Things you didn't know weren't normal

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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

@Maireas hunting for burnt fireworks ends used to be one of my favourite things! I don't know why, I found it slightly mysterious and magical!

I’m dredging this up from a course years ago but I believe mushrooms are commercially grown on sterile compost because they don’t want other things growing in there. They’re also grown indoors ( used to be some huge underground caverns or bunkers near Bath that were used to grow tons of mushrooms) If you wild pick then wash the or wipe them well as there’s probably been mice, dogs, whatever around them.

Friend watched someone here stir yoghurt. He'd been throwing it away for years when the liquid appeared on top.

I was always told that McDonald's was only for if you couldn't get home in time for lunch/tea and you weren't supposed to go to your local one.

@SlatternIsMyMiddleName oh boy, I could eat 10-20 in one sitting!

My MIL taught my oldest this. I still make it for my youngest. He loves it.

I went to a regular state school and we used to have prize giving day at the end of the school year, the teachers would wear their graduation robes. Because I didn’t go to university I didn’t know that graduates generally hire them rather than buy them. A colleague took great pleasure in laughing at me for thinking everyone bought their robes.

thats the word, sterile. Not hypoallergenic.

Yeah I got told the same thing about mountain goats. Believed that for years

What’s wrong with you! Think of all the goodness in the nub 😂

🤣🤣 butter is important. Wow betide anyone who tries to give me jam and cream and NO BUTTER with a scone.

Growing up with lots of sisters like me, I assumed until...last week that everyone could rotate their feet more than 180 when standing, or touch their wrist with the thimb of the same limb, or bend their elbows the wrong way. Thought people either were or were not double jointed, like some people have brown eyes and some don't.

Turns out we're all mutants. 😄

My dad always used to tell me the same thing. Of course, I've now passed it on to the DC...

We called remote controls "twitchers" and neither of my parents know which one of them called it that first, but I've never heard anyone else use that word for it.

Rice Krispies with banana sliced on top for supper - always having supper as a late night snacky meal before bed; always have mustard on cheese, putting butter on toast or bread before everything including cheese

My brother spent a lot of time finding where Random was, the place where they went to draw the winners, 'the winner was drawn at random' though he was only about 6.
A friend once spent ages looking for her car in our town in Germany, when we met up with her she told us she'd parked in on Einbahnstrasse but couldn't find it on any map. It's one way street not a street name.

I'll always remember Ken Bruce announcing the Darkness song "Don't Let The Bells End" by saying "Never has an 'S' been more important"!!

My mother told me and my sister growing up it is important not to wear knickers going to bed to air out your privates, so we would just wear pyjamas, no underwear. Genuinely thought this was as normal as brushing your teeth

Is it not normal??

Never peeled a mushroom, nor have I ever heard of peeling mushrooms in my life.

Never wear underwear to bed, never have.

I very recently (in my 30s) found out that "the mind's eye" wasn't just a figure of speech per se, and that people see imagery in their minds. Turns out I'm mind blind and it's called aphantasia. I thought everyone was the same!

In the 60s my late DF would make a spicy tex-mex chilli with beans etc and served on top of a pancake on the base of the plate and with another pancake on top covering the whole thing. Very nice.
He also used to do similar with a can of Chinese style vegetables in sauce that he seasoned with extra soy sauce. It was quite avant garde for the 60s.
We lived abroad so could buy weird things like Chinese mixed veg in cans. Never seen them anywhere else.

One things I learnt from MN (aside from some people are quite passionate about other people's towel usage) is that there's actually two definitions on what towel sharing is.

These are (in no particular order):

• towel sharing means a towel being used by two or more people, without being washed and dried inbetween these usages.
• towels are designated to each member of the household (by colour or pattern) and towel sharing means using a washed and dried towel that is designated to someone else.

Me too! I say I have a 'warm eye' and a 'cold eye' for how the shades differ. My Dad too, but Mum and kids think we must have something wrong with us.

Not wearing underwear under your pyjamas is normal though.

Me too - I really enjoyed peeling them. I'll now that my daughter is an adult, she's horrified that I peel mushrooms, but I think the skin makes them go a bit hard. And I never eat the stalks.

The Snake Pass, the A57, was covered in snakes, I kept my eyes shut if we ever went over it. As an adult I felt very brave driving it with my eyes open.