Things you assumed were normal

My dad doesn’t drink tea and when I was young I always thought that no men liked tea. Can remember being really surprised when I went to a friend’s house and her dad was having a cuppa. Thought it was very odd.

I remember as a child I was hooked on eating dry uncooked spaghetti pasta ! Absolutely loved eating this, when I was about 4ish my parents had a right job stopping me from eating grass like a damn cow! Something not right with me thank god I dont do this weird shit.

Roughasabadgersbum l love Heinz tomato soup with Marmite crisps scrunched up on the top!

My OH makes what he calls "soup cocktails". He mixes two tins of soup together - his favourite is tomato and oxtail. The thought of it makes me gag.

One of my favourite things ever is a toasted Mars Bar sandwich. White sliced bread, slice the Mars Bar, make the sandwich, and pop it in a sandwich toaster. Heaven on earth!

@frugalkitty I don’t like milk either. Well, I like chocolate milk and chocolate milkshake but I think it’s the chocolate, not the milk, I like. However, I do like cereal. Just not with milk. I lived off dry Cheerios at uni (and bacon pasta). My housemates though it was really weird when I wouldn’t have milk though.

I thought it was totally normal to have pickled onions as a side to Christmas dinner. Only realised when I visited MILs for the first time at Christmas and she asked what specific things we’d like in, DH said “you’ll need to get Cake some pickled onions”.

The way my family cook stuffing (paxo) is weird. We sauté an onion in butter, then boil the stuffing mix with the onion. Then add more butter and leave it in an ovenproof dish on the side to solidify, it doesn’t get baked. Housemates at uni were horrified when I didn’t put stuffing in the oven. DH actually loves our way of cooking stuffing though. I made a ‘posh’ stuffing this year for Christmas - hazlenuts, pancetta, put it in balls and in the oven. DH asked if I’d still do the paxo stuffing our ‘odd’ way. So we had two stuffings.

DH has bacon butties with brown sauce and mayo 🤢

Toofarbeliezero what you described is French toast to me. Without the hot sauce. The sugar version is American.

Reading this thread I realise I eat most of these things both ways! Hot toast, cold toast, hot custard, cold custard, hot bovril or on toast. I'll eat it any which way!

Some people may say that makes me greedy. I say I'm beautifully easy going and unfussy!

We didn't have French toast growing up, we had egg toast made by my father. It was bread dipped in egg mixed with Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt and pepper and then fried like French toast. I thought everyone ate it and when I found out that French toast was sweet I thought it sounded disgusting. I still make egg toast and can't bring myself to eat French toast, for some reason it just seems wrong.

Bacon Frazzles dipped in Heinz tomato soup... Oh my days it's amazing!!
And Yorkshire pudding with syrup and butter

Eatchichken1 yy the wigwam enables the air to circulate around the toast so it doesn't go chewy and arrgh . I am the one in the hotel with a toast wigwam . Butter and marmalade ond 1st round. Marmite on 2nd . Also ginger biscuits, Philadelphia and lemon curd .

Mr Morel drank his tea out of a saucer - Sons and Lovers - he was a miner but can't remember where it was set.

I have always eaten the whole apple, core included. Also the shell and tails of prawns (just cut the head and legs off).

And we had white bread sugar sandwiches when we were ill. With Lucozade ...

Putting a mug of water in the microwave was recommended by the manufacturers in their instruction book.

My mum got a microwave when they first came out. She always kept a mug of water in it for if it was accidentally turned on. She believed that if there wasn't anything inside then the microwave beams would bounce back up, causing the whole thing to set on fire. When I went to uni I was horrified that no one had a mug of water in their microwave... we were all in mortal danger! Once my boyfriend cooked something in the microwave, took the food out, closed the microwave door and the microwave kept running with nothing inside. I yelled at him to turn it off, while driving for cover. He dumped me quite soon after that 🤷‍♀️

Butter and peanut butter on toast (or crackers). Texture is horrible without the butter.

I love my toast cold and then buttered. I stand my toast up like wigwams so that it isnt soggy - just really crispy. x

Just to lower the tone, DH and I fart in front of each other. Only recently this subject came up at work, and everyone was HORRIFIED that we did this in front of each other. They all said their other half had never heard them fart.

This still amazes me.

Spied, we used to have buttered digestives, with a slice of cheese, and some sliced apple, as dessert sometimes. Still occasionally have it now, but sometimes as the meal.

Oh and my nana made all the grandkids hard boiled eggs mashed up in a cup with butter! I do this now whenever any of us are poorly

Things from my childhood
Weetabix warm with milk & sugar although I can't stand the stuff now! Warm tinned rice pudding with jam mixed in. Sugar sandwiches, digestive biscuits with either butter or jam.
When we had a cold my dad would make us hot orange squash before bed with a dose of medicine.
Coke floats - yummy with basically any fizzy drink
Porridge was made really stodgy then loads of milk added so it would float then sugar on top for me but my mum would have salt.
Yorkshire puddings with anything, I'm not fussed, sweet or savoury!

I don't use salt in cooking as I can't stand it

Weenurse, my grandad used to save the bacon fat for frying bread. Oh my god so so so good.

Weetabix warm milk and sliced bananas ‘it’s the only way

Toasted sandwich with banana and chocolate buttons. You can thank me later

Sliced banana sandwiches here.
Cold milk on wheetbix.
Bread slice fried in the juices of the roast- that was a treat.

I love hot weetabix all mashed up with sugar but dm thinks I'm disgusting when I do it, she has hers cold, I also eat it cold sometimes when I'm in the mood though

Loved mashed banana sandwiches