Things you didn't know weren't normal

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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

Us too, well in our case it wasn't usually sliced and buttered if it was just us. The breadboard with loaf and knife (never a sliced loaf) and butter dish would be on the table .

That baked potatoes didn’t have to be served in a puddle of warm milk (it was nicer than it sounds!) 🤣🤣

When I was a child my parents taught me Monty Python's Lumberjack song as a nursery rhyme. I got told off for singing it at school 😂

My dad used to say of the lumps in his gravy 'that's the goodness.'

That you eat the skin on kiwis?

Scads of things, absolutely scads of things, that I wanted as a child were apparently unobtainable. If I asked my mother how you would get them or where to find them she would say she didn't know. It wasn't until I was about 40 that I realised 'I don't know' was easier for her to say than 'we can't afford it'. Everything I wanted from hit singles to my favourite kind of cake, she 'didn't know' where to get it.

We were dirt poor growing up as in fried spam at midnight for dinner when wages went in poor.
So I thought matching bedcovers, new clothes, comfy cushions were for rich people only.
My poor state of mind was so bad that I didn't realise Christmas jumper day at my kids school meant they went in with a Christmas style jumper so would stay up sewing ball balls onto normal jumpers, and I also didn't realise that I could buy a costume for £10 for book day, so would stay up till the early hours sewing costumes because that's what my mum did.
Took me a good few years to realise I deserved better.

@starfishmummy my dad used to do the slicing. It was absolutely wafer thin - you could almost see through it ! And he used to put the butter on very meticulously. A tiny weeny amount spread from corner to corner. No gaps ❤️

When I was a child my parents taught me Monty Python's Lumberjack song as a nursery rhyme. I got told off for singing it at school

@GingerLiberalFeminist Imagine nowadays, with the transvestite bit. The child would probably end up under the Prevent strategy.

This is perfectly standard in many European countries: Italy, France and Spain that I know of.

What were the lined sausage things?!

Sauces and condiments - a selection was put on the table eg HP sauce, ketchup, vinegar etc but we only had one. Dh will have several on one meal - if he has a mixed grill when we are out he'll have mustard for the steak, (sometimes they have english and french mustards so he has both), ketchup on his chips, mayo on the salad, if there's a lamb chop in the mix he'll have mint sauce too!!

We have a cupboard dedicated to condiments!!

I haven’t read the full thread so don’t know if anyone has replied to this, but it’s only standard supermarket mushrooms you can eat raw. Any foraged from the forest must be cooked thoroughly or they will make you ill.

I thought specific was spelt and pronounced pacific until a bf pointed it out😅

Recently learnt the metal barriers on the motorway are for people to stand behind? As a child mum told us must not leave the car when on hard shoulder super dangerous.
She also never dressed salad, or used seasoning and loved snacking on raw mushrooms... so yeah thought those things were normal

Oh and the other day I found out Neck curtains aren't a thing they are called net curtains lol

Neck curtains 🤣😂🤣😂

I still haven’t recovered from the shock of having to come to terms with this fact:-

Cheese does not contain eggs.

seriously. How the fuck does it stick together?

Cheese is witchcraft.

My husband thought "tipple" as in a drink of alcohol was "tickle"

He came home one day and said "my boss apparently likes a little tickle at work"

I was like whhaaaaaat?? 😂

@WeWereInParis Are you telling me that haggis don't have two shorter legs?

The rennet. The rennet holds it all together.

I just CAN'T with the eggs 😂😂😂 why eggs?? 😂😂😂

Definitely butter AND peanut butter, and no knickers in bed.

I was about 15 before I realised UK beaches could be sandy. We had all our holidays in Norfolk where they are shingle. I genuinely thought you only got sand in the Caribbean!

I also thought everyone saw words in colours (synaesthesia) but apparently not.

Was told by my dad that if you swallowed chewing gum it would stick to your heart and you could die 😬
Also that if you took painkillers with coke/lemonade etc it caused a chemical reaction in your stomach and would end up in hospital - didn't find out either of these weren't true until my mid twenty's

They are, and they are correct, the property owner pays them. It's not even called council tax here, it's called rates (not council rates, just rates - as in "my rates have gone up")

When you lot are talking about the end of the banana do you mean that little dark brown bit? I could never eat that 😱

Growing up, on Saturdays, we were served cold (as in refrigerated) baked beans as a "salad".

I suspect this is going to completely out me to any of my friends, but I didn't realise until my mid 30s that it was weird of my mum not to give me a door key in my mid teens. I was extremely trustworthy. Instead, my brother and I had to crawl through the small dog flap every afternoon after school for at least 2 years. The dogs would lick my face, after a day with no-one at home. I'm not a fan of dogs and never was!