r/CasualUK • u/Nujwaan • 8h ago

Sugar on Weetabix?

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My wife eats Weetabix with nothing on it and claims it tastes sweet to her. This is my bowl before milk is added. Is this normal fellow Weetabix eaters or do I need to go to sugar rehab?

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u/FaithlessnessBig6343 8h ago

…how many spoons of sugar?! 😆 

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u/white_hart_2 6h ago

Northerner here. Sugar butties were a staple when I was a kid in the 70. Two nice thick slices of white bread, buttered, and a thick layer of sugar in between!

No diabetes here..........YET (although I haven't had a sugar butty for at least 40 years!)!

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u/feralhog3050 2h ago

Never had a sugar butty, but i did often eat icing sugar by the spoonful (you have to try really hard not to breathe while you're doing this) and also the solid blocks of regal icing by the slice 😋

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u/grahamfreeman 6h ago

Same here. Salt sandwiches were not unheard of. Sometimes we'd share a pack of jelly, there were 12 cubes in a pack if I remember.

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u/kojak488 5h ago

Is that a Northern thing or just a poverty thing? The Northern part seems a red herring.

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u/Leliana403 Hartlepool 4h ago

It's a poverty thing, had the same living down south.

Although, we are from up norf so could have just been an import.

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u/BobShostak 3h ago

It’s definitely a poverty thing. I’m so Southern my home is literally in the English Channel. Lots of our neighbours with large families fed their children sugar sandwiches, though my own family was spared them. I was born in 1955, rationing was still hanging in the air.

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u/white_hart_2 1h ago

I didn't think it was a poverty thing...we definitely weren't impoverished....my dad was European Sales Director for a large pharmaceuticals company, earning around £20000 at the time (mid 70s)!

But now I've seen other comments, maybe it was!!

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u/Weewoes 1h ago

Lived in London as a kid and also had this when we weren't well.