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

For some reason I thought it was very unhealthy not to have the bedroom window open before you went to sleep so always did after I left home and lived on my own, even in winter.

I have a question regarding towel sharing - in towel sharing families is it that you use a towel then wash it and anyone will use it the next time or does it not actually get washed between uses? Surely washing kills whatever is on the towel so it's OK for anyone to use after and my alternative is too gross to contemplate. I'm very confused.......

Growing up we would have red sauce sandwiches, if we was playing out and wanted something quick to get back out that would be it, my partner thinks it's disgusting.

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Sit down for this one then:
New girl from Holland in my grade 4 class brought sandwiches to school of white bread, butter and chocolate sprinkles! 🫣
(Helga, I still remember you!)

I 100% agree with this.

Thought of another one.

I didn’t realise until I was older that it wasn’t normal to drink warm lemonade - Cresta specifically - if you had a cold. I presume it was just cheaper to give us that and a paracetamol rather than a lemsip!

@katepilar, we also had ALL the condiments with any meat. And Yorkshire pudding with any meat. I do not understand this southern nonsense of only having it with beef!

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That! And having Yorshires with anything other than beef is heresy! I know I'm probably the only person left in the country who knows right and wrong on this subject any more, but that still doesn't make Yorkshires with pork, lamb or chilcken remotely acceptable.

But of course Yorkshire pudding with gravy before the main roast dinner is fine. As is Yorkshire pudding sprinkled with sugar or drizzled with golden syrup, for pudding or a snack.

That steak takes an hour to cook (seriously, this is how my dad cooked it. Massive slabs of grey meat).

Did anyone else's mum make cinnamon toast for them? Toast, butter, white sugar and cinnamon sprinkled on top?

I don't understand bread sauce at all. I mean who originally sat eating a slice of Warbies and thought "You know what? This could do with being a bit more liquidy. I might try mashing it." Its just RANK.

@SlatternIsMyMiddleName we all have different colour towels here, that way you also know who's left it lying in the floor.

It's not "southern" lol. Its always been the tradition and it started in Yorkshire. You would male them using a hot pan full of beef dripping, so they go woth beef

I do eat them with every type of roast and often with jusr sausage and mash too but they definitely started out as being a beef accompaniment

God, I loved a red sauce sandwich.

Also - I never knew it was weird to say ‘red sauce’ until I moved south. I had absolutely never heard anyone say ‘ketchup’ in real life’ (outside of Americans).

I didn't realise until l was fifteen, and staying over at my best friend's house, that never being hugged or told 'I love you' wasn't normal.
That first night when my friend and l were going up to bed, her mam hugged her and said "Goodnight, I love you", then hugged me and said "goodnight, love."
I was so overwhelmed l burst into tears.
Nearly 50 years later, and l don't ever remember my mam cuddling me or telling me she loved me. Not once.
My friend's lovely mam made me realise that some people were affectionate and demonstrative, and that's made me the the polar opposite to the way l was brought up.

We seem to have come a long way from the lockdown when some people were disinfecting all their shopping before taking it into the house!

She went so far as to email her husband about it and he was as much of an arse as she was because he replied some joke about wearing it to mow the grass. She got made redundant when we were restructured which was a result because she was horrible to lots of us.

That most people don’t mix cereals together

Oh this is sad. 🤗 My parents are like yours- I’ve told my kids I love them more times just today than my parents have told me in five decades.

I always thought l didn't like bananas, my mam always left them until they were black and smelled really strongly. The smell made me heave. Still does.
I actually do like bananas. I have one nearly every day. But they have to be almost green. Once they're yellow l don't like the texture or the smell of them.

I didn’t realise that Birds custard was still a thing, I thought it had been left behind in the 70s along with Smash and Bisto (which we were never allowed), tinned fruit and spaghetti hoops.

Well I’m a Geordie and we always had yorkshires with every roast - at the pub, in a restaurant or at home. And ex from Yorkshire didn’t find this odd!

It was only when I moved to London years ago that I came across the Great Yorkshire Pudding Withholding!

I'm baffled that whole families will use the same towel to dry themselves without washing it. So dry yourself, face and bits then hang it up to dry and the next person uses the same towel? What if your daughters are on their period? Or do you mean use it and then wash it after its been used and anyone can use it next time?

Yes! And it was even better when the toast was made over the open fire with a toasting fork.
I haven't had cinnamon toast for decades. I need to revisit it. I don't have an open fire or a toasting fork any more though!