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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:
steben · 21/01/2013 20:46

Still early on in this thread but fuck me you must bake a lot! How do you find the time to have a constant supply of perfect cakes on the go - blimey.

Foggles · 21/01/2013 20:46

I wonder where the OP holidays?

In an episode of The Good Life Grin

jkklpu · 21/01/2013 20:50

Qu'il mange de la brioche.

PacificDogwood · 21/01/2013 20:50

I have just informed DH that the days of haphazardly thrown together cakes, often done in the breadmaker Shock are a Thing of the Past

There will be a Cake System.
And I will Manage his Diet.

I realise now I have been cutting him far too much slack

The vegetarian "girlfriend" makes me wheeze - stop, please STOP Grin

FannyFifer · 21/01/2013 20:51

WTAF is with all the deleting?

I said nothing offensive whatsoever, something along the lines of my DP is only allowed to eat the condemned cake and this has to be a wind up.

How did that break any talk guidelines??

PacificDogwood · 21/01/2013 20:52

Bogeyface maybe cake crumbs would bring the birds back?

Foggles · 21/01/2013 20:53

Pacific don't forget that your DH needs to remove the excess foliage of any bouquets.

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 20:53

Possibly comes under troll hunting Fanny

I think her DH is more like Richard in that Hyacinth Bucket program ....can't remember what its called. I can just imagine her managing poor Richards diet and banning him from less than perfect cakes!

I wonder if the OP wears hats every time she leaves the house?!

LeucanTheMopsis · 21/01/2013 20:53

Sorry if this has been done - haven't read the whole thread.

Alfrex? Alf the King? King Alfred and his burnt cakes? Hmm

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 20:54

Keeping up Appearances!

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 20:57

That was my first thought too Leucan but decided to ignore it in the name of fun :o

ineedanewmiddlename · 21/01/2013 20:57

I think the OP is having a laugh at our expense. Very funny thread though.

elizaregina · 21/01/2013 20:58

Grin @ "I have an image of the OP's husband rifling through the kids' lunchboxes at his school like a feral fox, desperate to get his hands on some slightly imperfect baking to slam down his craw..." Oxford Bags.

Surely any thread that can bring stuff like this ^ out - is worth not reporting even if its suspicous? I dont get it with people heavily investing in threads that everyone else LOVES and enjoys?
A thread about burnt cakes and everyones hitting report?

landrover · 21/01/2013 20:59

Bogeyface, is that Malta, do they shoot them all? i know its something weird but can't remember!

LineRunner · 21/01/2013 20:59

It'll be BobbyBruce and that fucking spider next.

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/01/2013 21:00

"In an episode of The Good Life"

Haha! And Margo so would slap Jerry's hand and tell him off for eating the burnt cake Grin

elizaregina · 21/01/2013 21:02

Def Margo and Jerry.

So how did DH apologise to you op?
What did he say?xxxx

Loislane78 · 21/01/2013 21:03

Crikey - hope he doesn't drink milk or tea with your cake as suspect you'd chop a ball off

DisAstrophe · 21/01/2013 21:04

I wandered lonely as a bird that floats on high oer hill and flats
When all at once I saw a bun
A host of golden cup cakes
Beside the bin
Beneath the ceiling
Cooling and smelling like heavenly things

Ten thousand saw I at glance
Shimmering under a purple valance

I gazed and gazed but little thought
What pain to mr alfrex would soon be wrought

For oft when on his couch he lays
In silent and reflective mood
The cake tin flashes through the air
and brings violence to his solitude

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 21:04

No, worse than that land :(

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 21:05

That is, a worse place

RubyGates · 21/01/2013 21:07

No cake And no birds.

"I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill?s side.

And this is why I sojourn here,

Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither?d from the lake,
And no birds sing. "

Maybe I'm just a bit too goth for my own good Grin

elizaregina · 21/01/2013 21:07

Distrophe

what genius Grin, love it.

LeucanTheMopsis · 21/01/2013 21:07

Ah, just read it.

Sorry, OP, but I'm the girlfriend. I'm not actually vegetarian, but all your food is so undercooked I can't eat it, and that when I tell you I'm off out into the garden for a cigarette, I'm actually scoffing all your garden birds. Blush

babiesinslingsgetcoveredinfood · 21/01/2013 21:10

Hahahahahaha! This is fab! Can't decide on my favourite bit. 'Girlfriend' being in inverted commas. I am right? OPis ACTUALLY nuts right?