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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to want DH to give up trying to fool me with pretend Alpen and just buy Alpen FFS.

46 replies

thatlldopigthatlldo · 15/07/2012 10:09

I just like Alpen, always have, always will. Own brand budgie food is not Alpen.

He's been trying to fool me now for about 10 years.

Leave the bastard?

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ripsishere · 15/07/2012 10:11

Of course. I had to threaten my DH with castration after the great Flora debacle.
I eat butter, not spread. Butter only.

JeezyPeeps · 15/07/2012 10:14

YABU. The only muesli worth eating is Dorset cereals.

WerthersUnOriginal · 15/07/2012 10:18

I expect I'd probably do the same as your dhBlush All muesli looks like the contents of a dustpan to me.

Mind you Yeast Spread is most certainly not Marmite so maybe you have pointGrin

toomuch2young · 15/07/2012 10:20

You mean you don't like 'this museli' but you also like 'this museli'?!

But you must!! All aldi products taste exactly the same as the branded ones donch'a know

Wink
Babylon1 · 15/07/2012 10:21

Popcorn doesn't Sad as I discovered last night!

Snackrite popcorn just isn't the same!

nizlopi · 15/07/2012 10:22

Alpen is horrible, I recently got some as a treat rather than my usual own brand muesli, but urg, it goes soggy really quickly and it only has raisins in ffs!

YABU.

NoComet · 15/07/2012 10:33

I'm with the OP I like Alpen.

Posh muesli has too many hard nuts and cheap muesli to few.

thatlldopigthatlldo · 15/07/2012 10:34

no no no, i don't expect you or him to also like alpen, in fact, i positively encourage DH to get his own damn cereal. he makes his own, a concoction of brand cereal with added fruit and nuts. that's fine. But he omits the alpen from the shopping list....cause he's ok.

this is not ok.

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pictish · 15/07/2012 10:34

Yanbu - we like Alpen and other mueslis are ok but don't hit the spot.

FarelyKnuts · 15/07/2012 10:38

Buy your own?

(helpful me :o)

thatlldopigthatlldo · 15/07/2012 10:43

I do when i'm doing the shopping, but when DH does the shopping, it doesn't seem very fair that i then have to go back out to buy my alpen and whatever else he's decided i don't need.

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Proudnscary · 15/07/2012 10:43

a) NO brand has got muesli right yet - Alpen is okay but too sugary

b) Most 'own brands' are made by the leading brands for supermarkets

c) Make your own to get measurements right (Not that I ever have but keep meaning to)

Sarcalogos · 15/07/2012 10:45

Yanbu this would drive me insane.

thatlldopigthatlldo · 15/07/2012 10:46

although to be fair he did buy me a cheesecake Grin

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edam · 15/07/2012 10:49

Grrr -incredibly irritating if he knows you like Alpen but buys something else instead. I agree with your first assessment. Leave the bastard! Grin

VolAuVent · 15/07/2012 10:52

YANBU to have one or two particular brand preferences. It's when everything has to be a well-known brand that I'd be a bit Hmm

Wigglewoo · 15/07/2012 10:53

Leave the bastard. And take your Alpen with you :)

FrancesHouseman · 15/07/2012 10:54

You do realise he's gaslighting you, don't you?

thatlldopigthatlldo · 15/07/2012 11:02

he has no idea i'm secretly fuming btw. it doesn't seem worth bothering him with when i have mumsnet to let it all out. we live next to a shop that sells alpen in tiny boxes.

FrancesHouseman, the cheesecake is a decoy isn't it?

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WerthersUnOriginal · 15/07/2012 11:12

This is one of these things to blindside him with during next argument.

One minute you can be arguing about who forgot great Auntie Madge's birthday or who left the top off the margarine, the next Wham! hit him with '..and another thing...Alpen' He'll be so Confused he'll probably go and buy a years supplyWink

(I speak as a veteran of 'dredging up all past wrongs' in arguments which is very childish, so probably best to ignore me on thisBlush)

creativepebble · 15/07/2012 11:17

Intensly irritating.
Grounds for a divorce, definitely.
Leave the bastard! Grin

thatlldopigthatlldo · 15/07/2012 11:25

yeah, i'll throw it at him at the least appropriate moment in defence of my one of my own misdemeanours.

or perhaps in my old age, as dementia takes hold, i'll develop an alpen hoarding habit and only mumsnet will be able to explain it.

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McHappyPants2012 · 15/07/2012 11:31

Perhaps he don't like shopping and thinks if he gets the wrong things all the time you won't send him.

Leave the bastard :)

Sarcalogos · 15/07/2012 11:56

Ah you've lost me now.

If you wanted alpen, he knew that, he didn't buy it for no good reason.

Why the hell aren't you asking him about it? If he doesn't know it bothers you he isn't going to buy it next time is he? Madness.

Ellovera · 15/07/2012 11:58

Ltb .

And Dorset cereal is the only way forward.

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