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to be furious with dh for eating cakes he knew were destined for the bin!

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alfrex · 21/01/2013 14:57

OK. I bake a lot. And sometimes my cakes are beautiful, and we all enjoy them. But sometimes it does not go so well and the cakes come out sunk or burnt or still wet in the middle (if dh would get the fan fixed on the oven this would happen a lot less often, but that's another thread)

There is a system, dh and the children are well aware of it. If the cakes are good to eat, they either go in a freezer bag for later use, or in a sealed tin for use over the week, or on a plate on the side so that they can be eaten now. DH knows this and I never complain about him "sampling" even if th cakes are meant for after dinner or whatever. I bake a lot so there is usually something there if he fancies a nibble.

If the cakes are not up to scratch, they go in the bin as soon as they are cooled (or as soon as dh empties the bin - there's another thread there!)

so this morning dh saunters into the kitchen to get himself breakfast. I come in and find him cramming his mouth with the burnt, crappy cakes that were sitting in the bun tray by the bin. I was really pissed off and had a go at him for it. I can make really nice cakes and I make plenty of them, so he has no need to wind me up and embarrass me by eating the ones that have gone wrong. He know it is a pet hate of mine.

so he strops off to work having called me a "control freak" in front of our children who were sitting having their breakfast. I am Not Happy.

OP posts:
MurderOfGoths · 21/01/2013 20:24

The "he's a geography teacher" comment has for some reason brought images of this character up in my head. I'm now reading all comments by the OP as if read by her.

Stropzilla · 21/01/2013 20:24

I havent fixed my oven. It doesnt make me a lady. It makes me too fucking lazy to care!

Pandemoniaa · 21/01/2013 20:26

I went missing for a while at about page 14. Has anyone suggested that, when the OP has a word with her husband, she starts by telling him to "shut his cakehole"? If it isn't already crammed full of burnt bakery products, that is.

Dozer · 21/01/2013 20:27

With all this cake, is he an overweight geography teacher?

(geography teachers tend to be thin and tweedy IME)

MurderOfGoths · 21/01/2013 20:28

"Has anyone found out why she has no birds yet?"

It's because she's on a 3rd floor, apparently they don't go that high. I asked if she was confusing birds with fish. No reply

ChandlerBingsNubbin · 21/01/2013 20:28

I manage his diet properly

No, not at all controlling!!

So, he has been spoken to, apologised properly and bought a gift, he is now allowed off the naughty step, but gets a cross on his behaviour chart.

I just bet your kids are "perfect" as you say! Like they would dare be anything but tbh.

TheSkiingGardener · 21/01/2013 20:29

Oh OP. I have news for you.

Your DH can eat whatever the fuck he wants.

The end.

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 20:29

He's probably having an affair with Greggs.

AbuseHamzaMousseCake · 21/01/2013 20:31

HearMyRoar - thanks for that, must have missed that bit somewhere! Well, I am off to watch Corrie now. That's another load of tripe at the moment! I mean stuffing your secret phone down the side of the sofa instead of your pocket and keeping all the incriminating texts and pics on it without a password! I give up!

Cherryjellow · 21/01/2013 20:31

Best thread I have read in a long time!!

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 20:34

abuse dont laugh, thats almost exactly what my D (for dickhead) H did, except he left it in his trousers and then gave them to me when I asked if he had anything for a dark wash.

Yes, he really is that fucking stupid!

hippo123 · 21/01/2013 20:34

The birds can't be dead from her food as she only puts the burnt cakes in the bin, after cooling of course. In an earlier post Op said she couldn't feed the burnt bits to the birds as there were none we're she lives Smile. Surely this has to go in classics?

WeAreSix · 21/01/2013 20:38

I wonder if he was T-Rexing while eating cake? Sackable offence!

MrsMushroom · 21/01/2013 20:38

"Cramming them into his open mouth"

At least he wasn't cramming them into his closed mouth!

You sound like a nightmare!

flossy101 · 21/01/2013 20:38

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Can you please tell us all about the "girlfriend" and her vegetarian ways?

Asamumnonsense · 21/01/2013 20:40

Coming home from work after a stressful day and reading this thread has just made my day!! been laughing to myself imagining the scene! You're hilarious... I see people are seeing the serious side of it and I think they have a point.
You need to relax a little and try one of those 'bad' cakes one day and see that there is nothing embrarrassing about it..

mousebacon · 21/01/2013 20:41

Wow. Just wow. At everything. Wow.

This thread is bonkers. Hilarious but bonkers.

I opened this straight after the bitchbitchbitch one. I think I'll get a glass of wine.

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/01/2013 20:42

Well yeah, there are no birds now , they've all dropped dead or fucked off so she has to bin them these days Grin

NewAndSparklyMe · 21/01/2013 20:42

So some of your cakes aren't perfect, and you want to throw them in the bin. Fair enough. I'm completely failing to see why you'd be fuming with your DH for actually wanting to eat them though? So what? Better than wasting them and throwing them in the bin, surely?! Confused
If he wants to eat them, let him. They can't be as inedible as you think they are if he's prepared to eat them!
Oh and for those doubting about no birds - well, I can understand that, as if we threw cake out into the garden where we are it would still be there weeks later growing lovely mould! (Built up area that very rarely sees birds in gardens.)

NulliusInBlurba · 21/01/2013 20:43

Can I have a recipe for condemned cake? Sounds much more creative than the usual lemon drizzle, and apparently DH will be wolfing it down. Such fun to be had in Stepford these days!

landrover · 21/01/2013 20:43

Apparently there are no birds in Malta!!! Cant remember why though !

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/01/2013 20:44

I wonder where the OP holidays? Wink

Foggles · 21/01/2013 20:44

I bet the "girlfriend" makes exceedingly good cakes.

Pandemoniaa · 21/01/2013 20:45

I like the fact that the OP has a "system" to cover any failures on the baking front. It reminds me of Italy. You'd get into Very Serious Trouble if you failed to observe the correct charred cake procedure.

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 20:46

I know of one place where you never hear birdsong, but I wont mention it as its very sad :(

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