Your “how did I not realise that” moments.

[Meruem]

I am getting too involved in the corona virus threads so wanted to start something lighthearted!

Went to visit DSis recently. She bought a wine box. I have bought the odd one in the past and once the little tap stopped producing wine just threw it out. I did not realise that there is nearly a whole bottle of wine left in the bag at that point! I felt really stupid but now view it as “free” wine given I would have thrown it away!

What silly things didn’t you realise until someone pointed it out to you?

@CorianderLord you’re welcome!

It took me until last year... I’m 48

@spacepoppers

Don't feel bad - a lot of them, including the chicken lettuce under bacon one, just aren't true.

@ItsGoingTibiaK really?! Okay so I feel a bit better now. Although I'm still kicking myself over all the times I've 'exited' Netflix or YouTube without just pressing the bloody Sky button. I mean really.

When this little piggy went to market, he didn't pop off there with a shopping basket. He went there as pork chops, tenderloin and all other parts of pig meat.

What! No. How has that never occurred to me. I assumed he’d gone shopping at the market too. Feel a bit traumatised now. Are you sure? What about the little piggy that had roast beef? That’s the one I didn’t understand.

This one is really silly. I had not realised until today that almond flour is the same as ground almond

CaptainJamesKirk

well pigs are omnivores, so am sure they could eat roast beef. Always felt so sorry for the little piggy who had none. I am guessing he didn't get any yorkshire pud and gravy either.

@CaptainJamesTKirk this is the meaning I was given some while back. Traumatising eh? I can no longer sing it or do the actions with my boy!

This little piggy was sold to the slaughterhouse, this little piggy's turn will come, this little piggy was forced to eat his cow friend to get fattened up, this little piggy starved, and this little piggy screamed in terror all the way home to await his fate.

Okay here’s mine. I am embarrassed but feel I am among friends. I only recently discovered that Alaska despite being in the USA is not actually attached to the USA.

I only realised (when told) in my 30's that there are no fleas in a flea circus..

My husband learned, at the age of 43, that they're 'Glace' cherries, not 'Class A' cherries 😂

This is a bit morbid!! I have been a registered nurse for 30 years and it was only last week I learnt that bodies are not frozen !! I presumed that the bodies go into freezers not a fridge!!

@lincolnfield actually one sister cut off her toe and the other her heel. In another version Cinderella's dress is made of the skin of cats

Why is everyone falling for the club sandwich thing? Why would it be "under bacon", surely it would be a CLAB sandwich (chicken lettuce and bacon)

It's already been pointed out it's named after a club. But what makes it a club sandwich is the slice if bread in the middle, which separates the chicken and bacon, so it's not just a chicken and bacon (and lettuce) mix in a plain sandwich. Though I'm sure tête are a million variations these days.

@CorianderLord isn’t the whole Cinderella glass slipper thing also due to a mistranslation? Wasn’t it mink in the original text?

It wasn't until I was 30 and we went on holiday to Ireland that I realised that the ferry doesnt go to/from "Dunleary".

In about 1963 I went to a flea circus at Belleview Zoological Gardens, Manchester, England.

They were definitely real fleas.

In Scotland ( or my bit of it), it's definitely tor-toys.
And either pronunciation is perfectly acceptable.
I may have carried out extensive research on the topic after my Canadian and US colleagues pissed themselves laughing at me.
TOR-TOYS!!!!

@Itstheprinciple

To be honest, before Argentina invaded, very few people had even heard of the Falkland Islands, lots of people thought they must be off the coast of Scotland.

If you youtube early news reports you will see they explain where they are.

@Bearlover16 if it makes you feel better, your friend is wrong, Unicorns do not have wings. She was thinking of Pegasus , the winged horse of Greek mythology.

They are not just horses with a horn though, they (if they existed, which sadly they don't) have various magical attributes as well, which I can't really remember. All probably thought up by some creepy old bloke as IIRC they are tamed by virgin girls.

A flea circus does contain real fleas (although they dont really exist any more). A flea market doesn't though.

@Kanga83 That's a cheery start to the morning. I'm never going to be able to sing that again.

I always thought that it was Scalectrix until someone made me read the box. Scalextric?? Well I mean - Scalectrix is so much easier to say...

Unicorns should have a lion's tail and cloven hooves. But they are not real. Unless you are from North Korea.

And as @BalloonSlayer says, are tamed by virgins, who are also the only people able to ride them.

Unicorn = Horse-like creature with bloody great spike on its head.
Alicorn = as above, with wings.
Pegasus = horse (no spike), with wings.

Cinderella's slippers were originally fur, and I suspect that the story has yet darker connotations..."fur slipper" sounds a lot like some kind of euphemism. Particularly when the prince is seeing which one fits. Makes me think of the notion of droit de segneur (which I may have spelled wrongly).

Oh I hope there really are flea circusesI was assured they were mechanical and how silly to to think that a flea could be trained!