aem > wrote in message
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> So, do you 'dress' the bread/toast first or just
> spread the tuna/egg salad on directly?

Dress bread first, lettuce, then a helping of tuna/egg salad.

> What other 'everyone knows that' things have
> you discovered to be less than universal?

Dressing the cheese side of a meat-and-cheese sandwich with
mayo, laying down mustard on the meat side, setting up multiple
slices of cheese, then hearty helping of sliced meat, then
laying down an assortment of veggies in the middle, and
finishing off with diagonal cut across sandwich. A friend's mom
taught me this; keeps the bread from getting soggy from the
vegetables. but freaks most people out with the back and forth
when they stand and watch.

Salting the water for pasta (and, in my case, adding oil upon
the boil.)

The Ranger