to have thought that this was a display of smuggy smuggishness

[cupcakesandbunting]

This morning, went with DS into local Sainsbury's for supplies and we were looking at the cheese and stuff when another mum with two LOs under 3 in her trolley. She also peruses the shelves then says to her eldest child "oh my GOODNESS! There's NO tzatziki!" Little one looks at his mum like she's off her rocker then she says again "There. Is. NO. TZATZIKI!" She then summons a shelf-stacker to moan about there being no tzatziki and explains to him at length that it's all that her two will eat with their crudites all the time doing a terrible cat's bum mouth that suggested that the shelves of hummous/salsa/raita weren't agreeable to her wunderkind's palate.

I almost handed her a tub of humous and told her to get a grip. AIBU aren't I?

[AndieWalsh]

lol!

Sometimes (despite having been a SAHM for years and years) I really do feel like saying to some women 'Time to go back to work, love'.

[AbsOfCroissant]

Nah, she sounds hilarious/demented

[LaurieFecktheToriesCake]

You'd have been better to point her in the direction of yoghurt and cucumber

[WildSheepChase]

You heartless bitch, my kids really wanted that damn Tzatziki!










Nah, kidding. YANBU.

[LadyGardenia]

Child's stupefaction clearly indicated he had never heard of tzatziki. That overly loud stuff for everyone else's benefit is always a pain the backside.

YANBU about the hummous because tzat. is a bit tasteless anyway.

[lorelilee]

Brilliant. Some people are just MENTAL and completely absorbed in their own wee worlds.

[cupcakesandbunting]

Oh yeah, she was definitely doing it so that everyone in the immediate vicinity would know that her children had a very worldly palate. She probably thinks that hummous is too common now that every bugger eats it.

[Litchick]

I love it when the kids of such parents come round and give the whokle game away.
DS' best friend told me he'doesn't eat home-cooked stuff' LOL.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Me and DD treaure a moment in Ilfracombe co-op 4 years ago, where a tall woman with joules gilet and swooping walk brayed her way round the shop. She was obviously on holiday and expecxted the shops of Devon to only sell bread and potatoes (not that far from the truth up until recently). Anyway, she shrieked with joy and started saying 'oh HUGO they have got chorizo (will full proper castillian lispy pronunication), how marvellous, what an extraordinary stroke of good fortune.

We then heard her shriek 'oh look they have even got goats cheese, we must get some of that, Meredith does adore goats cheese so'

Me and dd pissed ourselves and were very childish going round co-op going oh look, french bread, battenburg cakes in excited tones.

We still can;t eat chorizo or goats cheese without doing an impression of that woman.

[LadyGardenia]

Not sure tzatziki has had much foodglam quotient since the days when it was a dip likely to share a table with Cinzano Rose!!

[potplant]

LOL at 'time to go back to work love'

My DS is partial to smoked salmon and had a major meltdown when Asda had sold out after I said he could have it for lunch. I asked the lady in the shop to check their stockroom for smoked salmon cos he wanted it while he was wailing 'I want smoked salmon' at the top of his voice. I was more frantic desperado than smuggy mummy.

DS - spolit much?

[cupcakesandbunting]

That is priceless, GOML. Some people ingest a Jamie Oliver cookbook then think that they have some authority on excellent produce. Meh.

[CurbAppeal]

I sympathise with her. I had to get mine into halloumi once feta appeared in pub lunches.

[thinker]

What is it? How do you pronounce it? Just so I can shout about it in tesco later.

[cupcakesandbunting]

Potplant, it's different if it's your child voicing a desire for something he likes. My LO asks for paella for his dinner which I like. But I wouldn't stand in the middle of the supermarket going "Oh CRIKEY! There is NO SAFFRON with which to make your paella!" It's a bit showy-offy for an adult to do it. Fine for a L.O.

[cupcakesandbunting]

Thinker, it's "sat-zee-kee"

Please do it much louder than is necessary to add to the effect

[TrillianAstra]

OH my Goodness!

[SloanyPony]

I had to send my son to preschool with a smoked duck pate sandwich last week, had gobbed down all the ham in a 10pm too much wine pre bed snack frenzy.

[scurryfunge]

Next time I'm in Lidl Waitrose I shall shout about the lack of SunnyDelight

[potplant]

cupcake - I was a bit embarassed tbh. I felt like saying 'he eats chicken nuggets as well' just so the woman didn't think I was a complete snob.

[cupcakesandbunting]

Now that I think about it, I don't know whether she was showboating about her kids' electic tastes in snacks or about the fact that she could pronounce tzatziki.

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

Well now I know how to pronounce it I shall shout about it loudly in Asdas clothing department.

[NickiSue]

[OneTwoBuckleMyShoe]

Sloany I had reread your post a few times as I thought your DS had a post wine frenzy