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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:
Stropzilla · 21/01/2013 21:51

Aww I thought your poem was epic!

bea · 21/01/2013 21:52

Oh! Gawd!

You asked AIBU?

The majority have said YES!!!

Accept and move on!!!!

But you really do need to get a grip and what a horrible manner you have about your ds girlfriend!

You are truly scary!

(and I thought I was bonkers when I have a little stompy strop when my baking doesn't turn out right!)

PLUS! What a waste! Either bake better or let your dh eat it! If it's edible (upto the eater I guess!) then it is scandalous to throw away edible food!

Biscuit
RubyGates · 21/01/2013 21:52

No! YabVVU to call John Keats stupid Hmm

tak1ngchances · 21/01/2013 21:54

This is an extremely high quality thread. Someone should tweet it to Caitlin Moran, right up her street

LeucanTheMopsis · 21/01/2013 21:54

Oh well, if it's poetry you're after

There is never cake.
When cake is wanting.

But lo!
The bastard offspring lurk.
Shall I.
Dare I do this thing.

Oh, the burnt offering!
Shit, she's coming...

Stropzilla · 21/01/2013 21:57

Next poet laureat

BlackBagBorderBinLiner · 21/01/2013 21:57
- A warning from a documentary shot in 1996, Rolf Harris, Bruno Brookes, Noel Edmunds would never eat cake.
squeakytoy · 21/01/2013 21:58

the OP may be genuine, but this thread really cannot be anything more than a regular on a wind up... nobody could be this ridiculous..

Stropzilla · 21/01/2013 21:59

I hope so! This deserves to live on in classics.

StoicButStressed · 21/01/2013 22:00

Alfrex? Is/was this all a joke? Or was every word of your OP and other posts genuine? If former, BRAVO Alfrex as even a deadpanning Miranda couldn't beat you for humourGrin. If latter.... am genuinely slightly concerned for you? Have you ever sought any help? [As in, the 'let's talk' variety, not the Ready Steady Cook variety - just thought should clarify for avoidance of doubt!]

BrokenBananaTantrum · 21/01/2013 22:01

This thread has to be a wind up but very funny [grin|

LiveItUp · 21/01/2013 22:01

Same tone and response style and refusal to take anything on board as the Frenchie thread that went up in a poof of smoke last week. Someone out there is bored again me thinks ....

alfrex · 21/01/2013 22:02

No point continuing to poke me with a stick ladies as I have gone to bed.

xxx

OP posts:
sukysue · 21/01/2013 22:02

You are obs starving him that's why he is eating awful cakes tutut!

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 21/01/2013 22:02

I bet your OH buys cakes when he's out. And enjoys them. Without a plate.

breatheslowly · 21/01/2013 22:02

Our geography teachers were always banging on about less economically developed countries (previously called the third world) and malthusian checks like famine. Maybe he was thinking of the starving people in the world as he ate the otherwise wasted food.

Being a geography teacher isn't something you can switch off when you leave school, it is part of your soul.

Iburntthecakes · 21/01/2013 22:03

Oh crap. I'll have to namechange.

Iburntthecakes · 21/01/2013 22:04

Grin Enjoyed reading though

Morloth · 21/01/2013 22:04

It isn't normal to care this much about cakes, OK? It just isn't.

If I were DS1's girlfriend I would run a fucking mile, aren't you going to be barrel of laughs as a MIL?

I would say I look forward to your future posts, but that actually feels a bit wrong.

For your sake I hope this is a wind up, this isn't normal behaviour.

piprabbit · 21/01/2013 22:05

Love the idea that someone eating a less than perfect cake is too embarrassing to be tolerated. But squirting edible cakes with washing up liquid to prevent pilfering is not embarrassing at all, no, that is quite, quite normal and positively sensible Grin.

Personally, I think the OP should widdle on her condemned cakes. That'd teach DH good and proper to avoid anything remotely drizzly.

SilverOldie · 21/01/2013 22:06

A good workman never blames his/her tools. If you need a system for disposing of failed bakes, you're a crap baker. I feel so sorry for your DH and wish he could read this thread.

100% of posters have said YABU which you refuse to accept so I'm not sure why you even bothered posting in AIBU.

I look forward to reading the 'MIL from hell' thread when your son finally marries.

elizaregina · 21/01/2013 22:06

I wonder if op would squirt her DH with washing up liquid mid bite if he took them before she was able to derail his sinister plot.
It could get quite nasty.

NormanTheForeman · 21/01/2013 22:08

It's deffo a wind-up, the OP's name gives it all away! But entertaining nevertheless! Grin

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 21/01/2013 22:08

OP whilst you're in bed, is your DH downstairs pilfering burnt cakes and enjoying it? I bet he is.

chunops · 21/01/2013 22:09

He's an individual if he wants to eat your cake he's entitled,at least it's not going to waste.