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Poxy Cocktail Sausages

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Popsie3 · 16/02/2013 19:38

Was at a Childs Birthday party with my ds, We don't eat sausages purely because they are full of utter crap, At the buffet my ds doesn't even go to pick up a sausage as we never eat them so fills plate up with other things but some other Mums at the party question me so I explained we don't eat them, Unbeknown to me whilst my ds is in the other room another mum says to him 'Quick don't tell your mum but I've got a sausage for you', and hands one to him. AIBU to watch to question her on this when I see her next and/or punch her in the face

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Pandemoniaa · 16/02/2013 20:52

It was U to try and trick your child into a forbidden sausage but I can't help thinking that unless your child is vegetarian or has allergies, there are worse things in life than the ingestion of the occasional bit of party food. Seems like an awful lot of angst over a sausage, tbh.

I've not forgotten ds1's 5th birthday. Our next door neighbour had to stay with her child (who she moved further down the table away from the very nice, locally sourced, not at all fucking crap sausages made from pigs whose names we knew) lest the poor girl be tainted by my irresponsible catering.

The loudly shrieked words "No, No, No Persephone! Don't touch any of those horrid iced biscuits because we've got lovely, lovely tofu and brussel tops for tea" are still, 27 years later, remembered fondly and trotted out as a classic example of helicopter parenting.

Original poster
Popsie3 · 16/02/2013 20:53

We don't eat sausages, it's not quirky, unecessary and there was no fuss made! Just another mum taking upon herself to try and make my ds eat one which annoyed me!

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Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2013 20:53

Would that be on a cocktail stick with a lump of cheese Red?

Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2013 20:54

But he didn't eat it Popsie. When you start leaving your DS at parties you won't know what he's eaten.

HappySunflower · 16/02/2013 20:57

Is there anything else you don't let him eat?

jinsymaw · 16/02/2013 20:57

I think what it comes down to is that the cheeky mare (like it GloryWhole? sorry me new mate!) did not have the authority, power to give a child who has no resonsibility to let another person give food in such a devious way, against the rules of the parent!

Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2013 20:59

No sausage authority. Wink

PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:00

OMG he may die from sausage poisoning, I would get an ace lawyer on board to get as much compo as possible. Alternatively you could just be normal and move on.

PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:00

Control freak or what?

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Popsie3 · 16/02/2013 21:01

Thank you jinsymaw that is what is annoying me!

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myfirstkitchen · 16/02/2013 21:02

Forget it. In about 15 years he will be doing worse at parties. Might even be going up his nose.

RedHotRudieParts · 16/02/2013 21:02

Yes sparkling, for extra pricklness and that expression the cat adopts when a thermometer is shoved up its arse.

PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:03

How very dare she jinsy, just an ordinary mum at a party, she should seek written permission to even approach PFB. Sue her arse.

HyvaPaiva · 16/02/2013 21:03

The secrecy and the 'don't tell your mum' would make me so Angry, I don't care about the party food though. Cocktail sausages aren't 'poxy' or the source of your upset. So YANBU about her behaviour, but YABU to make it sausage-based rage.

Also, to the poster who pays £10 for two sausages: Grin

PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:04

myfirstkitchen is right.

Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2013 21:05

Shock at sausages going up the nose.

PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:06

FFS it's life its not as if its illicit bum sex with a minor, its a pigging sausage roll. I bloody despair of the the UK, we are sad.

PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:07

That would hurt!

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Popsie3 · 16/02/2013 21:09

Wow PessaryPam you are gross! Not funny in the slightest!

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Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2013 21:11

So Popsie how are you going to get over this and put it behind you?

PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:11

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PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:12

Counseling for at least 10 years may do it.

GazpachoSoup · 16/02/2013 21:13

Not read the other poss, so apologies - although going by the OP it's opinions you're after.
Can I just say, how OLD is your ds?
Is he old enough to decide he actually wants to try one of those sausages himself?!
Because, by the sounds of your original post, you say YOU say you don't eat those crappy, full of garbage things. Not your ds.
If he wants to try it, then surely that's up to him? He's his own person when it comes to food. Should you be foisting your tastes and ideals onto him?
If he turned round and said "bleeee, yuck!" then you'd have a point. He doesn't want the crap.
If it's a case of you saying that we "don't eat that" then that's different. YABU.
Let your child make up their mind what they do and don't want to eat.

NynaevesSister · 16/02/2013 21:14

Oh come on! Of course OP is right to be peeved at another mother acting that way. It was out of order.

I mean who on earth does that with another persons child, even if you don't agree with it. For crying out loud she just said no to a sausage not all the party type food.

PessaryPam · 16/02/2013 21:20

There could be a claim there Nyan?