Things you assumed were normal

We always ate our toast browned one side only, pre toaster days.

And we often had a homemade fruit tart for pudding, but rarely custard or cream. My mum would pour normal full fat milk over it. Hot apple tart and cold milk is very nice. DH and the kids will have none of it though.

@AgeLikeWine

No, you're not. It's by far the best way to eat apple crumble, or a fruit pie.

The rest of family are just wrong.

Tinned tomatoes on toast was what I used to have for lunch in our student canteen when I was even more broke than usual. It cost 9d (old pence). About 3 1/2p. I enjoyed them though.

@AgeLikeWine no you're not!

@notpastaagain

It is ‘tender hooks’.....isn’t it??

Salty McDonalds chips dipped in vanilla milkshake
Orange juice on cornflakes
Brown sauce and lettuce white bread sandwiches
DH always pours salt on cherry tomatoes

meredithgrey1

I see your weetabix and raise you, eaten like bread with butter and jam. Brazilian colleague could not be persuaded to add milk.

He also used to cut baby bell with a knife.

Cold custard with hot puddings. It’s much nicer than hot custard because of the temperature contrast. Apparently I’m the only one who does this, though....

Word related ones here: I grew up thinking Sid James (the Carry On actor) was a saint because I assumed that was what everyone was referring to him as: Saint James. I’ve also recently been enlightened about the phrase ‘on tenterhooks’ - always thought it was ‘tender hooks’. I told my mum and she simply wouldn’t believe me and still says tender hooks!

after calling my dad a dildo( i was 11)- rupturing the usual tension of a family round the table sunday lunch co,dad exploding..mum denying she knew why...off he stormed to the pub. returned at t time,pulled out an encyclopedia turned to page "human body"diagram. pointed at the mans wallet/penis and said "its a fake/duplicate one of those".....(poor soul,house full of girls\tortured really i spoze)....until i was bout 23...i thought\didnt think he meant like a prosethtic limb..for amputee patients......obviously

Choc ice and chips.
It's delicious.

Hot, not got...

OP I’m with you. My mum always did us weetabix got with a bit of cinnamon in.

Tried to do it myself recently and got the weetabix/milk ratio wrong and ended up with a lumpy mess

Do you remember the raisin ones?!

@echt I loved sticks of garden rhubarb with a poke (bag) of sugar to dip it in. Yes, raw rhubarb and sugar.
Or a buttered white sandwich with sugar sprinkled over the butter.

When my mother made apple pies, with Bramleys, we would eat the peel dipped in sugar, a dentine-stripping combination.

Our teeth!!!

@BillHadersNewWife Doric is dialect of the North East of Scotland, especially in Aberdeenshire.

"Ay fit like" means how are you? for example.

Bill reference.yourdictionary.com/translation/list-of-doric-words-and-english-translations.html

@itsgoodtobehome

Crosses at the end of the sprouts are to check they haven't gone off. Sometimes they can be rotten inside, and you won't know until you bit into them because the outside leaves are fine. By cutting a cross in the bottom you can feel as the knife goes in if it's rotten.
My granny taught me that.
I don't do it though.

Christmas lunch with a boyfriends large Yorkshire family. Huge Yorkshire puddings and delicious gravy served all around to everyone, ( there was twelve or more of us)
Then the plates were all taken back and washed so Christmas lunch could be served on them.
It was surprising, but delicious.

I worked with someone who always sprinkled salt on her apples as she ate them (she tells me it’s the normal thing to do in her home country of Jamaica). After months of watching her in fascinated horror I gave it a try and it was delicious. However, even though I now know how much tastier it makes an apple I just can’t bring myself to repeat it.

When I met DH he was amazed that I always salted tomatoes before eating them or adding them to a salad - I’m equally amazed that other people don’t do this.

Mabel what are Doric words?

My Mother's family are a bit quirky so there are lots of things that they do that I always knew were not what everyone else did (pre-Christmas Christmas dinner and presents for instance), but some things are genuinely better so my Dad has also taken to doing them and I thought those things were normal for everyone. I was very surprised that nobody else mashes fresh strawberries, cream and sugar with fork before eating them with a spoon. (It really does taste better.)

When I was small, my grandad didn't have a toaster, so the grill above the hob was used for toast. One day, as a (unknown to me) joke, he asked if I wanted my toast done one side or two. I said one! For years, I genuinely thought on-sided toast was a normal thing that was simply one of two options.... It seems I was the only one eating one-sided toast, and my family thought it was pretty funny.
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I eat the whole apple too, a result of living in London where there are no bins and not wanting to carry a manky core around! The pips do have minimal traces of cyanide in but it's fine. You probably shouldn't bite them but just swallowing them won't hurt you unless you decide for some reason to eat an absolute truck load of just apple pips.

As a child, a 'treat' was to have cocoa powder and caster sugar mixed together in a small dish and eat it dry!! How weird is that - but cheap I suppose! I loved raw jelly cubes but my mother always stopped me eating them as she said they would 'gum up my insides'!!

I had to have malt and cod liver oil every morning before school - with a Haliborange to take the taste away - I thought everybody had this until I stayed with a friend!