What did you grow up doing that you thought everybody did?

[Blondy876]

This is OT but what does half-adopted mean? I have never heard that phrase before.

I'm guessing that her biological parent married someone else and that the someone else adopted her. Right?

 

[cepmom]

but my Mom and Dad didnt like cold pizza so they would leave the left-overs on the counter and eat it room temp the next day........they never seemed to get sick. I thought everyone ate say old room temp pizza until I got old enough to learn NO!!!!!!

My parents did this too!!! I never knew you were supposed to refrigerate leftover pizza!! Mom would just put in the toaster oven....she did that with leftover baked potatoes too and I'm sure other things I can't think of right now. I actually did get sick though one time from the leftover potatoes...not a good thing

 

[cepmom]

my parents fought a lot ~ Dad is an alcoholic (now in recovery thank God) ~ often times it would get physical. I thought everyone's parents did this until one time I was having a sleepover and my parents were at again...my friends were horrifed. I can only imagine what they went home and told their parents

 

[4GBLC]

french dressing on pizza

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH. I can't believe someone else does this. My son has done this from the first time he ate pizza. It has to be the Country French Dressing (the orange colored) My wife and I have no idea where he got it from, but he loves it!

 

[mytwotinks]

Well, Santa DOES NOT wrap his gifts. Mom and Dad's gifts to the kids are under the tree and on Christmas Eve Santa leaves a nice display of all of the toys he is giving! I couldn't beleive it when I had my own kids and my Dh and my Friends were surprised that Santa didn't wrap our gifts.

I don't think that I knew that you could buy a brownie mix until I was married and out of the house. My mom would have never spent the extra $$$ on a mix! She bought cake mixes but never brownies. I have friends that think I am a gourmet chef with my homemade brownies!

 

[Rachie0507]

We always loved grilled cheese with mustard. That is the only way I'll eat it now.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Graham crackers crushed with milk on them.
Sliced apples with cinnamon and sugar on them.
Ketchup on eggs.
Ketchup on Hotdogs (DH still yells at me for this. He says it has to be mustard.)
Bread with butter and grated cheese on top (Italian Grandfather called it Irish Pizza)

 

[Zandy595]

My best friend in school always told me about eating peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. She made it for me one time and it wasn't too bad.

I like grilled cheese sandwiches with bread & butter pickles cooked in them. Sometimes I put mustard on it too.

In college I ate popcorn mixed with tuna fish salad. It wasn't something I grew up eating, it was just all I had to eat at the time and it was pretty good.

 

[Poohbear123]

fried bologna, mayo, and chip sandwiches
fries dipped in milkshakes (Wendy's frostys actually are the best with fries)
Pb&j and chip sandwiches
french fries dipped in mayo
raw hamburger right out of the package (I didn't die)
raw hotdogs
pizza for breakfast
My brother would eat dog biscuits (My mom had to keep them up away from him) I could get him to do anything for me with a dog biscuit

Now mind you I would rather die than eat any of this stuff now.

OMG I ate Dog Biscuits too! Now, forget it! Oh, and DH didn't wrap his gifts either, from Santa, they came "as is." One year I did that, and the kids HATED it, so I went back to wrapping.

 

[doubletrouble_vb]

My family was so different from the other families in town that I didn't assume anything we did was something everyone else did. By the way I LOVE baloney and I love fried baloney on toast or even better a grilled cheese and fried baloney sandwich.

Oh...this I was pretty sure other people DIDNT do but have since seen people say they ate it....mayonnaise with sugar. Haven't eaten it as an adult but I do have fond memories of it.

Now...my assumption growing up was that other people were more alike than not. So I was shocked, I tell you SHOCKED when I was working in student dining during the summer session....a bunch of midwestern kids came through and

a) called me Ma'am (I had just turned 22)
b) asked to have the gravy for the potatoes put on their spaghetti...that still grosses me out. I grew up and went to school in NYS...you do not put brown gravy on spaghetti. Other pastas yes...not spaghetti.

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

Freyja,

We used to have the rice like that too, heated up, cinnamon and sugar and milk, I haven't thought about that in a long time, I used to love it. Might have to make me up some.

I LOVE having rice like that. My mom used to make it for breakfast on the weekends. I haven't had it in years! I think I might have to make some Saturday morning. Yumm!

 

[crz4mm2]

Sterzing potato chips on bread with mayo sandwiches...
Ketchup on potatoes- any kind of potatoes....

saltine crackers with milk on them.

 

[Ratpack]

We had cornbread and milk in a bowl quite a bit. I still love it to this day, but I just don't make the cornbread like my mom though.

 

[CherCrazy]

I thought everyone camped out. My parents took us camping all over the US. That was our way of seeing the country. DH grew up without a dad, so when I married him camping was OUT. His idea of camping is a Days Inn.

 

[outstandinfarmer]

I grew up thinking everyone had tons of Disney animated movies. Then I went to a friend's house and I was shoked when they only had three!!!! Didn't her parents love her? I just didn't understand!

 

[Kycha]

My mom told me when she was a little girl her grandmother would often give her coffee with lots of sugar and saltines. It sounds disgusting to me, but she loved it.

These have already been mentioned, but, we often had fried baloney sandwiches, and peanut butter and honey/syrup sandwiches.

When I was in grade school, we would get red jello as a dessert. The jello was always chopped up pretty fine. My friends and I would pour milk over the jello then suck it up with a straw. Yummy!!

My dad was an avid hunter, so we often had rabbit, pheasant, dove and turkey on our dinner table. My parents thought they could fool me into eating deer meat all the time. They would substitute deer meat for hamburger in spaghetti sauce and tacos. I was never fooled. Venison has a distinct smell when it is cooking. To this day I refuse to eat it. Gross.

Even though we had little money when I was growing up, were able to travel as a family. We went camping everywhere. We went to Florida(WDW) numerous times. Also, Virginia, Arizona, California and North Carolina. We even went to the World's Fair in Knoxville, TN. My dad had one of those old army tents. Canvas with about a thousand poles, that smelled awful when it rained. I think the first time I stayed in a hotel was when my uncle died when I was a senior in high school. I was very lucky as a kid.

 

[Catzeyes]

Smoked "cat tails" (the kind that grow by a marsh, not the kind attached to a cat!). We would light the end and pretend it was a cigar. Just found out recently that not everyone did that .

We grew up doing that too!

 

[THE HAT]

Well, Santa DOES NOT wrap his gifts. Mom and Dad's gifts to the kids are under the tree and on Christmas Eve Santa leaves a nice display of all of the toys he is giving! I couldn't beleive it when I had my own kids and my Dh and my Friends were surprised that Santa didn't wrap our gifts.

omg someone else, finally!!!!! when i grew up that is how it was too!! santa left his gifts all unwrapped stocking stuffers too. gifts from mom and dad were wrapped but not santa's. and yes things are still this way for ds now too. dh was the opposite growing up but he loves this way so much better!!!


now onto the other items: jello with milk, smoked cat tails (had them growing in our back yard) toast dipped in tea, fried bologna sandwiches, chedder in the spag sauce. we also used to do chips dipped in ketchup, and pb and butter on graham crackers.

had to edit as i forgot that i came from the pizza left on the counter home too!! never thougth any diff of it until i was on my own and realized umm ewwwwww.

 

[Steffi]

I used to think everyone opened their Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. I remember being very surprised upon finding out that Santa came to other kid's houses while they were asleep, not while they were at the Christmas Eve church service like at our house. I always wondered how kids managed to get to sleep that night...I know I'd have been hiding out somewhere to ambush Santa if I thought I had the chance.

I used to think that sliced raw sliced potatoes and onions were a perfectly tasty, commonplace snack to sit down and eat with my dad & sisters.

Same for ice cubes dipped in Tang powder. And bacon dipped in peanut butter.

I used to think that the youngest in the family (that would be me) had to come when her older siblings clapped twice loudly and get them a drink or a snack or a blanket. That's what they told me, why would they lie?

I used to think it was normal to sit in a hall closet during a thunderstorm, before I knew that my mother was just totally insane.

I could go on and on.

 

[Tine731]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH. I can't believe someone else does this. My son has done this from the first time he ate pizza. It has to be the Country French Dressing (the orange colored) My wife and I have no idea where he got it from, but he loves it!

Yes, the orange colored dressing is the better of the french dressings when it comes to putting it on pizza.