Things you assumed were normal

Another vote for cold custard!

I now feel like a freak of nature!! 😭 I must confess I posted it half because I was expecting people to say “oh, that’s nothing” or “I can do that too”.

@BritneyPeedOnALadybug

That shiver thing is the weirdest thing I’ve read on this thread. Next to the cold curry sandwiches for breakfast of course.

Oh and cheese served with fruitcake is a proper Yorkshire thing!

This thread is brilliant!

I've had it both ways - both good 😊

@BertieBotts
what do you mean?? I can't send a shiver down my own spine.

Well, it’s so easy for me I thought it was just a normal human thing? I can send a shiver down my spine on purpose and goosebumps immediately appear on my skin. I thought everybody could do this

Gah! Saucer not saycer!

I do hot mushed up weetabix for my toddler. I eat it in bricks with cold milk, as quick as possible so it doesn't go mushy!

Britney - what do you mean?? I can't send a shiver down my own spine.

I’ve found my tribe of cold custard eaters! On its own eaten cold = food of the gods. Hot and poured over things = just a waste of a pudding.

My grandad was a tea-in-the-saycer man, used to drive my grandma nuts. One thing my grandma used to have in the way of weird food rituals was you were not allowed to have a cold pudding such as trifle or tinned fruit without a slice of bread and butter to go with it. Apparently cold puddings would otherwise freeze your insides or something. Never encountered anyone else who does this.

@FruityWidow you remind me of someone I work with. He eats that apple cores and also orange peel as well as the orange. It’s horrific to watch!!

I think drinking tea out of a saucer used to be the norm in the dim and distant past, I can't remember where I read it, maybe a book or progamme with Lucy (?) Worsley.

@Peachypips78 What were the other numbers? I would have loved a "number system" of manners.

I remember a teacher at secondary school who revealed that punishments have numbers, detention was number 7. Somebody asked what number 1 was: he said "picking up litter". But he would not reveal what number 10 was. Perhaps it was caning, from the school's darker days, which hadn't been written out of the procedures.

As a child I loved weetabix made the way your mum made it OP but as an adult I can’t have it that way. I have it the way your DH has it.

I’m still not convinced this isn’t normal but my colleague didn’t believe that I could make goosebumps appear on my skin by sending a shiver down my spine so I demonstrated it and was made out to be a freak of nature. People can do this easily, can’t they?

@inherdefence oh yes, dad poured his tea into a saucer to drink it sometimes too. Now I really DID think that was normal.

Some people didn’t just pour drinks from one cup to another to cool it. They used to pour it into the saucer. I’d heard of it but never seen it until one day an old man in a cafe did it. My mum was horrified and dragged me out of there as if he’d exposed himself. But that’s the same mum who recently told me that she had heard of people dunking biscuits but had never seen it done. I know her mum was a regular dunker who taught me and my brothers the same habit so I’m not sure where my mum was when all that was going on.

@amazedmummy

This is what I like, it makes the toast crunchy!

nornironrock I came here to cite the lyric

“I don't take coffee, I take tea, my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York.”

As proof that toast done on one side is not unique to your Grandad. Unless your Grandad was also Stings Grandad but PuppyMonkey beat me to it.

Anyone else have butter and sugar sandwiches Yum

Me!
I want a special family thing to introduce to my DD now, but the sugar and butter sandwiches are so unhealthy! She eats weetabix cold, I'd never heard of the hot way and I don't think she'd eat it (I don't like any cereal).

I've always had weetabix with cold milk and sugar on it. . I didn't realise people ate it any other way until I read this thread haha

This isn’t a food one.
I discovered recently that my OH has aphantasia, he can’t see pictures in his head! He always thought he was normal!

@CurrynChips, it's a sort of voluntary
clenching you do in your head - or specifically, in the membrane in your ear. When you do it, it makes a rumbling sound. I didn't know that not everyone can do it.

My parents (Irish) also used to do a thing when they wanted to cool a mug of hot tea down a bit. They’d get another mug and pour the tea into it, then back again, repeat several times. And when they’d finished the tea was at the exact right temperature for drinking.

My family did this too

Anyone else have butter and sugar sandwiches? Yum.

My parents (Irish) also used to do a thing when they wanted to cool a mug of hot tea down a bit. They’d get another mug and pour the tea into it, then back again, repeat several times. And when they’d finished the tea was at the exact right temperature for drinking.

To the PP. Toast done on one side is a pretty common thing I think - it’s even mentioned in English Man in New York by Sting.