Things you assumed were normal

I can do the shiver thing
I love tinned tomatoes on toast or just in a bowl as a snack if I'm on a diet
Love cold burnt toast
I put mini mars bars in the freezer, don't like them any other way
Will eat weetabix either way, though I haven't had it for years. Don't put sugar on it though

Fab thread OP!
My mum never salted anything from potatoes to pastry - everything was bland. Siblings and I all fondly remember her tasteless cooking haha.

I can't remember names but to the posters that commented......
Mum has juice on cereal that's not so strange really. Muesli was initially invented to be made with fruit juices. It was us that got hold of it and drowned it with milk :) I can not imagine using juice on cornflakes etc...
Didn't bath/shower/wash your hair on a morning because you'd catch cold
There is a tiny bit of actual sense to this gem of an old wives tale :)
That being - having wet hair lowers your body temperature making it easier for viruses to enter the body and make you ill. Years ago not many people actually knew about the lower body temp thing but just repeated what they had been told - my own GM and DM included lol

I don't peel mushrooms. I dampen kitchen roll and give the mushrooms a rub with that to remove the dirt if there's any.

Bovril I drink with a generous amount of black pepper (add lots if I have a sore throat, it relieves it) I'll use oxo too, I'm not fussy.

Hot desert with cold custard (room temperature really, not from a fridge)

Tinned tomatoes on toast yes! I also enjoy tomatoes with boiled rice. Salted and peppered generously. yum!
My husband calls me a minger for.....
celery with peanut butter spread on, has to be the crunchy one.
Adding milk to my baileys mmm!
He however, has no room to call me.....
He eats leftover yorkie puds with jam!
He will eat something sweet before savoury - this is alien to me and I just can not entertain the idea of it.
He is a STANDY UP bum wiper! :0

Growing up we always had walkers ready salted crisps with lots of vinegar on them. My son now eats them like it too. OH was a bit when he first saw me have some but now I’d partial to them

Also if my mum has a tin of tomato soup she crunches a bag of crisps up and tips them in.

We had tea at a friends and she asked if pizza was ok - great we all love pizza...

Until she served it with boiled cauliflower/broccoli and roast potatoes

Voila

In my world mashed potato with salad is normal - apparently I am weird!

I can't eat any cold salad with hot food, it tastes wrong.
But especially so mash - it must make it go all warm and limp < not envy

(cold dessert/hot custard or hot dessert/cold custard/ice cream is the law though!)

The first time I went to DP's parents we had sandwiches for lunch with a bag of crisps. My crisps had a fucking EGG in them. AN EGG.

They all thought (and still think) it's completely normal to have a fucking egg plopped in a bag of crisps.

Weirdos.

That mostly sounds like a waste of mushrooms! You know that you can eat the stalk?

Cream crackers topped with cheese and beans pinged in the microwave! I loved it as a kid! Also I put butter and mayonnaise on my bacon butties, delicious.

Ffs I have never heard a mushroom cheep Twitter or sing . cheap

Older or flat shrooms can be peeled but the closed cup type you typically get in the supermarkets don't need peeling.

A mushroom brush you say ?
That's a new one on me , I just give mine a quick wipe . I guess a cheep quarter inch paint brush would do the trick if you wanted to go down that route.

While we are talking about shrooms, ( hijacking thread for a mo) has anyone ever tried growing there own from one of them impregnated logs ? Did it work ?

A lot of faff I'm thinking!

I have trouble imagining how you would even peel a mushroom

If I had to peel mushrooms I'd be leaving them out of the recipe!

You need a mushroom brush .

Graphista - you can have a lot more Bovril than Marmite on your toast, as I discovered to my horror (and oversalted mouth) when I tried Marmite at a friend's house once. They're sort of similar but Marmite is way saltier. Bovril on toast doesn't taste particularly "meaty" to me (does morein a drink) but just adds a bit more piquancy.

My mum always peeled mushrooms but that's because she'd let them get "old" so the peel came off easily. I always wash them just before eating them - so long as you don't sit them under water, they don't go mushy, just a quick rinse under the tap, or wipe with a damp cloth - I can't be eating bits of soil, however pasteurised it is - or, if they're older with a "papery" skin, then I peel it off too. Fresh shrooms shouldn't need peeling.

Similar but not the same. Bovril definitely tastes like meat. Like a concentrated gravy or broth. Marmite tastes savoury in the same concentrated way but not in the same flavour way.

@NoMoreUsernamesAnymore,
I am glad I am not the only one that like needs pickles on a roast dinner

As a veggie I’m curious - do marmite and bovril taste similar?

Also love mushrooms (and have ocd yet the fact they’re covered in shit weirdly doesn’t bother me) I don’t wash them (awaits shocked gasps) BUT I do peel them!

I even eat them raw quite happily can munch through a whole punnet as a snack, even crave them at times (I wonder what nutrient I’m craving?) so will sit with punnet of mushrooms and a sheet of kitchen paper to the side for the bottoms of the stems and the peelings.

@userxx yeah I never found it odd, I was just mentioning it because other people used it as an example!

I've never washed a mushroom in my life! I've been vegetarian for 38 years and eat them most days.

Washing mushrooms is kinda important because they're grown in poop. E coli and all that.

I've been to a mushroom factory. They sterilise the poop.