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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

about cheesecake?

59 replies

RagamuffinAndFidget · 02/01/2012 20:18

This is a bit silly, sorry, but it's really annoying me!

My brother and his girlfriend (one of my good friends) came over on Boxing Day, along with my Mum. We all made a few bits each - she made burgers and a cheesecake, he brought a prawn sharer platter, Mum made a rice salad, I baked some potatoes, made a salad and dressing, laid everything out and we had a buffet for tea. It was all very lovely.

The cheesecake didn't actually get eaten on Boxing Day so I said did they want to take it back. They said they might pop round before going back to Winchester (where she's at University) and pick up half but when I spoke to them around lunchtime on Thursday they were already on the road. I assumed that they didn't want the cheesecake after all, and that there wasn't much point leaving it in the fridge to go off (as an aside, how quickly does cheesecake go off?). So DH and I had some of the cheesecake. And then a bit more. And then a teeny bit more. Then we went to bed and forgot to put it back in the fridge (but to be honest there wasn't much left at all by that point Blush ) so in the morning I put the last, rather soggy looking, bit in the bin.

Cut to today. My brother has just phoned and informed me that they will be popping in on Wednesday to pick up the cheesecake. I said that we had had some of it and then put the last little bit in the bin and he hit the roof. Apparently we should have known they would come and get some, they said they would, and it would obviously have lasted this long (it was made on Christmas Eve). How dare we eat it all, blah blah blah blah.

So, who is BU here? I know it's completely ridiculous to even get so worked up over a fecking cheesecake but he's really annoyed me and obviously I need some MNsnetters to tell me whether my indignation is righteous or not Wink

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RagamuffinAndFidget · 02/01/2012 20:31

The prawn platter was a frozen Morrisons one. That was his entire contribution to the buffet meal.

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WhereEaglesDare · 02/01/2012 20:31

I forgot to ad YANBU AT ALL...

BikingViking · 02/01/2012 20:32

'said' not 'say'

LineRunner · 02/01/2012 20:34

Give his gf £4 to get a nice one from the Winchester co-op. Handy for the cathedral. Two birds, and all.

susiedaisy · 02/01/2012 20:35

Op Is he normally that silly over things?

mockingjay · 02/01/2012 20:35

YANBU. If he is normally reasonable he will realise and get over it sharpish. It's not his cheesecake anyway, his GF brought it. So maybe she'll tell him he's being daft!

clippityclop · 02/01/2012 20:36

Sounds like you've saved him a nasty dose of tummy trouble. Show him this thread!

mockingjay · 02/01/2012 20:37

and if he continues to be silly say you ate it to cover the charge for rent space in your fridge. you're not a bloody cheesecake storage facility!

Gargula · 02/01/2012 20:37

Oh for pete's sake it only a bloody cheesecake! Of course YANBU!

FutureNannyOgg · 02/01/2012 20:40

Hang on a minute... you say she's at university in Winchester. Does he live in Winchester too, or is he trying to claim the cheesecake his girlfriend made for himself? Hmm

Rhubarbgarden · 02/01/2012 20:42

He's clearly having some kind of mid life crisis. Some buy Porsches, some get worked up over cheesecakes [shrugs].

IloveJudgeJudy · 02/01/2012 20:43

HIBU. YANBU. The cheesecake would have definitely been off by now. I say this as someone who is not bound by sell-by dates and the like.

stifnstav · 02/01/2012 20:44

YABU in starting a thread about a cheesecake after the shops have shut on a bank holiday when I can't go and buy a cheesecake.

I am shaking because I need a cheesecake soooo bad now!

Maybe your brother is also having cheesecake pangs, hence his chagrin.

RagamuffinAndFidget · 02/01/2012 20:46

FutureNannyOgg She's at University in Winchester but he's staying down there with her at the moment. They both left to go back down there (he drives, she doesn't at the moment) last Thursday so they had from Monday to Thursday to come and collect their half of the flipping cheesecake anyway!

Rhubarbgarden He's only twenty so a midlife crisis seems unlikely! Clearly just a tosser then?

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mockingjay · 02/01/2012 20:47

Ah just tell him to shove off!!

mumeeee · 02/01/2012 20:54

YANBU. We had a family party at my sisters on the 27th. Although she got most of the food ( we paid her ). Most people extra bits. No one took anything home although she offered. We would never go back to pick up food once wenhad left thGrin house and certainly wouldn't expect it to still be there over a week
later.

chipmunksex · 02/01/2012 20:57

Was it lovely? The proper baked vanilla kind? All thick and creamy, little bit of fruits of the forest sauce on the side maybe?

Even the stuff that's just condensed milk, philedelphia and lemon juice would do me now

He is an idiot, you should laugh at him, point and rib him about it merciloussly for years Grin

thepeoplesprincess · 02/01/2012 21:01

What a muppet! Him- not you.

D'you reckon he'd hidden an engagement ring in there? I can't imagine why else he'd want a rancid cheesecake.

FutureNannyOgg · 02/01/2012 21:02

I second the rib him mercilessly. Give him a cheesecake every time you see him. Even if it is just one of those nasty individual ones in a yoghurt pot that tastes oddly chemically.

Gargula · 02/01/2012 21:05

I mean...... a cheesecake! A cheesecake of all things! A family feud about a cheesecake.

I've been reading mumsnet for some time now and have had my eyes opened about a great many things but this takes the biscuit (base). A cheesecake!

LittlePandaBear · 02/01/2012 21:09

Love this thread about cheesecake - I had a Waitrose shop bought chocolate one today and it was very nice (and fattening) thank you.

Anyway, of course YANBU - how could anyone be expected to have a cheesecake in the house and not eat it?!

Laquitar · 02/01/2012 21:10

Is he going to the local tip to search for the cheesecake??

chipmunksex · 02/01/2012 21:10

Gargula when you wrote that, did it sound like Lady Bracknell in your head?

orienteerer · 02/01/2012 21:11

yanbu, it would have gone off by now!

LydiaWickham · 02/01/2012 21:11

oh, he's quite young and a student, he probably doesn't realise cheesecake goes off that quickly. Tell him if it wasn't eaten within 4 days of being made it would be off. It was more than 4 days.