To get a new identity and face and move to a new country?

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Just that, really.

I went for a brunch with some Mums from my oldest's new class. I chose pancakes, a safe choice. Or so I thought.

They came with a cute little meringuy decoration on top. I started with that. I cut it in 2, put it my mouth and realised that it was butter. I looked up and made eye contact with one of the Mums. She looked slightly horrified. I had no choice but swallow.

I hesitated between eating the other half like a boss while maintaining eye contact and praying that things don't start to slide down or up before the end of th e brunch or using the butter as mother nature had intended. I chose the latter (and still prayed)

The Mums are nice enough but they don't look like they would mix butter with meringue. I don't get out often.

I have no choice do I? We need to pack up and start a new life elsewhere?

Have you had a humour bypass? It’s just a fun thread for people with a sense of humour. Doh 🤦‍♀️

I fucking love butter. You would have gained my respect with that move.

Oh yawn.

OP’s got a great sense of humour and has us laughing!

I'm nearly 50 and I've never been anywhere that serves pancakes with butter. Who does that? It's not fricking toast.
Icecream, banana, nutella, jam, sugar, lemon juice - yes. Butter - hell no.
I would definitely have thought it would be something sweet OP and not a toast topping. You should have just laughed at the time I think, unless they're really stuck up it just shows you're human!

When I was little, I bit into the dolly from the top of my crinoline lady birthday cake, expecting her to be made of sweet, sweet icing, only to discover it was Plaster of Paris.



Fast boat to France, first plane to Argentina,it really is the only solution 🤣🤣🤣🤣(we've all done something akin to this at some point!)

Aren't the thicker, spongey pancakes Scotch pancakes? They were my granny's speciality. And yes, very good with butter and jam, etc (practically anything that is a vehicle for butter will be lovely imo).

My faux pas with condiments was sprinkling my chips with pepper rather than salt. I do not like pepper one little bit. I thought I'd try to blow it off the chips then took the only dignified route which was to eat them and try to look nonchalant.

I think I would have got the giggles if I'd watched a mate take a bite of butter

Oh no! Sorry OP that must have been unpleasant. Hopefully it will be funny tomorrow 😅

We were at a convention once and sat down for lunch. My husband bought nachos for us to share and an espresso for himself. Our friend mistook the espresso for nacho dip and got a nasty surprise when he ate the chip. Fortunately we all found it funny 😂

Once took a friend to a very nice restaurant for a birthday treat - at some point during the meal a small finger bowl with a slice of lemon appeared, my lovely friend immediately proclaimed this was a palate cleanser and scooped out the lemon and ate it - we were all impressed that she ate the lemon slice whole!

I've done that recently. Luckily it was only with DH and we were in Germany, so I spat it out and we laughed.

Brilliant, totally the sort of thing I would do!

Not so long ago as a new mum I was with my little baby in a Baby Sensory class for the first time, didn't know anyone. As we were handed items to fuss over our babies with I took the funny hat and popped it on my head.....looked up and all the other mums had popped it on their babies head 😂

I styled it out as best I could but still cringe a little when I think about it 😅

Don't feel bad, OP...

Indian restaurant, late at night, friend and l are completely trollied. There's a bowl of Bombay mix sort of stuff on the table and another bowl of popourri smelly wood shavings for getting your fingers de-spicy-fied. At some point the waiter removed the Bombay mix and we just carried on and ate most of the other one.

Understandably the people on the next table were gawping at us so we tried to style in out and leave with dignity - which was going really well until my friend fell off her shoes going down the steps to the street and landed on top of me on the pavement.

It was 1000 years ago and l still can't go back to Hackney.

This is excellent advice, op. Definitely do this 👍😁

At a barbecue, I helped myself to a drumstick from the tray of raw chicken waiting to go on the grill. It was all coated in some brown seasoning and looked cooked. I wasn't even drunk. I was so embarrassed when the host basically grabbed it out of my hand in panic.

I’m the same age as you and I’ve never eaten pancakes out, as I’ve had no desire to, so I’d have no idea what they come with.

If you think that eating pancakes out is part of experiencing life, then you sound like you have a very boring life and I think you’re the one who needs to get out more.

When I was about 10/11 at a relatives house I was given a drink with pastel coloured round ice cubes in it, which I thought were super cool. I decided to take a one out and suck it. Except it wasn’t an ice cube it was plastic and filled my whole mouth.

My relative was staring at me and I was so mortified at my mistake I just kept the really cold plastic thing in my mouth, eyes watering, trying not to choke, for however long it took for her to leave the room and I could spit it out.
Mor. ti. fied

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You cut it in 2? Butter surely feels a different texture to cut into that meringue!?
I do feel for you. I'm always awkward, so I feel it could be something similar to what I'd do.

My lovely mum helped herself to nachos and guacamole, a nice big scoop. Except it was wasabi and quite difficult to "style it out" 😂😂

I’ve encountered that whipped butter in the US and was confused - I thought it was cream! It doesn’t look like butter (but is nice on thick pancakes).

@Wakeywake - a friend was once at a BBQ and on the table where he was sitting was a lovely big bowl of barbecue sauce dip. He spent the first part of the afternoon enjoying dipping crisps in it, until the host came over and pulled the out raw chicken that had been marinating in there…

An easy mistake to make whether you get out much or not. In the US the butter is quite pale so I assume it was like that on your pancakes? I’m happy to not get out much either btw so don’t take any notice of the judgers on here😊

Never had butter on pancakes and meringue wasn't a terrible call. Sugar was the topping of my youth, none of your posh Maple syrup.

Oh OP. I had a teams call with my boss today and as I was leaving the call i said, "Have a great weekend, love you!"

Let's leave the country together and eat pancakes in peace!

Years ago, some extended family ordered Caribbean food and handed me a polystyrene cup of 'Irish Moss'. I assumed it was sauce and poured the entire thing over my dinner. Turns out Irish Moss is a sweet, milky drink that helps with digestion. Still ate the lot.

The Blunt truth signing every post off as ‘the blunt truth’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

I can imagine I would have made the same mistake op and feel relieved I’m not the only one that does stuff like this.

I once worked for a skincare brand and I was describing to a customer how lovely the product smelled. It was a false tan mousse and as I lifted it to my nose to do my sales pitch and inhale the lovely smelling mousse I sprayed it up my nose at the same time and had to brazen it out to a customer who was looking at me in horror