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!

Steak oh Pwah-vr of course, how do you say it?

W.yorks lass here.
Pouffe is pronounced footstool
Scone is scown or scon they're interchangeable.
It's a clothes horse
A fish cake is a slice of fish between two slices of potato covered in batter ( on a similar line, they're scraps not bits)
My mum still calls it nessuls
Attic/ roof space is pronounced loft
It's pronounced nugget but I know it's really noogar
A buffet pronounced buff-it is a what most people call a stool
It's garridge
I say choritso but know its choreetho
..... And I now know ( thanks to hours of continuous laughter from dh) that a chee- hoo-ah-hoo-ah and a che-wah-wah are the same thing- indeed that my attempt doesn't even exist.

The pronunciation of 'scone' is the one thing DH and I can't discuss. Not exes, not dodgy parties, not even how mad his parents are - just how to pronounce scone. The subject that Shall Not Be Mentioned

So true. Its scone/stone. It is just is damnit.

There's a Dorset St in inner city Dublin which Dubliners pronounce Dor-SET, if that makes sense. It took me several years living in the UK to realise the English county wasn't pronounced that way.

Squoosh, yes that's how i say it. But my parents in their best nouveau riche Bev/Dellboy call it Steak oh pwah (as in steak with peas). My mums entire kitchen repertoire reads like a 70s Bistro menu. Coq au vaaaaahn, Beouf Booooourgi'nyon, Duck a l'oroooooonje, Potatoes Dauphinwaaaaazzz

What's this about attics not existing?! An attic is a top storey, in the roof, that could be several rooms or one big room but either way they are habitable. A loft could be habitable, or it could be just a storage area with low height or no floor just rafters, etc. A roofspace is a bit of space in the roof, not really a room.

Obvious!

HuglessDouglas is there a reason for the kidney beans in pasta sauce? Genuinely interested, is it a family recipe or from a book or something else? I'd never had it before this weekend

I would always say marshmEllow, I'd have assumed a marshmAllow pronunciation was by someone who'd read the word but not heard it spoken! I'll accept being wrong but why so?

Pouf-fay makes me stabby as well. It's the pretension and the avoidance of gay connotations almond with the suggestion of antimacassar which makes me twitch!

Trottiscliffe - Kent village - any brave souls like to hazard a guess at how it's said?

I remember when nes-lay was nestles
and K-norr was nor
and Cif was bloody Jif - bring back Jif!!

I say...
noo-gar
marshmellows
poof
buff-ay and scone as in gone

PMSL at folk who eat a side of noodles or baked beans with a roast dinner but YES to fruit cake with cheese mmmmm

Ooh, and no, not vegetarians, just odd . Not poor either, no obvious reason for bulking out. TBH I think they both miss the point of food for anything else but fuel. That's fine but it's the refusal to accept they might be wrong, or at least unusual, that irritates!

MrsKoala I quite fancy the idea of dinner with your Mum and Dad, love a bit of posh 70s grub, especially if they also serve some mange tout.

Snoot Tue 13-Aug-13 20:17:23

Sorry, I realise this is transference

Squoosh - prawn cocktail, pate, soup or corn on the cob to start. Ginger cake and orange trifle (cake soaked in cointreau NO jelly!) for dessert and ALWAYS cheese board, fruit and port/brandy. All with an accompaniment of fleetwood mac, steeley dan, carol king, the eagles etc :)

Ooh, ginger cake and orange trifle (sans jelly), sounds amazing! Do you have a recipe?

Puffy here not poofayy
And sconn

West Cumbria so very north not southern at all

Yes it's very easy really, get a serving plate (we use an oval one). Slice a good ginger cake up and put a layer on the plate, glug drizzle cointreau over, make a good, real, hardish custard and leave to cool. segment oranges and layer them on the cake (no pith!). Spoon over cool custard. spoon over whipped cream. sprinkle over chopped nuts and chopped ginger preserved in syrup. Cut an orange in half then in half moons and decorate round edges of trifle to give a scolloped shape. refrigerate. Eat. mmmm

coco and I speak the same language, I see!

my MIL also refers to the working kitchen. 'I was at Sally's new house the other day, she has the most lovely big working kitchen'.

Mind you, she also calls a buggy/pushchair a 'tansad'

MrsKoala your people are my people. Booze, cheese board and Carole King. Yes Please!

Stewed fruit, why do people do this? Mother mother force fed us this when I was a child, so now I will only eat FRESH fruit, , not tinned, not stewed, not frozen, and not with any sugar, ice cream, ,custard or cream.

Scone (scon) and pouffe (poof) here. I distinctly remember Nessles milky bar on the advert, also remember the Moulinex (makes things simple and that includes the price) adverts pronouncing the x, which was later changed to Moulinay.

Please, y'all. Chorizo does not have a "ts" sound in it. It is not Italian. You cannot go wrong with the Latin American pronunciation "cho REE so."

Perhaps the OP's in-laws are doing a local version of the American dish known as Chili Mac. I personally think it is disgusting do not care for it, but I understand that some have a fondness for it.

southernfood.about.com/od/pastabake/r/bl30610m.htm

OMG I just realised I would still say moul-in-ex, working knowledge of French not connecting at all with my upbringing! I have a new-found understanding of and respect for the poof-ay's among us. This thread is making me a better person!

Thank you for the trifle recipe, I'm going to give it a go. My grandmother was fond of ginger wine, would this be too much? I'm not so keen on crystallised ginger, myself

Re chor REE zo, I'm afraid the snob in me (it's not such s small part!) cannot bear to go South American Spanish, it's Catalan all the way. There will be lisping.

Milky bar was made by 'Ness-els'. The advert on YouTube:

has the interesting info underneath:
"This ad from 1991 is for Nestle's Milky Bar, the classic "It's the Milky Bar Kid" slogan. The ad shown is actually the very first one to use this slogan from 1961, the only difference here is the 30th Anniversary title in colour shown at the end. I suspect the "Nestle's Milky Bar!" jingle has been changed as originally Nestle was pronounced incorrectly when shown in the UK.

Oh, and there is NEVER any jelly in trifle - as much alcohol as possible, but. no. jelly

With pronouncing foreign words, jon ronson (writer) asked why do people who say chorizo or cappuccino in a spanish / italian accent dont say kindergarten in a German accent. Very true!
And it's poof, scon, nugget, spaghetti horrible and weetabix def. weird. Butter and jam on tea biscuits or digestives, however, fine. And will come round for super noodle roast, carbtastic.

And trifle MUST have jelly