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

This is such a South Asian thing to do-we love a good send off!

He was quoting from "Hancock's Half Hour"

Not Matt, an earlier one.

(I just looked it up,
"Sunday Afternoon at Home [5.14]"

Butter and marmite on the toast before putting on the peanut butter.

Only found out a few years ago that steamed sponge pudding was supposed to have a layer of treacle (golden syrup) cooked under it, not drizzled cold over the top of the hot sponge. AND THAT IT SHOULD BE SERVED WITH CUSTARD!
It’s now gone from being a much hated childhood pudding to one of my favourites.

In Australia your registration includes third party fire insurance.

you can add on fully comp or theft yourself but you don't actually need to purchase separate insurance especially if you drive a banger.

your registration also covers TAC which depending on your state will fund private hospital rehab and private hospital for further surgeries if you are injured in a car accident as well as paying your wage when you cannot work. VIC is the most liberal state with this with a no blame standard, some other states require a little more evidence.

The poster is in NZ and we do have councils here. They are resonsible for a lot of the same things as British councils, but in some ways are different. Property owners pay rates to the council, which is guess is similar to council tax.

Instead, my brother and I had to crawl through the small dog flap every afternoon after school for at least 2 years.

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I hope this was you joking, don't want anyone thinking getting caught by this one!

@Stravaig @recyclemeagain
I'm glad this has brought back some good memories! I might have to pick up a brioche loaf or challah and make some myself! 😋

OP mine is the same as yours - we always ate yorkshires for pudding with lashings of lurpac & strawberry jam..only met 1 person since who did the same. Nobody else knows what on earth I am on about. My nan used to take the stalks off mushrooms so I thought that was normal for a while, turns out people prepare mushrooms in all different ways.

@Tommydoes
We always did that (Irish). I can't remember if any of our neighbours did.

Yes to yorkshire puddings as a desert - cream and jam!

Yes to pancakes - savoury (cheese and ham) then sweet (whatever, trad lemon and sugar, banana and chocolate spread etc). The idea of pancakes as a dessert after a normal meal, alien to us, pancakes are a faff, why do that after the faff of cooking a proper meal!
We also spent lots of time in France as a family, when I was a child, and savoury crepes were a big feature, so thats what we had at home, thin crepes with all sorts of fillings, not thick pancakes or bubbly american style pancakes.

Mushrooms.. are not peeled because they do not have peel. Just wipe 'em with a clean damp cloth - if you must.

I had NO idea until my late 20s that some folk think it is normal not to put butter/spread on toast if they're using peanut butter, nutella etc. Or that some people will make a sandwich without spread/butter. They are wrong of course, but I just ... couldn't contemplate it, why would you!

Peanut butter is NOT the butter, and surely your bread rips up and its an awful claggy mouthful without any butter!

@LongDarkTeatime
Why would you wear knickers in bed?

I've worn knickers in bed ever since I woke up one morning to find eleventy hundred earrings in my bed (long story).

This makes so much more sense seeing that pic! Sort of like more inspired by waffles than sugary sandwiches! I think the mental block imo is that sandwiches and bread are seen as savoury in UK but in a culture where waffles were more prevalent I can see this seem much more normal 😂

@mathanxiety Do you mean earwigs?

I thought beef tasted the same in every country.

I have cheese in my hot cross buns which my dh thinks is weird but my parents always did it

I don’t have butter and peanut butter on toast; just one or the other but to be fair; it can be a bit claggy so maybe you’re all onto something

That many Dads do not and did not routinely discuss sex, periods, contraception etc with their children when they are nearing puberty, and especially not during the early 1990’s! I didn’t understand that not all men have a reasonable working knowledge of the female reproductive system, was so shocked when a bf didn’t understand/ know about periods. By the time I needed to know my Dad was a lone parent so guess he had to, he did outsource my first bra fitting to a trusted female friend as he didn’t think it was ok for a hulking great bloke to be within 50 metres of a bra fitting - he would be called vile names for saying that now :( .

Tomato sauce is optional on bacon sandwiches

Not everyone can wire a plug ( in the days when plugs were often a separate luxury to the electrical item), change a wheel, change a fuse, know the correct fuse to use, how to use a multi plug board safely and most importantly when to pay up and get proper professional advice from a tradie ( Dad was an electrician)

@Riv that's so cute! Nope I don't hear music, not unless I've got an ear worm and then it's just two lines of a song on repeat (and annoying)

That is frickin genius. Kudos to your parents for coming up with that.

Earwigs, perhaps?

The birthday bunny is such a lovely idea, though.

I’ve been chuckling so much at some of these - great thread, OP!

I find this concept a bit gross..... but mind you I grew up eating cold meatloaf sandwiches with tomato sauce and took them to school in my lunchbox. I can't even cope with that thought now.