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.

I write lists like that!!
The "loaves of bread list" was something like

1 (thats ONE) loaf of brown bread, warburtons or hovis, sliced, not that nasty stufff you always get [obviously i forgot to forbid seeds]
Pack of plain flour, yes they DO have some, it will be with the baking stuff, if you can't find it ASK
etc

my mum used to send us to shops and tell us to ask for plain lemonade! as apposed to the lemonade with flavour in!!

Do you think I over-do it for my DH by putting his shopping list in SHOP-ORDER? I think this is very considerate of me.

I do that to, actually aisle by aisle.

If he ever read the list, it might help.

Fanjo, your husband's issue with lists is hilarious.

The next time he goes to tesco I will take a pic of the list folded up as I don't think anyone could comprehend how small he folds it without seeing it

He GENUINLEY does sneak it out of his pocket and sneak a lot at it as well, he won't actually get it out and open it.

DCs refuse to go shopping with him now, that's why we ended up with no milk and a fruit loaf.

Dh loves a list. He loves them sooo much it drives me to distraction. He likes lists for everything. From shopping to cleaning. If I hear the words 'task list' or 'plan of action' (as in an actual, written down plan with step by step guides, not just you do x while I do y) I will brain him.

It actually wouldn't shock at me all if he got a list out mid foreplay to see what was next on the menu

But I bet he comes home with the milk!

Reading this and LOL, asked my DH, and he said Ready Salted, so that parts ok, but he is another one who always forgets his list, so now I text it to his phone, so he has it on him. Mind you, we have had cat biscuit insted of cat litter, and also olive oil instead of sunflower oil in the past - "but you still cook with it" says DH, "yes, but not deep fry!"

I have tried the text thing, he doesn't read that either, just rings me up and says "now when you say tissues, what do you mean?"

Well funnily enough I mean bloody tissues, what else could I mean, sausages?

Loving this thread

Tho to be fair, some of these DHs are prob terrified of getting the wrong thing and hence end up bying nothing cause they can't see the right thing?

My DH once misread the list - I had written Cheerios and he read it as cherries, came home with glace ones, apologising for lack of fresh cherries in December

Fanjo, yes, he gets milk, but depending on how specific your list you may end up with a variety of different milks. Like the time I asked for 'vegetables' - I ended up with almost every kind of veg Tesco stocked in vast quantities.

All I wanted was some cauli, carrots and cabbage for the roast, the same as we have every week.

That's the amazing thing, he lives here, he eats the food, why buy something I never buy because no one likes it (the fruit loaf)

And if they haven't got 6 pints of milk just get milk
The DCs have cereal every morning
There not a drop of milk in the house
Don't come back with nothing

I think it is men in general.

In the car with a male friend and asked him to pass me a water bottle,

Which one?
The one with water in it?

OK so there were 2-3 empty bottles in the car - I buy them and forget to put them in the bin, but why would I want the empty one?

Yes to me plain = ready salted

to my parents it means those crisps with the packet of salt in.

Love this thread! Fanjo your DH sounds infuriating priceless!!

Oh believe me, infuriating isn't the word,I could go on for pages about his wonderfully annoying habits.

Good job I love him really, although I did warn him once that saying ciao instead of goodbye for no actual reason could be considered a reasonable grounds for divorce but he still does it

dh says plain = cheese and onion. But he is Irish and a little bit dim to boot.

I once sent DH off to the shops with a list of a few basics and on it I had written 'simple soap' which we all use as we have sensitive skin. He returned with tomato soup, he thought I had written simple soup!! we still tease him about it.

Dh takes a list. And reads it. And gets every thing on it.

but also gets lot of things not on it.
Dog ball?
cakes
chocolate
t-shirt
dvd.the list is endless

He is also another one that will not ask for help. Same when driving. Of course he blames me he knows full well I cannot work sat nav nor read a map and instead of stopping and aksing someone he says "no, we'll find it, it's fine".

I was writing a list the other day, doing other bits and pieces watching TV and so on. Then I thought I'd put the list down somewhere, so he stood patiently waiting to leave. Then I said I can't find the list. He said I've got it. It's in my pocket. Men!!!!!!

I took dh to do the big shop earlier this week. He asked where my list was, I explains that as a woman who does the big shop every month I have it in my head and I will get everything we need and I did!

He kept stopping to look at tellies and assorted electrical goods. There's a reason I usually shop online! Thank god the broadband is back!

Dh has to have a list of he is to shop alone, I text it with clear instructions. I.e. gammon 1kg size or he will come home with the smallest and cheapest and wonder why it won't stretch to four of us!

He also thinks a months shop costs £100! It's hilarious! He can't grasp that only doing a little shop and then popping out to the shop four or five times a week means actually spending more in the long run!

Joan I hope you aren't implying that the fact that your DH is Irish and a bit dim go hand in hand???!!!

FWIW I am Irish, and plain = ready salted. BUT a packet of crisps means Tayto Cheese & Onion, everytime.

And don't get me started on people who pronounce crisps as "crips". I am forever teaching my pupils that they do not "axe their Mam for a pack of crips"

One day when a kid had told me he did just that (after I had drilled the correct pronunciation of "ask" and "crisps" into my class for about 3 months), I smiled and said to him "What did you do?". He thought for a sec, blushed and then said

"Sorry teacher, I mean, I TOLD my Mam to get me Tayto"

When I was first with DH (he was 40) I asked him to get something for dinner that night on his way home.

Mince.
Ian Brown dvd
long sleeved t shirt.

Ready steady cook.

nope, just that he happens to be both as do I

He says c&o is the prototype of crisps ergo plain means c&o. Also he holds that ready salted are a bizarre english thing that shouldn't be acknowledged.