What’s something you do that would make other people think WTF?
Eat fries first, main dish later, always. Good reason though: usually the main dish holds heat much longer than fries do, and it probably won’t get as gross as fries do.
Cold fries are tasteless and soggy. A warm burger is still good.
Not strange at all. Everyone knows you eat the fries in the car on the way home.
I eat in the same order but because I like to eat my favourite bit last.
If I have a roast dinner I’ll eat veg - potatoes - meat.
Same reason I save my roast broccoli for last
That’s compelling logic.
I meticulously eat all the whites off my fried eggs then shove the intact yolk into my mouth. Mostly because I hate yolking the other food on the plate and fried eggs are best hot. I have converted my husband. Everyone else seems to think it’s weird.
I do this to not waste even a drop of the precious liquid flavor gold that are egg yolks.
No way, I do the exact same thing! My husband thinks it’s cute but still prefers his eggs scrambled.
I do this but put it on the eye of the bacon first.
What is the eye of the bacon?
The roundish bit on UK bacon
There are dozens of us!
Yes yes yes! I knew I wasn’t alone! We can start our own community now!
Mostly because I hate yolking the other food on the plate
I’m the opposite then, I guess. I don’t need ketchup for my fries if I have egg yolk is all I’m gonna say.
According to my husband and all my friends, the weirdest thing about me is my name for a sandwich.
Apparently, everyone else calls it a ‘grilled cheese’. I have always called it by it’s proper name, a ‘toasted cheese’.
If you make it in a panini press, then it is a grilled cheese. But if you make a sandwich by buttering each side and toasting it in a pan on the stove until the cheese melts, then it is a toasted cheese. But every time I say ‘toasted cheese’, people look at me as though I have grown another head.
Cheese toasty.
That’s the one. Never heard it called anything else here in New Zealand
I had a friend growing up that called them cheese toasties
Griddle Fatwitch, I’m not welcome most places.
That’s what they’re called from now on, I don’t care what anyone says.
I want a Griddle Fatwich now.
This reminds me of the “melt vs. grilled cheese” post
My parents called it ‘toasted cheese’ and I never thought much of it, but that makes a lot of sense. I might start using it too
I grew up in the Midwest and we call them toasted cheese. In my family, it kind of morphed into 1 word though-- toastacheese
I call it “sandwich”, grilled or toasted, it does not matter. It is pretty weird to eat raw bread (no offense to people who eat them without warming it on a pan). And if you’re using just butter and cheese, you’re missing out a lot.
Here’s my mom’s vegetarian sandwich recipe. Remove cheese and butter and it will be vegan.
Ingredients:
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Bread
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Potato
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Capsicum
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Beetroot
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Tomatoes
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Cucumber
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Chaat masala
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Cheese slices
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Butter (not really needed)
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For the chutney
- Pudina mint
- Coriander leaves
- Garlic
- Tamarind paste
- Ground nuts (or other substitute if you’re allergic)
- Green chillies x2
- Coconut shavings
- Sugar
- Salt
Steps:
- Make some pudina-peanut chutney by tossing in all the ingredients
- Boil potato (under a pressure cooker or a normal utensil), let it cool and remove the skin
- Slice four thin slices of tomatoes, capsicum, cucumber, softened potatoes and beetroots
- Get some chaat masala from a South-Asian grocery, and add them to your potato slices
- Spread the chutney in the bottom bread of your sandwich
- Slap in rest of the ingredients, followed by cheese
- Low-heat toast the bread (we don’t use butter, but you may choose to)
- Enjoy
Two sandwiches will fill your tummy real good for the rest of the day. Only issue is that some prep is required.
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Did you grow up in a different region than your husband? Based on my mother and grandmother, I’d bet that ‘Toasted Cheese’ was prevalent in the southwest US in the mid-1900s. Both terms sound right to me.
No, we grew up in the same region of the same state and haven’t moved from there. Most of our friends are native to the region as well. I have no idea why I call it something different, it is the term I have used all my life. Even my sister calls it a ‘grilled cheese’!
My wife also says “toasted cheese”. Well, her and her children. Only people I’ve ever known to call it that.
Do you have any other unusual turns of phrase? She’s full of them. The one that drives me up a wall is where I’d say, “right side in”, she says, “right side to”.
Not really? I actually get confused if people use mixed up idioms or other weird turns of phrase. It is really only this food item in particular.
I still have what many people call my commonwealth influence and so I have a lot of names for things that people don’t understand. Chips instead of french fries, shrimp (prawn) on the barbie, etc. Some friends asked if I wanted to see the Barbie movie and I jokingly asked if they’d serve shrimp instead of popcorn, and their utter confusion sent the message clear they didn’t get it. Yup, I’m the weird one :(
That said, by now my vocabulary is somewhat hybridized.
Related to this, one of the weirdest things I do is how I like many of my foods. People are weirded out because I like… my toast to be soft… my ice cream to be half melted… my steak to be mooing (back when I active partook in that; I don’t really anymore)… my tootsie pops to be eaten in one bite… my cereal poured after my milk… my pizza with pineapple on it… my milk with ice in it… etc.
That last paragraph made irrationally angry lol.
I also like my ice cream to be soup lol! Pineapple on pizza is okay, but I can only have small amounts of pineapple. The rest are odd, but at least you know what you like!
One day I saw advertised these birdhouses with little accordion-like appendages, the same kind most air conditioners have that allow them to fit into windows, and I bought several of these, one per window. On the side facing the outdoors, birds find a little hole and can venture inside, as is typical of a birdhouse. On the side facing the inside of my home, the same birdhouses have tiny windows, like those one-way viewers hotel doors have, that allow anyone to see into the birdhouses, as well as the secretly built option to open it like a door, either while no bird is inside (makes cleaning them easy) or, if someone for some reason felt devious (I wouldn’t, and would never give anyone the key to said birdhouse doors), while a bird was in there, which would force it to honor the will of the owner of the home with all the said birdhouses (again, I would never use this feature, unless maybe a bird was injured or something and needed help).
Alright, with all that said… while I have no plans to ditch any of the birdhouses, I will admit I’ve received complaints that the combination of a few dozen birdhouses in unison is noisy in the morning, like you wake up at six in the morning and it sounds like the birdie house of commons. People say such bird hospitality is unbecoming of an inn attendant. Is it though? Is it? That said, this is usually when the noise cancellers aren’t working.
I have no words right now.
It’s not really weird to want temporary bird aquarium windows in your house. That’s ingenious. I think I’d love that
I’m a chronic joint-popper. Fingers, toes, neck, and back are all pretty standard fare for most people. But a lot of people get weirded out when I pop my shoulders, elbows, ankles, knees, or hips. Sometimes I can make something around my sternum pop, but usually only after waking up from a long sleep.
Shoulders back, chest out… that pop is so satisfying! You’re the only other person I’ve seen that does this too lol
Me too! Happens after a long gaming session too…
I love a good sternum pop!
I regularly pop my knees, ankles and jaw. I’m pretry sure if I could figure out how to pop my shoulders and elbiws they’d also start getting popped regularly
Edit: I should mention, don’t hurt yourself trying anything in this comment. If you feel like you’re about to break/pull/sprain something, stop.
Try this for the shoulder. Sit in your chair with your feet on the floor, about shoulder-width apart. Place your right hand on your right knee, fingers pointing toward your left knee and thumb pointing toward your torso. Now, try to pivot your elbow laterally “inward”, as if you’re keeping the same height from the ground but trying to rotate it around toward the area above the space between your knees. It won’t actually move far because your hand is staying planted on your knee, but push just ever do slightly “past” where the rotation stops, and you should get a satisfying pop.
That’s how I do it, at least.
The hips are the most satisfying, though, in my opinion. Nearly the same position as before: sitting down, feet planted on the floor, but with a slightly wider stance. Go full manspread for this. Keep the toes pointed slightly inward, or straight ahead. Hand on knee, and mostly using your thigh muscles (with slight force from your hand), gently pull your knee toward the other knee, while keeping both feet squarely planted in place. Keep your knee at the same height, you don’t want to rotate vertically at all, only horizontally. Basically just need to make sure your feet and tailbone never move from their spots.
If done right, you should get a loud, deep pop that feels absolutely amazing. I wish I could make a diagram, because I doubt any of this makes any sense.
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Ouch
I also do this! I thought it was normal. Guess not
I too enjoy walking.
I process insect vomit for a day job
Beekeeper eh?
I, uh… I shave hair like 5 cm around my bumhole. Paired with a bidet, you wouldn’t guess how much easier it made it to wipe. I used to use 30-50 squares of toilet paper per wiping session, today I can manage with just 10
a bidet and a waxed butthole are the pandora’s box of the bathroom. once you open them you can never go back
I use hair removal cream for the same effect. Indeed, anything less seems barbaric.
Pandora’s cheeks
I came here expecting to share about my ears, but will come away expecting to shave my bum 🤔
More people should do this, honestly. Getting a hairy bumhole to be clean after a big dump is annoying as all hell.
However… 10 squares of toilet paper? Even with a shaved and hosed down bussy? That still seems like a lot to me
It is a lot. I’m a pretty hairy dude who stopped bothering with even trimming my ass hairs once I got a bidet attachment a few years back. 5 is usually enough, sometimes 7. Like 1% of shits require more than that. The other guy is either using way too much tp or he’s buying single-ply for some ungodly reason.
No, I actually have triple-ply. I developed a stupid habit of folding multiple papers and using them together, so I wipe with like 9 layers at a time. It helps the paper not break up even being wet, but wastes a lot more overall.
I don’t mow my lawn.
Fully invested in the no lawn movement, I’ve been slowly replacing my grass with “no-mow” fine fescue grasses that fall over when they grow long instead of standing up straight. They grow slowly and are meant to not be mowed most of the summer season, just a couple times in the spring and cut down low in the fall.
Between that and using shredded leaves as mulch in my flower beds or lasagna mulching to create a new flower bed, my neighbors definitely think I’m a bit off.
I like this, we don’t mow often, and have 6 sheep that keep, not only the paddocks, but the back lawn short-ish
I brush my teeth in bed and swallow the toothpaste at the end. According to the chemical fact sheet swallowing my toothpaste is well within osha defined limits for sodium flouride, and people who live in places with naturally more fluoridated water than where I am are exposed for far more than I am. so I really don’t think there is any health concern. I have been doing it for a decade now and I have no symptoms of over exposure. I find it greatly helps me fall asleep if I don’t have to get out of bed to brush.
Get out of bed to brush? Why not just brush before you even get to bed?
Look, with your level of logical thinking I don’t know if this is the right thread for you
For anyone curious, toothpaste has 1,000 to 1,500 ppm fluoride and tap water typically has ~1 ppm or less. Assuming OP swallowed a pea sized quantity of toothpaste (which is the reccommended amount for brushing) the amount of fluoride in that toothpaste would be about equivalent to drinking a cup of tap water.
Not leaving the house without a hat. I feel naked without one. I have a felt hat, a straw hat, and a vintage stetson made from leather-looking plastic for traveling and festivals as it’s essentially indestructible ;)
The straw hat is closing in on 10 years, and I’m planning to get a new one next summer, I have not yet decided on the style, maybe a panama hat.
Coming from a place where skin cancer is more of a when you get it and not if you get it. This is normal as can be.
I’m from northern Germany. While global warming changed things a bit, we used to have a joke
What are you doing this summer?
On that day I plan to work in the garden.
That said, I also hate baseball caps, something some people tend to also call hats.
edit: Oh, and funnily enough, hats are still somewhat rare in South Africa, despite them having a lot of sun. It’s mainly people working outside that wear them. Most of the white people there do look a bit sun-burnt.
As an Aussie, this is totally normal and beats getting skin cancer. This is normal for most Aussies as you can literally feel the sun burning you skin some days.
The joys of living closer to the hole in the ozone layer!
Are you even an Aussie if you don’t own at least one Bunnings hat!
I’m rocking a Mitre10 hat at the moment, it was free, and a hat is a hat!
Haha that’s very acceptable, and the sophisticated choice of hat IMHO
I eat bell peppers like apples. Just wash it and eat it, no cutting required.
Is your name Matt? My friend in uni whipped out a pepper one day and bit into it like an apple, and just as the OP title describes I was like wtf
But then I thought about it and I was like why should that be so weird?
Microwave a piece of cheese for a few seconds before eating it. I like room-temperature cheese.
Soft muenster is best muenster
Overthink everything
The WTF part of that for me is thinking that is strange.
My estimate would be that 20% of the population do that regularly and 80% have done it a some period in their lives.
I tend to do that also. It makes me horrible at logistics and I also consider myself a horrible driver because I expect everyone to hit me.
No, you’re supposed to do that, aren’t you? When I was learning to drive they taught us to be defensive drivers.
One of my favourite sandwiches is strong cheddar cheese and strawberry jam.
I don’t think I’ll like it, but I really want to try this combo now! How did you come across this?
My dad got it from his grandad, his family are from Leicestershire and Ireland.
Grapes, sharp white cheddar, and crackers are delicious together, so I could see this being good
Cheddar is also good with peanut butter!
I also recommend tomato, onion and peanut butter (the sweetener-free version, a yank offered me a foul sweetened version of peanut butter and I now specify the one made exclusively of peanuts)
And cheese-and-honey is a not unusual school lunch sandwich option here in Australia. But then, so is cheese and vegemite.
Try it with a salty white cheese like feta. Just crumble the cheese. Trust me, it’s delicious.
