I am BU but this has pissed me off for ages

[thefruitwhisperer]

Please excuse this moment of bitchiness but Im in a really grumpy mood and I had to get this off my chest. (Baby teething, no sleep,

SIL 'makes' banoffee pie. I say 'makes' because she opens a tin of biscuits, a tin of premade caramel, peels a banana and tops with a carton of cream. VOILA. Ive just received word that she has spent hours doing this and so we are expected to drop everything, go round tonight and sample this canned delight.

Ive no problem with this banoffee method usually, in fact sometimes when i have nothing in the house, I may make it myself. But she proclaims that she makes the best pie shes ever tasted, and knocks all others with 'Yeah, not as good as mine though...'

I hate boasting. Esp when the boasting is about something a ten year old could make. Rant over. Flame me now.

no, that would annoy me too. I'm no cook, find it boring and a waste of time, but I would never boast about my (minimal) accomplishments, as I always do the easy/10 yr old's method too. She is a fool. I'd be tempted to make a semi-bitchy comment.

well her its amazing and ask for a step by step ,detailed explanation for how its made.....make sure its in front of everone tho

If she called and said she had made this, of course Id go. But cream, bananas, caramel and biscuits.... no. Sorry. Its the boasting that gets me. Like she invented hobnobs and heated carnation milk. Shes not Mrs Fucking Nestle.

(oh Im a cow today)

OH yes how annoying!! YANBU

Asked her for her caramel recipe and ask how she gets her pastry soooo crumbly. Self satisfied twit.

Harsh words I know.

I have a friend a bit like this - she said they never eat frozen chips (but once when my DCs were at her house I took a bag down for a last minute tea that they were all eating together)
A couple of weeks later, I needed some - so I popped down to grab them back - but, somehow they had all been eaten.

But, yes it would piss me off about the banoffee pie that SIL has 'assembled' from 4 ingredients.

It's not as bad as being expected to praise my mother for being an amazing cook after Sunday lunch. Not by mother, but by grandmother. What am I supposed to say? "Yes she makes it look so EASY the way she opens that ready made mash, and she microwaves it to absolute perfection. I have never tasted gravy like she makes it, except for every other time in my life I have eaten bisto vegetarian gravy granules. And even then, some people manage not to get lumps in it".

But yes, the bannoffee ting would rile me and I would devote serious thinking time to passive aggressive comments.

Gah - thing, damn you keyboard making me look like a rastamouse wannabe.

Yanbu

whenever we go to pil's for dinner we're expected to marvel over her prawn ring from Iceland

^ That has REALLY cheered me up Provincial lady!

Would you like to come over for some Haribo? Maybe some dibdabs? It took me simply forever to open the packets and so you must!

I'm laughing at the idea you have to drop everything and go round for a taste. My friends and family would think I'd lost the plot if I baked a cake, then expected them to visit.

Yes you must call everyone at 9.45pm on a Sunday to demand they come round instantly, as you have put some chocolate sprinkles on a Sara Lee gateau (but don't defrost it completely...that will make the point, I think).

A bit like my fabulous eton mess....I open the meringues and break them, pour over a some squashed strawberries and sugar and then chuck on some whipped cream churned by my own fair Breville.

Behold my ETON MESS -

I really feel like eating banoffee pie now

At a family run restaurant she pushed away their banoffee offering and stated, 'well that is nothing compared to mine. I should sell mine because its so nice.'

THEY ALREADY DO! Its called caramel, cream, banana and biscuits!

She does sound like a grade A berk. On the plus side, we are getting a good laugh out of her and that should sustain you through the next command performance.

My Nan used to make the best yorkshire puds, and we would all go on about how lovely, best ever, no-one can make them like that etc. When she was about to go into a sheltered home she did one last big roast for us at her house - and we all discovered the awful truth, - packet mix.

ILTs passive agressive approach would be my favoured method at shutting your dozy SIL up

EalingKate You went BACK to your friends house for a bag of frozen chips? A couple of weeks later? Sorry but....what?

How else do you make it?

lol at THEY ALREADY DO! Its called caramel, cream, banana and biscuits!

say that to her please!!

Tell her you are allergic to tinned caramel.