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I didn’t know a cheesecake had cheese in it!

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CormoranStrike · 13/02/2021 10:20

Okay, not these days, cos I’m a sophisticated and cultured woman now, Smile but I can clearly remember being utterly astonished as a teenager to find out a cheesecake had cheese in it.

In my defence, the only cheese in my house till then had been blocks of cheddar, or cheese slices. I had no idea that cheese could be anything other than orange!

What were your WTF discoveries, which seem even more bizarre through the lens of time?

OP posts:
ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 13/02/2021 18:00

@Fuckingcrustybread

I always used to think that "techy" people were a bit patronising, now, I know that they are.
Grin If you can touch type then the keyboard options make so much more sense. Why would you stop typing and use a mouse to make something bold etc.

(Non techy lawyer who has only been practicing on long documents for the last 25+ years.)

longwayoff · 13/02/2021 18:02

@rc22, it was. How grim. I only managed the first in the series, couldn't face spending a weekend thinking about any more of it. LA was once the last word in glamour. It looks like a third world country there no wonder the country is so divided.

Topseyt · 13/02/2021 18:12

Actually, the Channel Tunnel is three tunnels. All in the rock beneath the seabed.

One tunnel for trains heading over to France from the UK, one for trains coming the other way, and a service tunnel for when engineering or assistance may be needed.

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HaveringWavering · 13/02/2021 18:39

[quote rc22]@ReggieKrait I had to look furlough up too. I'd never heard it before last year.[/quote]
I had only heard it on American TV- specifically an episode of Madam Secretary about two years ago. Think it might also be used in the US military?

I don’t think it was a term that was previously used in the U.K., but they needed a word to describe the new coronavirus-related measure and picked that, but the specific arrangement that our govt calls “furlough” is only a creature of that 2020 legislation and did not exist previously.

So not at all unusual to have never heard the term before.

Ludo19 · 13/02/2021 19:15

@ilikeanimalsmorethanpeople

I too thought AD stood for after dinosaurs 🦕 can't remember how old I was till I learned the truth.
I was in my 20's before I learned lobsters weren't red before cooked only through watching Rick Stein!

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 13/02/2021 19:38

Furlough was a term I first came across in the Chalet School books as a child. It referred to the long break a soldier etc took from India to return back to the UK.

OhWhyNot · 13/02/2021 19:57

I too thought Wolverines were a mythical animal

Only realised there we not when I took ds to a wildlife park about 10 years ago and saw one

And then to add to the surprise is that they are not wolf like at all more like a small bear/large otter

WellPlayed · 13/02/2021 21:20

@Topseyt I didn't even know there was an HS1. I never even had a thought about why it was HS2. I guess a "1" before it makes sense.

HeronLanyon · 13/02/2021 21:25

HS1 ?! Bloody hell and it’s been staring us in the face all of this time. Off to google. Wtf !?

MoonriseKingdom · 13/02/2021 21:30

I always assumed the village of Worksop as featured in Maid Marian and her Merry Men was a silly fictional name. Moved to South Yorkshire in my 30s and was Blush to find it really exists.

sashh · 14/02/2021 05:24

@CormoranStrike
I did a couple of units of human computer interaction at uni, it was fascinating looking at how different people use tech.

We were banned from saying, "user friendly" because what is friendly to one isn't to another.

The best example of 'nor intuitive' has been corrected, but for decades, to switch off a windows computer you had to go to the 'start' button.

As for control F, if you are on google chrome then there are 3 dots at the far right of the search window, if you click on it you get a few options including the 'find' button.

@bellagogosdead

Children in year 7 now have to be shown how to use a mouse because so many primary schools use tablets.

I was a supply teacher so often had to get a new laptop when starting a new job. I picked one up and I was trying the log in while the tech was finding a mouse. He was impressed I could log in using the tab key not a mouse.

eaglejulesk · 14/02/2021 07:00

My mum used to make wee buns called cheesecakes, pastry bottom, jam in the middle and a sponge top. Not a bit of cheese in sight.

Yes, they were delicious, but I could never understand why they were called cheesecakes when they weren't.

c75kp0r · 14/02/2021 07:13

to the pp on oxtail soup, it IS made from the tail meat - a bullock's tail I guess as we don't call them oxen so much nowadays

c75kp0r · 14/02/2021 07:13

the stuff on top of a cheesecake looks like grated cheese but is coconut ice

CherryValanc · 14/02/2021 07:14

@frasersmummy

Wait Centre parcs aren't under a dome.. I thought that was the whole point!! 🤔
Why do so many people think this? What it advertised as such once?

I'e never really got over discovering it isn't. It makes me sad every time I remember- I so wanted to go there as a child and enjoy the topics under the dome.

Five67Eight · 14/02/2021 07:18

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CherryValanc · 14/02/2021 07:23

Sorry, I now see the reason people think Centreparcs is under a dime has already been discussed and the advert posted.

I managed to miss a few pages!!

Nickmoooooo · 14/02/2021 07:25

I found out all that Argos furniture is sh*t the hard way.

londonmummy1234 · 14/02/2021 07:29

@SeeYouInAnotherLife hahah was this from a paw patrol episode??

wellthatsunusual · 14/02/2021 07:30

Are all the people who didn't know that the channel tunnel is under the seabed wee young things? I remember it being built and there is footage of the day the two sides met in the middle and broke through, it was the big news story of that day. They definitely were in rock, not water. Grin

Springersrock · 14/02/2021 07:35

I always thought seahorses were some sort of fairy tale, mythical creature until I took my kids to an aquarium about 10 years ago

CherryValanc · 14/02/2021 07:35

@wellthatsunusual

Are all the people who didn't know that the channel tunnel is under the seabed wee young things? I remember it being built and there is footage of the day the two sides met in the middle and broke through, it was the big news story of that day. They definitely were in rock, not water. Grin
And the UK boring machine that broke through and met the French on was left in a chamber. Abandoned under the sea bed.
yearinyearout · 14/02/2021 07:35

All theses people who thought the channel tunnel went through the water, how did you think it was built? Loads of builders swimming about in scuba gear?

Haddawa · 14/02/2021 07:35

@DrMadelineMaxwell
This was also me last year 😫 my DD picked me a bunch of dandelions, I put them in a glass jar and forgot about them for a few days....I'm 46

JaneExotic · 14/02/2021 07:36

After spending my university Saturdays working in a bookies, I know ‘furlough’ as the measurement for the length of a horse race!
1 furlough = 1/8 of a mile
When we got to COVID, I had absolutely no clue why the government wanted workers to furlough!

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