Strange meal traditions

Becles

My Mam always cooks a joint of meat the day before then serves it cold with the meal for Sunday lunch. I thought this was normal until hubby complained about it and told me it wasn't normal

balmaiden

Not traditional, but,the strangest meal I ever heard of, was when a friend of mine went to a new boyfriends parents' house for Sunday lunch. Tinned potatos,tinned peas and a curled piece of meat which my friend could not identify,but did chew her way through. Politely she thanked her host and enquired what the meat was.................................................ROASTED PIGS TAILS, was the reply.

She must of been keen on the boyfriend, as she went a second time for a meal. This time it was a very watery stew and dumplings. Biting into the dumpling she found to her horror it was a piece of boiled pigs tale.

End of romance!!!!!!!

jinky67

Jayar wrote: »

When I was wee (many moons ago) I used to love soup day. My mum usually made the soup with boiling beef. After the soup course, we always had the beef in the same soup plate, with mashed tatties and turnip and also a few spoonfuls of the leftover soup over it all.
Sounds really gross now, but I loved it.

We used to do this at my Granny's house.It was the best dinner ever:D

tmm_aka_tracy

when I was younger, my dad used to cook the sunday joint slowly on a Saturday night. Then, when he came home from the pub we would have hot meat sandwiches for supper - which I loved. But of course the meat was servied cold on a Sunday. Its not a tradition I have continued.

Saturday tea was usually something simple like banana sandwiches or boiled eggs, and on a Tuesday we always had a 'cooked' dinner, such as mince and onions with mash and yorkshire puddings.

One of the other odd things is that we tended not to use knives for eating, when I married my (now ex) husband, he literally had to teach me how to use a knife and fork.

:rotfl:

lindadykes

I found it very strange when I first went to my now MIL's house for Sunday lunch and was only given a fork - I had to ask for a knife. Funnily enough everyne now gets a knife there!!

We used to have bread and butter sprinkled with sugar - open, not in a sandwich and my dad used to call it "pitman's ham".

My dad did seem to like some odd things, he would have Cristmas cake sandwiches, but by far the worst in my opinion, because he thought we should all do it was having to eat a slice of bread and butter with your jelly, tinned fruit and evapourated milk for Snday tea, dad would encourage us to dip the bread in the milk and fruit syrup, I hated that!.

Spendless

Becles wrote: »

My Mam always cooks a joint of meat the day before then serves it cold with the meal for Sunday lunch. I thought this was normal until hubby complained about it and told me it wasn't normal

I could have understood it more (still have thought it odd though)if they always did a cold joint of meat with a hot dinner but they don't ..it's just special for Christmas.

I also had a friend who would only give you a fork to eat a meal with. I can't do it I have to have both a knife and fork to eat with. I'd just go get myself a knife out of her cutlery drawer.:o

i_wanna_save_money!

When we were younger, me and my brother used to eat cold pasta with sugar on at our russian grandmas house - it was delish although it is not something i would eat now

Anastacia

My Grandma used to serve 'cold' sometimes which was cold meat and boiled potatoes (lovely) but the salad was finely chopped lettuce, spring onion and cucumber dressed with milk,sugar and vinegar. I cant remember thinking that sounded at all odd until I was well grown up. She was an excellent cook. though. Maybe its a Devon thing. We also had bread & butter with everything especially tinned fruit with evaporated milk. Still dont like evap now!

ceridwen

I'll eat any form of cereal (healthy variety) going for breakfast (or come to think of it any other meal either). Porridge today was partially oat flakes and partly leftover cooked barley. Also known to use cooked rice as part of my porridge.

Also occasionally like to have a couple of fried eggs with some tomato puree squeezed round the edges of them in the frying pan - eaten with pickled cucumbers. Hmmmm.... black olives would be good too..thinks. Cjome to think of it - so would feta cheese and artisan bread. Right thats Saturday lunch sorted.

morganb

Not really a strange tradition but ... I remember going to McDonalds for the first time with my Grandma when I was younger; she ordered a Filet Of Fish and got annoyed when she wasn't given a knife and fork, bless her.

And a tradition my Grandad had, as he came from Yorkshire, was to start his roast dinner off with a large yorkshire pudding filled with onion gravy ... and make sure there were puds left over to fill with jam for pudding. Yum yum yum, especially if you have them after roast meat sandwiches for supper.