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People who are doing it WRONG

816 replies

GloGirl · 30/06/2015 15:20

My Dad loves to talk about how he enjoys a good barbecue in this weather, once he even invited a lot of family round for one.

His version of a BBQ is a George Formby grill (natch), and in nice weather he plugs it in outside to cook a burger or sausage on. He is quite evangelical about how clever it is to barbecue that way.

It gives me the gritted teeth rage.

Anyone else who is doing it ALL WRONG? Offload here Brew

OP posts:
ghostyslovesheep · 30/06/2015 16:45

stop adding BOILING water to instant coffee - hot NOT boiling

FraggleHair · 30/06/2015 16:45

Okay he gets a stay of execution for being suspicious of beans on toast. All right minded people know that beans on toast are wrong.

WixingMords · 30/06/2015 16:46

DP used to slice up frankfurters, mix them with a tin of vegetable soup and call it a casserole. I soon stopped that I can tell you!!

FraggleHair · 30/06/2015 16:47

DP used to slice up frankfurters, mix them with a tin of vegetable soup and call it a casserole.

00100001 · 30/06/2015 16:48

MrsGB - why did YOU MARRY THIS MAN??? He clearly has... issues ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfused

Marmitelover55 · 30/06/2015 16:49

I didn't put marmite or jam on top of my buttered weetabix, just sugar Smile

FraggleHair · 30/06/2015 16:50

You buttered your Weetabix, that's enough Very Wrong right there.

00100001 · 30/06/2015 16:52
DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 30/06/2015 16:52

There's a big difference between a gas BBQ with lava rocks and one without. The sort without is just a grill like a kitchen oven.

WixingMords · 30/06/2015 16:53

The weetabix people used to encourage the whole jam on top of a dry weetabix.

I can vividly recall it on the back if the box. Any issues with its wrongness needs to be taken up with them.

00100001 · 30/06/2015 16:55

I just cna't imagine eating a dry weetabix and enjoying it... Sometimes you get the tiny bit the the milk and sugar misses and it's BLERGH

Marmitelover55 · 30/06/2015 16:55

I was trying to create a kind of raw cake mixture effect on my weetabix

slug · 30/06/2015 16:56

Chips in UK chippies. They cook them then let them sit around getting soggy . WRONG!!!

The correct way to purchase chips (i.e. the Kiwi way) is:
Enter local fish and chip shop (or fush and chup shop as it's properly pronounced)
Order chips, by the scoop, and your choice of other local delicacies.
Chat with the owner/other customers as part-cooked chips are measured out into baskets and lowered into hot fat
Wait 10 minutes or so for crisp, hot and tasty treats to be salted and wrapped in a paper parcel
Avoid dive bombing seagulls as you leave shop.

Heston Blumenthal and his triple cooked chips have nothing on freshly cooked Kiwi chips.

MrsGentlyBenevolent · 30/06/2015 16:56

00100001, not married yet, just having a child with him. I swear, in all other ways he's lovely. Just very bad with food and drink. He'd never tried a curry before either, but thought that was more forgivable than beans on toast. I mean, how does that even happen??

LadyPlumpington · 30/06/2015 16:57

I like soggy chips. I know it's wrong really, but I can't stop myself. Blush

songbird · 30/06/2015 16:58

paddington we put crushed up crisps on top of a pasta bake, then cheese and lots of black pepper. YUMMERS I tells ya, goes all crunchy and lush. Smokey bacon are the best, or ready salted if it's a tuna pasta bake.

Summerisle1 · 30/06/2015 16:59

Cannot actually get past the thought of a George Formby grill.

RustyBear · 30/06/2015 17:01

MrsGently - I will be 59 in just over a month and I have never eaten beans on toast. In fact, if I remember correctly, I have eaten one spoonful of baked beans in my entire life, when I was a toddler. Apparently I spat them out and no-one ever tried to get me to eat them again.

WaitingForEgg · 30/06/2015 17:02

My husband eats wheaterbix DRY with sugar sprinkled on top. He picks them up whole and munches away. It makes me want to throw pans at his head
He also puts milk in with tea bag before water and microwaves tea
He's lucky I love him really..

00100001 · 30/06/2015 17:04

rusty you're missing out! :)

SilentBob · 30/06/2015 17:06

I'm a bra on flip-side, do up round-the -back, arms in, flip bra up, hoik boobs around-a-bit kinda girl. I hope I'm in with that take on the whole swivel/no swivel thing. I was definitely be in were I to be braless.

I also like soggy chips. A lot. The other half is a crispy chip bloke. We're like jack spratt and his wife. Or something.

My father eats salad with tomato ketchup. Now that is wrong, on a whole new level.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 30/06/2015 17:06

My mum used to eat wetabix with CHEESE on top- all kinds of wrong!!

AwakeCantSleep · 30/06/2015 17:07

Most of you are being very unreasonable, for the simple reason that baked beans, spongy horrible mass produced sliced bread, weetabix, Yorkshire puddings (what on earth are they for??), any flavour crisps other than salted, marmite, instant coffe, and tea with milk are all terribly wrong. All of them.

Sorry.

MrsGentlyBenevolent · 30/06/2015 17:08

Rusty, that is grounds to give up your British Citizenship, if you so posses it! It doesn't matter whether you have it as a snack, a meal, or just eat it to feel patriotic, it must be tried by all peoples of this isle at least once!!

FraggleHair · 30/06/2015 17:09

The Weetabix crimes are most disconcerting. Who knew the humble wheat breakfast food could be a conduit for so much WRONGNESS.

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