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Things you assumed were normal

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meredithgrey1 · 30/01/2020 22:44

DH bought some weetabix to have for breakfast a few days ago and I was amazed to see him preparing it by just pouring cold milk on and then eating it like that! I can't eat weetabix now but when I was little my mum would pour the milk on, then microwave it, then mash the biscuits in to create something similar to porridge. I assumed at the time that this was the only way to eat weetabix but my husband was appalled at the very idea and after a quick google it does seem like I'm very much in the minority. So it got me thinking, what are some things that you thought were normal, but then you realised that you/your family were the only one(s) doing it like that?

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user1333796 · 31/01/2020 00:00

I remember pestering my mum to buy pasta as a kid. Everyone else at school spoke of pasta for dinner and my mum was quite a lot older than everyone else's and still cooked meat and two veg type meals... Or spam. Anyway, she relented eventually and served it up with butter and salt on. I loved it and it was my favourite meal. Once we had to paint our favourite food at school so I drew a bowl of pasta. The teacher said, ooh how lovely. What do you have on your pasta? And I was like 'pasta?!' and she said yes, but what on top? And this went on and on for a bit until she gave up. Took me years before myself (and my mum) discovered butter isn't a normal, solitary pasta topping.

TokenGinger · 31/01/2020 00:00

When growing up, my mum always made corned beef hash on Ash Wednesday! As a kid, I thought corned beef hash was corned beef ash, and that corned beef ash eaten on Ash Wednesday was exactly the same concept as eating pancakes on Pancake Tuesday!

I'm 30 now and mum still brings around a pot of corned beef hash on Ash Wednesdays Grin

TrippingOnSunshine · 30/01/2020 23:54

I thought Apple pips had cyanide in!! You're not supposed to eat them!
(And don't swallow chewing gum either cos it'll stick to your ribs!)

amazedmummy · 30/01/2020 23:48

I'd eat a whole pear but not an apple. My sister always had warm weetabix I liked it cold. My weird thing is cold toast. I love toast that's gone cold and then been buttered.

clary · 30/01/2020 23:43

I eat a whole pear too. I do peel oranges and bananas tho 😄😂😂

clary · 30/01/2020 23:42

fruity I do that too with an apple.I hate the yucky apple core lying about so I just eat it. Mmm roughage! I know I'm odd tho 😀😀

FruityWidow · 30/01/2020 23:38

I thought everyone eats the whole apple including the core like I do. My colleague was horrified when I was eating one the other day, general consensus around the room was I am the only one and everyone else left the core.

ExpletiveDelighted · 30/01/2020 23:38

DH and I are the same with Weetabix, I like it hot and mushed up, That's how I was brought up to eat it, he just pours cold milk on and eats it.

I didn't realise till a couple of years ago that if birthday cards arrive before the big day you are meant to save them all to open on birthday morning, I've always opened mine as they arrive, same as Christmas cards.

Fleetheart · 30/01/2020 23:31

I have always liked bovril on toast, with lots of butter. I found it extraordinary that some people drink it hot like tea. Yuk!

AlCalavicci · 30/01/2020 23:23

I haven't eaten weetabix for a long while now but I am a bit like your DH very cold milk poured around the edge of them ( rather than over them ) or if I am feeling under the weather and cant stomach a meal I would have them hot like you but with lots of milk and in a cup so I could drink it and always burn my tongue

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