Things your mother should have told you

[mark111757 Profile]

Found this on FB. Mainly food stuff....enjoy

Part one



Part two



Part three

[WWordsworth Profile]

I can categorically state there has never been left over after Snickers bars in my house.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

... or that my mother never devilled an egg .

[MagicMarmite Profile]

Why mother, why not parent?

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

Mark, you are so off the wall

I like the vacuum tip tho. It does sound like it will work, I'll try that next time I've finished a kitchen roll.
I'd love to try the apple with snickers recipe!

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I can categorically state there has never been left over after Snickers bars in my house.

I don't think there has ever been a Snickers bar in this house

[Suelle Profile Website]

Why mother, why not parent?

I would surmise, from the style of the prose, that it was written when only mothers did that sort of thing.

[herbidacious Profile]

Some of these are quite culturally specific. An interesting window on the USA...

I am wondering about 18. I don't think many people wear underskirts in the UK anymore (at least not younger people). Do they still in America?

I am curious about conditioner and legs. I once, in my youth, (I think pre body wash era) tried to do this with shampoo and the itching was unbearable - had to wash it off almost as soon as I'd started. Curious enough to try? We are happily out of the shaving season now though That said, I use body wash which is probably even cheaper than conditioner. Sometimes a bar of soap...

[Suffs Profile]

Wearing pantyhose and slacks?! Never ... I have too much respect for my nether regions

And when I buy a packet of frosting ...’!? Never happened and not likely to

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

Some of these are quite culturally specific. An interesting window on the USA...

I am wondering about 18. I don't think many people wear underskirts in the UK anymore (at least not younger people). Do they still in America?

I am curious about conditioner and legs. I once, in my youth, (I think pre body wash era) tried to do this with shampoo and the itching was unbearable - had to wash it off almost as soon as I'd started. Curious enough to try? We are happily out of the shaving season now though That said, I use body wash which is probably even cheaper than conditioner. Sometimes a bar of soap...

I thought most of them were specific to the US ... but I did already know about using conditioner for shaving legs.

[herbidacious Profile]

Yes re trousers and tights. Not sure why you would do that unless it were very cold, and then I think I'd just go down the woolly tights and long skirt route.

[aero280 Profile]

You could spice up the left over snickers on apple dish by marinading the apple in left over wine first!

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Trousers and tights used to be quite normal. There was a period when it became respectable for women to wear trousers socially with decent shoes, tights had replaced stockings and pop socks hadn't caught on. It wasn't 'respectable' for the ankle not to be covered between shoe and trouser leg so tights had to be worn.
As Suffs suggests, some ladies did suffer from a lack of air .
I have to say that I thought it perfectly acceptable to have bare feet and ankles with summer sandals but once went on a day out to Bournemouth with some women who were only in their mid-twenties (one of those occasions where we were all wives of husbands who had a common interest but not much in common ourselves) who all thought it rather disgraceful not to be wearing tights with sandals. I was the only one who wasn't .

[Hickybank Profile]

I have never worn Tights with trousers, but then again I am a bloke

[Suelle Profile Website]

Trousers and tights used to be quite normal. There was a period when it became respectable for women to wear trousers socially with decent shoes, tights had replaced stockings and pop socks hadn't caught on. It wasn't 'respectable' for the ankle not to be covered between shoe and trouser leg so tights had to be worn.
As Suffs suggests, some ladies did suffer from a lack of air .
I have to say that I thought it perfectly acceptable to have bare feet and ankles with summer sandals but once went on a day out to Bournemouth with some women who were only in their mid-twenties (one of those occasions where we were all wives of husbands who had a common interest but not much in common ourselves) who all thought it rather disgraceful not to be wearing tights with sandals. I was the only one who wasn't .

I remember this too - I think part of the problem was that women bought shoes to wear with tights and skirts and they were then too tight if worn with socks. As you say, bare feet in shoes just wasn't done, and no pop socks around, so it had to be tights, even under trousers.

Using the words slacks dates the original piece, I think.

[Suffs Profile]

I thought ‘slacks’ pre-dated pantyhose/tights ... it was definitely 1967 before tights were available in central Suffolk ... and then only from M&S in a Ipswich a 12 mile bus journey away.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

My mother wore slacks with a roll-on girdle and stockings, as I assume her friends did, ca 1960

Agree that’s quite a US list

The tip to put cream in scrambled eggs and omelettes flummoxes me, they are meant to have different textures in scrambled but definitely in omelettes

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I was assuming we were substituting the word trousers for slacks. The incident I mentioned was circa 1974 and slacks conjure up the type of trouser worn in the early to mid-60s here, long before ordinary girls wore tights. My American friend referred to certain types of casual (male) trouser as slacks even in the noughties.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

Yes re trousers and tights. Not sure why you would do that unless it were very cold, and then I think I'd just go down the woolly tights and long skirt route.

When I was still working I would wear tights under trousers ... I don't possess a skirt - always hated myself in them as a) I'm only 5ft 2ins, and a bit on the chunky side and b) can only wear shoes with the lowest of heels due to big toe joint problems ... so feel very frumpy and dumpy in a skirt, never mind with woolly tights !

[Pampy Profile]

My grandma always thought it shameful for anyone to show their bare feet. She was watching the news reports on tv of the Brighton bombing and when Norman Tebbit was brought out on a stretcher with his bare feet in view, she commented that the poor man must be so embarrassed that no-one had covered his feet.