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

@DappledThings come on... you can't tell me this is not peel?

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In our house, we called farts ‘boffs’

I'm getting lots of childhood memories from this thread.
Every day we had a proper dinner - meat and 2 veg type thing, followed by pudding. Rice pudding had to be made with a sprinkle of nutmeg on top and thankfully Dad had the 'skin' off the top.
Crumble with custard (Birds custard powder), both hit.
A slice of bread to mop up the gravy at the end of meal.
Licking the spoon the cake had been stirred with (raw cake mix)
Peaches or plums with sugar to dip them in, rather than rhubarb.
As a child, being given very weak port and lemon [lemonade with a drop of Port in] to drink at Christmas.

I don't think anyone has mentioned bread and dripping yet. Our dripping was made on Sunday, after the roast had been cooked and eaten
The fat from the roasting pan was poured into a particular bowl, and left to cool. You scraped through the fatty crust to the juices underneath, spread both on a slice of bread, and added a very generous sprinkle of salt.

Slop bucket- my grandparents had one. Essentially a lidded metal bucket in the kitchen which took all the waste - dregs from tea cups, veg peelings, etc. I'm actually not sure what happened to the contents. 😐
This was in the 1970s.

I don't know if I believe this but a friend told me a story about when they had a temp job as a waiter years ago whilst a student. His waitress friend took her first ever order for a bottle of champagne and proceeded to shake and uncork it so it sprayed all over the guests because her only reference for opening champagne was watching Formula One and she thought that was expected.

Yeah - I know, unlikely, but my friend insists and I really want it to be true.

Anyone else grown up eating banana and jam white bread sandwiches? With whipped cream on special days?

Only found out when writing my uni shopping list that other people didn’t have a special poached egg pan. Now I use a normal one!

also thought everyone had to completely clear their plates because of “the starving children in Africa” so now out of habit have to eat all my OH’s left over rice as he is too lazy to scrape his plate. And so many kids bits!!!!

@Applescruffle
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?

Oh yes! My DM always made extra Yorkshire puddings for Sunday lunch and we'd have them with jam on for tea.

Same here!

I can see there is a layer that can be peeled off. But its being the same colour and texture as the rest of the mushroom makes it not peel. Just the outer layer. It's not different enough to be peel that should be removed.

Not to my mind. You'll not convince me otherwise!

What a strange way of thinking of things. I mean, a cake is just carbs sandwiching fats and sugars if you want to get down to brass tacks.

Personally I prefer eating food combinations I like, not just those that give me the requirements of the food pyramid!

@Missedmytoe the "slop bucket" would surely have been for the compost heap.

My mum still has one and is always trying to get me to use one too. I should, she's right.
Her's has mushroom peel in it, probably.

I believed it to be Scandinavian. Used to have it at my parties when younger, and my Godfather said it was eaten in Scandinavian countries occasionally for breakfast, so my mum would make it for me as an early- morning treat. I served it at my dd's party and no-one had come across it before.

My family always have Yorkshire puddings first with mushy peas, gravy and mint sauce. I thought everyone did it until a few years ago and I'm in my 30's

Did you have finely chopped onion in the mint sauce too? My late OH loved that with his Yorkshires. His grandmother apparently even made her own mint sauce.

I can see there is a layer that can be peeled off.

Dude. 😑

This is the definition of peel.

I make my own mint sauce! It's piss easy.

I grow mint in a tub on the patio
You just mix it with vinegar, sugar, and a little boiled water.

If you look at nutrition labels the concept of spreading a fat on another fat becomes a bit weird

Looked at that way, you should make a cheese sandwich from just cheese and dry bread with no additional fat from butter or mayo. No thanks.

Nah. You can peel the skin off the top of cold custard. Doesn't make that peel either.

Was thinking the same! We never have any leftover. As a child, we did though & used to have apple sauce in them with custard poured over.

Didn't have a compost heap, just a small shared garden. Maybe it got ripped out into a corner, but it would've ponged, and I think I'd remember.* We used to share a house and garden with them.

*I'll admit I have a terrible memory.

What is bread sauce????

We used to have weetabix with butter on ad a snack or with hot water from the kettle for breakfast. Never saw anyone eat it with milk until my husband.

Xmas breakfast has to be a bacon bun. No other options available.

On a Sunday we used to have a roll mop herring each followed by jam sandwiches to stop indigestion. I was in my late 20s when I discovered jam and butter did sod all for indigestion and it was a cheap way to fill us up!

@NeverAloneNeverAgain literally just milk and cream thickened with chunks of bread that are sort of stirred and dissolved into it. Its lightly flavoured with stuff like nutmeg and bay leaves but it's quote bland. It's a sauce to accompany poultry.

In hospital, pregnant with my first baby, the nurse lifted my nightie so the doctor could examine my bump. He and the attending students got an eyeful as the nurse quickly whipped a sheet over my nether regions. She advised me to wear underwear in future. I was mortified!

Thank you 😊

Ah yes fat n bread!