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?

@Tooner this came up at work once, one of the guys mentioned he stood up to wipe his bum and we were horrified. However we did a quick straw poll and it pretty much came out as 50/50 split between standing up and sitting down!!

One woman even said she puts her foot up on the toilet so she can get a better angle hard to look at someone the same way after you know that about them

My mum makes a pudding called jelly fluff.
You make a jelly and wait until it's almost set. Then you whip up a can of evaporated milk until fluffy. Then you fold in the slightly runny jelly. Leave to set.
It's lovely. I've never met anyone else who has anything like it.

Well, yes, but in our family it has always been known as Goldfish Pie, never 'fluff', because the only jelly my Aunt considered worth using is mandarin (orange at a push) then would add drained mandarin segments to it too. So good. Much more than the sum of its parts would promise.

One woman even said she puts her foot up on the toilet so she can get a better angle

That's far too much information to know about a colleague

I used to live where we got lots of snow, when I went up in the hills I'd take a chcolate bar with me and bury it in the snow whilst drinking my soup and then have it when it was icy cold.

One woman even said she puts her foot up on the toilet so she can get a better angle confused hard to look at someone the same way after you know that about them grin

Ewww, that's gross.

Dp thinks it's weird I like tinned chicken soup poured over mashed potatoes. Try it, it's yummy! (Only chicken I won't eat any others over mash)

I once had a friend over (12/13 yo) and made us spaghetti hoops on toast. She pissed herself when she saw I'd cut the toast into 4 squares! I asked why this was funny and I was shocked that she didn't cut her toast just left it whole!
Thought everyone made it bite sized

Haha, I think the woman talking about putting her foot on the toilet is hilarious. Fancy disclosing that and what a palaver.

@MilkTrayLimeBarrel My mother gave me the sugar and cocoa thing too! Thought I was the only one!

Ummmm. Wheatabix. Are you lot ready for this. Eaten dry with butter and honey on the top. Very crumbly but yummy.

We did whisky and mince pie, I thought that was the standard

Nothing to add as such but just wondering, can you make a hot drink with Marmite like you can with Bovril, does anyone know?
I do-I don't like Bovril

Hot hard boiled egg mashed with butter and salt and pepper in a tea cup, and eaten with a teaspoon

Nooo, just hot salted mashed hard boiled eggs made into a sandwich. Now I've said it I want one. 😊

one of the guys mentioned he stood up to wipe his bum

I ask again with gruesome fascination - HOW?
When you stand, your bumhole is hidden away by your bum cheeks.

And not to get TMI about it, but wouldn't there be "spreadage" when the cheeks clapped shut as you stood?

Things you assumed were normal?

Five- year- olds hugging each other. Fuck me that thread is depressing.

Tinned tomatoes: my mum would always pour the plum ones into a bowl, count them, then cut the stalks out, before adding them to whatever she was cooking. It blew my mind when I saw someone add them directly to the saucepan!
Buttered toast: my mum (again!) hates plain buttered toast, so it just didn’t exist in my house when I was growing up. (There was always jam / marmalade / honey / whatever with the butter.) I stayed over at my bf’s house when I was about 17, and was given toast for breakfast. I just couldn’t comprehend the lack of toppings! (I do now quite enjoy buttered toast ).

@thesunhasgothishatontoday OOOH! Can you still get Cremola Foam?

I was actually enjoying this thread until i saw the mention of cold custard...

Buttering both pieces of bread in a sandwich. I've only ever buttered one piece and thought that was normal. Until I posted on here once and most of the replies said that buttering both slices was normal.

Clevs My DH only butters one slice, depending what's on the sandwich I find it falls apart too easily!

Clevs me too! And I asked my mate why she buttered both sides because to me, it's just too gross and buttery and she says "Well how do you get it to stick together otherwise?'

Why does your sandwich need to stick together? You hold it together with your hand!

ColdTatty why did she count them?

My friend is French and married to a Londoner. She wanted her daughter to be bilingual so always spoke French to her while the Dad spoke English to her. The little girl thought all women spoke French and would chat away in delightful baby French to us and English to any men until she was about 4.

@BillHadersNewWife I think it was to make sure she didn’t miss any!

All mushrooms also had to be washed in a colander, under the cold tap, while wearing rubber gloves.. I don’t think she believed me when I said (after seeing it on a cookery show) that you weren’t meant to wash mushrooms at all.

That said she did put Worcester sauce in the mince for shepherds pie, which I recently remembered, and did for our tea tonight (it was lovely).

Worcester sauce is lovely in a beef dish, it brings out the taste of the meat. Of course you need to be careful if you have guests with fish allergies, as they might not be expecting it in spag bol etc.

My brother picked up a pound coin once and said " it's amazing how they fit 100 pennies in a pound! And for years I thought there was a 100 pennies squished up inside a pound coin.