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!

Sounds like my parents. My mum confuses spat Bol with chili. Never sure which to serve with pasta and generally you get a mix of both.

Oh God I pronounce it Mou-lin-ex too, I am like one of the old dears who says Nessuls.

'You say mou-lin-ay, I say nay'

West Yorkshire village Slaithwaite.... Pronounced 'slawit'

Other than that:
Scone to rhyme with gone
Pouffe = poof
Nestlé = nest-lay
Nougat = nugget
Cheese on Christmas cake = amazing

Spag Bol & weetabix fruit combos sound disgusting!!!

My mum put coriander in her bolognese last time I was home, I told her it had no business in non Asian food. She told me not to be so pretentious :-D

Re the coriander squoosh I once told my aunt I was making salsa, she asked the ingredients, went all quiet and upon questioning said she couldn't understand how I was calling it salsa without coriander

Why would you say marhsmELlow? It's spelt marshmAllow! My MIL does this and it drives me mad. But she also says damp squid and copsing instead of corpsing.

Growing up in the 70's my mums trifle consisted of sponges, jelly with tinned fruit in it, Dream Topping and sprinkles.

Snoot - re the chorizo pronunciation, it's nothing to do with Catalan, I think you mean Castillian! I get the rage when I hear a random 'ts' sound added!

I cannot stop myself saying 'cuttlery' - mind you when a mere slip of a girl many years ago I also went for 'pedistrainian' (pedestrian) and 'dig-e-tal' (digital).

A very dear subversive friend often deliberately throws "excrement" into conversation in place of 'excellent'....she is a teacher and parents evenings can be very tedious.

Hahaha excrement! I like! Oooh i need to say this!

Singsong you have me panicking about moving back to the UK now how is chorizo pronounced over there? Here in Chile it's chorrrri,so

help

I think my mum's trifle is lady fingers, sherry (soak!), jelly made with tinned raspberries and their juice in place of water, cold custard (Birds, natch), sliced banana, whipped cream, flaked almonds. Apparently it is very good although soggy sponge and cold custard do nothing for me. MIL's abomination of a "trifle" (I shan't dignify it!) contains stale cake, tinned fruit salad and pink, packet blamange.

Trifle NEVER had jelly in my 1970s childhood home and therefore does not ha e jelly in my home.

Dh, on the other hand refuses to accept it is a proper trifle without jelly.

We don't have trifle often!

Bloody hell, why make trifle when you can go down Tesco and get lush ones for £2?

Agree about the salsa though. You can't have salsa without coriander. You just can't. But everything's good if someone else is making it :)

Lol, singsong, you're right, of course, mea culpa! Regardless, the comparison is European Spanish in comparison to South American. I think we're probably making ourselves look a little too pedantic either way

Lady fingers? WTF are lady fingers?? Ewwwww, I wouldn't fancy those in my trifle - oooh, have I just made a fnarr fnarr joke?

Salsa is merely Spanish for sauce and can therefore contain any variety of ingredients. In GB we of course think of it as a tomato based dip-type deal.

Lady fingers are not my cup of tea (can't stand tea either, come to that!) but very much part of an unreconstructed trifle round my parts!

When we have fajitas (those wrap things) we stir fry some beef, chop up an avocado and drizzle loads of lime juice onto it, and chop up some tomatoes with loads of coriander, has to have tons of the stuff cos I love it, then put a line of natural yoghurt in it to stick it all together and hmmmmm. I know what we're doing for tea tomorrow

Moulinex = Moulinay, WTF? I'm reeling here.

Anyway. A pouffe is a pouffee, no pretentious Abilgail's party-style accent. Both pouffay and pouff are a bit poncey to my ears.

NO TO POUFFEE/POUFFAY

Are people seriously telling me they pronounce pouffe like this? It's making my head feel funny.

Brecon, you're saying pouf-ie? That's a new one to me! And pouf being as pretentious as pouf-ay? Where would you lay your linguistical loyalties? I'm sarf Lahndahn with middle class overtones, myself

Muchos grassiarse Snoot - them's what I call sponge fingers. Am a little concerned that you have trifle round your parts - would you like a wet wipe?

I have to go to bed - I keep snorting with laughter and scaring the dog, and have to tell DH what's so funny which, with 272 posts, is taking a while. Looking forward to picking up again manyarnar.

I'm looking around my sitting room in vain for a pouffe. I need one to look after, I fear they are all in the custody of Those Who Mispronounce.

Mixed working class heritage, me - mostly Scots with bits of Welsh. Everybody I knew said pouffee in the 70s. Pouffay would have got you locked up, and pouff would have been taken for a joke about poufs. Who only existed on TV comedy shows, of course.