To have not shared the chips?

but honestly it is a thought....

Buy an extra portion of chips?

Not - gasp! - a whole post?! 😱😱

Jesus, the OP did a bit of typing. She didn’t have a contract taken out on him!

Of course you're not. That's the whole issue, that his greediness is spoiling the relationship so OP can't just enjoy a night out with him. He does it at the cinema too.

This reminds me of a thread from years back by a poster whose DP sounded just like yours. Almost identical scenario - he went to make a sandwich in her kitchen and asked if she wanted one too, she said yes but guess what? Greedy bastard just made one massive sandwich for himself, using up the whole pack. I seem to remember the final straw was when they got a takeaway together, he asked for a ‘taste’ of hers and proceeded to scrape about half her meal onto his plate.

Seriously, OP, his behaviour is something you’d expect from an (ill-mannered) teenage boy, not a fully grown man. Does he have form for being this self-absorbed generally, or is this specifically a food thing?

He's clearly fixated on food. Buy more food next time knowing he is a greedy guts. I lived with one. Open a packet of crisps, didn't want a packet to himself but helped himself to at least half a packet of mine.

Totally my thought. If he eats all your chips buy one each. Problem solved.

Am I the only one thinking it rather sad that instead of chatting about how much they enjoyed the gig, OP and her DP are instead bickering about chips? Or maybe it was a shit gig, or one of them was only there to keep the other company (never a good idea ime). Either way it's not great.

Wanting to have a greedy big occasional special treat blow-out isn't a problem.

Being unable to resist the urge to start scoffing food in the car isn't that bad - although it's not nice if the driver has to wait before being able to do the same.

The problem is expecting to take somebody else's food as your automatic right, and making them go without.

If you want lots of food, you make sure that you buy lots of food for you, as well as the full amount of food that the other person/people eating with you want for themselves. You don't just assume that yours is yours but theirs is also potentially yours too.

You did share - he ate his share on the way home.
The greediness is very unattractive because it’s selfishness.

For example if we have a gathering and get a takeaway there's a general "we order x number of dishes and share them" situation.

That only works if everyone wants to share doesn't it?

If you were buying one meal for your son & one to share that's not the same meal twice is it?

Stop sharing your food with him. Get a portion each, even being your own bags.
I don't think it's unreasonable for him to want to eat, why should he wait because you say so? But he can't eat your dinner!

How many different usernames do you post under? I know it's always you, the poster who is so needlessly confrontational, aggressive, and averse to using proper sentences and capitalisation. I wish to goodness that you would either give it a rest or, even better, that Mumsnet would get their sh*t together and ban you.

Yuck. He sounds like a lot of my family members. For example if we have a gathering and get a takeaway there's a general "we order x number of dishes and share them" situation. But my DC is fairly fussy and there's only 1 or 2 things he likes from the Chinese. So I order that. The rest of my family decide they are entitled to have some of his dish on the basis "he can have some of anything else" except he can't. He doesn't eat it. So he now has a 10th of the amount of food of anyone else. Yet we're expected to all pay the same towards it.

And before any one suggests we order 2 portions of what he likes, I've suggested that. Apparently it's a waste of money to have 2 of the same thing. It's one of the many reasons I am LC with my family.

Greed isn't an attractive trait, although like a PP I grew up in a family where other members took more than their fair share so I learnt to do the same. As an adult I'm obsessed with everyone having equal amounts and I hate being that way but it's so ingrained in me.

One Kebab and one portion of chips isn't much to feed two adults.

It probably depends on what else had been eaten in the day.

Sounds plenty to me if it's just a "snack" ater a night out.

What a classic of the Patriarchy in Action:

• Woman drives man home so he can drink and relax
• Man helps himself to half the food without waiting for driving woman, as requested
• Woman serves herself the remaining half
• Man demands half of them
• Women refuses
• Man criticises her for being petty
• Man punishes her with moodiness for her failure to meet his demands
• Woman wonders if she’s been unreasonable.

An illustration of why most of the land and wealth on Earth is owned by men.

A large portion of chips is plenty between two adults, especially when they're having kebabs as well. And I'm not even a Mumsnet eater.

He sounds like a greedy pig.
How unattractive.

I dont think its a myth at all 🤣

No. Next time. Make him frigging drive and either eat the lot in the car and leave a scrap. Or wait till you get home and point out how if he wants a take away he'll have to drive from now on.

You need to order two portions of chips next time. I will never understand the desire to share food, I don't find it romantic. One Kebab and one portion of chips isn't much to feed two adults.

Lesson learned to next time get a portion each. Sharing a portion of chips with a full grown drunk man was asking for trouble - most people, big or small, are starving at the end of a night out when they have drink in them.

Get an extra portion of chips if one isn't enough. This is literally a problem that can be solved for two quid!

He's a gutsy pig OP.

Buy separate chips like you do with popcorn? It doesn't sound like something worth stressing and arguing about.