Things you thought were normal... till that fateful, maybe embarrassing, day
partially inspired by the Henry thread, so I do expect a few entertaining gimmick, but here's one of my mine i can remember.
When I was a kid my mom really only cooked breakfast for the family on Sundays. usually it was just cereal. my mom always made, eggs, sausage or bacon, toast or bagel, corn, and usually cream of mushroom soup.
yup, i said corn and cream of mushroom soup. this had been going on for so long, that I thought this was normal...
until i went out to breakfast, for the first time with some high school friends. when i asked the waitress what kind of soup they had. the waitress looked at me kind of funnily, and said
"honey, we don't have soup till lunch"
i turned to my friends and expressed how strange that was, when they all sat there staring at me, then busting out laughing. making fun of me for thinking people eat soup for breakfast.
go figure. i thought it was standard and everyone ate soup for breakfast.
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it's funny this comes up a lot where i often tell my parents about the insane stuff they did i thought was normal that everyone did but right now can barely think of any
1 tofu in spaghetti - actually quite good to the point where i've attempted to recreate myself and always fail
2 using a soup spoon as an anchor point to twirl your fork upon and wind spaghetti around it
3 never eating out - was viewed as something people the mega wealthy or people who are traveling would do - whenever a friend would mention they'd eat out because their parents liked to do that i'd just instantly think they were rich
4 having normal conversations with your family that aren't focused around them giving you life lessons or advice - normally having dinner with friends the parents make you the center of attention asking you questions or you and the friend eat alone doing your own thing so it really wasn't until visiting friends' homes in college did i realize how most of them had normal conversations with their parents just like with everyone else, took forever for me to realize i wasn't visiting the flanders but that was actually the norm and my family was the outlier
not a broken or unloving home by any means - just they were always on "parent mode" and still are to this day
5 calling them buhtato instead of potato and liberry instead of library - and no, it's not some regional thing - my aunt does it too so perhaps it is from where they grew up in boxford mass
Embarrassingly.... until I was about 20 I assumed dental floss was used by scraping it over the surface of you teeth, not to go between the gaps.
was deeply concerned i'd been flossing incorrectly
how do you differ (or used to differ) from this video?
This doesn't entirely fit the thread.....but until recently (like last week) I though pimentos grew inside olives. I despise olives so I never eat them, so I never really knew that a pimento was just a cherry pepper.
I saw that Chick fil A has a sandwich with some kind of pimento spread and I was immediately repulsed.....who would want a spread with an ingredient that they picked out of an olive??????
So I google "pimento." Now I know.
This doesn't entirely fit the thread.....but until recently (like last week) I though pimentos grew inside olives. I despise olives so I never eat them, so I never really knew that a pimento was just a cherry pepper.
I saw that Chick fil A has a sandwich with some kind of pimento spread and I was immediately repulsed.....who would want a spread with an ingredient that they picked out of an olive??????
So I google "pimento." Now I know.
I also believed this for way too long, but tbh it's one of those things I just never thought much about. If you had asked me I'd just say "yeah a pimiento is a part of a green olive", but then if you pressed me on like what it actually is, I'd probably have been like "wait a minute, it's not a stem, it's not a seed, wtf is it?" and realized I'm a moron.
