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AIBU?

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Original poster

to think this just isn't right...(first world problem/petty/lighthearted/need to get a grip)

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Bobyan · 26/04/2013 22:28

I have baked a chocolate cake, complete with chocolate buttercream and chocolate fondant icing on top.
"D"H has served the cake by cutting it down the middle into two halves and then cutting these halves into slices (like you would a loaf of bread - so all the slices vary in sizes).
AIBU to think that this is just wrong? I have pointed out that you don't see restaurants hacking cutting cakes like this. Also it means that the cake doesn't stay as fresh.

Am pretty pissed off.

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TheSecondComing · 26/04/2013 23:04

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MoonlightandRoses · 26/04/2013 23:12

Bobyan - not a bad idea - Wine to go with anyone? And can I have the other middle slice?

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Bobyan · 26/04/2013 23:12

Here Second, dig in.

I wonder if delia has these issues? Considers traybakes...

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MoonlightandRoses · 26/04/2013 23:30

Seeing as it's Friday have a whole one Grin

MsFlippingHeck · 26/04/2013 23:58

some posters are being too harsh.
It's not like he ate it all, now that would be a deal breaker.

Maybe you could have some couples therapy to work through this, a baking course maybe? If you have DCs it has to be worth it for their sakes.

On a positive note it gives you the option of choosing an appetite appropriate size slice each time you're passing the cake. it might even be a good idea if its in an airtight container

SPsYoniTheOneAndOnly · 27/04/2013 00:04

I want cake now Sad

Cake is cake. Should never cut but it eat like you would a bun.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 27/04/2013 00:04

Tut, tut.

I have been accused of man hating many times in the past few MN conversations with trolls, yet sadly it falls to me to explain the male psyche.

You see, my friends, how he has created many pieces of cake that must be eaten swiftly?

You notice how we all like cake?

It is a cunning plan.

I for one applaud him.

Sorry it doesn't look so pretty, OP, but you know what you need to do with the unfortunate remnants. Send some my way?

BlackeyedSusan · 27/04/2013 00:10

bastard op and bastard op's dh for making her post about chocolate cake

"I want cake"

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Bobyan · 27/04/2013 00:18

I'm sorry, I'll stick to posting about less important stuff.
Pats huge cake and wine filled gut.

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AgentZigzag · 27/04/2013 00:25

Picking up the couples therapy thing and running with it, he should put in the same effort you did to bake the same cake, and then be made to sit and watch you eat it all take a hammer to it.

Which is, in effect, what he did when he butchered yours.

PickleSarnie · 27/04/2013 07:18

Give him one of these Biscuit

It's what he deserves. He can't be trusted with cake.

Molehillmountain · 27/04/2013 07:25

(Whispers) I sometimes cut cakes like this. It is how they cut circular wedding cakes. But if its a seven or eight inch one, LTB.

Molehillmountain · 27/04/2013 07:28

No, scrap that. Reread op and realised i was picturing it all wrong. It's the cutting in half thing that's so very, very wrong about all this. Worst of both worlds. Too much exposed cake. No nice cake slice shaped slices. Just wrong. If it helps, it has inspired me to bake today.

BrianButterfield · 27/04/2013 07:30

He's a fucking animal, make no bones about it.

NoWayPedro · 27/04/2013 07:36

^^ yy

he's out of control and you better nip this in the bud before he starts teaching the kids shit like this. They'll never be invited to another birthday party again if word get round they also massacre cakes.

MsFlippingHeck · 27/04/2013 07:41

Been thinking about this overnight. I bet its a MIL problem isn't it OP. He learnt this behaviour somewhere.

NoWayPedro · 27/04/2013 07:43

PS - there's another thread about sandwich cutting; that's how it starts, bread, sandwiches, then CAKE 'tis an inevitability. Poor wpman probably has no idea :(

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JeremyPiven · 27/04/2013 07:55

How are you feeling this morning OP?

My 'D'H puts cold eggs in boiling water so that they crack. And then complains when I eat Brie by starting at the pointy end. That's what e everyone does right?

BuntyCollocks · 27/04/2013 08:12

My DM does this. Drives me fucking nuts, and is a throwback to when one normal sized cake would be expected to feed my extended family on both sides for my birthday when I was little.

We now no longer need to feed the 5000. I have to bite my lip to not scream 'cut it properly or buy a bigger fucking cake!'

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Bobyan · 27/04/2013 08:14

We're still talking about it, he has admitted this morning he did it because he knew he would get to eat more of it.

I'm not sure I can get over the betrayal. And don't get me started about my mil.

Lowers voice to a whisper, she grills croissants.

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Mumof3men · 27/04/2013 08:17

what do you mean-grills croissants???????????

Now I feel a little sorry for you DH, he clearly was raised by savages!

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Bobyan · 27/04/2013 08:20

Because it "makes them crispy" and burnt

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