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Fish N Chips

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Justoneme · 27/08/2017 22:24

Okay ... crazy one for you ... currently on holiday with my DP my DC and three DSC

Tonight we ordered our meals at a restaurant on site.. my meal, my son and one of the step children meal arrived, the others didn't. So immediately we asked where the other meals where and the restaurant apologised and said they had forgotten. They offered us free fish and chips from the site chippy which we accepted.
While we were waiting for the chips my son and two of the step children went back to eat the food from the restaurant.

My other DSC went back in a bit after to eat half of "my" meal with his sister, but she'd eaten all the double cheeseburger and chips. Anyway got back to the caravan and DSS who had nothing to eat joined us and the 3 of us tucked into fish & chips. Then the others arrived back after eating their meals, and asked for their fish & chips as well?!?! (First question, what would you do give them it?)

But then DSD said to DSS, save it till tomorrow as that's what we'd said to the others (bearing in mind they'd eaten already). Is that weird what DSS said? Is she trying to say it's fair? Wwyd???

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Tiddlywinks63 · 28/08/2017 20:12

Sadly even after 2 large G&Ts I still can't make head or tail of what went on.
Just hope they aren't spending the BH still arguing 😳

haveacupoftea · 28/08/2017 20:16

Jukeofyork

Consider me chastised. The child who ate a meal, asked to eat a second meal and then told her brother he wasn't to eat anything at all sounds charming and not at all greedy. I do apologise for pretending that a child could have a negative personality trait when of course we all know they're darling angels at all times.

Floellabumbags · 28/08/2017 21:07

If it is any help whatsoever, I've got one Dc left with me this week and we have just ordered a kebab

Is your DC called Donna?

I'll get my coat.

Roussette · 28/08/2017 21:25

I haven't been on this thread since page 1 and have just come back to see if it makes more sense.

No it doesn't.

As you were

elephantoverthehill · 28/08/2017 21:40

Floellabumbags No unfortunately not 'Donna' but I may have exclaimed 'Shish' after his Dsis flounced out on her way to the mainland. She did come back and apologise, in fairness

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Justoneme · 28/08/2017 22:42

Okay ... I know you have been waiting with bated breath ...
We decided to have a family meal which went pear shape .. for reasons unknown the restaurant only brought 3 of our meals; when chased up about the three missing meals, it was explained the kitchen had ran out of food, therefore the kitchen closed. The manager explained the situation and offered to replace the meals. So off we all went to the chippy... so while in the chippy my DS said he wanted to go and have his meal instead of the fish n chips I explained the fish n chips had been ordered he said he didn't care and wanted his meal instead, DSD2 said the same and ran back to the restaurant .. DSD1 said she was going to have the double cheeseburger (forgot to add x4 onion rings) and chips; again explained the fish n chips had been ordered however she dashed back too. (None of the meals had been started before we had left)

Okay the thing which bug me ... DSD2 stating to her brother he should save his dinner for tomorrow??? - I thought this was odd; however lots of things are odd and I am trying to piece things together / understand the children thinking but sometimes I don't know if I am overreacting?

On further digging with my DH he stated if that situation occurred with his EXW she would of made the people who didn't have the restaurant meals save the fish n chips, so everyone could sit down the day after and eat them all together? I stated but why as they didn't have anything to eat .. DH stated they would of had to have soup or beans on toast etc ... I find that hard to understand..

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thecatfromjapan · 28/08/2017 22:52

I think you're really sweet coming back.

Right - I agree with other posters who say that saving the fish and chips for the next day would have been not great: they'd have tasted horrid and it would have been a major faff to cook up beans on toast: you're on holiday.

I guess you sort of know why your dsd said what she did about saving them now but I do think it's always easier to just ask the child. And it kind of helps to build a rapport with them, too. Shows you're interested in what they are saying and makes it clear that you aren't always going to understand the implied meaning of various things they take for granted.

Hope you're enjoying your holiday. And I hope you're not too stressed trying to fit in with them all.

Pancakeflipper · 28/08/2017 23:09

Hope feeding them all was easier tonight and you don't have the urge to draw us all a diagram.

CakeNinja · 28/08/2017 23:09

I'd really like to just send you a bloody tenner so whichever kid hasn't had their fish and chips can have fresh tomorrow
When you say they ran back, do you mean they just left the chippy to go back to the restaurant expecting their meals to just be there on the table?
Curiouser and curiouser, and your updates don't seem to have cleared anything up!
Fish and chips heated up the next day is absolutely grim.

BackforGood · 28/08/2017 23:17

Or, if you've bumped into anyone you don't like on this holiday, you could throw some of the spare F'n'C onto the roof of their caravan, as it is really annoying when the gulls come down to eat them.

HTH

snitcheryoo · 28/08/2017 23:22

I'm only two pages in but the chippy shuts in ten minutes and I really need a fish supper with lots of salt&vinegar now.

ShotsFired · 28/08/2017 23:23

So all the restaurant meals were just still sat on the table you had all vacated before you trundled over to the chippy? All congealing and going cold?

Sounds delicious...

ShotsFired · 28/08/2017 23:28

@Justoneme "On further digging with my DH he stated if that situation occurred with his EXW she would of made the people who didn't have the restaurant meals save the fish n chips, so everyone could sit down the day after and eat them all together? I stated but why as they didn't have anything to eat .. DH stated they would of had to have soup or beans on toast etc ... I find that hard to understand.."

So if exw was OP...
You would have ordered 6 restaurant meals.
But only 3 came, so nobody ate anything and everyone went to chippy with the 6 complimentary chippy vouchers.
You would then have ordered 6 chippy meals and not eaten them either, saving them on the side for reheating tomorrow?
And all had soup or beans that night?

Why?!

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Justoneme · 28/08/2017 23:33

From what I can understand fairness gone mad?! ... I don't understand it myself!

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Justoneme · 28/08/2017 23:34

Appreciate your post.

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Happytobefree17 · 28/08/2017 23:38

How odd. So the exw would let three children eat the restaurant food but make one child (plus adults) eat beans on toast?

Happytobefree17 · 28/08/2017 23:42

Then save the "treat" of yucky cold fish and chips for the following day?

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Justoneme · 28/08/2017 23:47

Yes!!!

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Happytobefree17 · 28/08/2017 23:49

And you think that's why your dsd took the line of thinking she did? Because that is the logic she's learned from her DM...

OutToGetYou · 28/08/2017 23:51

Well, you all seem slightly mad.

SnickersWasAHorse · 28/08/2017 23:53

So the restaurant allowed you to order 6 meals knowing that they were running low on food. They cooked 3 meals, ran out of food and they just threw up their hands and closed the kitchen.
Bizzare.

elephantoverthehill · 28/08/2017 23:54

Well done OP for coming back to try and explain all of this. I take my hat off to you to try and navigate your way through this food attitude roller coaster. FWIW my attitude is if you are hungry and there is food available FGS eat it before it is spoiled. And anyway with fish and chips even if nobody had eaten beforehand a lot of the chips would have been binned anyway because you always get given far too many.

ReanimatedSGB · 29/08/2017 00:00

I'm not even going to bother trying to work out who ate what. My overall impression is that your DP's XW had some wierd food issues (controlling what others eat/unreasonably witholding food/treating meals as reward/punishment/necessity with no consideration as to whether the food is nice or not) and that this has been passed on to at least one of your stepchildren, who will demand that others miss a meal or only eat food when it is cold/free/not wanted by anyone else due to some wierd system this child's mother operated under.

thecatfromjapan · 29/08/2017 00:28

Very sensible post from Reanimated SGB (and nice to see you again, SGB).

Do you think that's it, JustOneMe?

SpeckleDust · 29/08/2017 00:47

I just need to add that cold chips can be revived by frying in a little oil in a frying pan. Not quite as good as fresh but not far off.

Come back and thank me for that little tip when you've tried it

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