....about the giant strawberry?!

[KentMum2008]

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 , you'd think I'd just slapped her....

[ZebraOwl]

A cosmonger would have to be a sort of super-specialist costermonger... wouldn't surprise me if they had those in Kent. Not like our scruffy-shouty genuine!cockney costermongers on the markets up here (We also get elderly women bopping up to sell cockles & winkles from baskets slung round their necks... when I was wee there was one who'd wear an actual bonnet in the summer, not a hat because she was blatantly a time traveller supposedly as it stayed on better & the brim was better definitely a time traveller through she was in boots and a long dress and an apron, come on people but yes, no niche!mongering for us unless you count that...)

[SarfEast1cated]

MrsZombieMum Sat 06-May-17 20:27:39

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

I have never understood this either MZM. I guess it's a way to stop parents just sending in a doughnut for lunch, but it does give mixed messages.

[iwouldgoouttonight]

I actually went out about bought a punnet of strawberries yesterday as a result of reading this thread, but they were all disappointing average sized.

Fuck you Linda.

[Blueskyonthehorizon]

World's tiniest grape for you, OP. My DS ate it though.

[Thingvellir]

They had giant strawberries in my sainsbos yest - the normal variety for £2 and 33% extra free. I did wonder if they had to do the extra as otherwise there would only have been 3 strawberries in the usual box!

[CheshireChat]

To the people suggesting she should put only one blueberry in his lunch pack- you wouldn't need too many of these ones!

[CheshireChat]

In my hand

[KentMum2008]

Enormablueberries

[candyrain76]

Tell her to keep her sticky beak out

[Ohmyfuck]

Linda sounds like a bellend. #strawberrygate

[DeathByMascara]

Tomberries are delicious! Definitely send him in with just one of these bad boys. Sliced.

[Shinesun9]

I am just

#fucklinda
#strawberrygate

[plannedshock]

Not a troll, been here ages. Naive ham, penis beaker, fuck Linda

[plannedshock]

*naice

[hellokittymania]

Thank you, you gave me the best laugh today!

Did you get those at Tesco's?

[KentMum2008]

Plannedshock you missed off stunt pineapple. IMO that's one of the best threads there ever was although apparently in fruit obsessed too Penis beaker was a close second.

[KentMum2008]

No hellokitty they're from a market!

[elephantoverthehill]

If we are on a fruit and veg theme, I think 'spud cunts' need a mention.

[KentMum2008]

What are spud cunts?

[elephantoverthehill]

To ask what's the best response you've had on Mumsnet? | Mumsnet ...
www.mumsnet.com/.../2378445-To-ask-whats-the-best-response- youve-had-on-Mumsnet
... wasn't mine) was when someone said that they dropped a potato at a self service checkout during a bad day and screamed at it "fuck off then you spud cunt !

[amysmummy12345]

Crying in bed at spud cunt 😂

Can you get a coconut and shave it, then convince FuckLinda it's just your average size kiwi fruit?

[Pettywoman]

I love naive ham.

[KentMum2008]

Oh that's brilliant! Although that sounds like the sort of thing I'd say! I really can't control my mouth when I'm in a foul mood. I once shouted at a particularly loud crow that had taken to cawing outside my window at 6am when I was monumentally hungover Something along the lines of 'do one you feathery git'. My neighbour heard me, and still mentions it to this day.

[KentMum2008]

Or totally peel a kiwi and convince her it's a giant peeled grape?!