To ask what things you do, that you think are completely normal, that have caused others to be shocked/disgusted?

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Sat in the staff room tucking into a kiwi, like you do, or rather like I do...chomping it like an apple. Everyone was horrified! Apparently you eat it with a spoon like a boiled egg... I can see why, the skin is minging but I alwa?s thought it was worth it for the delicious flesh. My family all eat it that way, never occurred to me there was anything odd about, I thought it was just the way it had to be done.

I'm really paranoid now there are other things I'm doing that are weird and disgusting. Please post your own experiences so I can tick them off the list.

When I have cheese on toast I have a teaspoon and jam and spoon it on as I eat. My cousins also do this. Cheese and jam are given together at breakfast where we're from.

I keep tissues up my sleeve too but that's just normal (if grannyish) surely? It would be weird if Miley Cyrus did it (not that she wears sleeves) but nice middle aged lady doing an office job - you'd be surprised if I didn't have a tissue up my sleeve wouldn't you?

I realise I'm a bit more of an outlier though on the keeping things in bras. I do this all the time (36 D since you ask so quite capacious!) I put my keys in there if I'm faffing around at the front door and trying to get kids to put their coats on and stuff rather than put them back in my bag and then never find them again. Or at the car - the routine is, unlock car, kids climb in, keys in bra while I plug them all into their carseats, get self into car, retrieve car key, mirror, signal, manoeuvre. Also when I'm out jogging - none of my kit has a pocket so I keep my keys in my bra plus a £10 note for emergencies (not sure what these might be while running unless an emergency bar of chocolate). Get some funny looks when I'm home, standing outside my front door and fishing around in my top to get the keys.

My two year old shares his toast with the dog. As in the dog sucks the toast then DS eats it. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Throws up I'm mouth
I'm so anal about the dog stuff, if they have wet food they have their own dog spoon I use to empty the tin and I will wash it after everything else with my hands and not using the washing up cloth. It makes me cringe when animals lick the plate, cup, people's hands or anything else.

I dip my macdonalds chips into my milkshake, dp thinks this is weird, ds does it too now

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I have to separate out my Skittles (Sours - I hate the other kind) before I eat them. Looks very OCD to observers, but I just hate mixing my flavours - I like to enjoy them, one at a time (starting with my least favourite).

BTW, "5-a-day" does NOT mean all five flavours of Skittles Sours. I looked it up.

Ghostinthecanvas, my ex-BIL used to always leave something on his plate. Even if it was one pea. His mum had told him that to leave something was to say that you were full up and had been given slightly too much to eat.

And I also love raw rhubarb dipped in sugar.

Used to eat sugar sandwiches (when I was a kid not lately)

Ineedabody, We did the sugar sandwiches too!
I have no reason to leave food. Unless it's to annoy my mum. But I do it when she isn't there too. Same with drinks.

Henrythehungryhippo I share your disgust at sharing eating utensils etc with dogs. My dog and I love each other, but any kisses must remain, air kisses, nothing more. I see just what he sticks his nose into, or if he's lucky, manages to gulp down while we are out walking, so no, no kisses between us. Husband is also banned from kissing the dog. My MIL lets her dogs lick off of food plates and it makes me cringe. I want to take my own plate each time I go to their house for dinner, but I don't for fear of offending them. So I don't go to dinner with them, which probably offends them more.
Dog is not allowed on my bed either. I know just what he rolls in when he's out, and although I clean him down, he's still pretty yucky. Our old dog used to have the doggy equivalent of wet dreams and no way was he going to be sharing my bed.

I eat drinking chocolate from the tub its lovely, and love having a slice of bread to mop up the last of the gravy after a roast dinner

Oh, and apple pie with a slice of cheese...delicious...a habit I picked up in the USA where the two are usually served together.
I like a little sprinkling of salt on my oranges, especially bitter oranges. Helps to make them less tart. And my mum used to put a little bit of salt into coffee also, to get rid of the bitter taste. It's a Caribbean thing.

What does absolutely make me heave is when husband leaves the skin on fresh cooked fish, such as salmon. Every tiny bit of skin has to come off or I'm not eating the fish. And DH isn't allowed to eat the skin on his fish either, otherwise he gets no kisses.

DH has several disgusting habits but the worse is sticking his fingers in his ears and having a good old poke about...he does it all the time - if he's anxious, settled and relaxed, makes no difference.

And he has a habit of scraping every last morsel of food, every last drop of gravy off his plate so that its practically clean...don't know why, but I find it both irritating and disgusting...

Dd1 deconstructs anything she eats that has layers and eats them separately e.g. kitkat she'll eat the chocolate until just the wafer is left.

Absolutely heaving at the idea of dogslobbertoddlertoast. We once are a meal with a couple on their boat, and at the end they gave the plates to the dog to kick and then put them back on the shelf. Yuk yuk yuk.

I eat bovril on crumpets, but I refuse to countenance mixing sweet bread (brioche, croissant etc) with savoury fillings (ham, cheese etc).

I do love a condiment, and have been known to drink the vinegar out of the gherkin jar

helenthe My DC picked up the habit of putting drinking chocolate powder on crepes from their friend's Hungarian granny - you should give it a try!

I don't always wear a bra at home, and when I run up and down the stairs I hold my breasts with my hands. I sometimes forget and do this in front of other people!

I can't think of anything particularly gross that I do, but my DSis used to eat a whole can of condensed milk straight from the tin We are Glaswegian, it's expected

SetPhasers surely you have ruined some books for yourself over the years doing it that way, especially those with massive twists at the end?

mmm condensed milk...

Until the other day, I hadn't used a hairdryer in about six years.

My daughter eats egg and jam sandwiches

Condensed milk was put in a tube for ease of eating

Dsis always called it conny onny, madmomma and ghost. If she'd had a rubbish day, she'd come home and say 'right, conny onny time.'

I've got a 28G bra on, and I can't imagine how I could fit a mobile phone and my keys in there. Are your bras all baggy or something? I suspect those of you using your bras as handbags need a bra intervention.

I wipe my cats bum. But only when he comes in with a cling-on! i dont follow him around with a wet wipe waiting for him to squat though.

My boss has to take first prize for grossness. This may out me as i always moan about this....he uses hankies daily - fully snotted up but if he goes to use the photocopier he takes out said hanky and proceeds to wipe it all over the glass!!! if snot wasnt enough, he adds some spit to it too!! cue vomit mouth from me. I always grab the anti-bac wipes and go behind him to clean up any bodily fluids.

I like to have a quick glance at the end of a book too. I like knowing where it's all going.

You should buy a nice cloth and spray specially for cleaning the photocopier, and install them next to it.