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Do you wear an apron for cooking?

234 replies

HighburyLass · 01/10/2025 18:28

Just that. Was chatting with a friend who thinks its really unusual in anyone under 80 😆

So answer please…
A — yes always
B — sometimes, if the cooking is particularly messy
C — never

and how old are you?

Me - A 56

OP posts:
Lauratu · 17/10/2025 09:37

JustAMiddleAgedDirtBagBaby · 01/10/2025 19:58

A; just turned 50. Have always worn (and enjoyed wearing) an apron while cooking and baking. Some days it goes on when I walk through the door after work, and comes off after I've eaten.

If it helps, DD, 17, is also A, although she cooks infrequently.

I've just been to count, and there are 5 aprons hanging on the peg on the back of the kitchen door. (And two child sized ones which are now too small for anyone in this house but visiting children sometimes get stuck in with the baking.)

There are at least two more in a drawer, one of which was my late mother's Christmas apron which I also wear at Christmas.

Reading this back, it's possible that I have a problem.

Does you 17 DD wears it while she eats too ?

JustAMiddleAgedDirtBagBaby · 17/10/2025 12:54

Lauratu · 17/10/2025 09:37

Does you 17 DD wears it while she eats too ?

No, because she although she enjoys occasionally helping in the kitchen, she doesn't eat what she cooks.

Riverswims · 26/12/2025 10:43

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 05/10/2025 10:24

‘Messy Bugger’ is perfectly normal expression meaning ’very messy person’. I’m also from up north…

No it’s not it’s nasty and has unconsentual connotations. No need to use it @GhoulWithADragonTattoo

Papyrophile · 26/12/2025 19:52

@Riverswims , very gently, I think you need to loosen your girdle. I'm in the rural SW and we too use the expression "bugger" without implying unpleasant sexual violence attacks. Locally it suggests nothing worse than being a bit inept; along the lines of "he made a bit of a bugger picking up his mooring buoy".

JustAMiddleAgedDirtBagBaby · 26/12/2025 20:25

@Papyrophile It's so nice to hear another West Country person say that - I don't think I discovered that some people consider the word 'bugger' to be swearing until I left the SW to go to university.

I grew up in a family where even the mildest swearing wasn't acceptable - the worst thing I ever heard my mother say was 'bloody hell', when her mother was dying - but 'bugger' was totally fine.

TricNorthCarolina · 26/12/2025 20:40

A - 43

popcornandpotatoes · 26/12/2025 23:00

C , never even owned an apron

Mid 30s

popcornandpotatoes · 26/12/2025 23:03

Wow at people offended by the word bugger. Learn something new on MN everyday

StarlightLady · 27/12/2025 06:52

Riverswims · 26/12/2025 10:43

No it’s not it’s nasty and has unconsentual connotations. No need to use it @GhoulWithADragonTattoo

It all depends on context. In this case the meaning is totally different. One size does not all.

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