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Applescruffle · 2023-08-08T17:43:07+00:00

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

x88mph · 09/08/2023 23:43

nopuppiesallowed · 09/08/2023 23:06

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

Close - we had banana sandwiches with butter and golden syrup. Delicious..

Golden syrup was also the topping for our “left over” Yorkshire puddings. Seemed completely normal to me - who wouldn’t want to eat that!

Justanotherlurker · 09/08/2023 23:48

Gwenvamp · 09/08/2023 23:26

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.

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Left over yorkies are from parents who are generous enough in making the batter, it is a thing with my Grandparents in China,South America etc have similar sweet batter dishes, the only push back I have encountered from it is british people funnily enough.

I knew my chinese sweet sauce wasn't typical but I didn't realise stuff like an extra tray of yorkies and bramble sauce wasn't the norm until I was a late teenager.

I recently went to a very hipster place in London the full english that we all had didn't have a ramakin full of beans it was a Yorkie! that was a shock to the system but we all ate it, I can see it gaining ground.

youngerself · 09/08/2023 23:56

DM used to tell me not to tell others that she gave me some things as people would think we were poor
Pork dripping spread on crusty white bread with salt
A crusty cob with the middle squished in and filled with thick condensed milk

Maybe these were normal but I've never heard anyone else say they had them as a child

Fredflinstoneswife · 10/08/2023 00:09

Treelines · 08/08/2023 18:46

I didn’t know that you didn’t have to stand up to listen to the Queen’s speech on Christmas Day. My dad made us do this every year, and it was only when we got to non-gullible age, we realised that he’d been having us on for years…

😆😂

WinterDeWinter · 10/08/2023 00:11

Havanananana · 09/08/2023 20:39

New girl from Holland in my grade 4 class brought sandwiches to school of white bread, butter and chocolate sprinkles!

Danes don't faff about with hundreds and thousands or with chocolate sprinkles.
They buy little boxes of chocolate slices (pålægschokolade) to put on their bread

Mind blown. What are they called ?

Barold · 10/08/2023 00:13

Applescruffle · 09/08/2023 22:31

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 😂😂😂

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😂😂😂 I passionately agree and will die on this hill with you!

Its not like an onion where there’s layer after layer of it - it’s a one-and-done layer of peel!

Pinkbakerscap · 10/08/2023 00:14

natura · 08/08/2023 20:22

Ooh, cultural one – keeping saucepans and frying pans in the OVEN!

I was so confused when I met my DP and found he was using the oven as some kind of mutant cupboard... but turns out, it's a thing where he's from and a lot of people do the same!

My mum does this, it drives me batty. You switch on the oven at hers to heat up, go to put something in and it's full of roasting hot baking trays and stuff. No space to add what you want to cook so you have to take them all out and find somewhere to put them where they won't burn the side. I never remember to take them out first. Just put them in the cupboard!!

Barold · 10/08/2023 00:19

Thursday5pmisginoclock · 09/08/2023 23:07

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!!!!

Did you grow up in my house???

Barold · 10/08/2023 00:19

Did you grow up in my house???

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*My PARENTS’ house.

Carlou · 10/08/2023 00:22

Evenstar · 09/08/2023 22:17

@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?

I made friends and they commented how weird it was... until then I thought everyone took their kitty for a drive and an ice cream lol... and he loved the ride/treat.

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 10/08/2023 00:26

Treelines · 08/08/2023 18:46

I didn’t know that you didn’t have to stand up to listen to the Queen’s speech on Christmas Day. My dad made us do this every year, and it was only when we got to non-gullible age, we realised that he’d been having us on for years…

😂😂😂

Timetochangetheoil · 10/08/2023 00:31

Savoury pancakes for dinner on pancake day followed by pancakes with sugar and lemon as dessert. I didn’t realise this was something my mum had just sort of made up, it was a staple
dinner for us growing up and one of my favourites. We had them with a beef ragu type filling, peas or beans, and spicy roasted potatoes. I had no idea this wasn’t a typical Shrove Tuesday dinner. 😆

also…taking down the tree presents. My brother was so upset one year when they took the tree down that my parents hid presents in the tree that the ‘elves’ clumsily dropped on their way back to Lapland. We’ve all continued the tradition with our own children now! I didn’t realise this was abnormal til I went to school.

PlinkPlonkFizz · 10/08/2023 00:37

Timetochangetheoil · 10/08/2023 00:31

Savoury pancakes for dinner on pancake day followed by pancakes with sugar and lemon as dessert. I didn’t realise this was something my mum had just sort of made up, it was a staple
dinner for us growing up and one of my favourites. We had them with a beef ragu type filling, peas or beans, and spicy roasted potatoes. I had no idea this wasn’t a typical Shrove Tuesday dinner. 😆

also…taking down the tree presents. My brother was so upset one year when they took the tree down that my parents hid presents in the tree that the ‘elves’ clumsily dropped on their way back to Lapland. We’ve all continued the tradition with our own children now! I didn’t realise this was abnormal til I went to school.

We always had savoury filled pancakes followed by sweet on Shrove Tuesday too!

Stravaig · 10/08/2023 00:39

@isthismylifenow I'll see your silver bell and raise you a brass gong on a wooden stand. The mortification if a friend was staying for supper 😯😳😩.

PlinkPlonkFizz · 10/08/2023 00:42

@Timetochangetheoil Women's Way and those type of magazines had Shrove Tuesday savoury & sweet pancakes back in the 80's so I really don't think your Mum invented them!

StBrides · 10/08/2023 00:44

DYING @ "hairy toe towel" 🤣🤣🤣

Until this thread I had no idea people routinely ate crumble cold ! 😲

My family has always eaten wheetabix and shredded wheat with hot milk - was shook first time i realised this wasn't normal!

@Onedaylikethi5 @Merryoldgoat your mums were evil genius

@porridgeisbae why did your lover feel the need to tell you to wash your naval?!

And onion juice nose drops? Wtf?!

Honeychickpea · 10/08/2023 00:59

A slice of bread to mop up the gravy at the end of meal.
My parents were weird about that. You couldn't mop op gravy with a slice of bread. You btoke off a piece of bead and put it on your plate. (We had baguette or Italian bread wirh dinner). Then you speared the bread with your fork, dipped it in the gravy, and repeated as necessary. I did not know this was not normal for years.😂

ILoveMyCaravan · 10/08/2023 01:05

A lady I worked with, well educated and fairly senior, didn’t realise that calling someone a “twat” was actually quite rude and didn’t know what it really meant 🤦🏻‍♀️. She believed it was similar to calling someone a “twit”, so said it quite freely until I had to explain it to her. She was mortified 😂

Change4321 · 10/08/2023 01:08

coloursofthewind9 · 08/08/2023 20:32

I used to think hairbands were called "pretties", and remotes "zappers". This i just what we called them in my family for some reason.

We call them zappers in our house too

asterdaisy · 10/08/2023 01:24

CustomerServiceSmile · 09/08/2023 21:18

My dad would always make what I can only describe as a stir fry, at 9pm ish on Christmas day with left over "Christmas lunch" and baked beans. We would get so exited, as though it was the best thing ever. I thought everyone did it. When I first made this for my DH, he was horrified and refused to eat it.
I can't help but make it every Christmas since that's what I grew up with. We were a working class family from Yorkshire. My uncle mopped up ice cream with bread which my family always joked wasn't normal. We never saved Yorkshire puds for dessert though.

That is bubble and squeak and it is normal.

CluelessHamster · 10/08/2023 01:31

Nevermay · 08/08/2023 19:09

I thought that those rocking machine rides in supermarkets only worked with special grandparent money, which was not the same as the money mum or dad had in their pockets. Special grandparent money was the only currency accepted m=by ice cream vans too.

I love that one!

I believed Vimto was only available in the town my gran lived in which was why we only ever had it at her house.

My mum also got away with telling me that the ice-cream van was the butcher's van for quite a few years!

glittereyelash · 10/08/2023 01:58

I thought everyone had a fry up every Saturday afternoon I was shocked going to a friends house and having a casserole Also didn't realise ham and crisp or noodle sandwiches arnt a thing.
I'm from a huge extended family and couldn't understand that some people only have a few cousins. A girl in school told me about her eight cousins and I assumed that was just from one family not the total number she had.

Agapornis · 10/08/2023 02:26

TheOhGodOfHangovers · 09/08/2023 00:07

The sprinkles they put on bread in the Netherlands (hagelslag) are not the same as our hundreds and thousands. They’re bigger and a different texture. They’re lovely on waffles!
They also have chocolate flakes too (vlokken).

Inspired by these beautiful shelves, let me unite the thread in revulsion of my childhood fave:

Ryevita
Buttered
Then peanut butter
Then Nutella
Then jam
Then chocolate sprinkles (hagelslag)
Maybe some extra drizzled Nutella
Some chocolate flakes (vlokken) for good measure
Some of those fruit sprinkles just in case

DELICIOUS. Only eaten sneakily, with no adults present.

sashh · 10/08/2023 02:45

Warm lemonade for a cold - yep done that, but it had to be golden lemonade / yellow lemonade. You don't need to wait for it to go flat, put it in a pan and the heatening makes it flat.

My dad would make sugar on bread and also condensed milk that came out of a tube like a toothpaste tube.

I'm also a fan of savory pancakes, my mum used to make a stew that I hated but you started with pancakes on the plate wiht the 'gravy' from the stew poured over, once the pancakes were gone you then got the stew.

I was taught to peel mushrooms at school, along with the order to wash up.

@Stravaig when I was very little when we went on holiday the hotel / guesthouse would sound a gong to say dinner was ready.

LadyPenelope68 · 10/08/2023 03:03

Limitedisall · 09/08/2023 20:29

Has anyone mentioned bread and gravy yet? My dad used to pour gravy on a slice of white bread and eat it with a knife and fork. Delicious! My DH is still horrified when I do this.

But to me it's normal. Unlike his family's weird thing with the apple pie and milk.

@Limitedisall
my DH does the bread/gravy thing - after 26 years of marriage I still find it gross 🤣🤣