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!

Pouffe? POUFFE? I do not possess a footstool but if I ever did (highly unlikely as I think they are hideous) I would call it a.....footstool.

Poofay or whatever variations there are of this just sound so Hyacinch to me.

Scone is pronounced skon.

how about....

sec-a-tree
lie-bree
feb-ree
sam-widge
ham-bag

Oh and the answer to my previous riddle ....

the village of trottiscliffe in Kent is called Trow-zli

Oh Oh, just remembered another - heard a WI type woman once refer to marg instead of marge. And then she called it MarGerine instead of MarJerine

If you HAVE to use such a ridiculously pretentious word then at least say 'poof' and get it right! But why would you not just say footstool?

But a footstool has legs, a pouffe is a big cushiony thing.

phantom, midlands here and yes pronounce all on your list just like that.

orite bab.😃

I say lie-bree!

Lie-brare-ee is too much work and I can only say it in an American accent.

if it has legs its a footstool, and then just call a pouffe a bean bag -problem solved!

yes squoosh agree a footstool is well just for feet.

a poofee is for sitting on and very uncomfortable too.

defiantly poofee by the way.

no bean bag is different to a poofee! a bean bag is for students and children. a poofee is usually leather and considered posher!! not by me but defiantly by my mother.

But pouffes don't contain beans

It is NOT "pouf-ay". Even in French. The final e has no accent, so it's "pooof".

Do people still have pouffes these days? (I'd say pooof by the way, and scone to rhyme with stone - south yorks girl here).

What do you call a bread roll? I have learned to call them rolls but growing up they were breadcakes. My mother in law calls them barmcakes. Some people say baps.

My in laws are lovely but one thing they do that is slightly odd in a sweet sort of way is to set the table properly for each meal with table protector, table cloth, cloth napkins, napkin rings. Including breakfast. Then after each meal this all gets put away again and a decorative table runner put back on the table. In our house we just chuck a few straw table mats out and that's about it.

Oh god thebody, sorry, but my parents have lived in Dudley for the last 3 years and I cringe when I go up there and hear the accent

"orite bab, would yo loike a noice cuppa-tie"

LOL

My arse hasn't sat on a pouffe since 1984, not sure why I feel so protective of them.

But pouffes don't contain beans

neither should spag bol!

Trow-zil? What fresh hell is that?

My gran used to say mar-ger-rine. Gave me the rage that one. (Sorry Gran)

I'm going to pop down to Kent and give them all a good talking to.

I know coco - makes no sense at all - I pity the kids learning how to spell where they live!

ah, coco, actually I now see you got it wrong

"trottiscliffe" is trow-zli (not zil - that's just silly)

phantom I totally agree and desperately try NOT to say orite but morning.

my dds are sadly brummie. hate the bloody accent.😡

chrome see my mother wouldn't call it a poofe as that would be sexual so it's her poofayy. I swear she is proud of it!!

Laughing my head off at ladymariner's description of her mil on page 4!

squoosh I don't think that I have ever encountered a 'poof' thing then - I thought people meant footstool on here.

I am clearly an ignoramus.

My Mum says 'cob' for bread rolls but I think that a cob is a larger rounded and quite rustic loaf. Confusion abounds.

my mum says 'its raining pouring' but she's Welsh.