Things I’ve just learnt

[hopeful777]

I just found out you can’t put a chopping board in the dishwasher unless you want it to break 😕

as my family are now laughing at me, it made me wonder what other things have people learnt in adulthood that maybe others assume should be intrinsically known?

@Ohmnomnom

Last year I discovered that green, red, yellow, and orange peppers are not from different seeds. It's the same pepper, just picked at a different time.

My mindis blown.

@godmum56

I haven't just learned this but did you know that Guterman thread reels open up at one end to store needles?

I've just been and looked at one of my threads to check this and it's true! Amazing!

What about purple peppers ?

@Ohmnomnomm

"Last year I discovered that green, red, yellow, and orange peppers are not from different seeds. It's the same pepper, just picked at a different time."
Once again kind of true but not quite. The green ones are almost always unripe coloured ones, although there is now a variety called permagreen that never changes colour, BUT peppers ripen to red OR yellow OR orange and also now purple as well.
www.naturefresh.ca/bell-pepper-faqs-facts/

@MissConductUS

Do they spread the bread with mayonnaise then? That's got oil in it. And they have lots of peanut butter, that's got oil in it too.

We do spread the bread with mayo. Peanut butter is only used in sandwiches on its own or with jelly or jam. I'm not sure what the relevance of them containing oil is.

The oil being the quality butter adds, i.e. 'lubricating' the bread for ease of chewing and swallowing.

At the grand old age of 38 I learnt that when the red light goes off on tho oven it means it's at the temperature you set it to 😂😂

I learned recently that Woolly Mammoths still roamed the Earth whilst the pyramids were being built.

Mind, blown.

@Appalonia

That you can't turn wine into Prosecco using a sodastream! Left a very sticky kitchen when it exploded everywhere...

@Appalonia so I know you say that it's not a good idea.....but.....oh I am sorely tempted...'

We discovered that Pineapples grow in the ground during a trip around South America a few years ago. Our amazement at that had a Costa Rican driver in stitches with laughter 😳😂🤣

@Peppapigforlife

I lived in the USA for two years and only found out over two years after I left (through Mumsnet I think), that Americans don't put butter in their sandwiches. I guess I just didn't eat a sandwich during the whole time...

Somewhat related - 'salad' usually means chopped in mayo. So a chicken salad sandwich is chicken in mayo, egg salad is egg myo etc. The actual salad comes under 'fixings'.

Also they don't really have kettles.
Or Christmas crackers! (not on the West coast anyway)

Another dishwasher one - most dishwashers you can adjust the height of the top rack, although it's not obvious (and you might not need to unless you have big plates you need to put in the bottom rack).

lifehacker.com/adjust-your-top-dishwasher-rack-height-like-a-god-of-ti-1822510698

@ResurrectionInfinity as far as I am aware the Shetland Isles is a correct term but otherwise I suppose it is the Shetland Islands. In any case they are nearer to the Arctic Circle than Oslo, the capital city of Norway is. I had only just finished work when I typed this so my normally impeccable grammar had slipped owing to fatigue.

Um

Until I was 22 I thought you weed out of your clitoris. When I discovered the truth, I realised that's why I kept missing the piss pot when giving a sample at the doctors.

I've barely told anyone....

Americans saying egg salad meaning egg mayo omg! I know most things but I didn't know that. I always thought they ate eggs with lettuce and tomato etc.

[quote Violinist64]@ResurrectionInfinity as far as I am aware the Shetland Isles is a correct term but otherwise I suppose it is the Shetland Islands. In any case they are nearer to the Arctic Circle than Oslo, the capital city of Norway is. I had only just finished work when I typed this so my normally impeccable grammar had slipped owing to fatigue.[/quote]
Thanks, I was intrigued and couldn’t be certain.
I think the natives tend to say Shetland, but I suppose that doesn’t make it the only correct term.

Hamburg is nearer to England than it is to Munich

And Paris and Brussels are about the same distance from London as Manchester is - and are much closer to London than Newcastle or Edinburgh are.

@MorrisZapp

Americans saying egg salad meaning egg mayo omg! I know most things but I didn't know that. I always thought they ate eggs with lettuce and tomato etc.

We do, in a chef's salad, which includes other sources of protein like turkey, bacon, cheese, etc. But "egg salad" is with mayo and put into a sandwich.

19:31Melm22

So do pigs.

@SorrySadDog

Um

Until I was 22 I thought you weed out of your clitoris. When I discovered the truth, I realised that's why I kept missing the piss pot when giving a sample at the doctors.

I've barely told anyone....

Even worse ... I thought we women weed out of our vagina. I was well into my late 20s before I realised differently. I wondered why my pee kept going everywhere but in the pot too (when I was giving a 'pee sample.') SO cringe!

If you use a staple gun on your big toe, it will staple your toe to the floor and the firemen will have to cut a chunk of the stage out to get your foot off, before getting an ambulance to take you to hospital to have it removed.

TBF, I was only 11 and we'd been left unsupervised to set up the scenery for the school play.

And I'm still scarred on my toe.

Trombolese meaning

That dandelion turn into wish puff balls, who knew !

That dandelion turn into wish puff balls, who knew!

The puffy version are often called dandelion clocks, so I think that gives it away a bit!

If you have a solid wooden board it can go in the dishwasher. But most wooden boards are glued. It’s the glue melting in the heat. Best to use for just bread and hand wash them, use plastic for chopping and messy things.

Fairislefandango
The puffy version are often called dandelion clocks, so I think that gives it away a bit!
I've never heard them called this, so it's still who knew ? From me