Things you assumed were normal

When we were ill as children, my mum used to make us something called ‘Pobbies’. It was warm milk in a bowl with sugar and cubes of white bread everyone I have mentioned it to since has been

I thought Lucy was a normal boy’s name when younger as father had a mate whose nickname was Lucy. So when I met a girl at ballet with short hair called Lucy I assumed she thought she was a boy.

There would always be one child out of a group (e.g.at school) who smelt constantly of TCP, now I know why :o

I know the meatball song! But we never ate meatballs.

@Standrewsschool that's normal, DP loves a good dettol bath after a sweaty day at work x

@Moltenpink ahhhh I think we did! I’m singing the song in my head and I don’t know where I got it from!

Rice pudding with prunes...

As a child it was home made rice pudding and had to be with soaked and cooked dried prunes .
(But tinned rice pudding and tinned prunes also good, )but you dont want too much prune juice or it al goes a bit brown
Mind you I haven't had this for about 40 years now!

We also loved the dried mixed fruits with rice pud, or just custard. It had peaches, pears , prunes and packed in a block with a dried apple ring on the side of the package .. Yum. ( I wonder if you can still get those? ).

We had the orange jelly whipped up with tinned mandarins and evaporated milk too, we called it 'orange fluff' and it was served in little stemmed glass dishes with extra segments of mandarin on top we though it was rather posh so it was one of our favourite desserts!

Cheese and salad cream sandwiches and crisp sandwiches were also good .. and often w the whole family would sit down to a meal of pilchards on toast.. the pilchards were mashed and spread on the toast (thin white bread) then tomato slices put on top and slices were put back under the grill to warm through.. We loved it !

Lovely nostalgic thread when I was growing up, whenever we had spaghetti and meatballs we sang a song that started “on top of spaghetti, all covered in cheese, I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed”. I thought every family did the same but apparently not!

We used to have Dettol baths also, usually after swimming in a local outdoor pool. (Nb, it only used to be a capful or two of Dettol in the bath, not a bathtub full of Dettol).

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

Also a weird one: dettol baths. When I was tiny my mum used to bath me in dettol. My Nan convinced her this was the right thing to do, as Nan has OCD. I suddenly realised how odd it was that other people didn’t have white bath water. This stopped when I was 4. I mean I get sterilising the baby equipment, but the actual baby? 😂 I don’t have any skin issues just in case anyone is concerned, it was always heavily diluted!

Just grated cheese and an egg mixed up then spread thickly on the bread

Do u know, it’s not intentionally but when it’s cooked it does taste a bit scrambled!

@Yabadee Ooooo that sounds nice. Is the egg scrambled?

@AlCalavicci

Thank you for the cheese on toast tip a few pages back! I’d been dying for roasted cheese for a few days but making an effort not to eat white bread. I usually just put cheese on white bread and into the grill, so the bread is all soft underneath.

But the toasting one side of seeded bread, topping with the egg and cheese mixture (I added spring onion) and grilled was absolutely delicious! I had it with salad and pickled onions and will have it again for sure.

Pickled eggs in crisps in the pub is not unusual here in the East.

@ZeroFucks I worked in a pub which kept a special jar of pickled eggs on the bar, for the express purpose of adding to bags of crisps

I always warm up shop brought shortbread and doughnuts in the oven and dip the shortbread in double cream... I mean how else do you eat shortbread my friends think I'm a heathen ..... I use warm water to water house plants I feel sorry for them using cold water! 😂

Ears rumbling - if you've got a bit of a cold and you swallow, you feel/hear rumbling in your ears. Some of us get that even without a cold.

@Standrewsschool I want to know too

@GurlwiththeCurl

I was brought up with one bath a week too. We also used to share our bath water.

I was on the phone to my bf when I was 16 and my mum asked me to call my sister up for a bath. So I said ‘sis! Do you want mums bath water?’ My bf was horrified. And I was mortified.

Thanks MNHQ

Well done @meredithgrey1 well deserved

Sprinkle nutmeg on melon slices and white sugar on iceberg lettuce leaves. Not normal apparently!

I remember the smell of shoe polish followed by the whiff of Duraglit metal polish from preparing for a Girls Brigade Parade (clean shoes and bugle the night before) it really takes me back if I smell either of those!

@ThumbWitchesAbroad, you are welcome.

I am glad there are at least a few of us that like the smell, but now I am wondering if Kiwi and cherry blossom smell the same and does brown polish smell the same as black ? > brain hurting now <