Plain crisps ffs. PLAIN CRISPS.

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If I asked you to get me a packet of plain crisps, what would you bring me?

Every time I have asked dh for plain crisps these past couple of weeks he has come home without them, saying the shop didn't have any.

Then tonight he brought me ready salted and said he was sorry, the shop STILL didn't have any plain crisps but maybe I'd like ready salted instead?

Gentle probing revealed that he thought I wanted entirely plain and unflavoured crisps. WHO THE JEFF WANTS PLAIN, UNSALTED, UNFLAVOURED CRISPS?

Plain crisps = ready salted. IANBU.

Yes I sent him back out, to get the rest of the stuff he didn't get.

I wrote a list.

He folded it up into the tiniest square in the world as he was embarresed to be seen with a list

He phoned me from tesco to say he had lost it....

Ha! I bought some crisps today that were horrid. They said salted but they were tasteless!

Josephine - I have been wondering the same for years.

Yes yes... cheese and onion - green packet, salt and vinegar - blue.

Walkers changed them round a few years ago now.

I think other companies still keep the time honoured tradition though.

Fanjo I'm crying tears of laughter!

My DH loves a list. He finds the nearest friendly shop assistant, gives them the list, and asks them to help him find everything. And they always fall for his charm and do the shop for him . Last week I actually received a phone call on his mobile, from a shop assistant apologising that they didn't have one of the items on my list and I wasn't to get cross with DH.

I miss Salt and vinegar When I first moved to Turkey I got V excited at blue packet of crisps which turned out to be plain. Did the same with the green ice-cream (green=mint) which turned out to be nut

Don't get me started with men and shopping. I phoned DH at work the other day to ask him to pick up four AAA batteries on his way home (it was an emergency - remote control K9 had died). He came home with four pints of milk. I phoned him at work the next day to ask him to pick up a loaf of bread and the four AAA batteries. He came home with another four pints of milk.

See my DH will not be seen with a list.
It's not "manly" or some shit like that.

He folds it to the size of a stamp and sneaks it out of his pocket when no one is looking
WTAF

Also he will not ask a shop assistant for anything in case it makes him look stupid.

Funnily enough, he doesn't mind coming home and looking stupid because he either lost the bloody list or couldn't find something ridiculous like brown bread or fairy liquid.

Does anyone remember those crisps you could get that really were plain but you got a little blue bag of salt so you could "add you own"?

Plain definitely means ready salted. Unless you mean plain ice cream, which is of course vanilla. (sorry to those people who are trying to learn this bizarre language)

Salt n Shake?

That's them silent

I thought they were really spesh

Who the hell wants plain or redy salted crisps?

They are known as a packet of "boring" in this house. Get a packet with some flavour goddamit!

Love this thread

DH won't take a list either.

He writes a list. Then he goes all Derren Brown-like and tries to commit it to memory.

He comes home from supermarket and writes another list of the things he forgot.

It is comforting to know that other peoples partners have the same trouble as mine. I was on a cleaning spree once as in Kim and Aggie and asked him to get vinegar. He bought a really small bottle of organic wine vinegar. Grrrrr!!

My dad still only eats the salt and shake without adding the salt 'who wants salt on their crisps?' errr- everyone dad! If you mention flavoured ones he assumes you must be totally mad for eating them

I just asked DP what he would get if I asked him for plain crisps. His answer?

'Them Salt n Shake ones. They're plain!'

Is my DH really unusual then? I write the list, he reads it and checks anything he can't read, the hands it to a shop assistant, and comes home with the shop.

He has been like this since the infamous "Happy Socks" incident when DS1 was 5 days old. (10 points to the first person who actually works out what I tried to write in my exhausted, new mum, state)

Me too McHappy.

Please could no one tell my husband that shopping lists are not cool. He loves a good list.

I love MeKathryn's dad thinking people are MAD for eating flavoured crisps. (GARLIC BREAD???)

Nappy sacks?

Nappy sacks, obviously.

I don't get flavoured crisps. I think they are horrible. Plain all the way for me, preferably with not much salt.

Sounds like you needed a few fresh wank socks?