Things you assumed were normal

Is there another way of polishing shoes?

@RiftGibbon - was it Cherry Blossom shoe polish? We had a special shoe cleaning kit with old cloths for putting polish on, then different brushes and lastly a yellow duster - and had to put them on newspaper afterwards!

That's exactly the same as how we did it, my DCs do it with their school shoes now.

Yes, that's the stuff, *MilkTray
And I have just spotted a typo in my post above , should say "there was genuine concern..."

@RiftGibbon - was it Cherry Blossom shoe polish? We had a special shoe cleaning kit with old cloths for putting polish on, then different brushes and lastly a yellow duster - and had to put them on newspaper afterwards!

Isn't it interesting how so many things are food-related?
As a child I can remember cleaning shoes with cherry black(?) polish. You had to sit in the slightly rickety stool, put an old yellow duster across your knees (not to be confused with any of the other yellow dusters for dusting). You put the polish on with a round-headed brush, cincentred in applying polish with another old duster to any particular scratches or scuffs, then you buffed with a soft rectangular brush and left the shoes standing on newspaper to "set".

We also had a tradition of "First footing" in as much as at midnight my Dad or Uncle would have to pop outside into the street, carrying a lump of coal and a lamp (and possibly a piece of bread).The door would be shut, they'd have to knock and be let in, 'bearing gifts', then we'd all have a drink to celebrate. We are not in Scotland so not sure why we did this.
Also, it could only be men, and dark-haired men at that, so my Granddad wasn't allowed to be a 'first-footer' and there 2as genuine concern when my Dad started to go grey.

@slinkysaluki I used to eat cold prunes in a bowl of rice crispies

Love tinned tomatoes on toast - sometimes with grilled cheese underneath.

Fried mushrooms on toast is also lovely.

Cream crackers, dairylea and thinly sliced pickled onion.

After reading this thread over the past few days I now want tomatoes on toast , hot weetabix and my own in put , strawberrys halved and sprinkled in course black pepper , meat paste with thin sliced pickle on toast .
Perhaps not all at once though .

Great thread @meredithgrey1

And surely plimsolls are much better for feet than Clarks. Especially now they don't train their fitters properly. Flexible sole, room for toes and no curve in it - that's the gold standard for feet, I thought?

I eat tinned tomatoes on toast! They are lovely.

Tinned tomatoes on toast is an old fashioned dish here. Plenty of older people would see this as a normal tea.

Apparently DP had never had a bag of crisps at home without an egg in it.
Just how many boiled pickled eggs did they have hanging round at any one time, in case of crisp emergency?

Tinned tomatoes on toast, sometimes i rub a garlic clove over the toast before putting toms on
Millions of Spaniards do that every day, so it's not really odd at all! (Pan con tomate)

The egg in the crisps made me think of another one!
I LOVE salt and vinegar crisps with pickled cockles chucked in there. It's making my mouth water thinking about it! Yum!

Tinned tomatoes on toast, sometimes i rub a garlic clove over the toast before putting toms on, buttered toast. Salt and pepper yummy

Ribena on hot semolina when i was a kid and yes to hot ribena when its cold. Cold prunes and hot custard was another one

I've enjoyed reading this thread, and weirdly a bit if nostalgia creeping in 😁

I love tinned whole plum tomatoes as lunch. I'll fry a chopped onion in a small pan, with maybe a touch of garlic, then add the tinned tomatoes and crush with a potato masher, and then simmered for 5 mins to thicken the juice. I season well, and serve with toast on the side. I like my toast to stay crispy.

And if you want to improve a meaty flavour, use mushroom ketchup. I find it hard to get hold of, but it works a treat.

As for weetabix, I can't stand it so never eat it in any style.

Graphista
You can get slow-release sodium chloride tablets; see if their GP will prescribe them.

I had indoor and outdoor shoes at school too! The regulation outdoor were much stouter than the indoor ones, although they were leather, not slipper-like! We also had gumboots, plimsolls and lacrosse boots for various outdoor activities!

Re milk/juice on cereal when I lived overseas with ex I wasn’t keen on the local milk (not sure why it tasted so —disgusting— different) so I preferred to have apple or pineapple juice on my cereal. Ex thought that disgusting but he’s a fussy bugger all round!

“I thought it was normal to know that salt is very bad for us.”
Everything in moderation really. I have POTS and find if I reduce my sodium intake too much I get more dizzy/fainting spells. A relative has a condition which means they lose salt from their body too fast so have to eat more salt to compensate - they’re not a fan of salt so it’s hard for them.

Egg in crisps definitely weird, I love pickled eggs and can see how they’d go with crisps but having it IN the bag would make the crisps soggy!

@zero I did not know that bewilderment was contagious! 🤣 . But a egg in the bag is bloody odd.

It was a boiled pickled egg, just plopped in the bag. I thought it was a bit odd when MIL brought my crisps through already open but my tiny mind was blown when she'd taken the liberty of putting a fucking egg inside it.

I reached in and pulled out this egg looking around in silent bewilderment. They were looking at me bewildered as to why I was bewildered. I was looking back at them bewildered wondering why they were bewildered that I was bewildered. We didn't speak for a good couple of minutes, just looked around at each other while I held this egg aloft.

Apparently DP had never had a bag of crisps at home without an egg in it. I have absolutely no fucking clue why it was normal for them. It's just how you eat crisps apparently

Many of these favourites are very salty (Bovril, salt on tomatoes etc) I’m trying to eat minimal salt and know it’s in virtually all bought food. I thought it was normal to know that salt is very bad for us.

@ZeroFucks WTF!!! How random is that.

I'm fascinated by the crisps with the egg in them! How does that work then. was it a boiled egg? Peeled or not?
Weird!

Like these www.amazon.co.uk/mushroom-brush/s?k=mushroom+brush&tag=mumsnetforu03-21