Things you assumed were normal

Meat and potato pie with oxtail soup poured over. Delia had nothing to worry about in our house.

Thank you for this thread. It's been my positive reading during night feeds for the last week.

Gravy on toast.
Sunday's gravy, reheated and poured over a slice or two of toast and eaten with a knife and fork - the Sunday tea (or Monday lunch) of champions.
Everyone I know (except one) thinks this is the oddest thing ever. Of course, it doesn't work with Bisto - it has to be a homemade gravy with vegetable stock in it or it won't be the same..

Compared to that, DH was quite relaxed about plain digestives with Cheddar, celery and peanut butter and Wensleydale with Christmas cake (or mince pies)

@BritneyPeedOnALadybug i can do the shiver thing!

I can make my ears rumble! More so in my left ear than my right though. It's kind of like a yawn through my ears!

@AlCalavicci

Oh paprika would be nice!

Have you tried garlic bread toasties? Heaven! Make some garlic butter and spread that on the outside of the bread as normal, a little bit on the inside too, and add your filling (I like it with cheese and ham) toast as normal in machine. Best thing ever!!

@Yabadee
I am glad you enjoyed it . You can add a pinch of alsorts of herbs / spices to change the flavour, I added a bit of paprika a few days ago mmmmmm.

shiny An old colleague used to say** that but said "black over Bill's mothers", she was from the Midlands

I do this quite often and DP often looks a little askance at me. We grew up from very different backgrounds (a recent one was I genuinely hadn't realised not everyone did the Duke of Edinburgh award to gold ...I honestly thought the schools had to make everyone do it.... his was more the type of school that you practically got a certificate for not getting arrested for a whole year!!)

Recently though a colleague used the phrase " Black over wills mothers " , i agreed and said it was threatening (both Welsh backgrounds for us) and a third colleague got very offended and thought it was a racist statement....we both were genuinely confused and said " No , as in black rain clouds that are about to rain? "

Never heard that outside of Wales, and DP always gets it , but I found put after that it is actually a Shakespeare reference and nothing to do with Wales. So there we go , I gave the Welsh the credit....

OH! it's cream. I thought 'bream' was oddly specific.

Shortbread and bream - now there's a thought - not a good one!

(I know it's a typo - just amused me)

@Threelionsandalioness I also used to have shortbread with bream. My DGF did it and it was only when I was about 13 that I realised no one else did it.

Never warmed the shortbread though...

we sang: A hundred years later
A meatball tree grew
And now there are meatballs
For me and for you

Well I never made it to Guides, so it must have been Brownies! Either that or in the school playground - I learnt some well dubious songs in the school playground (junior school, too!)

It was so tasty, as tasty as can be.
And then the next summer it grew into a tree!

I CANNOT believe that you learned a song with the word 'hell' in brownies

"It rolled down the garden path
And under a bush
And then my poor meatball
was nothing but mush.

I buried my meatball
and covered it well
and then my poor meatball
went straight down to hell

A hundred years later
An apple tree grew
All covered with meatballs
And spaghetti too!"

Yes, we learnt it in Brownies.

The rest of the meatball song goes;
"It rolled off the table
And onto the floor
And then my poor meatball
Rolled out of the door."
I think we learned it at Guides.

It was a chore rather than I was although my mother might say different

We used to have something called cornflour mould with coca-cola flavoured jelly. Favourite pudding growing up.

I used to love polishing shoes. I was a Sunday evening chore before school on Monday.

Heard of Pobs but never had them (although I can imagine they'd be just what the doctor ordered during illness). Nice and bland.

Pepper on fresh strawberries. A little sprinkle of black pepper really makes all the difference. The Spanish do that.

Just like when I found out the word “outwith” isn’t used in England. News to me...

I’ve just googled it, not sure why I didn’t do that before now, I just assumed it was made up!

Oh my god, it’s an actual thing!!

I remember Dettol baths, carnation evaporated milk (sometimes over tinned peaches or tinned fruit salad), milk jelly (as opposed to blancmange) and being allowed to eat a cube of jelly.
I used to like to lick the inside of Knorr soup packets too, once they'd been used. Did this recently and got very funny looks from DH.
Did anyone used to pull the wishbone after having roast chicken/turkey? We were told that you had to hold and pull it with your little finger only.
And if you sneezed at the same time as someone else (and then said "bless you" at the same time, you had to say, "post first my letter" to ward off bad luck!

My grandad used to have pobs too back in the day! So it's been a thing since the 1930s xx