To send my sandwich back to be cut up?

[missknows]

Just phoned my husband from the bedroom (struggling with 4 month sleep regression baby) and asked him to make me a sandwich. Tomato puree with ham. Yum yum. Brings it up. . . Whole!!

I made him go back and cut it in half. AIBU or should I have been grateful to get it in the first place?

[missknows]

Tomato puree, ham and cheese and onion crisp sandwich is basically a poor man's pizza. I can't be the only person in the world to have realised this?!

[MrsChickPea]

FREEKY EATERS. Please watch it (the programme). Being overly keen on tomato puree is not good for you and needs looking at. Tomato puree obviously has it's place in most of our worlds. But it's not for toast, and it is definitely not for being SQUIRTED STRAIGHT INTO MOUTH. Wrong. And... yuck!!!!

[Bearbehind]

I need to read the cutted up pear thread now to bleach my brain of thoughts of a tomato purée sandwich in any shape or size!

[MrsChickPea]

Hello Bettercallsaul1... not been here that long, and I get texted is past tense of text, but IT SOUNDS SO WRONG! No idea of correct English on this one, but it sounds wrong. And whenever I hear the phrase "oh, I've texted blah"... I cringe! Surely it's "I've text blah". Or even better "I've sent a text to blah". Gosh no idea. But the word TEXTED is so wrong, surely..... off to check dictionary!

[TheSpottedZebra]

Tomato puree and avocado on toast.
That's a good'un too.

You can splat some chilli sauce on top if you wish.

[wafflyversatile]

yes you definitely need to read the cutted up pear thread.

[Moln]

The OP is going to be on Channel 4 soon. Proudly staring into her special tomato puree fridge.

[Bearbehind]

Christ- it's pretty scary that googling 'mumsnet cutted up pear' actually has hits

Off to read it.

[wafflyversatile]

MrsChickpea, it's because text already sounds like past tense. It would sound exactly the same as if it was spelled texed. So saying texted sounds like saying waxeded. That is why.

[wafflyversatile]

I waxeded the car.

[missknows]

Some of you are being such snobs. Tomato puree on bread with toppings (quite commonly ham) is often known as pizza and eaten by most of you, probably as a treat.
Tomato puree on bread with ham and called a sandwich and suddenly I'm a freak! It's just semantics surely.

[Bettercallsaul1]

As I say, MrsChickPea, 'tis a lively debate on MN between the rival merits of text and texted - consider yourself lucky not to have become embroiled in one of them!

They are chiefly characterised by impassioned groans of "But text/texted (insert as desired) just doesn't sound right!

[missknows]

Bearbehind be careful. I discovered the mumsnet classics board once and lost a day of my life. I vowed never to return!

[Bettercallsaul1]

wafflyversatile - does it look nice?

[MrsChickPea]

missknows... no snobbishness here. A pizza is a pizza. (They come in boxes or we go to Pizza Express - though not great fans of either). But... tomato puree is quite a strong flavour (used here for cooking and never considered a sandwich spread!). What the devil is wrong with a ham and tomato sandwich! Though, I do know that we're all weird in our own way! So you carry on munching on what you prefer!

[wafflyversatile]

It looks lovely and waxeded.

[Bettercallsaul1]

missknows - this thread of yours has taken some odd turns, hasn't it?! And there were you just looking for some (well deserved) sympathy over sandwich bisecting! You never know what you're starting here...

[Bettercallsaul1]

wafflyversatile - so you're waxing lyrical?

[MrsChickPea]

Checked dictionary... texted is a word (SORRY!). It still sounds wrong though. I would struggle to say this.
Apologies OP... back to you phoning your husband from the bedroom (I love this!), requesting a sandwich.....

[WitchWay]

I never cut bacon sandwiches but my husband does. Other types I cut into halves but he prefers quarters

[wafflyversatile]

I'm whackeded.

[Icimoi]

Of course texted is correct. Or would you say that someone had been test instead of tested? Or that a room had been dust instead of dusted? Or that a car had been dent instead of dented?

The basic principle is (1) with new word usages - e.g. text as a verb - then you have regular verb forms, i.e. that you form the past tense in the standard way by adding ed; and (2) if a verb ends with consonant before a t, you add ed in the past tense.

[MrsChickPea]

Would that be the same as shaggeded?

[wafflyversatile]

If only.

Of course it's correct but I was explaining why it doesn't sound right to many people.

Personally using text instead of texted annoys me, but I understand how it has come to be.

[MrsChickPea]

Icimoi.... yes you are obviously very right. Obviously. It is just the sounding of the word texted. Sounds wrong. Are you a teacher by chance?