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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:
BinkyWinky · 21/01/2013 21:36

You won't let him eat burnt cakes, but fairy liquid is cool?

Bogeyface · 21/01/2013 21:36

Do you? Yet you can't laugh at yourself.....

LeucanTheMopsis · 21/01/2013 21:37

Ah, seen the OP. Damn right I don't come at meal times Hmm.

alfrex · 21/01/2013 21:38

Why would I laugh at myself? I am not funny Confused

You lot, you are funny! I have never seen so much nonsense. Especially the poetry. Stupid.

OP posts:
BloominMarvellous · 21/01/2013 21:39

Wow this is the best thread ever!!!

Please please MNHQ can this go in classics? I will give lots of chocolates and gin

I want cake now!!!!! Not OP's though

Stropzilla · 21/01/2013 21:39

Sense of humour maybe. Sense of perspective not so much. Why can't your husband decide what to eat for himself?

GeraldineAubergine · 21/01/2013 21:40

When I have a large amount of baked goods that I don't want anyone to eat, but aren't ready to put in the bin yet, I find a light dusting of Ajax or shake and vac really puts the determined cake pilferer off.

alfrex · 21/01/2013 21:42

Because I baked the Stropzilla so it is up to me.

OP posts:
dinkystinky · 21/01/2013 21:42

Wow this thread is quite mad. Op your behaviour is very far from the norm and extremely controlling not to mention wasteful of food that could be put to use else wise (if not feeding birds then maybe in donating to others to feed birds).

Love all the songs and poems on here though.

OxfordBags · 21/01/2013 21:42

Why would you laugh at yourself? Possibly because it's one of the basic essentials of a mature and non-disorded personality?

Spamspamspam · 21/01/2013 21:42

Having just read 29 pages for the first time today and even missing Revenge for it Shock I refuse to believe for one minute it is real. I am placing a bet on it being a lighthearted "classics" thread for "Blue Day" or whatever today is supposed to be.

People like this DO NOT EXIST - they can't, surely????........surely?

If it's for real then OMFG I am bloody grateful for my mind.

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/01/2013 21:43

I just popped on to ask if anyone else is reading the OP's comments in the voice of Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest?

A handbag
A vegetarian
A geography teacher

I can't stop myself now...

SolidGoldFrankensteinandmurgh · 21/01/2013 21:43

If this is true then the OP is abusive to her partner and children. Irrational demands, screaming tantrums, controlling what they eat... The H has probably learned to cope by tuning her nonsense out, but I'm sorry for the DC, who may develop eating disorders if they don't have them already.

Stropzilla · 21/01/2013 21:44

So even if it's edible which it clearly is no one can eat it you'd rather throw it out?

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 21/01/2013 21:45

New system:

Tin 1) - crappy cakes for DH

Tin 2) - perfect cakes for rest of family (but not Vegetarian Girlfriend obv)

Problem solved.

NormanTheForeman · 21/01/2013 21:46

This is so obviously a wind-up....

Alfrex = Alf Rex = Alf King = King Alfred = burnt cakes. Wink

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 21/01/2013 21:46

OP, I don't think you've taken anything on board if the only thing you've gained from this is to put fairy liquid over the cakes.

You don't think that's extreme? Maybe your cakes aren't that good. Maybe everyones just to scared to tell you incase you freak out.

Maybe your DS girlfriend, sorry, 'girlfriend' doesn't want to come at mealtimes as you clearly make her unwelcome. God helps whoever marries your children. You sound like the future mil from hell.

yousankmybattleship · 21/01/2013 21:46

I think it is real. I think she murdered the birds. She definitely condemned the cakes. Her husband is in mortal danger because he sneaked into his own kitchen and willfully ate cakes she made for him. The bastard. Got what's coming to him I reckon.

perceptionreality · 21/01/2013 21:46

I think this does sound controlling OP. Have you given more thought to why this upset you so much? If your dh wanted to eat them then the cakes must have been edible. To assume he did it to 'embarrass' you is probably way off the mark imo.

HildaOgden · 21/01/2013 21:47

'my dh is most definately not "hen-pecked" or a "manchild". He is a geography teacher.'

I don't know ,but I find that hilarious Grin

LeucanTheMopsis · 21/01/2013 21:47

Yeah? Try it in shorty-bald-guy voice, Mrs Pratchett, you know, Bob Hoskins.

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/01/2013 21:49

Thanks for the links! :)

KitchenandJumble · 21/01/2013 21:49

I can't seem to stay away from this thread. It is utterly bonkers on so many levels. Though I am crushed that the OP didn't like my poem. Crushed, I tell you.

OP, you baked the cakes so that means you get to choose whether your DH is allowed to eat them? Really? And you don't find anything unusual or controlling about that?

HazeltheMcWitch · 21/01/2013 21:50

To clarify, the 'there are no birds in Malta' thing is irony, as they are well known (appara), for shooting anything that flies.
I am unaware of whether they use shot, or cake.

AltinkumATEalltheTurkey · 21/01/2013 21:50

Fucking hell OP, I think your husband need to give you a good shag!!

In satin that maybe he's bad his fill with all those cakes...