To think my in-laws' ways are not normal?

[Snoot]

Apparently I am wrong and they are normal in many ways, I just find them odd! A selection from this weekend:

Stewed fruit, served for pudding, is commonly served with weetabix on top if people are still hungry

Scone is pronounced like stone

A footstall is not a puff but a poof-ay

Spag bol sauce contains no garlic, salt, pepper, or noticeable tomatoes but contains kidney beans and is served with ketchup

I could go on!

All a bit weird except for footstool. It is a pouffe. Pronounced poofee.

I say scone like stone and my nana says poofay.I do not know of this odd thing a " footstall"
That bolognese sounds rank and confused.
my gran puts jam on weetabix and eats it dry.....

It is pronounced like stone. Ya sotherner.

But then what becomes of the joke:

'What's the fastest cake?'
'Scone'

See, I said maybe scone/stone was a northern or midlands thing and she wouldn't have it at all! Said she was surprised I said it otherwise as I was southern (read posh!).

Poof-ay sounds very Hyacinth Bouquet (Bucket!) to me, I got so irritated I muttered the word "affectation" loudly enough for her to hear

Do you by any chance have a SIL with a Westie?

I tried the fastest cake line and was met with general incomprehension. See, I knew it wasn't me!!!

Wait a minute, weetabix with pudding just in case one is in need of extra carbage?

Pouffe is pronounced poooof, nothing after the 'f' you Delboy Trotters.

I wouldn't say weird, my grandparents from both sides say poofay, when younger butter and jam on weetabix was a snack (and between rice tea biscuits to mmm), stewed fruit is a pudding, and I say scone like stone.

Lol, westie, would you like to share?!?

Mmm stewed fruit what else could make it nicer than a bit of wheatabix

it's a pouffe pronounced 'pooh-fffff' . I thought poofee was a middle class affectation to avoid the embarrassment of saying poof (which alludes to gayness) - Lawrence Lewellyn Bowen taught me that!

Bolognese sounds gross

Stewed fruit fine for pud, with cream/ice cream/custard - Never weetabix

Scone pronounced like gone (i'm from London - But my mum says scone like phone - not sure what's right regionally)

footstool = pouffe pronounced poof (don't pronounce e on end)

scone - both ways are fine!!

weetabix and spag bol definitely weird

I'm from Yorkshire and I say sconn. (I also pronounce pouffe as poof, but that may be weird).

The only reason it's said pouff-ayyy is to avoid it sounding like poof which was not really a wrong thing to say in the 70s when it became de rigeur to own a pouffe. The word in the original French does not, I think, have an accent on the e.

People are different. Who knew?

Every day's a schoolday!

poofayy, midlands here, rest clearly madness.

Hmm a bit weird. Especially the weetabix for dessert! I say scone both ways, to mix things up. Exciting life I lead...

Dragonsarereal,i couldnt eat dry weetabix!its a foreign concept,we in the north west eat them with milk....lol.
My uncle eats ceteal with fruit juice....yak.

I say poof.

That bolognese truly vile.

If they pronounce nougat like nugget then I know for sure we're related.

Oh and I say poof. The spag bol sounds more like chilli con carne! apart from the ketchup.

I have a friend whose MIL serves up the Sunday roast beef with roast potatoes, veg, gravy, Yorkshire puddings and Batchelors chicken Supernoodles, just in case anyone walks away hungry. I might suggest the Weetabix for dessert [evil]

So no clear north/south break on the pronunciation? I honestly don't know about scone other than I'm southern and it's "fastest cake" as far as I know. Pouf with the ee added I assumed was a coy attempt to avoid blushes and so very Hyacinth Bucket?