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

I remember those liquorice root sticks masquerading as sweets. Also carob. Didn't fool me.

@Carlou loving you taking the kitty for an ice cream 😻 did someone comment or did you just realise no other cats were getting a Sunday outing?

That's not peel. Unlike every other fruit or vegetable that is routinely peeled that layer is the same colour and texture as the rest of it. It's just pulling the mushroom apart.

@natura both my mum (north west) and husband’s mum (south west) do this. Does my head in!

I thought everyone had little forks for eating corn on the cob, ours were shaped like corn on the cob for the handle with two sharp spikes to spear into the ends. Like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Interlocking-Holders-Stainless-Sweetcorn-Skewers/dp/B092R4V62R/ref=asc_df_B092R4V62R/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=499436213999&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5843566918894014888&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007850&hvtargid=pla-1368114988977&psc=1

My grandmother used to grow it in her garden so we had it a lot when it was in season.

I always thought the man who let the clay pigeons go was called Paul 😳

I make stock with bones and veg to freeze so that I can make extra gravy with my roasts. It's always the first thing to disappear, after the Yorkshires.

I grew up calling a remote a DONGER… that’s what my parents always called it and I never new it wasn’t it’s actual name. I can’t even tell you the looks I’ve had when I’ve been asking for peoples dongers…..

My mum had these too, in Middlesbrough. And apple sandwiches. We had them as very special treats. They were called fairy bread.
I thought a tiger was a lady lion for years.

@katepilar I always wear underwear under pyjamas. When people say they don't wear knickers under pyjamas to 'air their bits' , how can your air things if you've got pyjamas on ?

Porridge on buttered toast with sugar sprinkled over.
served with builders tea of course

@JudgeJ Ha! Snake Pass is, of all the roads, the one that you do not want to keep your eyes shut while driving on.

It absolutely is peel. It peels away easily from the rest of the mushroom. Its the skin. Its the protective layer. ITS PEEL.

I CANNOT with the peel deniers 😂😂😂

OP is clearly in the pocket of Big Mushroom

OP is clearly in the pocket of Big Mushroom

😂omg thats so funny!

😂😂😂😂😂

Honestly, I had no idea I care this much about bloody mushrooms! I don't even like the fecking things!!

Don't care what people do with them. Peel or do not peel I DO NOT care. But why are people denying the existence of the peel? Its right fucking there 🤣😂 soooo wierd!!

Nah. I'm not buying it. It's not peel like orange peel. It's an intrinsic part of the structure of the mushroom! 😀

This, for me, depends on the kiwi.

I seem to remember kiwis in the UK are very hairy on the outside and the skin is tough, while the ones where I live are much smoother and the skin is paper-thin.

I eat the skin on kiwis all the time here, but wouldn't dream of biting into the ones I used to buy in the UK.

Mince and beans. My gran (I’m Scottish) made this all the time for us. Loved it. Look of absolute horror and disgust on my OH face when I told him was priceless! Also, cutting up bun (fruit, Madeira, cherry) to serve at the bells and opening the door to let the old year out and new year in also rocked him to his core! See also obsessively cleaning the house on Hogmanay for the new year…my mums mum was proper old fashioned Scottish come to think on it! Ps I am going to try dessert Yorkshire’s now. Sounds yummy.

It's nooot. It's a skin, a protective layer. You can't peel it off and then keep peeling. There's just one peel over the top of the mushroom which wraps underneath and finishes underneath, near the stalk, seperate to the rest of the mushroom. I promise you there is peel.

I never thought I would die on a hill of mushroom peel but here I am.

Go get a mushroom, pull off its stalk and you will easily see that it has peel. Until you have done this you know nothing, Jon Snow.

Sharing towels - you are clean after a shower but the next person has to use a damp towel 🤢

”Banana bum hole” is brilliant and what I shall call the end from this day on.

Mine is banana sandwiches (must be white bread, preferably really cheap stuff), thick layer of butter and sugar sprinkled on the banana.

I thought “cottage cheese” was called “Scottish cheese” until I was in my late teens

@chicjen I have always done this and still do it now. My friends think its endearing !!
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We always had the option of cold or warm custard. And also whether you wanted cream as well as custard😄.

I'm pretty sure that my family and also my home ec teacher peeled mushrooms and cut the stalks off. Weird. We also used to have said mushrooms in EVERY salad. And had salad with every meal even if it was something like lamb chops.