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!

MY mother serves roast dinners with every vegetable known to man on and boils them to within an inch of their lives. She wouldnt tackle a bolonese too exotic!

Sounds weird to me OP, other than the poofee, and I've always said scone like stone but don't care how it's pronounced by others.

LimitedEditionLady it might well be forring! Was my german grandmother that served that up quite a lot, also sugar sandwiches, sugar cubes from cafes that worked their way into her handkerchiefs and mash on toast and loads of other weird things that are actually quite nice. (Like mackerel for breakfast and cucumber and vinegar as a side to a roast)

Poofay is v Northern working class.
Scone as stone is entirely normal.
Weetabix a bit odd but not entirely bonkers.
The spag bol sounds hideous though.

I admire the weetabix /super noodles fans scoffing in the faces of low carb diets!

everlong I remember saying poof for pufayee to piss my mother off in about 1975.

she wasn't amused as she thought it was a rude word. 😄

I'm jealous. Your in-laws sound positively delightful in comparison to mine.

I say scone like stone and I'm from the south...

I'm Scottish and say scone to rhyme with gone. I grew up saying pouffay, but I don't think I know anyone who has one so it isn't really a word I use these days.

Weetabix for pudding and the Bolognese -

Westiemama my gran says nugget too! My gran says loads of things that positively crack me up.
Btw if you say scon instead of scone then i consider you to be rather posh. Oh la de da lets have a scon hubert and so on...

I never knew about this poofay/poofee malarkey before. It's hilarious. The fear of assigning a sexuality to one's soft furnishings.

So is weetabix with jam a german kind of thing dragonsarereal? or is it another growing up in rationing time thing?

everyone says nugget don't they?

I say poof-ee, scone to rhyme with gone.
My workmate had Weetabix with jam on it for her lunch.
I'm in N.I.

Instead of saying " bigging someone up" my aunt says "bumming them up" i nearly spat my cranberry juice across the room.

I say noo gar not nugget.Am i a bit odd?

There was a big nugget v nooga thread recently.

I laughed so much at 'bumming them up' that I did a little fart.

It's "scon" because they're Scottish and that is what Scottish people say (and me)
weetabix - don't think about it, it sounds suspiciously like an old people thing to do with being "regular" - I strongly advise you to change your mental subject (sound of needle dragging across record)
bol - I think your MIL got mixed up with some recipe cards that came free with the pressure cooker in 1957, entitled "foods of the world" - I think she must have conflated the Italy one and the Mexico one
Pooouufffeeee? - don't ask me - it's a bloody minefield - I say "the low blue thing"

I found this re scone, seems it's entirely random. Thanks re the food weirdness, glad to see it's not just me! BTW I say nou-garh, but not often

footstool= pouffe- pronounced 'footstool'

scone like gone

spag bol and stewed fruit with Weetabix sound vile

ketchup- pronounced 'red sauce'

norn iron

But the Scottish town of Scone doesn't rhyme with stone or gone. It rhymes with moon.

I read on line that round scones are "skons" and triangular scones rhyme with "bone".

If they are round and cooked in an oven they are "skon" or triangular and cooked on a griddle, "scoans".

Look squoosh don't confuse us completely.....

Midlands here: Scone = stone
footstool is a pooffe
Weetabix with butter on = entirely normal
nougat like nugget
Bolognese - YUK

I say bummed up
It never occurred to me it could be taken another way