Things you didn't know weren't normal

[Applescruffle]

What are things you thought every one or every family did until you became an adult or entered a new relationship?

I'll start. I thought that everyone ate the leftover yorkshires after a roast dinner as desert eg: fill them with cream and fruit or custard or something, basically use them like you would a pancake... no?

I thought everyone peeled mushrooms, I didn't know that not only do people not peel mushrooms, lots don't even know they have peel!! 😱

I'll probably think of more.

Nb: I'm not meaning to trigger anyone's childhood or relationship trauma, I just mean lighthearted things x

That the bar All Bar One is 3 separate words and not Allbarone rhymes with tolberone.

Not among the group of girls I had a convo with recently. I was the odd one!

Haha, same with Barone in Swanage 😂😂😂

Is the poster not based in NZ, reading the opening point?

Ummm what...?

I can't tell if this comment is a joke or if someone needs to break some news to you about haggis.

Oh, me too!

My husband and his family eat salad cream on toast.
I have joined him in this

Utterly divine. I eat healthily otherwise though 😆

Ok, South African culture shock when I was posted there for a year (20+ years ago.
Mrs Ball's Chutney on hamburgers. (as well on as nearly everything else too)
Weird but I got to quite like it after a while.
Being told to turn right at the robot when asking for directions. Or 'turn raight at the roe-but'. Or traffic lights.

Beetroot on burgers (horrible)

I can't let you get away with that!!! I love beetroot on burgers

My mother told me eating cheese before bed gave people nightmares, so I avoided it as a late night snack for years.

Re the butter/jam debate; DD’s BF genuinely couldn’t believe as a family we put butter AND jam on toast, he said in his house it was either/or. His comment actually made me ask around other families to see if we were the mavericks or the conventional ones. I was relieved that opinions about this very important matter are fairly evenly split for and against and we hadn’t commited some kind of social sin!

Peeling mushrooms is just busy work for kids that "want to help mummmmmmy"

My mum told me the cane in a party bag was a present for the mum for sending the child to the party.

An entire primary school’s worth of parties where I merrily handed the cake to my mum as soon as I got home.

Didn’t realise this was a rise to steal my cane until I was 20.

Cake! Not cane 😣

In my family we just had lots of very different towels, different sizes, patterns, colours. Most of them had two-coloured pattern woven in and what was -say- bule on one side was white on the other side and vice-versa.

I answered that this is what we had on pancake day for dinner, followed by sweet pancakes for desert.

I was sixteen when I realised that I had perfect pitch and that it was fairly unusual even among musicians - I had simply assumed that all musicians with a reasonable amount of training knew the pitch name of a note on hearing it and could read a piece of music at pitch in my head as I would read a book. I also didn’t know until I was grown up that most people don’t hear music in their head almost all the time (pleasant music, not earworms).

As for the word that @Applescruffle did not understand till her late twenties, l had not even heard of it it until a few years ago in my early fifties. My daughter looked shocked when she heard someone else saying it and I didn’t know why because it sounded innocuous to me. She explained that it was a swear word. I still don’t know what it means. In the same way, I first heard the word tw*t in my forties and thought it was a version of twit until I was corrected. I must be very innocent.

Yep. This was my mum. She would sit next to me in the car and eat the lot without an ounce of guilt 😆

My husband was horrified when I told him this and I would never get away with it 😄

I learned today that mushrooms need peeling!! What?!

Culture shock was having sweet potato with marshmallows on served to me at thanksgiving. It’s vile!

Also at an ex boyfriends house his Mum made us bread sauce with Christmas dinner and I hated it!! Had never even heard of it before.

One of the biggest culture shock when I came to the UK was that its not the norm to have a shower head on the bathtub tap.

Also that one not only drives on the other side of the road but also the bike brakes are the other way round /the front wheel and back wheel brake!/

This one's amazing, nearly woke a sleeping baby from laughing

Used to be "invalid food" when I was a child - if you'd been unwell, this would have been dished up as easy to eat, and apparently 'nourishing '.

I only discovered that after leaving home that gravy is not watery and doesn't have a thick heavy layer at the bottom. it's actually deliciously thick brown liquid that I love but can't bear to eat now at my mother's. my sister also now makes it the same (Xmas dinner wasn't great last year)
though on reading this my house we share towels. they are hung up to be dried after every use
and I wear underwear under ny nightdress every night in bed. no issues whatsoever down below at all

I grew up in the country and we picked mushrooms in the fields. When you brought them hone you snapped the stalk off to make sure they didn’t have worms in them, and they were peeled because you didn’t know what had been around them…

I didn’t know Christmas stockings were a real thing, I thought they were just in books and films.

I also didn’t know that families said “I love you” to each other. The first time I heard my future husband on the phone telling his sister he loved her, I thought “Oh aye, what’s going on here”.

I never had a Christmas stocking as a child, I assumed they were just for rich people. Christmas presents were never wrapped either. They were just put in a pile on the end of my bed. Had no idea they were meant to be wrapped and put under the tree. My mind was blown when I found out that's what everyone did. I thought it was just done in the movies.

I don't peel mushrooms if they're fresh. But if they're a bit past their best I do.

I don't eat either peanut butter or chocolate spread but if I did there would definitely not be any butter involved. We never had butter on sandwiches growing up so I can't stand it on sandwiches now. When people put butter on sandwiches I can't eat them.

All our carrots came out of a tin. I didn't know you were meant to buy them and cook them.

Apple crumble is served with ice cream when it's hot and hot custard when it's cold!