Things you assumed were normal

Ribena with milk (aka blackcurrant milkshake). ALWAYS drank it like that when I was young and was horrified when I was first given it with water...

When I was a kid my mum hated butter (still does). She used to make sandwiches with no butter which were dry and minging. Plus also mashed potato with no butter or milk so mash really was dreaded in my childhood. When I left home and realised that butter was used in sandwiches and mash it was such a revelation and now I love both things.

Cold milk on weetabix for me too...couldn’t imagine eating it hot and mushy

I’ve always put vinegar on my bacon sarnies....this is the norm in my family.
It was only when DH looked at me in horror when I did it that I realised it’s not the norm for everyone! The thought of ketchup or brown sauce on it is gross....

@picklerickkk
My mum used to give us weetabix with butter as a snack when we were children so you’re not alone with that one. We didn’t have the others, but brown sauce sandwiches sound lovely especially with cheese!

We have tinned tomatoes on toast. With salt and pepper. Yum.

Hot banana nesquik.
I refused to drink warm milk as a child but liked to join in when the adults had their cups of tea, so grandma made me a hot banana nesquik and it's still my favourite drink.
I now give it to my son.

Condensed milk sandwiches anyone?

Raw weetabix is nasty. Hot for me, please.

I used to have cooked tinned tomatoes with toast to dunk in the bowl. I thought everyone loved tinned tomatoes until I had a friend round once and offered to make her the same as me. She thought I was weird for eating it so I never made it public knowledge again.

Fleetheart Bovril is a lovely drink! very warming and satisfying on a cold day .Also very nutriritious ! My DF had a thing about "building me up" as a child, and this was a childhood treat after Swimming on a Sunday morning .Brings back lots of lovely childhood memories!

Weetabix with butter on! Brown sauce sandwiches and Jacobs crackers with gravy (oxo cube) please someone tell me they also had this as a child!

We, my grandparents (both sets) and my aunt all had black cats. I thought that black was the standard cat colour that, I don’t know, you got issued by the government and that you had to pay extra for an exotic coloured cat.

@Lovestonap that is absolutely brilliant! Actually laughed out loud at the prospect!

My family (GPs, mum etc) always used to say 'Roydon's calling' whenever a tummy rumbled loud enough for anyone to hear.

Turns out that's not a common phrase that everybody else says. As I discovered saying it to a friend as a 9 to... Roydon was a friend of my grandparents 😂.
I don't think he was grumbly either.

Naive I had a childhood friend whose mum did similar - pour a load of hot water on Weetabix, then some cold milk, and sprinkle with sugar.
I hate hot milk on cereal so it was a battle to eat it when I stayed there.

I did find out yesterday, from reading another thread that not everyone can make their ears "rumble".

Toasted cheese - my parents used to finely grate the cheese, mix it with a bit of milk and toast it. I was amazed when a friend's mum just sliced some cheese and popped it on the bread to toast.

@lovelyupnorth we used to butter weetabix too! No marmite though but now I’m tempted to try it!

I had a sleepover round a friends house once and I asked for wheetabix for breakfast. She took the kettle, poured a little bit of hot water into each wheetabix, drowned it in hot milk and then stirred it into an awful much.
I was nearly sick. Cold and crunchy for me please.

My DD used to have here wheetabix with butter and marmite.

I never thought it strange that my parents took all pets (cat, Guinea pigs- cage and run, hamster in cage) caravanning with us. As an adult looking back I am baffled at this behaviour.

@amazedmummy me too!!! Love cold roast the most

I thought Apple pips had cyanide in!! They do, but not enough to do you any harm.

tripping also you don't eat the seeds because then a tree grows in your stomach...

Salting potatoes, that's another one, I never knew people salted potatoes while cooking them until well into adulthood as my parents don't do it. I still don't, it just never occurs to me.

DD has it your way. I hate it warm and mushy.

I remember my mum telling me a story about when she was cooking a beef joint. She always cut it in half because that’s how her mum did it. It was years later she found out the reason her mum cut it was because they never had a big enough dish. She actually thought it made it cook better or something.

Mine was putting salt on the outside of the pan lid when cooking potatoes. Mum and Dad always did it and so did I. Only when I moved in with DH did he ask me why I did it. I said I didn’t know but assumed it was something to do with the cooking. Turns out, they did it so the other person knew the potatoes had been salted, because too often they’d both do it and they would be too salty. I felt like a right idiot.

The other thing is with language. DH will often point out I’m using my funny words. He’s from the south of Scotland and I’m from the north. Words I think are Scottish words are actually Doric words and he has no clue.

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

Weetabix was always warm and mushed up like porridge when I was growing up too (except we had sugar on it too).

My Son’s just started eating it cold like his Dad. Weird to me.