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to be annoyed at DD's friend's Mum

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user1473069153 · 05/09/2016 10:56

AIBU to be annoyed that when DD (7) went to her friend's house her friend's Mum gave her fish fingers and beans as a dinner. When DD's friend visited us we gave her coleslaw and quinoa salad- a healthy meal! DD is ridiculously bright and unusually sensitive child and I believe this experience may have imbalanced her and disrupted her sleeping.

OP posts:
jbee664 · 05/09/2016 11:57

oh my days! most blatant!

DropYourSword · 05/09/2016 11:57

I am a bit Confused that anyone has taken this seriously!

SleepDeprivedAndCranky · 05/09/2016 11:58

Ahh but were they homemade fish fingers, made from scratch? If so, friends mum wins! Grin

FuzzyOwl · 05/09/2016 12:00

I don't think anyone took this thread seriously but some responses were in a deadpan manner.

diddl · 05/09/2016 12:01

Fish fingers & beans?

Now I know what to have for lunch Grin

Might push the boat out & have coleslaw as well. Shock

Jessbow · 05/09/2016 12:01

Nothing wrong with the lunch I gave your daughter

We reared the fish ourselves in our pesticide free lake
Caught on our fish friendly rods

The beans we grew, and cooked with our own home grown tomatoes, organic herbs, cooked over a peat fire .

Served on a hand thrown plate, made from the very clay we dug from the garden

Why do you only tell half the tale?

Willow2016 · 05/09/2016 12:02

It was on 'the other side' a while back. Bloody hilarious. Some pious, crusading anti pixar/disney, self professed Christian young woman saw it on facebook and instantly believed it and was warning everyone of the horror! Even when pointed out that the 'photo evidence' was actually divers in helmets in front of a submarine! It went on a while till it was pulled I think. Its no longer there but this is the hoax
www.truthorfiction.com/minions-from-despicable-me-were-inspired-by-tortured-jewish-children/

www.snopes.com/nazi-minions/

iknowimcoming · 05/09/2016 12:03

I do hope the coleslaw was homemade rather than shop bought otherwise - no, doesn't bear thinking about ........

On a serious note quinoa and coleslaw, that's tonight's tea sorted! My dc and dh will be pleased! Sounds like the very last dregs of a really bad buffet Hmm

Soubriquet · 05/09/2016 12:04

Wow...that's bad

And now I've re-read the meal I'm disgusted really.

Fish fingers and beans?! Is that it? Where's the chips or mash

Pfft

redisthenewblack · 05/09/2016 12:10

I'm having last night's left over kebab meat for lunch.

Might warm it up, but probably won't. Stick enough garlic sauce on and you can't taste it anyway.

GoblinLittleOwl · 05/09/2016 12:13

I am receiving tuition from my daughter on how to pronounce quinoa so feel unqualified to comment.

SoupDragon · 05/09/2016 12:13

You won't be hearing from this OP again, ideally.

If only that were true

LagunaBubbles · 05/09/2016 12:17

At least funny threads are..well funny.

nellypledge16 · 05/09/2016 12:18

Totally unacceptable if there wasn't white bread and butter for fish fingers armies and Angel Delight for pudding!

Chooseformeplease · 05/09/2016 12:20

Very good.
I'm off to make lunch, where are the turkey twizzlers?

amusedbush · 05/09/2016 12:23

I really fancy a fish finger sandwich now. On Warburton's Toastie white bread, with butter and brown sauce.

MsWorthington · 05/09/2016 12:24

Oh OP/troll, you're doing it all wrong, you need to sound at last half way convincing, like this-

Once a week my DD goes for tea at a friends house, and all she seems to eat there is crap. Sausages (cheap ones, not the good kind), nuggets, fish fingers, all served with chips and beans or spaghetti hoops, so double cabs. She's also given snacks of chocolate biscuits, Oreos I think from her description, and cheap ice cream for pudding. At home I always cook greasy from scratch using organic ingredients, I'm not adverse to the odd bit of junk food, she sometimes has homemade cake, and I even let DH take her to nandos once! But this crap every week is too much, she comes back hyperactive and bratty from her friends house, I'm sure it's the food. Should I say something?

See, half way believable, and enough to start a bunfight, not just have everyone rolling their eyes at you.

(For the record I'm not a troll, but I've been on mumsnet long enough to know how to do it and press buttons if I wanted to).

MsWorthington · 05/09/2016 12:25

Greasy from scratch? That should be totally from scratch.

charliethebear · 05/09/2016 12:26

I assumed this was a joke thread not a troll. Some people have taken it way too seriously.

Ginkypig · 05/09/2016 12:35

Coleslaw is not healthy!

I'm sorry your dd was imbalanced in such an awful way. I'm sure she will survive this ordeal and triumph op.

Il call my transverse universal guru for you they will hopefully be able to reverse the imbalance if it's not been to long

jellybeans · 05/09/2016 12:37

Reverse?

Yabu

ParanoidGynodroid · 05/09/2016 12:47

Yawn. Not sure I can find the "I remember Mumsnet when" thread, but there did used to be some hilarious trolling and joke threads.
This is just tedious.

Olympiathequeen · 05/09/2016 12:49

Agree, it's appallingly bad form to feed your DD such utter junk. I would put an end to this contaminating friendship.

What next? Coming home with a deep fried mars bar?

madein1995 · 05/09/2016 12:56

Ok I'll bite, I dint actually think your meal is meal enough - a salad, for a main meal? God it wouldn't be enough for an adult on a diet let alone a child! Fine as lunch, not as tea. Btw op if you are real (doubt it) you're probably giving dd food issues

ElsieMc · 05/09/2016 12:59

As soon as I saw the posters name at the top of the thread, I knew there would be something off about it. Have a look at other postings. MNHQ have it right here.

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