To ask the most basic thing you never knew/misunderstood until adulthood

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I feel like a completely ridiculous excuse for an adult but the other day I found out the difference between cottage pie and shepherds pie.

I am in my 30s and gobsmacked (also feel a bit stupid now it's so obvious). I genuinely thought they were the same thing.

Is there anything you discovered as an adult that was just common knowledge to everyone else? Or perhaps there's a phrase you've found out you have been saying wrong all this time etc...!

Help me feel a bit better.

I thought Vin Diesel was Dutch and it was just known by his surname.

Boysey45 I've so been there! As a student, I was cooking stew with my friend and we browned the meat and put the veg in and after 10 minutes thought it looked cooked enough, so we ate it . . . our teeth were bouncing off it!

To the person who said the 'whole point' about shepherd's pie is it's not made with beef, actually the whole point is that if I cook something I'll call it what I damned well like. I'm not inviting you round for dinner, love.

*he

I was about 30 when I realised that Dun Laoghaire and Dun Leary were the same place......

OP, apparently so! Her Dad has grown them in his allotment all her life and she was always impatient for them to turn red.

I consider myself a half decent cook too so feel like I should have known this 🤦🏻‍♀️

*I recently wondered aloud to a friend in a supermarket about why I never understood why red peppers/capsicums were more expensive than green.

She said "erm, maybe because it takes them longer to grow so they can harvest green ones quicker"

Me 😲 "I thought they were different varieties"

Her "Noooo. They grow green, then mature yellow then onto orange then finally red" *

Yes that's why the red are the sweetest and the green are -not ripe- bitter

I didn't realise prunes were dried plums until I was about 30. I had no idea what I'd thought they were!

Yes it's true I hate the green ones, they always seem underdone iykwim.

What is the difference between shepherds and cottage pie and why do they use pink rabbits for battery adverts? 🙈😂

Shepherds pie is made with lamb, cottage pie with beef.

To the person who said the 'whole point' about shepherd's pie is it's not made with beef, actually the whole point is that if I cook something I'll call it what I damned well like. I'm not inviting you round for dinner, love.

I think I love you 😄

Origamiunicorn it's one of those things that now I know, I can't believe I didn't know (if that even makes sense!!)

I still picture the Elgin marbles as spherical

Me too, I thought these were actual little round marbles for so long.

But the only difference between cottage pie and shepherds pie is 1 is beef mince and 1 is lamb mince, so ummm shepherds pie with beef mince is cottage pie....[there's no pie smiley and I think there should be]

I always thought Sinn Fein was a person

Omg the pepper and prune thing have blown my mind.

I still don't know why Easter moves every year? I was raised Catholic too so Easter is a huge deal in my house. I've never questioned it before!!

I always wanted to know what eggplant tasted like, I heard of it on American TV shows and I always looked for it in the supermarkets.

I didn't realise prunes were dried plums until I was about 30. I had no idea what I'd thought they were!

This was supposed to make me feel better and now I feel worse... Mind blown!!!

And if you put cheese and breadcrumbs on top of cottage pie it becomes Cumberland pie.

Omg! I've always made my shepherds pie with beef. So you're telling me I've been making cottage pie all this time! 🤦🏻‍♀️

sidesplittinglol howling. Me too!

I still don't know why Easter moves every year?

It's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox (AFAIK) so it depends on the moon.

I though Simon and Garfunkel were two brothers- Simon and Garth Funkel! I thought DH was going to ask for a divorce 🤣

Took me until my degree in English to realise "Hyperbole" was not pronounced to rhyme with "super-bowl". It was a very public and embarrassing realisation.

And pink rabbits?