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

452 replies

Snoot · 12/08/2013 22:56

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!

OP posts:
MrsKoala · 14/08/2013 01:10

YOUS? < look what you've done now - the stress has turned me scouse!

FryOneFatManic · 14/08/2013 04:36

Coriander is widely used in Mexican food, from the recipes I have seen, so not just for Asian cookery.

And as DS (aged 9) is developing a liking for Mexican food, I reckon I'll be looking at more recipes soon. He's asked for lots more chilli in food, definitely taking more after me food wise than his dad now Grin. Except he doesn't like kidney beans.

I cannot, however, give you any information about trifle. I don't eat it, I hate it. I buy DP one now and again, all for himself.

KvassInTheNight · 14/08/2013 04:48

I have learnt so many terrible things on this thread. Pouff-eh? So very wrong.

garlicagain · 14/08/2013 05:02

I love weetabix with stewed - or tinned - fruit! I thought I'd made it up and it was my own little secret Grin It's the combination of slushy & crunchy. I have been known to have toast with stewed fruit; it's like a crumble, y'know? But easier.

Scones: my mum says Scoan and I say Scon. Suspect she's more correct, as it's a northern word orignally, isn't it?

Poofay: Bwahahahahahahaaaah!! Grin Call it a footstool, for fuck's sake.

Trifle has jelly in it! And there should be weetabix Wink

SconeRhymesWithGone · 14/08/2013 05:39

I realize I have commented about everything in the original post except the stewed fruit/weetabix. I am not sure exactly how or why anyone would stew fruit, but as for weetabix, when I lived in Scotland, besides learning how to pronounce scone, I developed a real taste for weetabix. It is lovely stuff. Happily, it is now much easier to get in the US.

MrsKoala · 14/08/2013 05:41

Weetabix trifle???? Shock now you are jesting.

While 'proper' classy trifle should have no jelly. I have been known to make cheap fun quick trifle for DH and children (neither of which have quality control or taste). Cheap value madiera cake from tesco in the bottom of individual glasses, tinned fruit/fresh strawb/rasp/black-berries on top, jelly poured over and put in fridge to set. Tinned value custard (about 18p - bargain!) spooned over set jelly. fridge. whipped cream or even squirty cream just before serving (but don't leave the squirty cream to stand of course). crumbled up flake sprinkled over top. It's trashy but actually quite good and great for individual servings in plastic cups for kids parties. Cost pennies a portion

I was in the shop earlier and someone was asking for the tor-TILL-ahs and i thought of this thread Grin Tor-tee-yahs surely?!

The one which totally winds me up and EVERYONE says it wrong apart from me is Cinema. It's cinem-A not cinemaaar.

This thread is quite cathartic Grin

MrsKoala · 14/08/2013 05:43

Stewed cooking apples with brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg and a little orange juice is lovely with good vanilla ice cream.

SarahNoDuck · 14/08/2013 06:52

garlicagain - it's do northern it's Scottish. Scon is right, as it is derived from a similar Gaelic word (see my link somewhere in this ever-expanding thread).Grin

SarahNoDuck · 14/08/2013 07:01

so

mathanxiety · 14/08/2013 07:17

They were saying Philly Steak not fillet steak.
It is a sandwich, something of an artery bomb very filling, consisting of deli roast beef slices, a green pepper cut in strips, sliced onions, minced garlic, provolone cheese, and marinara sauce. You caramelise the pepper and onion with the garlic, then add the meat to the pan to heat, then divide your panful in two and add your cheese to the heaps of food on the pan until it melts, then spoon it all between the two halves of a bread roll, and knock yourself out.

Scone rhymes with gone. (Dublin)
Poofe is poof if you don't say footstool, never pouffay. I have actually never heard anyone say anything other than poof (or footstool) until today.
Spag bol with beans and ketchup is horrible.
Weetabix on anything or on its own is horrible.
Stewed fruit for dessert is fine.
Nougat is noo-gah.
YO-gurt, not yoggurt.
Sitting room.
Doovay, not doo-vet.
Crepp, never crape.
Curtain, never drape.
Couch or sofa, never davenport.

No jelly in trifle and especially no jelly in salad, ever.

Trifle consists of sponge cake with raspberry filling, soaked in sherry, cut in slices and arranged in layers in a bowl with custard, chilled, and then topped with whipped cream once in an individual bowl.
Lady fingers are for making tiramisu with.

Coriander is called cilantro in America and Mexico. It is used a lot in Mexican cooking.

Cocolepew Hellion = 'A mischievous, troublesome, or unruly person', allegedly an Americanism, but I think it got to the US from NI.

We were all misled by Moulinex ads just as we were misled by Nessles ads. 'Moulinex makes it simple, and that includes the price' is an ad I still have in my head from the seventies on Irish TV.
I know that I learned my mispronunciation of Yosemite from an RTE continuity announcer who called a cartoon character Yo-ze-myte Sam.

mathanxiety · 14/08/2013 07:29

Yous is a Dublinism
Chorizo is chor-ee-zo
Tortillas are tor-tee-yahs (though I thought of them as tortillas in my head until I went to the US and was introduced to Mexican cuisine, so the Steinbeck novel will forever be 'Tor-tilla Flat' to me)
Nike is Ny-kee
You can serve chili with pasta - this style originated in Cincinnati and includes a mound of grated cheddar on top.

MrsKoala · 14/08/2013 07:50

Yous is definitely a scouse term too - probably the Irish influence (along with the misguided belief they can all sing)

curlew · 14/08/2013 08:01

Has anyone mentioned tagliatelle yet?

treaclesoda · 14/08/2013 08:13

I was also going to say that 'yous' is standard speech around here. Often "yous' uns". See also "them'uns" and "us' uns".

VikingVagine · 14/08/2013 09:29

Umm, Moulinex is still pronounced with the x at the end here in France. A moulinet (ay) is what I use to make tomato sauce or asparagus soup with.

Trifle is rank with or without jelly.

Scone gone (cream goes on first).

Poof.

Peugeot = Per (no Westcountry r thank you) show (with the sh pronounced like the French je ).

VikingVagine · 14/08/2013 09:30

Oh and haitch is correct if you're Irish.

cocolepew · 14/08/2013 09:33

Nope. It's cine-marr.
And tor-till-a unless you're a big show off.

shrinkingnora · 14/08/2013 09:48

Yes to moulinex with the x too. Irish haitch is ok. The rest of you must say AITCH or horrible things will happen. Just sitting here checking my West Country rs Wink

ZutAlorsDidier · 14/08/2013 09:55

mathanxiety - surely "ladies fingers" = okra, and sponge fingers are what are used to make trifle?
Hellion is a bloody fantastic word, definitely due for a revival in my neck of the woods

YokoUhOh · 14/08/2013 10:31

DM makes four trifles at Christmas:

One without cream for DB
One without booze for me
One without custard for her
One with everything for whoever else wants it

ALL of the above contain jelly, obvs.

YokoUhOh · 14/08/2013 10:34

Another one to add to the list:

'genurally' isn't a word. It's 'genuinely' or 'generally' and never the twain shall meet.

cocolepew · 14/08/2013 10:38

People saying seca-tary gives me the rage. I don't know what the right way is but it should be sec-re-tary. I'm making it a law.

squoosh · 14/08/2013 10:40

Ah I forgot about coriander in Mexican cooking, I stand corrected. Although my mother still has no business sticking it in ragu.

I'm Irish and must admit to sometimes saying 'yous', my parents say 'ye', they're a bit more retro, 17th century retro.. But the English language is odd in that it doesn't have a collective 'you' so it's either 'yous' or the awful 'You guyzzzzzzzzzzz'

squoosh · 14/08/2013 10:42

YokoUhOh how can your mother make four different trifles and all of them contaminated with jelly?

ZutAlorsDidier · 14/08/2013 10:45

I like "ye", I only seem to hear it from the landladies of B&Bs and it reminds me that I am on holiday.

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