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.
MNHQ have commented on this thread
AIBU?
to be furious with dh for eating cakes he knew were destined for the bin!
alfrex · 21/01/2013 14:57
Well done greeny, I had a fleeting suspicion it was you (something in it reminded me of hamster stew) but kateMNHQ totally convinced me with her message.
This thread gave me a bit of much needed craic while I was feeling like death yesterday, thank you 
alfrex I applaud you on a thoroughly entertaining thread!! 
I admit you had me at first, but I began to get suspicious at 'no birds' and then 'geography teacher' but finally lost it at 'girlfriend' - still couldn't help reading though. You ever thought of going in to comedy?
I fell for it 
but I`m upset the the garlic arse wasnt real
I just read this thread again because it made me laugh so much yesterday. Iam crying with laughter, it is brilliant
Hilarious Greensleeves
My DH and I were laughing so much last night. Great way to end a blah Monday.
Your name was a give away but then so was the 'cake system'
Some fantastic posts from very amusing MNetters; I just skipped over the ridiculous frothing-at- the-mouth posters; job well done.
BTW I send my sub-standard cakes in to DH's office as they are cake-hoovers and a school coffee morning is a much more judgey-pants audience.
Thanks again for an excellent posting.
Just to be clear- I think the thread was fantastic, really funny and I fell for it like a good 'un.
It was the apparent MNHQ involvement that I didn't like. Of course you can't tell who's real and who's not, and you have to keep a sceptical eye open, but if a thread gets the Towers Imprimatur it think it's reasonable for people to think it's likely to be real. However bonkers.
Interesting how many people seemed to know from the beginning it was a joke!
reading it back neither did I!
It was suppose to read: At least this thread is funny and not set out to cause offence, hurt people or annoy, unlike thread/s you have started/ posted on.
@seeker
It was the apparent MNHQ involvement that I didn't like. Of course you can't tell who's real and who's not, and you have to keep a sceptical eye open, but if a thread gets the Towers Imprimatur it think it's reasonable for people to think it's likely to be real. However bonkers.
Interesting how many people seemed to know from the beginning it was a joke!
Totally agree, seeker. As you'll see in our (rather embarrassing) post earlier in the thread, the only reason we posted at the beginning of the thread was that we were taken in, too - and were posting to reassure folks who were worried that alfrex was in fact an MN regular.
If we'd realised it was a (totally unmalicious) wind-up, we wouldn't have posted. And we would, as we usually do, have replied to anyone who contacted us that we could see if was an MN regular who was probably having a bit of fun.
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I realised from the name it was probably a wind-up, but still fell for it
But that's all part of the geniousness that is Greeny's work.
amillionyears - it's not about not trusting anyone, it's about being aware that all may not be what it seems, and that people don't always tell the truth on the internet. That does not mean that I don't also offer help and advice on here. As (I hope) everyone on the low carb Bootcamp threads will attest.
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