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Crying at Macaroni Cheese No-Show

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Moonbear10 · 12/02/2017 22:56

I sound like a loon, I know, but I was meant to be having macaroni cheese for dinner tonight and it didn't happen. I got unreasonably emotional and had to go upstairs to cry about it.
Please make me feel better with your stories of inexplicable grief at ridiculous things!

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kissingJustForPractice · 12/02/2017 23:55

I cried when DH "pruned" all our lovely trailing rosemary. It was getting a bit out of hand but he hacked it right back and it's never been the same since. I also lost it once because there was no butternut squash with my chicken and chorizo pie, even though I hadn't asked for it.

MrTumblesbitch · 12/02/2017 23:56

I once sobbed, proper gulping snotty sobs, because I dropped my mince pie on the floor and it was the last one. My dad looked utterly panic stricken and drove off to the garage to try and buy me another one, when he got back I'd cried myself to sleep so he left the packet by my bed Grin

MrTumblesbitch · 12/02/2017 23:56

I was a grown up by the way, my dad was just lovely like that!

Bettercallsaul1 · 13/02/2017 00:03

I once cried when I was invited to dinner at my parents' house along with the rest of my family but, when I got there, they'd forgotten they'd invited me and every scrap of food had been eaten.

RortyCrankle · 13/02/2017 00:11
Shock
AcrossthePond55 · 13/02/2017 00:15

When I cooked Thanksgiving Dinner for the first time, I mistimed the turkey and it was half-done when everything else was ready. DH teased me about it and I burst into tears (being 5 months pregnant) and locked myself in the bathroom weeping. DH's Grandad stood outside the door and talked me out of the bathroom with loving words and stories about his wife's cooking disasters. He also gave DH a stern talking to later on.

Sunnysidegold · 13/02/2017 00:23

Have shed a lot of tears over food. Once I'd made myself the perfect bagel for lunch only to let it slide off the plate and splatter onto floor. No five second rule as coleslaw was everywhere. Once when pregnant (so think it was hormone induced) was at a work lunch, nipped to loo before meal.when i came.back the food had arrived and someone had taken my meal "by accident". They offered me the rest first" then said to eat the meal left at my place (it was something that i really couldn't stomach at that point in pregnancy). Waiter said they would bring me.something else but i said it would never be here in time so i cried and ate a load of bread. It still gets brought up especially if any office lunches are looming. I can laugh about that now, but that bagel.would have been amazing!

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 13/02/2017 00:24

My mum cocked up the turkey one year - it was the first one after my parents' divorce, so she ended up wailing in the kitchen. I took the bird out of the oven, carved enough for our lunch, put the bird back in the oven & microwaved the Xmas dinner slices. Noone cared or could tell.

I want macaroni cheese now.

My biggest sadness: when I found out DH had instructed the builders to strip out the original coat peg rack from our period house when we had the walls skimmed. The board & pegs (lovely, lovely pegs - row of about 10 of the kind that go for £25 each on fancy architectural salvage websites) were never seen again. Amazingly, we are still married but I do wonder about him sometimes.

DontTouchTheMoustache · 13/02/2017 00:30

Partway through a 7 hour car journey stopped at service station. I was very, very hungry (hangry). Ordered a subway and the man didn't wrap it tightly enough so all.the filling fell out by the time I got to the car to eat it and I completely lost my shit. I was literally shrieking like a banshee about the "stupid fucking cunt" who made the sandwich and made some rather unpleasant threats about sticking plastic objects in places and cutting parts of people with "a plastic fucking knife". As I ate the sandwich I gradually became more reasonable with every bite and by the time I had finished I was calmly telling my boyfriend that I had probably overreacted a wee bit. He was rather pale and just nodded in agreement.
I'm not proud of the person I become when I am hungry but I read that apparently it's a survival thing, in "the wild" we would have had to fight for food so when we are hungry those of us who experience the uncontrollable rage would be more likely to lose it and fight off any threats for our food.

venusinscorpio · 13/02/2017 00:53

My brother is the opposite to you. He once got a day off school because macaroni cheese was on the school dinner menu and he would have to eat it if he went and he cried. He was about 9 FFS.

MommaGee · 13/02/2017 01:03

Only food years when pregnant

Girl trip to Millers and Carter's, pregnant sp asked for steak well done. Came out bleeding! Had a few chips etc, complained nicely and they took it away. Ate my lettuce wedge.

Plate came back and it was more charred on the outside but still leaking blood. Cried.

Bff told him to leave me chips and gravy and to slice my meat and cut it properly!!!!! Also got free desserts.

DH cooked me chicken and I cried cp I needed pie and gravy. H offered tp fetch (as I was pregnant) but I forced my way through chicken. Next night he arrived with pie, chips and gravy

user892 · 13/02/2017 01:14

Cried when my fucking exbf's fucking dog ate my Easter egg that his family gave me Angry

AYankinSpanx · 13/02/2017 01:27

I didn't cry but felt like when I was served a skewer of perfectly chargrilled squid in Portugal, and then I went to pour some buttery oil on it and it was rancid. Coated every chunk of bloody lovely squid.

sallysparrow157 · 13/02/2017 02:34

I not only cried but stormed out of the house, deciding I was leaving home forever and going to live in a bush down a random dark country lane when the burger id just made for the bloke's dinner slid off the plate onto the floor and he made a slight sarcastic remark... (It was the day before a notoriously difficult postgraduate exam so I still think I'm entirely justified and rational in my response)

I lived in the bush for about 30 minutes th b came home cause it was a bit cold...

lightcola · 13/02/2017 02:40

I cried last week when my DH knocked my dinner on the floor. Refused to let him make me anything else and went to bed with a rumbling tummy in protest. I knew I was only punishing myself and not him by sulking but I couldn't bring myself to just swallow my pride and make some toast.

MagicChicken · 13/02/2017 03:16

I am loving the sound of MrTumbles dad and AcrossThePonds grandpa in law. ❤️

WallToWallBastards · 13/02/2017 03:39

Just remembered one of many foody ones. On a school trip in France, I'm vegetarian and the hotel served everyone steak and chips. Asked if they had anything vegetarian, was brought a plate of plain rice and a fish with the head on Sad the next night they gave everyone baked camembert with bread and brought me a plate of lettuce and sliced tomato.

Also every meal out. Delicious risotto, goats cheese or tomato pasta. Heartbreaking.

Auldspinster · 13/02/2017 03:49

Mmm macaroni, I'd cry too OP.

catinbooots · 13/02/2017 03:56

@piefacerecords - are you Chandler from Friends?

Flushedwithsomething · 13/02/2017 03:57

I recently cried in Mac. Spent forever choosing a new lipstick as a birthday treat for myself and they were out of stock. Mac always do this! First world problem, I know. To be fair I have had a cold on a off for weeks and had dragged myself out to try and cheer myself up and the MUAs were very unhelpful AND the music was very loud AND its my birthday tomorrow and I still feel lousy. VIOLINS

MagicChicken · 13/02/2017 05:45

you are right, MAC do always do that! It's so infuriating!

I feel like going up to the counter as soon as I walk in and saying 'look, so I don't waste half an hour of my time, can you just provide me with a list of what's NOT in stock before I start choosing?'

UpsyDaisyluvsIgglePiggle · 13/02/2017 05:56

*I went to help serve up and there it wasn't.

One of the most tragic sentences I've ever read on MN*

Just spit my coffee all over reading that Grin

reallybadidea · 13/02/2017 06:26

I cried once when I got home from an exhausting 13-hour shift, looking forward to a tasty, home-cooked meal and was served stuffed marrow. When questioned about the reason for tears I wailed 'but I wanted some meeeeeeat'. I still maintain that this was an entirely reasonable reaction.

redexpat · 13/02/2017 06:32

That would probably make me cry too. Dh once promised to make sushi and we hadnt done it for ages. He put far too much wasabi on making the whole lot inedible. I cried. I was just SO dissappointed.

ALemonyPea · 13/02/2017 06:42

When I was pregnant with DS3 I craved onion bhajis and samosas. DH ordered some for me when he ordered himself a curry. Took almost two hours to arrive, by then I was hangry, took one bite and burst into tears as the samosa was so bland. Took myself to bed as I was too upset to continue eating it.