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....about the giant strawberry?!

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KentMum2008 · 04/05/2017 22:03

Total first world problem I know, and I'm defo more irritated by this than I should be, but...
I got some amazing strawbs from the market, seriously huge and really sweet. I put one in DS lunch box and it filled a whole compartment (one of those sistema lunch cube thingys)
DS comes out of school and says one of the lunchtime supervisors said to him 'what a mean mummy, only giving you one strawberry. You'll have to ask her for more tomorrow' I know the woman in question she's one of the mum's in DDs class so I jokingly said to her 'I hear you think I'm a bit of a meanie' in case DS was making it up.
I shit you not, she said to me 'well that's terribly mean only giving him one strawberry, that's not enough to fill a growing boy' She was deadly serious too.
For reference, the strawb in question is below. Pretty large, and accompanied by a sandwich, a chunk of cucumber, a babybel and a yoghurt. She would have been at his table from the beginning of lunch so she'll have seen what was in there to begin with. They do a cursory sweep for contraband at the beginning of lunch every day.
Was I BU to say to her 'you're not the lunchbox police Linda, save your concern for the kids with a sausage roll and a can of Coke'?
Because her face was Shock, you'd think I'd just slapped her....

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Lovewineandchocs · 06/05/2017 20:19

This was in my friend's cocktail on a night out. She took a pic of it because it looked scarily human. Maybe it's Linda Grin

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MrsZombieMum · 06/05/2017 20:27

Why is it ok for my DS to have chocoalte sponge and custard when he has a school meal, but not ok for me to put a teeny tiny weeny chocoalte biscut in his lunch box? Whive I've only done a couple times btw....

KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 20:32

Lovewine that's not far off what she looks like from the side. Similar nose, but Linda is less chinny.

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Lovewineandchocs · 06/05/2017 20:38

mango I am laughing my head off at that! Maybe it's her Northern Irish cousin Grin

oblatespheroid · 06/05/2017 21:08

Please tell us her Instagram name. Or PM me at least.

elephantoverthehill · 06/05/2017 21:29

Mango I am in the south, south of the country, by my reckoning John the fruit is in Ventnor.

KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 22:10

Ok elephant I'm not quite that far south! That's basically another continent. Still mainland England, more south east, but south south east. Not quite coastal, but not far. That's all you're getting.

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KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 22:12

Lovewine the more I look at that pic, the more it reminds me of Linda. The forehead is uncannily similar. And she wears her hair in this teeny little bun with bits sticking out, much like the strawberry leaves. It's actually scary. I have to stop looking now, ok?

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elephantoverthehill · 06/05/2017 22:14

Damn! I thought I might be able to take DD to meet John the fruit.

KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 22:17

John the Fruit would have your DD transfixed with his disappearing fruit trick, and his ginormastrawberries and his sparkly eyes.

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Lovewineandchocs · 06/05/2017 22:17

Sorry to have spooked you mango Grin have some (strawberry) Wine

KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 22:18

Sorry, I'll stop gloating now. There are many John the Fruits. In fact, of the 4 cosmongers I know, 3 are called John. It's just a fruit and veg man sort of name.

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KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 22:19

Never has my fruity NN been so apt. And to think, I made it up when I first joined MN because I was eating a Mango and it was May. I'm so original.

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KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 22:21

Cosmonger? I meant costermonger...

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Witchend · 06/05/2017 22:23

Small ones are more juicy, yes they are...
I think that was oranges, but it applies to strawberries too.

Mummamayhem · 06/05/2017 22:36

Oh fuck off Linda.

(I put off opening this 'boring' thread. How wrong was I)

Please send him in with 10 giant strawberries.

WhyOhWine · 06/05/2017 22:47

You can get those tiny blueberry-sized tomatoes called tomberries, and include one sliced like you would a full size tomato.

AudreyBradshaw · 06/05/2017 22:51

I'll never look at a punnet of strawberries again without thinking 'Fuck you Linda'.

AudreyBradshaw · 06/05/2017 22:58

Size of the sandwich you need to send in..

KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 23:01

Shock That Tony blt is perfect...

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KentMum2008 · 06/05/2017 23:01

*tiny ffs. What is actually wrong with me?

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CheeseQueen · 07/05/2017 00:48

Not read all the replies, but OMFG, this can't be serious?!
My head would be saying "You're out of your frickin' tree, Linda. Get a grip[."

StillHungryy · 07/05/2017 00:52

Is John the fruit near Hempstead Valley/ Gillingham ?

StillHungryy · 07/05/2017 00:53

hopeful wonder

salsmum · 07/05/2017 06:08

I saw a punnet of these in M&S yesterday.....for £8 a punnet Shock

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