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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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SeveredPixieBits · 13/02/2017 18:54

I cried when I was about 12 weeks pregnant because I was hungry but so tired that I couldn't make anything. Then I cried because I felt sick because I was so hungry and tired. DH eventually wised up and ordered a takeaway and I cried the entire wait because it was taking so long. When it finally arrived I was so hungry and tired that I threw up while the food sat there going cold. Then I cried some more.

OutingMyself · 13/02/2017 19:06

When I was 12 I went on a French exchange at school. We got there and had to go straight to the hosts house for the weekend (in the actual middle of nowhere with no neighbours) without seeing any classmates or teachers at all. I was already ridiculously shy and a fussy eater. I had eaten nothing in a day and they asked me if I liked fish. I said yes. It came out for dinner and IT WAS RAW. I cried my eyes out to the point they had to call a teacher.

Crazycatlady123 · 13/02/2017 20:24

I was 25 weeks pregnant and I had just been to the supermarket. I came back and started dinner only to find I didn't have an onion for my spag bol. Lots (and lots) of tears followed, and me blaming DH for it (not proud). I keep a bag of frozen in the freezer now.

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 13/02/2017 20:49

I realise I totally missed the point of this thread by talking about coatpegs. I have many examples of food disappointment, but two particularly stick in my mind:

  1. A Waitrose opened up in our town in the 80s. A cake-loving school friend and I used to pop in on the way home from school and admire the fresh patisserie counter, but never bought anything. We eventually cracked and treated ourselves to an expensive ganache filled tart each & walked to the park to eat them. They looked amazing & had cost a bomb. First bite was disgusting & revealed a thick layer of green mould between the case & filling. We did not have time to return them. Envy Angry The fact I am still able to recall this more than 25 years later is telling.

  2. Recent overnight trip to a fancy-schmancy hotel with girl friends. We had to pre-order dinner a couple of weeks beforehand & I was swayed on my main course choice by avocado in the accompaniments. Turns out it was frilly food (nouvelle cuisine) and the avocado on the side was actually the green streak of puree on my plate that looked like snot. Fuckers. It didn't cry, but I was crushed. I hate wanky food. It's worse than crap food because you know they have the skill and top notch ingredients to make it fantastic, but it's shit. Worse than crap sex.

liquidrevolution · 13/02/2017 20:53

I wanted to nip out to m and s this evening to get the valentines meal deal. DH insisted on going so he could also get me something.

He came back with red wine. I hate red wine and he knows this. He doesnt drink alcohol but hes ok as i bought his favourite schloer with the shopping on saturday Envy.

And the flowers he got me aren't that nice.(I know i am ungrateful but i bloody hate lillies and he knows this).

Currently in bed feeling very tearful! Sad

ElectronicDischarge · 13/02/2017 20:59

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littlewoodentrike · 13/02/2017 21:02

My DC were tickling me one day. I hate being tickled, but obviously couldn't help but laugh, and then the laughter turned to tears! Not because I hated being tickled, it was just a weird emotional thing. I felt really odd!

sprite25 · 13/02/2017 21:15

When around 5 months pregnant me and DH went to Paris for our anniversary. It was hot (August) and I had forgotten to take sunglasses so had a constant headache. I insisted I NEEDED burger king so DH looked it up on Google Maps and said there was one close. We walked for what must of been hours in the summer heat, me waddling along with blisters on my sweaty feet. We never found a burger king but ended up in a cheaper burger place that wasn't very nice. I cried and it was all DH fault, to this day it's the one memory that sticks out from our trip to Paris

zukiecat · 13/02/2017 21:17

sillypussy

I have found a kindred spirit!

Macaroni Cheese looks and smells like a big plate of sick

SeriouslySomething · 13/02/2017 21:22

I cried because I ordered a BLT and it arrived and instead of lettuce or had rocket. I hate hate hate rocket and i was so hungry that I cried whilst picking it out. I could still taste it though. Although I may have been slightly irrational I won't go back to the pub that did it because WHO DOES THAT.

Mungobungo · 13/02/2017 21:36

Last week. Desperate for pizza, but trying to stick to slimming world tried to make cauliflower 'pizza'. Made amazing smelling sauce, made the base, baked it. It welded itself to the baking paper so I couldn't get it off, smelled like baked fart and the bit I tasted was foul. I sat on the floor and cried. I wanted pizza so badly and was so hungry by then. Had a total tantrum

toomuchfaster · 13/02/2017 21:39

I cried once over a dish of rice. We had just moved in together and had a curry box as a treat as we were skint. I was carefully getting out all the dishes from the oven, using one hand underneath and one on the side. Until I got to the rice, one hand underneath only and I watched it slid off and hit the floor. Rice everywhere, completely unsaveable as the flooring was awful too. Fortunately, DH (then BF) just calmly cooked some rice while I sobbed on the floor picking up the spillage one grain at a time (or so it felt!!!).

SabineUndine · 13/02/2017 21:46

I once spent hours making a huge vegetable casserole with dumplings and dropped the whole lot on the carpet. Talk about double whammy. No dumplings (cos of broken pyrex) and I had to clean the carpet.

I went to bed supperless and cried.

SparkleMotions · 13/02/2017 21:52

When I was pregnant I used to cry at a NatWest mortgage advert, it showed a young family over a course of so many years in their house and their Daughter grown up at the end driving off to Uni. I bawled like a baby whenever this was on TV!

Whingewine · 13/02/2017 21:57

I was hungry but couldn't decide what to eat.... Everyone thought it was funny I burst into tears and run to my bedroom... Cue my mum knocking my door with Chinese. Best and worst experience ever lol

JP1985 · 13/02/2017 22:53

I cried once when I was pregnant and stormed out of the car because my husband had to get petrol on the way home and I wanted to go straight home 😩

dylsmimi · 14/02/2017 04:05

I cried the other night and DH looked close to tears! I had started to make quiche but didn't have enough milk so assembled what I could ready for dh to finish it while I fed the baby. It looked delicious and I knew it was one of the nicest quiches I had made. Sat waiting for it and heard from downstairs a smashing sound. Dh sheepishly puts his head around the door to say he had dropped it on the floor and broken my lovely pie dish Sad I cried, dh looked so disapointed and we ate bland freezer food in upset silence
I still think of that delicious quiche and feel sad - what a waste

Farandole · 14/02/2017 05:48

I have cried at this thread.

Sorry OP, I totally get the tragedy of a mac and cheese no show.

I think we should start a 'reasons my mum is crying' site. :)

badhotfanny · 14/02/2017 06:17

Not food related but supermarket related.

Newly pregnant, so not showing, I cried in Tesco because I couldn't find the straws. I NEEDED a straw for drinking. I asked someone and he marched off to show me. I couldn't keep up. More crying, loudly and publicly.

Franberry · 14/02/2017 06:24

I remember properly weeping when I'd just found out I was pregnant after reading a book telling me I had to cut out all caffeine throughout the pregnancy. I cried and cried, sobbing "but I LOVE tea!" It felt like the end of the world.

Licketysplits · 14/02/2017 06:47

OH reminded me the other day of the time he came home a few years ago and found me bawling my eyes out on the sofa, inconsolable....because we didn't have a dog. We'd never had one so it wasn't like ours had died or got lost or anything, I just really really wanted a dog. PMT does strange things to me! We now have a dog and it's the best thing ever Smile.

PussCatTheGoldfish · 14/02/2017 07:06

Calla that's utterly shit. I'm so sorry Flowers

I don't do food tears, but my brother does. He is a proper foody and has occasionally had tears of joy if something is absolutely delicious.

Haudyerwheesht · 14/02/2017 11:17

I've just remembered that when I was first pregnant with ds I was furious and heartbroken because a colleague sent some letters without telling me Hmm. I had to go in a meeting room and cry and I mean really really really cry. Blush

Littlewoo · 14/02/2017 11:53

Years ago I was flying back from America and had an agony sore throat, felt like razor blades when I swallowed. I was in the window seat and the biggest man came and sat beside me. I was really squashed against the window. He got really annoyed at being put beside me as I was ill and he didn't want to catch it.
I fell asleep and woke up later to find the food had been served and he'd eaten my dessert. It was just a tub of jelly but my word, how much would that have soothed my throat.
I wept and he got all affronted and indignant saying he didn't think I'd want anything as I was ill.
I hated that man, still gets me angry thinking about it.

AmberNectarine · 14/02/2017 14:17

Not quite the same, but when DH and I were first dating, i drunkenly abused a falafel man.

We had come out of a nightclub in C London - I was exceedingly worse for wear. I spotted a burger van along the street and immediately became overjoyed at the prospect of a revolting, greasy burger in the way only a truly shitfaced person can.

On closer inspection, it was a falafel van. So I shouted at him that it was false advertising (not sure why, it clearly advertised falafel) and that he should be ashamed of himself, then ran off down the street.

Quite why DH persevered with me, I don't know, but I have never subsequently mouthed off at a street vendor.

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