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 peel mushrooms for a salad but just rub if I’m cooking them.

One of the greatest Mumsnet debates!

We are a towel sharing family but it never goes down well on MN

Not in this country you don’t, live overseas, and people who rent don’t pay Council tax.

My husband’s family did this - 3 blokes sharing one towel 😂 he had no idea anyone else did it differently bless him. Now we all have our own towels in our house hehe

What do you mean left over Yorkshires. There are none in my house.😀 I once embarrassed a friend who said it was very strange to set the table for breakfast before going to bed by telling him we always did it when I was growing up.

Yes! I loved this as a kid.

Great thread. Crisp sandwiches- tick. Cold crumble- tuck but must be served with hot custard- not icecream. Always peeled mushrooms. Now wipe with damp kitchen roll. Clean knickers for bed,unless entertaining🤣

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!

I heat my weetabix in the microwave - I can’t bear to ‘eat’ ice cold milk and I like the weetabix soft

The first time I was given apple pie at my in laws house, they passed me a jug of milk. Had no idea what to do with it - we had custard at home. It was for pouring on the pie apparently.

I didn't know that I should expect privacy when having a bath, in my teen years, nor that everyone's dad didn't wander about naked in front of their adolescent children.

But whyyyy please tell me - I’ll never understand it, you rub your nether regions with it 😱🤮

Oh god, we share towels. Never thought it was weird. 🫢

Yeah my husband is too. I bloody love them!

The non towel sharing families - how do you know whose towel is whose? Does everyone have a different assigned colour? Their names on it? Are the 3/4/5/6 big bath towels in the bathroom at the same time?

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 😂

This made me laugh

I lived in Australia for a year when I was 4 years old. Fairy bread is one of my memories plus cereal with a Toucan on the packet (possibly Fruit loops). I am obviously food oriented.

@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?

My two eldest aunts used to serve hunks of a single giganto Yorkshire pud as a first course, with gravy, because that's what they'd grown up with. It took the edge off people's appetites in a Nottinghamshire family of 10 kids. If I ate that I couldn't eat the main course, so was allowed to save mine for pud, with honey.

We have different towels while we're using them, and they're usually different colours or we remember where we hung them. Not assigned colours per person, but you know which one you've been using and you keep using that until you put it in the wash.

Aren't mushrooms grown in manure? Why wouldn't you wash/peel them 😱

That sounds lush.

You're clean when you get out of the bath though

Umm... is it not normal? What does it mean? Asking for a friend (me, who can hear her own heartbeat all the time and is now worried...)

Yes, ours were in the warming drawer at the bottom of the oven.

I didn't know there was such a thing as a warming drawer. It was just the pots and pans drawer.

We always ate Yorkshire pudding loaded with gravy before our meal. Like a starter. It's not a huge thing here so didn't really have it anywhere else but at home. Went to a Sunday meal at a hotel, and they they were, on the side of the plate of the main meal. I thought it was just all wrong.

We have them with our meal now. Never have leftovers though.