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!

It is a roofspace. Attics only exist in books where someone is locked in one.

Dirty minded individual Iwilldo

My gran always called the kitchen the scullery.

Your inlaws sound bonkers, but i'd happily swap them for mine anyday!

Or the working kitchen.

I refuse to accept (from someone who bums and blows) that 'roofspace' is a widely used term for an attic.

Between this and poofay my mind is blown.

I remember having a row with a girl in Year 7 over the pronunciation of 'bolognaise'. This is going back nearly 25 years, but I'm still pissed off about it now. She insisted that the 'g' is hard, as in 'boloGnaise' and she apparently knew this because she'd been to Bologna on holiday that summer. God, she was annoying.

One of my colleagues insists on pronouncing chorizo as 'cho-ree-tho'. He's Spanish, but it still gets on my nerves. I think he's just showing off.

Are they vegetarian? Usually I use beans instead of meat when making vegetarian meals ( I want to make sure the vegetarians in my family get enough protein).

For some reason my DM calls Sage and Onion stuffing "Seasoning" - Why, just why? Salt and Pepper are seasoning!!

Yorkshire here and a big Yes to Christmas Cake and cheese and also Apple Pie and Cheese.

Dont get me started on what constitutes a Fishcake in a fish and chip shop

Hugless you were doing so well with scullery and oxter then you spoiled it with your attic nonsense.

I have never heard anyone in real life say attic, seriously.

Everyone in NI says roofspace? It sounds so vague, never heard that term before today.

Posh houses have attics, tenny weeny humble houses have an attic.

Fifi yes to apple pie and fruit cake with cheese but ideally it should be Wensleydale!

My in laws also produce weird food. MiL proudly produced brocolli soup made from a powder out of a packet the other day.They came from very poor Scottish families.with limited access to food. DH Gran used to boil sausages ( links) in water and boil cabbage for 15 mins, mash it with butter and serve.

Last time I invited In Laws and DH's Aunt and Uncle for a meal they were overwhelmed to be offered Roast pork and roast potatoes and ate huge quantities obviously appreciated a good home cooked meal.

PS they also make "trifle" which is just jelly and cream. No fruit and definitely no sherry soaked cake at the bottom.

Jelly has no place in a trifle.

No. Place.

Marshmellow is wrong. It's not regional or posh or anything, just wrong, but a mistake a lot of people make.
The way purple in my family proudly and chewily say "chee-ah-battah"(as if they are eating it AT you, right now) makes me stabby.

Ahem. A clotheshorse is most properly called a maiden.

Regards, a Lancashire Lass.

TheHandbagOfGlory Tue 13-Aug-13 13:43:13
are the Belvoir cordials pronounced the same way?

Yes, because the Belvoir fruit farms are next to the castle.

LOL at "Chewy speech" Zut I went into Wales today...with MIL who took great delight in "comically" mispronouncing all the Welsh place names. It's not funny the billionth time MIL.

Whaaat of course its an attic!and trust me i am defo not posh.

Can't stand it when people say marshmellow.

My parents have an attic and a roof space - attic is a room that is usable and the roof space is through a tiny hatch but they are on the same level.

Poofay is making me irrationally angry.

If clotheshorse is the thing for the sole purpose of draping clothes over then that is the 'exercise bike' surely?

How would you lot say Steak au poivre?

And i grew up in the 80's and Nestle had been corrected to the proper word by then - thank god.

Is anyone else saying all these mispronunciations like Beverley from Abigails Party...'Do you like the pooofaaaayyyy Anje? Do you, Do you my sweetheart?...' No? just me then. I'm also channeling her swishy orange number and pulling her facial expression I may do this all day.

Bumming them up i swear is yhe funniest thing ive heard,i avtually thought it had been said wrong but no to my joy it is true people really do say this.I dont think ill be able to control myself when i hear it again.
Omg i just realised i say marshmellow!everyone has done around me growing up and id never even thought anything was amiss...