AIBU to ask the woman next to me for her gherkin?

[noblegiraffe]

I'm in McDonalds and the woman next to me has removed the 2 pieces of gherkin from her burger and put them on the side.

God I want them. The best bit of a McDonalds. Maybe I can distract her then grab them.

Maybe instead of yelling GHERKIN SNATCH! it could be a tap on the shoulder and a polite 'gherkin snatch?' And she'd say 'of course, I was hoping someone would ask!' And then we'd all be happy.

Ask her, I would I love gherkins, especially the ones that come in the McDonalds burgers!! I love going with my dad he doesn't eat them so I always have them

Good idea on Gherkin Snatch tactics Noble. Please do go ahead and report back. If successful, this could be rolled out across various items 'Crisps snatch?', 'Coffee snatch?', 'Car snatch?'.

I hate gherkins but also don;t like waste - I would be delighted if you wanted mine. I don't ask for a burger sans gherkin as it often means a long wait while they make one up and I can't be arsed, especially when I am with other people.

I wouldn't give you my gherkins because I love them, but if it had been something else that I'd picked off, you'd be welcome to it and I wouldn't think anything odd about your asking.

YABU for liking gherkins. Anything you do beyond this point is largely irrelevant, you may as well go for broke now. Your reputation is already in tatters.

I took the gherkins off my burger till a few years ago. I am sad for all the missed gherkin opportunities now.

I couldn't ask someone random for them unless I was sure of their handwashing habits mind you.

Omg I could just eat a jar of gherkins right now.
They're the only reason I go into McDonald's. Whenever I say I fancy a bugger dp always knows it means I want gherkins yabu for not asking. What a waste

She might be saving them til last.

Your reputation is already in tatters.

that's good because I'm now at a soft play centre.

I bottled asking for the gherkin. I did look at them longingly as I left though, hoping she'd get the hint.

Whenever I say I fancy a bugger dp always knows it means I want gherkins grin yabu for not asking.

Berry that nearly made me spit my tea out at my desk.

Noble

MaccyDs AND soft play.

Is it raining where you are by any chance?

I would want the gherkin too but could never ask because I'm a coward

I was in a cafe today. DC was happily eating while I waited for my hot food and a woman came and offered me her half-eaten salmon sandwich because it was too much for her. It was very kind of her, but never have I said 'no thanks' quite so quickly! A stranger's half eaten fish sandwich, bleughh

Perhaps you need to say "don't you like gherkins?!" In a shocked voice. She may get the hint.

Or "do you read Mumsnet?"

Scuse all the bad punctuation, takes ages on iPad.

I love gherkins. I now want to go to McDs just for the gherkins. I've never thought of asking for extra either, so many missed chances for extra gherkiny-goodness.

Best thread title in a while!! 🤣🤣
Ask her, what do you have to lose?

I feel like I've let you down by not asking. I just realised that I took the onions out of my burger (too big), so I could have offered them as a swap.

I always eat DH's gherkin cos he doesn't like them. It's a source of much hilarity between me us.
I have asked him what ever should I do if another man offered me his gherkin? Would it be rude to refuse?? We have this conversation every time we go to McD's.
He looks at me like this while I childishly snigger.

Use the screens to order, you can select individual things it's brilliant!

And if I hadn't used the screen and had to remove unwanted gerkins I would've given them to you if you asked

Can you select extra gherkins on those screens?! I'd be stabbing that button until the burger was more gherkin than anything else.

Any other place I would order a chicken over beef burger every time, but chicken burgers don't come with gherkins.

Actually, could you order a chicken burger with gherkins? Would that be weird?

I have a DC who works in Macdonalds. They have recently sent out an email saying that customers can request 12 gherkins wrapped in a burger wrapper for a small fee.

'When i fancy a bugger'

Crying 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I know you can click to add extra, but i think you can only click once for extra.
I take tomatoes off mine.
I never remeber to order without lettuce though, but then ithink it would taste weird without it, even if im not the biggest fan

You can only take things off at the order points, not add on.

noble KFC have a new thing at the moment - chicken with gherkins!