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

My parents used to tell us that penguins were in the North of England so when we were small every time we went on holiday or to visit family in the north or midlands we would keep a look out for penguins and apparently we had to be quiet in the car to make sure my dad didn’t hit any low flying ones.

This was way before Google and I think I found out in secondary school that penguins didn’t fly along the M1 but until then we thought penguin spotting on car journeys was normal if you didn’t want to kill them

Slightly on topic - I read to the last chapter of a chunky Jackie Collins novel wondering what a really long word meant - in my head I divided it up into a Sonofa Bitch, no clue what it was. I was on the last few pages when I realised it was a son of a bitch! No idea why they printed it as sonofabitch. I was probably too young to be reading it anyway

Bread sauce is minging. I'dve thought chicken would need something more flavoursome.

My Dad always made us fried cheese as part of a cooked breakfast. I thought he’d made it up! Also originally from Newcastle.

People don't share towels? My dh, kids and I all share towels. If I told him I was going to have my own personal towel, he'd think I'd finally gone bonkers.

@natura the girls mum wasn’t called Joan was she? I knew someone who did this . NW England 😂

@Ourladycheesusedatum "I use a mushroom brush, brush off the dirt, eat raw or cook and eat."

What? You can eat mushrooms RAW? Eughhhwwwww. But they're....raw! Honestly, is this a thing? Really? Raw mushrooms are ok?

Sorry, meant to @Farahpascalmoges about the fried cheese!

They are the easiest things to peel. You pull the stalk off and peel the white peel off with your fingers.

I did try it myself.. and also insisted my boyfriend tried when I couldn’t even get so much as a grip of the nut! This is in fact what started the argument as I couldn’t understand why my 6’4 16 stone boyfriend was much weaker than my 5’0 6 stone Nan 😂

Omg I can’t get past this one 😂 like 100s and 1000s that you’d put on an ice cream?? How on earth did it migrate onto buttered bread

I still have a couple of Charles and Diana mugs, they've lasted very well, 40+ years! From my late relatives I have all kinds of commemmorative stuff, including Edward VIII .

I was maybe early 20s before I realised restaurants weren't just places you went for a family row, they also served food.

Excellent thread! I have nothing to add except:

-Everyone everywhere ate with knives and forks, if they didn't they were practically neanderthals. Cue me marrying a half-Iranian man who eats with hands, spoon, bread, occasional fork, 2 spoons...

But bolognese shouldn't have mushrooms in it, peeled or not!

I thought everyone put satsumas in Christmas stockings until H went off on one about it last year.

Ashamed to say I didn't even know there were state schools until I went to uni. 😳 Also related, I thought straight As at GCSE/A level was normal, not a humble brag, just the environment I was in.

I literally have tears! 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, yes!

If they go round the hill anti-clockwise, turning to their left, they are sinistra sheep and if they go round clock-wise, turning to their right, they are dextra sheep. It's not random.

Peanut butter isn't butter. It's just blended nuts! Butter is a misleading part of the name. Of course butter should still go on first - too dry and claggy otherwise.

More recently I've added another layer - butter then Marmite then peanut butter. 😁

Pigs' trotters: my mum's Saturday evening "treat" - boiled until the skin and what little meat was on them was tender and shrank from the bones.
She would also give us what she called butter balls when we had sore throats - small pieces of butter rolled in sugar.
I always put this weirdness down to her Glaswegian roots.🙄

I was about 15 when we realised that I use my left hand for slicing, peeling, buttering even though I write right handed, I've since realised that my left hand is dominent, if I am picking something up I use my left hand and so on.

When I was a child it was normal to peel the large portobello mushrooms. Button mushrooms didn't really become popular till I was a teenager.

Fairy bread! Not Australian but am goi g to feed it to my children soon - I'm sure they'll love it!

This is also very normal in the Netherlands- bread or crisp bread with butter and hundreds and thousands, sugar or chocolate sprinkles.

My kids eyes when we first took them to Australia and our relatives fed them fairy bread! They looked at me like "...really? This is okay?..." and then pure delight and astonishment that I actually let them eat it!

I can't get over how brave those of you are who think the ends of bananas are poisonous but eat them anyway ... what it you nibbled a tiny bit too far?

As for shared towels, DH dries himself so hard that 3 layers of skin come off, I don't want his dead skin cells on my clean body!