Things you assumed were normal

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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?

Pepper is absolutely essential on fresh pineapple.

We used to have slices of bread and butter with tinned fruit cocktail (with evaporated milk). We would dip the bread in the juice/syrup. Lovely. However, my DH, who is from the other side of the Pennines, thinks this is very odd.

Baked beans on pasta with cheese on top, I thought it was a hearty healthy meal when I was a kid.

Still love it, DH refuses to even try it.

My ex thought that when you go camping you eat canned spaghetti hoops. Period.

He seemed quite bewildered I had the intention of carrying a small icebox with food to throw on the BBQ.

.... then I realised he had never ever cooked ANYTHING over a grill, ever.

Until 3 years ago I would take my whole cozzie off when I went to the toilet at the pool.
It wasn’t until my sister took my DD and then DD taught me the ‘pulling your cozzie crotch to the side’ thing.
34 years of taking it off WET and putting it back on WET in a tight cubicle!
Madness

@allthewhoresofmalta do you think the black cat thing might gave been a variation of the old joke, when we used to have to have Dog Licences, that it was cheaper if you had a black and white dog?

We only knew Weetabix as a hot breakfast but for speed & economy, mum would pour the kettle over to smash them down and top with a bit of cold milk which made it the perfect temperature for immediate eating and looked like all milk. This is a good diet way to have it too.
You know, I could eat a couple of them right now!

As kids we always had loose tea and we had it in a tea caddy. There was a spoon permanently in there and its handle was bent back double on itself. I always assumed that if was a special tea measuring spoon (like you get special knives for fish and so on) and that was what these special spoons looked like. We didn't have a lot of "correct utensils" in our house as we didn't have much money so I was always rather proud of it.

I was about 25 when Mum explained that it was just a normal spoon and that she had bent the handle so the spoon would fit in the tea caddy.

I was the eldest of four daughters. We had one clean knicker bag from which we all chose a daily pair. There was a 10 year age gap between the eldest and the youngest but I can’t remember anyone dropping their drawers!

Yes, you are right.....Don’t eat apple pips..... they have cyanide in them.....google it .....”
The seeds contain cyanogenic glycosides, making them mildly poisonous. If you consume enough of the seeds, you could ingest a fatal dose. But that's a lot of apples. Healthline did the math: You would need to finely chew and eat about 200 apple seeds, or about 20 apple cores, to receive a fatal dose”

Weetabix with butter and a sprinkling of sugar! My dad used to have it like that and I grew up loving it. Don’t think the doctors would be impressed!

Also my partner loves cold buttered toast. Let’s it cool down before buttering it. Weirdo 😂

@TrippingOnSunshine Yes, you are right.....Don’t eat apple pips..... they have cyanide in them.....google it .....”
The seeds contain cyanogenic glycosides, making them mildly poisonous. If you consume enough of the seeds, you could ingest a fatal dose. But that's a lot of apples. Healthline did the math: You would need to finely chew and eat about 200 apple seeds, or about 20 apple cores, to receive a fatal dose” @FruityWidow @Clary

Never mind Weetabix, my Nan used to eat Shredded Wheat 'opened' into two pieces with butter on. Can't remember when I first saw someone eat them with milk!

I only have hot ribena. I think it's weird that people drink it like cold squash.

TroysMammy glad it's not just me.

@ThumbWitchesAbroad if you want your 'lazy' cheese on toast to have a grilled taste - do toast in toaster, pop slice of cheese on top and microwave for 30 seconds

Cheese and jam sandwiches.... has to be mature cheddar and either apple & raspberry or mixed fruit jam.... although I can’t find either in the supermarket anymore and have to make do with raspberry.... crackers with every jar of spread we had (aka peanut butter, choc spread, jam and lemon curd) and take it in turns.... how I’m not huge I don’t know

I can make my ears rumble too 😂

I walked in on my boyfriend in the bathroom wiping his bum after a number 2, and he was standing up to wipe his arse!
He apparently thinks it's better to do it that way than sitting down to wipe.
MIND BLOWN
It would never occur to me to do it standing up!

Does anyone else say “full as a bread tin” when you’ve eaten too much? This is something my mum and dad have both always said, and I’ve said it to my husband a few times over the years and he doesn’t think it’s a thing normal people say.

Peanut butter and iceberg lettuce sandwiches - delicious! But apparently not normal....

We used to have meat and potato pie with oxtail soup over the top. Dh thinks it disgusting!

@81 I love egg in a cup ❤️

@shinynewapple2020 that's what DD does, calls it melted cheese toast. I think it's weird though.

@Allergictoironing I remember an ex of mines mum doing his ready brek. Dry ready brek in bowl, generous pour of evaporated milk and some boiling water. Swirl of syrup. Bloody delicious!!