Things you assumed were normal

Yes, you are right.....Don’t eat apple pips..... they have cyanide in them.....google it .....”
The seeds contain cyanogenic glycosides, making them mildly poisonous. If you consume enough of the seeds, you could ingest a fatal dose. But that's a lot of apples. Healthline did the math: You would need to finely chew and eat about 200 apple seeds, or about 20 apple cores, to receive a fatal dose”

I was the eldest of four daughters. We had one clean knicker bag from which we all chose a daily pair. There was a 10 year age gap between the eldest and the youngest but I can’t remember anyone dropping their drawers!

As kids we always had loose tea and we had it in a tea caddy. There was a spoon permanently in there and its handle was bent back double on itself. I always assumed that if was a special tea measuring spoon (like you get special knives for fish and so on) and that was what these special spoons looked like. We didn't have a lot of "correct utensils" in our house as we didn't have much money so I was always rather proud of it.

I was about 25 when Mum explained that it was just a normal spoon and that she had bent the handle so the spoon would fit in the tea caddy.

We only knew Weetabix as a hot breakfast but for speed & economy, mum would pour the kettle over to smash them down and top with a bit of cold milk which made it the perfect temperature for immediate eating and looked like all milk. This is a good diet way to have it too.
You know, I could eat a couple of them right now!

@allthewhoresofmalta do you think the black cat thing might gave been a variation of the old joke, when we used to have to have Dog Licences, that it was cheaper if you had a black and white dog?

Until 3 years ago I would take my whole cozzie off when I went to the toilet at the pool.
It wasn’t until my sister took my DD and then DD taught me the ‘pulling your cozzie crotch to the side’ thing.
34 years of taking it off WET and putting it back on WET in a tight cubicle!
Madness

My ex thought that when you go camping you eat canned spaghetti hoops. Period.

He seemed quite bewildered I had the intention of carrying a small icebox with food to throw on the BBQ.

.... then I realised he had never ever cooked ANYTHING over a grill, ever.

Baked beans on pasta with cheese on top, I thought it was a hearty healthy meal when I was a kid.

Still love it, DH refuses to even try it.

We used to have slices of bread and butter with tinned fruit cocktail (with evaporated milk). We would dip the bread in the juice/syrup. Lovely. However, my DH, who is from the other side of the Pennines, thinks this is very odd.

Pepper is absolutely essential on fresh pineapple.

Weetabix should be cold and crunchy on a hot day or warm and mushy on a cold winter's morning/night obviously.
My favourite breakfast as a child was ripped up white bread with plenty of sugar and milky percolated coffee poured on it. the thought of eating that shit (sorry mum) now makes me (not envy)

Am I the only one who used to like Horlicks tablets? I never quite worked out what the point of them was though, nor why it was only chemists that sold them.

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

My mom would never let us swallow water from the taps in the bathroom. She said it wasn't drinking water as it wasn't clean. It only occurred to be a couple of years ago that all the water comes from the same place.

Any water that comes from a tank, as opposed to directly from the mains, shouldn't be used as drinking water because of the chance of nasty bugs or other pollutants e.g. dead things floating around. Most modern houses have all the taps fed directly from the main inlet into the house, but many older houses & older public buildings still have tanks for cold as well as hot water.

Rice boiled in stock. My mum always boiled rice in chicken stock to give it some favour. If we had it with chilli or curry we had rice like this. The first time I tried plain boiled rice at school I was shocked at how tasteless and awful it was. I though that was how everyone made rice. I still male mine in stock, it’s a skill to make sure you have just enough stock to be absorbed and make the rice soft.

YY Cigar is right, but this is unlikely in a modern house. If you have a combi boiler then this doesn't apply any more. It was only ever hot water as well, a cold tank to feed the immersion heater or something like that. Cold water should have been OK to drink unless your house was plumbed badly.

I remember a particularly horrible case in the news a few years ago where something went wrong and the heated water was fed back into the plastic tank which melted and the weight of the water came through the ceiling and onto a baby sleeping in a cot directly below, the baby was badly burned and didn't survive. It was a council house and the outdated nature of the water system was cited as part of what could have prevented the whole thing.

Don't know about Weetabix, but plain digestives definitely taste best with a thick coating of butter.

Or Seriously Spreadable cheese. Butter and a good sharp cheddar is lovely as well.

Wrt water from upstairs taps.
Houses with older plumbing would often have a cold tank in the roof to increase the water pressure in upstairs taps. This meant the water was sat stagnant for a while and could potentially harbor stuff you don't want to drink. I believe it's also the reason bathroom sinks have a separate cold and hot tap rather than a mixer.
We got rid of our cold tank a few years ago when we changed to a modern condensing boiler. Now it's safe to drink from the bathroom tap!

Don't know about Weetabix, but plain digestives definitely taste best with a thick coating of butter.

And granola type cereal should always be eaten on the sly, straight out of the packet (student memories).

My mom would never let us swallow water from the taps in the bathroom. She said it wasn't drinking water as it wasn't clean. It only occurred to be a couple of years ago that all the water comes from the same place.

My DH also says this, and he claims the water comes from two different tanks, and the tank for the tap in the bathroom is open, so theoretically a dead pigeon could be in it. (!) I cannot be bothered to verify this for myself, it's easier just not to drink the bathroom tap water (although I do sometimes). I was fine drinking it before I married him but now he has put me off!

I used to like omelettes with jam for my tea. And my DB2 thought cheddar with marmalade (the proper stuff, made with bitter Seville oranges) was the business). On the other side of this debate, my so called best friend at 14 couldn't understand why I couldn't get my head round baked beans on toast or chip butties (OK, that might have been after I tried to get her to try salt herring and Polish bigos...)

Re Weetabix -
I can remember visiting a pen pal when I was around 10. They always put out a choice of breakfast cereals to have. One morning I decided to have Weetabix.
They then kept asking me if I was feeling all right, followed by total shock that I was adding milk and sugar.
According to them you only eat Weetabix if you're feeling constipated and it must be eaten dry with margarine and marmalade.

My mom would never let us swallow water from the taps in the bathroom. She said it wasn't drinking water as it wasn't clean. It only occurred to be a couple of years ago that all the water comes from the same place.

“I assumed no one gets grey hair until they are 40 ish - didn’t realise so many young women hide grey with dye.” I wish! I started going grey at 26!!

“DH brushes his teeth with hot water. He thinks it's strange to brush with cold” does he get stomach issues? I was always told hot water wasn’t drinkable because it’s sitting stagnating while it’s heated.

A friend washers her bra daily, whereas I might wear it a few days, or swap and put the same one back on a few days later (obviously unless doing fitness/hot day etc).

She just assumed everyone washes bras daily like underwear and socks, whereas I assumed people get a few days wear from a bra if not sweaty? No idea what the common census on this is though or who is 'normal'?

umm that last line refers to cheese on toast not left over food
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