Things you assumed were normal

Off the back of this thread I have just had proper cheese on toast.
Thick brown bread ( tescos seeded batch )
Strong Cheddar grated and mixed with a egg black pepper and finely slices green bit of two spring onions .
Toast one side of the bread , flip it , put a thin layer of cheese mix on grill it for a bit then put the rest of the cheese mix on .
This ensures the egg is cooked properly and in hot all the way through.

I batch cook quite a lot and put stuff in the microwave while its cooling down ( tiny kitchen so no spare work top ) then put it in the fridge once its cool.
i have never forgotten stuff in there for several days blurgh
It setts me up for the day when I have it for breakfast

My oh brushes his teeth by squirting the toothpaste into his mouth rather than putting a pea sized amount on the toothbrush. I just dont get it!
He also brushes them in the shower.

My dad and sister both like to have sugar and vinegar on Yorkshire pudding or pancakes. Me and my mum are normal

However, both my sister and I like corned beef & lemon curd sandwiches . Have never thought that to be normal though

Weetabix I eat with cold milk, DH prefers his cooked to mush in hot milk. He will try nuking mine unless I get there first!

Putting vinegar on a roast dinner. Assumed everyone did it until at 14 my friend came for dinner and was horrified! I visited Toby Carvery once and asked for some vinegar for my roast. The waitress had no idea what I was on about.

My DH insists that pizza is only served with coleslaw and potato salad. I grew up with pizza and garlic bread/wedges. We compromise by having both (the coleslaw and potato salad is usually untouched after the pizza and wedges are gone!)

DH brushes his teeth with hot water. He thinks it's strange to brush with cold

I didn’t realise that people used teapots to make tea- I thought everyone put the teabag in the mug then added the boiled water, removed the teabag, then added milk.

I used to leave the tap running while I was brushing my teeth- thought this was normal.

I assumed every woman had labia minora that stick out.

I thought that words in foreign languages all had direct translations and the same number of syllables as English- just different sounds/ spellings.

I assumed no one gets grey hair until they are 40 ish - didn’t realise so many young women hide grey with dye.

It was drummed into to me as a child ( and I believed well into adulthood) that

It was cruelty to puppies not to gently warm their food to blood temperature with a thermometer! My Dad even reminds me in adulthood when I get a new puppy.
Dogs had to have a human duvet with their own duvet cover and the day of the week human beds are stripped is the day the dog’s duvet cover is washed, but must be washed on a separate cycle and away from any other washing, on a 60 degree cycle.

Not doing either of these things would mean the RSPCA would call and the dog would be removed!

Imagine my shock as a late teen when I visited someone’s house to find their dog slept outside! Have to say though, both my dogs have queen size duck down duvets and their own duvet covers in their baskets.

I didn’t see any problem in having eggs for breakfast, then I moved to Spain and everyone told me that was a “disgusting thing to have so early in the morning”

My brother was a fan of lemon curd sandwiches, and I am partial to cheese and marmite.

Lemon curd & peanut butter sandwiches are the mutt's nuts.

We used to have ice cream floats in the 70s too - usually cream soda or lemonade. I don't like them with cream soda - it's too sickly. I did make them with Tizer once, that was fun!

We never had butter on our bacon sarnies BUT we would always put the bread in the frying pan on one side only to fry it a bit - not too much, but just enough. And only on one side, which was then the inside of the sandwich. Best way, IMNVHO!

I always used to do cheese on toast "properly" - grilled under the grill - but now I mostly can't be arsed, so the toast goes in the toaster and then I put thin slices of cheese on it when it comes out. It's not the same, obviously, but it's still nice.

Got to be Weneydale with Christmas Cake. I prefer cheddar with apple pie though.

See I don't "see" it that clearly (virtual typewriter/subtitles) but I definitely have a very strong words to text association going on in that when I think I tend to think in text as though I am typing. But the words are "read out" in my inner voice as well (as I do while I am typing). I "think" all of the punctuation and capitalisation for example, which you can't exactly do in just audio and I can't really explain how it works. And I also like to know how something is spelt the first time I hear it or I can't fit it into this system very well and it feels uncomfortable (as well as being impossible to remember). American spelling often feels wrong to me as it pronounces wrong, for instance traveler, the ele part becomes what they now call in phonics a "split phoneme" so makes the sound eel. Color sounds to me like collar with an or on the end. And occasionally I'll come across a nickname, made-up name or foreign-but-transliterated name which doesn't quite fit English spelling rules and I find it unbearable.

I don't remember very much from before I could read, I could read at 4 according to my school records. But I do remember still differentiating sounds as I have a memory of being about three and walking through a part of the house saying (about the floor) "It's not lebel" and my mum saying "It's not lebel, it's level" and my mind being totally blown by it because I had such a strong sense that the word was actually lebel, but I think at that point it was related to the sound and not the letter. But as most small-child memories, I might have been older and already able to read by then. I remember once in reception asking the TA how to spell "the" (because it was such a confusing word that isn't spelt anything like it sounds, as I thought at the time) and she reminded me there was a poster on the wall with little words like the, he, she, etc and I had to walk about probably 20 steps around a shelf to read it. I could immediately locate the word, but by the time I got back to my table I had managed to mix it up and wrote hte :o

It means I can generally spell without very much difficulty at all. I expect it's because I read a lot as a child, as soon as I could read independently I was reading constantly.

We had Christmas cake with a slice of Cheshire cheese on it, it’s a Yorkshire thing I believe.

Also had an oxo cube stirred into hot water, like a poor mans Bovril.

My brother was a fan of lemon curd sandwiches, and I am partial to cheese and marmite.

We used to drink muddy puddles - a third coke, a third lemonade and a third orange juice.

Mine I've only recently discovered isn't normal - whenever people talk (or I talk) I see the words written out in front of me like on a typewriter. Sort of like my whole world is subtitled. And I'm really fussy about name spellings because of it! Had no idea not everyone does this 😂 it's a form of synesthesia apparently.

I'm intrigued to know how this worked when you were a small child, so before you could read or spell words?

I love cold toast with butter and marmalade

I can eat custard hot/cold but why on earth would you have custard with bread and butter pudding?

I can’t stand weetabix hot or cold but absolutely love bran flakes with hot milk

I can sort of send a shiver down my spine but need to think about it

My Christmas stocking as a child was one of my dads red rugby socks

People who ask you if you want toast, you say yes and they bring you one spice. I mean who does that! Toast is two slices.

See we don't shun flavour, we use lots of herbs, spices, pepper, salt sparingly. I just don't like potatoes or other veg cooked with salt, reminds me of school dinners.

Butter in a bacon sandwich really is gross though.

No, bacon sandwiches are rendered inedible by butter (also red or brown sauce). Just bacon, nothing else.

It's the law you have to have butter on bacon sandwiches.

@Inherdefence I lived with some Chinese people for a while and they would sprinkle sliced tomatoes with sugar and eat as a dessert

My parents shun flavour and are terrible cooks. They pride themselves on using no salt or butter, neither do they use herbs or spices. Lots of foods I thought I didn't like, I actually do like with a bit of flavour.
My mum makes a no dairy, turkey lasagne, as it's 'healthier'. Yet it is made with a jar of pasta sauce, turkey mince, white sauce made with soya butter and soya milk. No veg.
Turns out real tomatoes, sauteed onions, herbs, cheese, butter and seasoning make for a very different dish!

Camping in France I noticed that lots of families brought their pets with them, including birds in cages.