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?

I’ve found my tribe of cold custard eaters! On its own eaten cold = food of the gods. Hot and poured over things = just a waste of a pudding.

My grandad was a tea-in-the-saycer man, used to drive my grandma nuts. One thing my grandma used to have in the way of weird food rituals was you were not allowed to have a cold pudding such as trifle or tinned fruit without a slice of bread and butter to go with it. Apparently cold puddings would otherwise freeze your insides or something. Never encountered anyone else who does this.

I do hot mushed up weetabix for my toddler. I eat it in bricks with cold milk, as quick as possible so it doesn't go mushy!

Britney - what do you mean?? I can't send a shiver down my own spine.

Gah! Saucer not saycer!

@BertieBotts
what do you mean?? I can't send a shiver down my own spine.

Well, it’s so easy for me I thought it was just a normal human thing? I can send a shiver down my spine on purpose and goosebumps immediately appear on my skin. I thought everybody could do this

I've had it both ways - both good 😊

This thread is brilliant!

Oh and cheese served with fruitcake is a proper Yorkshire thing!

@BritneyPeedOnALadybug

That shiver thing is the weirdest thing I’ve read on this thread. Next to the cold curry sandwiches for breakfast of course.

I now feel like a freak of nature!! 😭 I must confess I posted it half because I was expecting people to say “oh, that’s nothing” or “I can do that too”.

Another vote for cold custard!

I’m sorry but yes you are are a freak . What other unusual things can you do ?

@SHAR0N well, at least it prompted me to google it and although it looks like it’s rare, I’m not alone! www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/qhl2m/cae_send_chills_down_their_spine_voluntarily/

@BritneyPeedOnALadybug I just spent a good few minutes attempting to send a shiver down my spine (basically just shimmying ) and then checking my arms for goosebumps. Turns out I can't do it

@meredithgrey1 I can’t describe it but it’s a very easy thing for me to do. I can’t believe I have a somewhat unique talent... and it’s that.

Regarding black and white cats: perhaps there used to be more of them because the licence was cheaper than for coloured cats?

I used to drink Coke with a scoop of ice cream on top (in 90s South Africa). It was a legitimate thing to order in restaurants etc. Haven’t seen it since.

Called a coke float when I was growing up in South Wales, but more properly termed an ice cream soda I think. My kids used to love them when they were little.

A coke float? (yuck) That's an American thing, to my mind.

You can get Coke floats, and floats made with other soft drinks in the UK. Chain restaurants like Frankie and Bennys and burger restaurants will often sell them. Some cafes too. Irn Bru is good too though my favourite might be with ginger beer.

We are allowed American things over here you know Mama

I'm not a huge fan of dairy so when, as a child, I was at a friends house for tea & I was given burgers in buns & the buns had been buttered I was I really struggled to eat it but did as I didn't want to impolite. I wondered if it was just my family who didn't butter the buns but have never had it since, thankfully!

Always had coke floats in 'Browns' in Pembroke in summer....I hadnt realised it was specifically a Welsh thing!

I had a lot of Coke floats/ice cream sodas as a child in Scotland. I'm craving one now.

As a child, if we had fish, we had to have a bite of bread and butter with every mouthful of fish ; apparently, if we swallowed a fish bone, the bread would stop it sticking in our throat.

I had lemonade floats when I was younger, never tried a coke float though