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

I do (and nothing else). Def not under pjs (in the days when I wore pjs)

But isn’t it so annoying when they haven’t got that lovely little flappy bit so you have to dig your nail in to get a grip all the a
way round. If most of mine are like that I usually give up and just wash them under the tap.

@CoolShoeshine My Dh takes his joggers / jeans off when he gets in walks about in his boxers.

I can't imagine when younger my dad sitting in the living room in just his boxers but dds must think this is normal.

Knickers in bed. The jury is clearly out

One side says 'IT NEEDS AIRING!' As PP put it why does it need an air and is it actually 'airing' under pyjamas and duvet unless you are err, legs akimbo, bed clotheless and nude

The other side, my side, says there needs to be an intrusion barrier.

I didn’t realise until my early/mid twenties (in nearly 40) that a cease fire wasn’t an actual physical fire to stop fighting. I thought if the cease fire went out that fighting would start again. I think though it’s because I’d never seen it written down before 😂

Pretty sure my mum peels mushrooms still, I just brush them down to take off any sort and chop them. Unless they’re a bit manly then I would peel them. It’s super satisfying!

Posted too soon. The pant being the intrusion barrier

I don't know/can't remember as I haven't actually peeled them since childhood as I don't like them!!

I just remember being so surprised that it's not a normal thing for people that do eat them!! That people dont peel them but peel other things! Why have mushrooms been singled out? Why do people imagine that they don't even have peel?
I dint even "care" like, I'm not abashed or offended by what people do with their mushrooms 😂 and actually it makes more sense to NOT peel them.... but I'm SO confused as to why people think you CAN'T peel them?!

Carrots and potatoes are different because there is a specific implement to peel them with. So it is expected. I assume if you want to peel a mushroom you do it with your fingers. So it not being something for which an implement has been designed means it must be far less common.

They're a totally different texture. I don't think of mushrooms having anything to peel. Unlike potatoes.

Until I went to university, I didn't know some of the words I used were Yorkshire/Hull dialect and not Standard English.

Yeah, I remember my housemate peeling mushrooms at university and thinking that is something I'm never going to be arsed to do.

Lived in NL in the 80s. Colleagues used to bring this into work whenever somebody had a baby. The 'sprinkles' were aniseed flavour though.

We have different colours. The towels were hung on a rail in the airing cupboard after use and washed weekly.

Having tea, bread and jam after your evening meal.

A banana sprinkled with brown sugar as dessert!

HeddaGarbled · Yesterday 19:50
I thought when you got home from holiday you had to describe every day in detail to people who enquired: “On Monday we did x and then had lunch at y, and then we went to z etc)”, because that’s what my mum always did (at length). The shock when I heard the following: “How was your holiday?” “Lovely, thanks”. End of conversation 😮

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I think actually the biggest culture shock I've ever had was moving five miles down the road to a different part of Greater Manchester which was a lot more upwardly mobile and middle class when I was aged 11 (so this was about 1987) than the working class area I'd grown up in prior to that. Probably nothing else has ever been as discombobulating since, and I've travelled quite a bit and lived in other countries.

• My accent was wrong. Apparently it was too broad and fair game to be mocked openly at school. I actually started talking more posh to fit in.
• Lots of things that were seen as posh/snobby/swotty/showing off at my previous school were positively encouraged by my peers at my new school.
• Friends all had continental quilts whereas I still had sheets and blankets.
• My friend stayed for a sleepover and was apparently allergic to the woollen blanket. No-one had allergies where I lived before.
• Apparently other people didn't eat Vesta Beef Curry, Dalepak steaks, Mr Kiplings' cakes and Spaghetti Hoops. Spaghetti came dried in packets and could by mysteriously converted into delicious spaghetti bolognese. Kia-Ora was complete no-no, fresh orange juice was the thing.
• Other kids were not allowed to watch what they wanted on TV. Grange Hill was A Bad Thing according to some parents.
• With that same friend's parent I had to meet the challenge of eating spaghetti bolognese while making polite conversation at the dinner table, all while feeling I was slightly disapproved of.
• My handwriting was not acceptable and I had to learn cursive.
• I was no longer the tallest in the class.
• I was good at Netball and this was apparently still A Good Thing at the new place. But Football was not played by Girls.

I have this as well. I still don't normally wear glasses at the age of nearly 70, and my optician tells me that people pay for an operation to have eyes like this. (But I don't have to close an eye, I can just see - reading is fine and I can tell which bus is coming LONG before anyone else.

It's beginning to fail me now, and I do use glasses occasionally.

I was told this and always believed it too! I remember the trauma when I cleared my plate with difficulty (I didn't eat much as a child. That changed...) and they had run out of lollipops. The disbelief and indignation (and the poor waitress's mortified explanations) live long in my memory. Only compensated-for (barely) by memories of their jubilee pancakes.

Only rich people could afford Vienetta!

I thought only dads cooked, because my mum never made dinner of an evening (and on the rare occasion she did, it wasn't brilliant bless her).

I was surprised when I went to friends' houses for dinner and we sat at the table. My family is a dinner on knees on the sofa family, and sitting round a table has always been for formal or special occasions. I'd like to be a table family when DS is older, but for now me and DH have sofa dinners.

I thought everyone went out for lunch at school. My school allowed us out to buy lunch from local shops from year 9. DH found this so weird, he was at school for lunch all the way through.

I'm also a yorkshires and all sauces on any type of roast gal, if I want horseradish on my lamb I will bloody well have it thanks.

As a child in the 70's, a summer treat was a stick of rhubarb and a small paper bag of sugar to dip it in - no one else I know remembers doing this.
I still peel mushrooms (and discard the stalks) though I know a lot of people don't.
I was always told to leave the bottom end of the banana - still do
My dad used to make "cheese and onion done in the oven". Layers of cheese, onion, a dash of black pepper on each layer of cheese and a splash of milk on tbe top. Cook til bubbling with a crust and serve as a sandwich on white bread, butter optional. It was absolutely delicious.

I'm just curious - do people generally have strict dinner rituals that they stick to every night in modern families? or do you mix it up?

We at round the table as a family. We also have sofa dinners. We bascially do what we feel like or whats convenient on the night. We also sometimes feed just the kids and we eat later. Sometimes I even let my DS eat alone in his room.

The last two nights we have sat round the table and eaten and as DH is home, we will probably do the same tonight. Can't say for tomrrow!

Growing up we were a strict "round the table" family. My mum would shout "TEA UPP!!" when it was ready and we would all appear at the table. All six kids and two parents. We never, ever had a take-away or Macdonalds, not once. I've never eaten a happy meal in my life.

My mother does not like my relaxed attitude to meal times!

I always pronounce it like that! It makes me laugh.

I think the rhubarb thing was pretty common for your generation. My mum did this as a child (she was born 1958) and lots of people born within 10 years of her talk about it online.
She used to make rhubarb and apple crumble too.

The black bit at the end just pulls out - or stays in the skin when you peel it!

The rest of the banana is perfectly edible.

For you mushroom peel deniers - explain this 😂
What is this if it is not peel?