Things you assumed were normal

[meredithgrey1]

DH bought some weetabix to have for breakfast a few days ago and I was amazed to see him preparing it by just pouring cold milk on and then eating it like that! I can't eat weetabix now but when I was little my mum would pour the milk on, then microwave it, then mash the biscuits in to create something similar to porridge. I assumed at the time that this was the only way to eat weetabix but my husband was appalled at the very idea and after a quick google it does seem like I'm very much in the minority. So it got me thinking, what are some things that you thought were normal, but then you realised that you/your family were the only one(s) doing it like that?

[Fairislesocks]

Not always, ours comes from an ancient tank in the roof which is probably full of limescale so we don't drink it

[baubling]

I thought this thread seemed familiar...

[Lozz22]

@ellyeth

Buttered Weetabix is nice - well I think it is.

Buttered weetabix with jam on top is nice. Or crushed and mixed with Nutella for SlimmingWorld Ferrerro rocher Only way I can eat them

[StinkyWizzleteets]

I rtft looking for someone who likes banana on their pizza. Alas it would seem my family have duped me as clearly all the cool kids were not doing it. I wasn’t a fruit eater as a child so my mum always put banana on a marguerita pizza before cooking. It’s lush!

[sueelleker]

You're dribbling dear....

[Umascooter]

Yep Pikelet (English) but Pyclet (Welsh) thin crumpet like things extraordinarily yummy warm with butter and perhaps jam or jam and butter and cream and and ...

[sueelleker]

I spell it pikelets, and I think they're a thinner version of crumpets; more the thickness of drop scones.

[Eura]

Pyclets - (most people call them crumpets). Mum did all the cooking when I was growning up at home and her family always steamed pyclets, until one day my Dad said that in his family they toasted them. I've never eaten steamed pyclet since. (Does anyone else call them Pyclets btw? - Mum's family were Derbyshire - her mum and Yorkshire - her Dad - would love to know)

[Eura]

UGH that's revolting - eating the apple core!!

[pinkrocker]

I can make the ear rumble and shake my eyeballs but weirdly not at the same time.
A vegetable stock cube makes 3 mugs of a lovely hot drink (leave the stock cube in and keep refillling it! Number 2 cup is the best)
Yorkshire pudding with raspberry vinegar is yummy.
I make garlic bread and have it with beans instead of normal toast. Your farts will be horrific but your taste buds will dance.
Butter rolled in sugar for a sore throat.
Sliced banana, white bread and set honey sandwiches, mmm!
Seriously strong cheese spread makes a lasagne fabulous.
Hot ribena is equally as vile as cold!
Horlicks tablets are gorgeous!
I am going to try the chocolate button and banana toasties on my DC tomorrow...

[LondonMrsA]

Me too!!

[ellyeth]

Buttered Weetabix is nice - well I think it is.

[ellyeth]

Biancadelrioisback I too used to have condensed milk sandwiches!

[sueelleker]

@ZeroFucks I'd completely forgotten this until you mentioned it but I used to work in a pub where some of the regulars would always have a boiled egg in their packet of crisps. Were they plain boiled eggs, or pickled eggs?

[Baxterbear]

MeredithGrey mashing up and then warming up Weetabix is the ONLY way to eat them, eating them with cold milk is just wrong, a crime against breakfast! My 8 yr old son refuses to eat them any other way too!
On the subject of crimes against food, my fella spreads butter (gross) on potato waffles AND he eats bread & butter with his Sunday roast dinner (oh the horror!). Some people just don't eat right.......

[PinkPanther27]

@ZeroFucks I'd completely forgotten this until you mentioned it but I used to work in a pub where some of the regulars would always have a boiled egg in their packet of crisps.

[thequeenbeyondthewall]

@BritneyPeedOnALadybug and @DrFoxtrot
I can do it too. I thought everyone could do it.

[XYZ5unsh1ne]

My family treat Crumpets as if they were Toast.
So we might have them with simple butter or with cheese, perhaps a poached egg, cream cheese and smoked salmon. etc. etc. Whatever you can imagine on Toast, is acceptable on a Crumpet.

My husbands family think this is bizarre. They treat Crumpets like a Scone. So Crumpets are only served with Jams or sweet toppings.

[Umascooter]

Mum told me that during the war they had Weetabix topped with condensed milk which you had to eat fast, licking it like and ice cream, because it dribbled off the sides. It is just fabulous! ... BTW … and now a favourite camping food of mine (eaten outside without a plate #dirty secrets)

[Umascooter]

I didn't know it was anything else … my mum has always frugally served up Fine Fare own brand evaporated milk in a tiny jug and put it on the table with dire warnings about having too much. "Cream".

[divafever99]

Making lasagna with a tin of tomato soup and bisto! DH introduced me to tinned tomato's when we moved in together aged 21!

[Boxerbinky]

I’ve only read the op but it made me chuckle because my dh and I had the same conversation but in reverse only yesterday there is no way my weetabix would go near hot milk - gross! My dh seemed so confused that I was eating it cold.. I’ve eaten them tons of times before but clearly he thought I heated them up!

[starfishmummy]

A cheese on toast one here. Mum used to use slices of cheddar rather than grating it and the cheese never quite reached the edges of the toast - probably only by an eighth or quarter of an inch and there might also be gaps in the main part of the toast as well. Mum always buttered these. DH never butters the edges if he makes cheese on toast, its not right!!!

[dtl]

@picklerickkk
as did I !!

[sussexman]

@permanentlyexhaustedpigeon Cheese with Christmas cake is amazing, as is cheese and celery with digestives or cheese and marmite on toast or cheese and


Actually, I think it's probably the cheese :)