
‘What did you grow up thinking was normal, and then realised when you left home it was really weird?’ – 21 shocking realisations
11.
‘More stuff we didn’t do. Not that interesting but, for example, nobody in my family takes their shoes off in their or other people’s houses. I now find it disgusting.
My family also never waited until everybody had been served before starting to eat. My dad would be almost finished before my mum had even sat down. Took me a while to learn that was poor manners.’
–Norman_debris
12.
‘Standing up and saluting Bruce Forsyth whenever he was on TV.’
–Insertnameherebois
13.
‘Milk soda. Glass of milk with Sprite poured in to make it fizzy.’
–frottagecore
14.
‘Sunday Roasts are silent. It’s not enforced and you can talk, we just… don’t? Got pointed out by the first girlfriend that came round and asked why it was so awkward, did they hate her etc. I had no idea people talked while eating.’
–RunawayPenguin89
15.
‘Calling a thin covering of snow a ‘slake’. But apparently nobody in the world calls it that.’
–Erivandi
16.
‘Sleeping bags. We each had a sleeping bag that we would take around our (very cold) house with us all winter. I thought everyone did.’
–Different-Employ9651
17.
‘Porridge on a plate. Just how mum served it, little bit of brown sugar and butter on top. Asked my mum later about this and she said ‘So it cooled quicker’. I mean, makes sense.’
–Antergaton
18.
‘Reading at the dinner table. Everyone had a book, newspaper, or magazine. My dad had mad broadsheet-management skills.’
–csrster
19.
‘Sugar sandwiches. With butter. Absolutely vile as an adult, but it was called ‘cakey butbut’, and obviously, as kids, we loved it. Now we know it’s because we had nothing else to eat, but back then, we had not a clue. I’d also never dream of feeding this to a child, hahaha!’
–Mutteringsmuse
20.
‘Black pepper on sliced strawberries instead of sugar. My Nan has always done it and surprisingly it works.’
–fmaznk
21.
‘My parents were nudists so…’
–Important_Lychee6925
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