Interesting family members.

Cody montana

My grandmother used to eat frys mint cream chocolate bar on brown bread.

Smee_Again

That’s insane, it’s not interesting.

frag420

Cody montana wrote: »

My grandmother used to eat frys mint cream chocolate bar on brown bread.

Why was she on brown bread?

Cody montana

Smee_Again wrote: »

That’s insane, it’s not interesting.

Lol.

Cody montana

What interesting/insane family members do you have?

Sandor Clegane

My grandfather used to eat sugar sandwiches.

Oink

Are we talking “How charmingly quirky” or “and then the judge cried”?

magick

Not a family member but I knew a lad who used to mix pasta with mustard

Poor Uncle Tom

Interesting family members....
Yes, just not my family

odyssey06

Cody montana wrote: »

My grandmother used to eat frys mint cream chocolate bar on brown bread.

Family member used to wrap a chocolate biscuit in a piece of white bread.

Cody montana

She was half deaf.
And at mass she used to fart sporadically and loudly.
I stopped sitting with her after a while.

Cody montana

magick wrote: »

Not a family member but I knew a lad who used to mix pasta with mustard

That’s just mental.

Thinking back.
My grandmother used to have jelly with poured cream, not whipped.
It was revolting.

the_pen_turner

i know a guy that dunks his sandwitchs in his tea like a buscuit

PsychoPete

I've an uncle that gives suspiciously long hugs, does that count?

twowheelsonly

Sandor Clegane wrote: »

My grandfather used to eat sugar sandwiches.

Plenty of people on here will remember doing the same or their parents / grandparents doing so. It wasn't at all unusual right up to the '70s / early 80s'.
Fine big thick doorsteps of bread they were too !!!

My own mother is interesting in that she has two birth-certs. One in Cork and one in Dublin, and she still doesn't know where she was born. Her own mother always said that she'd tell her about it some time but never did.
Her mother was interesting in her own right as well. She was a fairly prominent Cumann na mBan member, did her whack in Kilmainham, was a mad Republican all her life but married a 'gentrified Prod' whose family promptly disowned him

Capt'n Midnight

My brother is on a diet of After Eight's and crackers since he caught Covid.



They're the only things we can slide under the door.

Larbre34

Sandor Clegane wrote: »

My grandfather used to eat sugar sandwiches.

Half the Country did that at the time. When average folk got maybe 1,500 calories a day, if they were lucky, sugar sandwiches were pure energy and it did them no harm. Meat protein was rare enough, so flour, milk and eggs were used every which way possible to bulk up kids.

My own grandmother had a household of 10, so she used to make a sort of bread pudding with eggs, milk and cream, apple and beet sugar as an after school meal for her kids. Often times it would double as dinner, but it kept them energised for hurling, swimming and the amount of cycling they used to do out of necessity. Compared to kids today they were in unbelievably good shape I'm told, despite the nutritional challenges.

Grannies that time were damn legends.

Oink

Somewhere in an old album I have a black and white photograph of Grand-Papa wearing a pith helmet. How delightfully quaint. I would give half the ivory this side of the Sudan to have that hat.

My other Grandad once got a free swimming lesson in the Mediterranean courtesy of a U-Boat (WWI). There but for the grace of God...

gozunda

They say insanity can run in a family - on my mother's side it didn't run - it positively galloped.

That said on my father's side - the family were incredibly intelligent but all mad as hatters.

Thing was my parents made a lovely couple when they weren't killing each other.

One fond memory from my childhood was when my mother blamed my father for breaking an expensive China dish - because he ducked when she threw it at him. She didn't talk to him for weeks after that.

Thankfully we were all adopted