Strange meal traditions

morganb

beanynharrison wrote: »

My husbands family have red cabbage with their christmas dinner which I find bizarre

We always have red cabbage, too, and its delicious!!

thriftlady_2

morganb wrote: »

We always have red cabbage, too, and its delicious!!

It goes very well with roast goose which is what we're having

moanymoany

lindadykes wrote: »

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!.

Yes, Lindadykes, that bread and butter thing with tinned fruit - really weird! I hated it like poison, in our house it was compulsory to eat it at the same time. AND it was rotten echo marge.

Maxjessdru

I remember for sunday tea when I was little we always had tinned fruit with evaporated milk and bread and butter!

Another one I have found out recently is the "East End Sunday tea". My OH said when he was small, Sunday tea was always a salad consisting of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, cheddar cheese, hard boiled egg and pilchards! Thought the pilchards a bit of a strange addition until talking with best mate (whose mum also a cockney) that they always had exactly the same thing!

rev229

My mothers cooking is awful everything is over cooked and all meat is served cold and very grey, her idea of gravy is the fat from the cooked meat:eek: :eek: . When my husband first had a meal there she offered him some gravy on his so called roast dinner. Both me and my brother quickly shouted no! he took one look at the pale liquid and declined.
My mother-in law has a strange mix of food peanut butter and banana on toast and cheese and jam on toast. As a child my husband had delights of baked bean soup and brussel sprout curry:eek: :eek: . When we go to her for a family lunch she will serve up roast meat, potaoes , veg, salad and gravy . My daughter loves peanut butter, cheese and marmite sandwiches. It does sound very odd but my husband has now started eating them as well he says it is really yummy, I will give it a miss!

sarah.l.smith22

Spendless wrote: »

|Yes I have a relative who does that too. The year I was invited for dinner, a younger relative whined about it. Usually I'd tell the younger relative to stop moaning as they are very faddy about food, but on this occassion I was so grateful that someone had voiced the opinion that I thought that I backed her up and put ours in the microwave, to warm up.

My bf's family do this for every sunday dinner, veg is out of a tin and roasties are not crispy. Also there seems to be mint sauce and yorkies with all roast dinners (my entire family do beef and yorkies, lamb and mint sauce, turkey and cranberry and chicken and stuffing). Needless to say I can't physically bring myself to eat cold and or gross stuff after so many years or yummy dinners (thanks mum, nan and delia!) so don't usually brave going there on a sunday!!

hollydays

Re the cooking the turkey the night before.
I was brought up on the idea that a good " hostess" for want of a better word, always served all the food piping hot , quickly,at the same time (and plans for this) ,but I found found some of my relatives dont do this either,with any meal. (mind you they are great company so thats what counts,i reckon!) My Mum used to plunge the dinner plates into boiling water just before serving too,to keep the food hotter as well.
A friend of mine,when I was a kid introduced me to cheese and jam sandwiches(cheshire cheese and strawberry jam,I think).I seem to think i used to like them,but i wouldnt dare try them now to find out!!

Fozz

My ex MIL used to make the same meals every week, roast on Sunday, Shepherds pie with leftover minced meat on Monday etc. The strange thing was that she had never bought raw mince and didn't know you could! All her mince was minced up roast meat. The worst meal was fried liver with baked beans for Saturday tea.
Another strange thing was that her sausage rolls were always kept in a cake tin in the cupboard with the other cakes rather than in the fridge. I never ate one unless I knew they had been made the same day, but none of the family seemed to suffer any ill-effects.

Hardup_Hester

My lodger eats toast & raw broccoli, for breakfast & if I serve a side salad with a meal, she microwaves it!

moanymoany

One of my stepmothers - I had four! She made the same meals every day of the week. By far the worst was mince. She put the raw mince in a cold pan. Add one whole onion per person - fill the pan with water and boil.

No seasoning.

No taste.

No thickening.

eughhhh!!!!!!