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Things you didn't know weren't normal

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Applescruffle · 08/08/2023 18:43

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

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Bertiesmum3 · 09/08/2023 21:20

Meowandthen · 09/08/2023 21:19

14 towels in one load? Is your machine an industrial one or are these towels tiny and thin? No way can 14 bath sheets fit in one load.

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norm bath towels, not the large bath sheets

intergalacticplanetary · 09/08/2023 21:20

Maireas · 08/08/2023 20:14

We used to have a banana with milk and sugar on it for pudding.

Just unlocked a memory there! Forgot about that childhood pudding! We also used to dip strawberries in sugar.

LindorDoubleChoc · 09/08/2023 21:21

I do two large bath sheets, probably 6 hand towels and some flannels, tea towels and 3 or 4 microfibre cloths in one load (8kg machine). Lol at 14 towels.

whyyyyyyyyyy · 09/08/2023 21:23

I didn’t realise people don’t eat the skin on kiwis

Ladyj84 · 09/08/2023 21:23

Left over yorkies our kids still love them for supper with alsorts of sweet stuff..

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 09/08/2023 21:23

Escourtiebabes · 09/08/2023 21:16

@SpanielsMatter I don't understand your comment about Not Paying Council Tax if you rent ????????

She's in NZ. As has been stated multiple times.....

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 09/08/2023 21:23

Escourtiebabes · 09/08/2023 21:16

@SpanielsMatter I don't understand your comment about Not Paying Council Tax if you rent ????????

IN NEW ZEALAND!

intergalacticplanetary · 09/08/2023 21:24

Love this 🤣🤣🤣

MerelyPlaying · 09/08/2023 21:27

Ok call me weird (and I live alone, so don’t have to share my towels anyway 😄) but I don’t dry my arse or any intimate parts. I wrap the towel round me, pat off excess water on shoulders and arms etc and then carry on with cleaning teeth, drying hair etc - by the time I’ve done that everything else is dry.

I’m amazed that people wash towels after every use - I couldn’t afford the electricity bills. They don’t even do that in most hotels these days!

womanlywimmin · 09/08/2023 21:28

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Carlou · 09/08/2023 21:29

This is such a cool thread! Getting a laugh and some good ideas too. I thought it was normal to take your cat out on a sunday afternoon for a ride. We would stop at a dairy for ice cream and our kitty would eat his from an old tin plate. I thought everyone did this til I was 12 and realised that it's not normal!

Threenow · 09/08/2023 21:32

Escourtiebabes · 09/08/2023 21:16

@SpanielsMatter I don't understand your comment about Not Paying Council Tax if you rent ????????

For the 99th time - that poster is talking about NZ, not the UK.

Soubriquet · 09/08/2023 21:32

whyyyyyyyyyy · 09/08/2023 21:23

I didn’t realise people don’t eat the skin on kiwis

Oh god that brought back a memory. An old friend eating a kiwi, skin and all. I was aghast.

Ohhmydays · 09/08/2023 21:33

1967buglet · 09/08/2023 20:57

yank here. That Brits put butter on bread to make sandwiches. We use mayonnaise…bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwiches always have mayo. And butter UNDER peanut butter? Surely peanut butter on its own, or with jelly, preferably grape jelly. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are also mighty tasty.

@1967buglet i am Scottish but i am with you on peanut butter and banana sandwiches or banana on toast. Banana and chocolate spread is tasty also 😋

boobot1 · 09/08/2023 21:34

Applescruffle · 08/08/2023 19:24

We would have something similar on pancake day.
I didn't know it wasn't normal to not have savory pancakes for dinner followed by desert pancakes on pancake day. I didn't know that people only have them for desert and that some people only have the sweet ones!!

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We had/have pancakes with oxo on, and they are LOVELY!

Ourladycheesusedatum · 09/08/2023 21:35

Titchyfeep · 08/08/2023 20:38

Only just remembered that our family done this growing up.

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I lived between three homes as a child, one of them (the one with the most children, which probably explains this) had a heap of bread and butter on the table at dinner time. White bread, real butter. I loved it, I hardly ate anything else in that house. I didnt much like the sort of food they did.

intergalacticplanetary · 09/08/2023 21:35

TFZ9287 · 08/08/2023 21:33

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

Yeah I was told the same about chewing gum.

And that if you swallowed watermelon seeds a watermelon would grow in your stomach

CheshireCat1 · 09/08/2023 21:36

Mumtobabyhavoc · 08/08/2023 22:39

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

We had used lard out of the chip pan spread on ours, seriously.

fatimashortbread · 09/08/2023 21:38

AllPlayedOut · 09/08/2023 09:01

There is a Scottish dish called "stovies" and I was an adult when I found out that it's not a standard recipe.

I'm Scottish and I've never had Stovies or ever knowingly been in the same room as them. I struggle to know exactly what it is because as you said the ingredients vary and I don't know what makes them stovies. It's all very odd.

Stovies is a leftovers dish post Sunday roast. You sweat onion and potatoes (can be leftover roast potatoes) in any fat you have from the roast or lard or dripping. Once they have got really soft you can add leftover gravy. Cook to a chunky mush. Just before serving stir any leftover roast cut up into small cubes. Serve with pepper and HP Sauce. Food of the gods 😀

CheshireCat1 · 09/08/2023 21:39

Rice pudding butties.

Ohhmydays · 09/08/2023 21:40

whyyyyyyyyyy · 09/08/2023 21:23

I didn’t realise people don’t eat the skin on kiwis

i do lol

Onesipmore · 09/08/2023 21:40

Going to a restaurant and having a glass of orange juice or tomato juice as a starter.
Parents wheeling in a trolley Sunday tea time with sandwiches from the roast, plus tinned peaches and evaporations milk.
Vesta ready meals.
Loving some of these memories.

Stravaig · 09/08/2023 21:41

Peanut butter and mashed banana on top of a charred but juicy burger. Grubbs, how I miss you.

SleepingStandingUp · 09/08/2023 21:41

loveyoutothemoonandtosaturn · 08/08/2023 19:09

White bread and butter crisp sandwiches. Grew up on these but my husband is horrified my them.

And yet you continue the marriage?

JLou08 · 09/08/2023 21:42

Applescruffle · 08/08/2023 19:00

I didn't know what a bellend was until I was 28.
I wrong to school in the 90s when "bellend" was the insult everyone was using for each other and I didn't know what it was. I asked my parents round the dinner table and they refuses to tell me, told me to stop being stupid in front of my little brother and sister.

So I decided for myself that it must be a foreskin, not sure why.

Anyway, years later my son was circumcised (medical reasons) and I casually mentioned to my sister that "he doesn't have a bell end". She helpfully drew me a diagram.

I need to see this diagram, I thought the same as you 😂

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