Hot cross buns cut in half and toasted with lots of butter and a slice of cheese on each half. Heaven. I think they're gross otherwise.

I'm a cold toast lover too. My family think I'm weird and sometimes give me toast that hasn't cooled enough. I can only eat the bits where the butter hasn't melted.

When I was a child, my Dad taught me and my brothers that we should always lick our plates clean once we'd eaten all the food on it. I thought it was normal and everyone did it, until I was asked round to a friends house for tea. Licked my plate as usual and then realised everyone was staring at me. My friend was horrified and I was so embarrassed.

I remember being amazed finding out that my husband stands up to wipe his bum. I spent ages trying to work out how it could be done, but I've decided it's impossible.

I never thought it strange that my parents took all pets (cat, Guinea pigs- cage and run, hamster in cage) caravanning with us. As an adult looking back I am baffled at this behaviour.

I think that's brilliant and lovely, the pets were obviously loved

I'm a bit worried now about this apple pip thing, I've always eaten the core and bitten the pips to eat the inside, quite like the bitterness, hopefully there's not a cumulative effect 😁

To the poster who shared the ginger nut, philadelphia and lemon curd suggestion, THANK YOU!

My dad used to fry bacon then add a tin of baked beans and mix it in with all the bacon fat. We called it 'cowboy dinner' and it was divine .

I also eat toast cold and cannot eat peanut butter without butter first, as it is gloopy and I fear it will choke me. I also put salt in the water when doing soft boiled eggs, in the belief that should the eggs crack, the salt will stop the membrane around the egg breaking and prevent the egg leaking out.

Frying some cornflakes up in the pan after the bacon. Turns out that was just us!

@Chocolatestain
Carnation milk jelly was definitely a thing !
Home Economics classes

We had real stockings as well - a pair of my mum’s old black fishnets!

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.

Toast cold. I always leave it to go cold and then butter it. Everyone I know thinks it's gross including my kids. Also putting butter on my toast before peanut butter. I always assumed this was the correct way to do it. Most people I know just put the peanut butter straight on the toast. I tried it that way and it just didn't taste right to me lol

Birthday cards are only opened on the day - ones from DH & DS first, then in any old order. They stay up for a week.

All fruitcake/ fruit loaf / malt loaf is much better with really strong mature cheddar

I have had weetabix both ways but always put sugar on. I put sugar on most cereals and my teeth are perfectly fine! I hate the taste without sugar. The other things I have never had!

Not a food one but was recently with grown up DD and she was addressing an envelope .
She put a kiss on the top right corner of the envelope and put the stamp on top .

“ What ? Why ? “ I asked
“You always did “
And I realised that when she was little she used to love putting the stamps on the envelopes and so I would mark the right place with a cross..
She thought you had to put a kiss under every stamp .

@user1333796 Just wanted to say that your post on page 1 is one of my favourite things I’ve read on here. So pure and it genuinely warmed my heart ❤️