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?

Playdate and I gave the children some warm Ribena, it was a cold day. One mother said a very sarky, "Thanks for that, DD won't drink it cold now." I'd always thought Ribena was a warm/hot drink.

All you cyanide alarmists, I have done the apple core thing for years and years and I'm still here Me too, still here late 60s so it's taking it's time to finish me off, old age might get me first.

my kids get their presents in sexy black hold ups. They will probably be posting on a thread like this in 20 years.

@@Lovestonap Not quite that extreme but my grandparents always took their cat caravanning with them. He'd travel in the van and they would just let him out wherever they stopped. He never got lost and did many, many holidays like that.

For myself, we always ate faggots when I was a kid. I thought everyone did but I get many quizical looks from people I mention it to.

Weetabix served With sugar, warm and thick. Yum! I remember being weirded out when I first saw someone pouring cold milk on it!

I used to also think that everyone had a roast dinner on Sundays, until a school friend mentioned they hardly ever did....eyes were opened!

My father was stationed in W.Africa during the war. When he came back, he always sprinkled salt on them and sometimes fried them with bacon for breakfast. I didn't like them fried, but still have salt with mine in a sandwich. Also apple sandwiches. We always ate apple cores. Dad said other boys who didn't have an apple to eat would say, 'Gissa the core'.

Newly married my DH asked did I want toasted crumpets, he served them with melted cheese and salt not jam and butter! What!!!

Oh and cold curry sandwiches for Sunday breakfast. My dad would cook a big potato curry for sat night, left overs were cold between slices of white bread. My DH looked horrified when I told him.

@ImportantWater, YES! our stockings were a leg each of a pair of Mum's tights she'd got a ladder in. From about November if she laddered a pair she'd put it on oneside for Chrtistmas eve so she didn't have to damage a decent pair.

It was so much more practical - they're stretchy, so everything fits. THe stupid decorative ones our kids have frequently won't hold an annual or a wide toy.

@lovelyupnorth my mum always used to do us buttered weetabix for a snack. I thought it was completely normal until not long ago OH spotted me eating one like it and was disgusted!

I love this thread!

Mine I've only recently discovered isn't normal - whenever people talk (or I talk) I see the words written out in front of me like on a typewriter. Sort of like my whole world is subtitled. And I'm really fussy about name spellings because of it! Had no idea not everyone does this 😂 it's a form of synesthesia apparently.

Food wise we always put salt on oranges. Various friends over the years have been completely horrified by the concept but it makes them taste sweeter! Oh, and we bbq our breakfast at the weekend - also didn't think that was weird till I moved into my own home and did it for visiting friends who were baffled!

@CameFromAway Hurrah! I have found my people. Well, person. Of course, you might be my sister or my cousin. We should do a DNA test.

Had dry Weetabix with butter and marmalade on a camping trip once instead of toast. Twas good.

I cannot bear hot Ribena. Yuck. Didn't know it could be drunk hot. Tried it, didn't like it. It makes little bits of white, 'paper' appear in my mouth which I have to discretely spit out. Unpleasant.

This is why I dislike fruit tea. They all smell sickly sweet like hot Ribena. Yuk.

weetabix had a special routine.2 in a bowl next to eachother.cold milk but only pour over the top of one biscuit. eat the uncovered one first so your eating it still crispy.then carry on watching tv/chatting etc so the second goes soft.i loved the different experience in one bowl(i was a very strange child!oh but both had major amounts of sugar on.we put way to much sugar on our cereal.my sister used to love the sugar pile at the botttom of the bowl.
at school i was teased( ihate kids) for having 'different' sandwhiches which we always thought was normal.so intead of cheapo ham we had beef and horseradish,or cheese and marmite.

MissDew i really want to like fruit teas.but i dont.i have sniffed and tried so many.

Christmas lunch with a boyfriends large Yorkshire family. Huge Yorkshire puddings and delicious gravy served all around to everyone, ( there was twelve or more of us) Then the plates were all taken back and washed so Christmas lunch could be served on them. It was surprising, but delicious.

But this is the traditional reason Yorkshire puddings (and equivalent cheap starches in other cultures) exist -- in poorer times, they were served first to fill people up before the expensive (meat) part of the meal.

I had never heard of warming weetabix until I was a student nurse. not envy

I have weetbix two ways, usually with cold milk but plenty of milk so it soaks right in and if I have a sore throat I microwave it with milk, make it in to porridge and add a bit of honey.

We also used to eat them dry with butter and jam as kids.

I always put cheese in my hot cross buns which I thought was totally normal until my husband asked me what I was doing!

@inwood even better in chocolate milkshake!

I like chip-sticks (salt and vinegar) wrapped in that really cheap wafer-thin ham, and then dunked in salad cream.

Pancakes with gravy.

Yorkshire puddings with onion gravy before Sunday lunch - but never at Christmas, it would all pile on.

But I also don't get hot and cold items on a plate. For example, my other half likes carved ham (cold), with chips and egg. Also don't quite understand mash and baked beans, but apparently it's quite nice!

@Sleeveen It's mentioned in the James Herriot books. He also introduced me to Christmas cake and cheese in the same mouthful. Good of the gods!

I thought it was normal to have a "bit bin" for veg peelings etc for the compost until I was at a friend's house aged 16 and asked where I should put the carrot peelings!
Home made bread was standard. Also my mum never puts salt in anything (except bread) , so I don't, except pasta water because my Italian friend was so horrified

I eat the apple the core and break the pips...love the taste and crunch ...alive and well
Tomatoes salted
Ice cold milk on any cereals
Duck / Goose fat or pork lard (homemade) - the shop one is horrible - spread on fresh white crusty bread, salt, pepper and a bit of paprika...OMG!!
Feta cheese crumbled on soft egg yolk and chips

You don’t put salt in anything? Even a bakedpotato? I don’t think I could eat potatoes without any salt unless it was life or death. I also can’t understand why anyone would use unsalted butter for anything. Salted butter for all thing IMO.