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!

Many years ago I was listening to Ken Bruce on Radio 2 telling a story about a couple going into a furniture shop and asking for a pouffe. The salesman replied "I'm sorry Madam they aren't called that any more. They are now called padded foot stools !!

My own parents (Scottish) are worse than the inlaws for weird ways. They do the usual scone rhymes with gone, nougat = nugget, poofay thing.

But does anyone else say brake-fast instead of brek-fast?

My gran does beautifulblond, she's from north east Scotland.

Look at definition 3. I am delighted about this.

scone

Scone rhymes with gone.

Weetabix on fruit is Wrong.

spag bol sounds vile.

Nougat, pain au chocolat and croissant all to be pronounced the French way.

And just in case the man who owns the garage that services my car is reading this, it's Peugeot, as in Per-zhoh, NOT EFFING PYEW-JO! You really have NO excuse not to know this.

From Herts living in Yorks:

Scone: rhymes with gone or stone and completely interchangeable.

Pouffe: I was brought up to say poofay.

Weetabix and fruit; Never heard of this...ever. My Mum would have a fit!!

Bolognaise sauce...sounds a bit like what my Mum used to do. Couldn't have garlic - oh no! it makes your breath smell! And ketchup was used in the making of it.

Nougat: grandparents from London said nugget,Welsh grandparents and Mum said noogah!

Weirdest thing nowadays:... having a slice of cheese to eat with Christmas cake. Apparently its the done thing in Yorkshire??

Dgf15 - how old are you? the milky bar ads when i was young said 'nestlay milky bar' i'm sure of it (i've got it going round in my head now - so cheers for that :) )

I'm still sure you're all on a wind up about nougat tho...

I'm going back up the thread a bit but I just want to let coco know that everyone I know talks about 'bumming and blowing' when someone is boasting. Must be a N Ireland thing I take it?

I speak french and when speaking english I would say Nugget, cross ant and Pew-jo. (there's no R in it anyway even when the french say it! (That is an english addition)

I think it's pretentious to throw in half-assed foreign pronounciations when speaking english.

So there!

Oh dear think there's going to be some arguments now!

When I was a child in the 70's it was DEFINITELY Nessels Milky Bar ...I can clearly remember it. Which I always thought was odd because there was an accent over the end 'e'

It was quite a surprise when their adverts changed to saying "Nestlay"

dufflefluffle - what about peoples names? do you anglicise them too?

Oh no nes-ley milky bar! My grandma calls it nessle.Gpd my grandma says everything weird.She only lives 5 miles from me.Whats all that about?

There doesn't seem to be much consistency in our pronunciation of French words though. Most people refer to a fill-ut (fillet) steak whereas the Americans eat fillay steak.

Yy to Christmas cake with cheese, this is the CORRECT way. Best when the cake is covered with a cluster of nuts rather than iced (but that is a personal preference)

From S Yorks, living London.

Ew to cheese.
Double ew to christmas cake.
Ill just stick to.my selection box.

Dgf15/Mrs Koala yes it was always Nessuls when we were children. Changed to Nestlay very recently (last 10-20 years?)

We say scone to rhyme with stone and pouffay, and nugget for nougat.

Don't like the sound of that spag bol tho OP.

I say
Poofay
Nugget
Scone as in gone
I am near glasgow, Scotland. Almost everyone I know uses those pronunciations too.

Can't believe how rife 'poofay' is. I'm having palpitations.

Oh my nan says clothes horse instead of airer urghh gets my goat every time. She also calls crumpets pikelets and will not accept they are two different things!

Ironing table anyone?we have an ironing board here

It is 'clothes horse'! Never heard 'airer' in my life.

My in laws have baked beans and pickled onions on top of a roast dinner.

And a friend's in laws, when it's a bit cold in the evening, instead of cuddling up under a blanket, they spread newspaper over themselves! She dozed off on the couch once and woke up under a pile of newspaper. Is this normal? I didn't think so.

I'm from yorkshire, now in scotland and scone definitely rhymes with gone. "Scone" rhyming with stone to me sounds like someone trying to be posh. Also I say "garridge" not "ga-RAAJ".

I would say noogah, but NOT poofay! it is a poof, but actually, I would generally not say either noogah or poof, as they are both daft things that I tend to avoid.

Your in-laws' spag bol sounds horrendous, and as for the weetabix on stewed fruit - ! Like a very wrong version of a crumble.

It was Nessuls Milky Bar in my day too. Born 1966.

I'm from Nottingham and say scone rhymes with gone.

I say poofay

DP can't say pain au chocolat, he always says choc au pain. We have come to use this as a matter of habit.