Is MIL's slice of cake a bit stingy? (Picture)

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MIL is a lovely women really, but positively enjoys being frugal and detests any excess in all its forms.

She's baked us a lovely cake, but is determined for it to last for as long as possible. She is the master slice cutter and won't let anyone else near it.

AIBU to be a bit disappointed with the size of this slice?

(Everyone disappeared into the other room, so I was able to take this sneaky photo with handy scale provided by new pound coin!)

To quote the words of DH —when I try to limit his portions coz he’s a greedy guts who needs to reduce his waistband size—

“It’s a shame to dirty the plate!”

And I’m sorry but asking for seconds won’t cut the mustard - two stingy slithers of cake doesn’t work. It must be a nice big hunk to get the full flavour, esp. if it’s fruitcake.

Cake is a treat, not for every day, so I would probably have a portion that size.

If cake is a treat then all the more reason to have a bigger bit!

My mum was in the WAAF on active service during the war so used to rationing and apparently sharing one boiled egg for breakfast with her sibling was common when she was was on leave.
However, she knew how to bake proper cakes and was always forcing huge portions of cake (and food) on any of my friends that visited -especially dishy young men.
She would definitely be horrified that anyone would actually serve such tiny portions and probably have a good grumble about it too!

There’s no icing on it. It’s an excuse for a piece of cake

Eat it quickly, pretend the dog ate it and ask for more

I’m imagining her sitting guard over it with the cake knife not letting anyone near it

That’s not a slice it’s a sliver. I’d bake my own cake and not let her have any

That's a very small slice. I'd be quite disappointed.

What's the point of making a cake last the week? It'll be dried and manky by next weekend, eat it whilst it's fresh.

No she is not a "lovely woman", how can you write that of anyone who shows such behaviour?.

I would not even receive a cake, let alone a cake slice that tiny from my MIL. That is your MIL being stingey and meanness is an unattractive trait. She is like that in all areas of her life no doubt.

That reminds me of my great grandma. She could slice fruit loaf and bread as thin as paper. And it held together. But she lived through two wars.

Ridiculous comment Attila.

Surely that's a sample? You may instruct MIL to cut you a slice now.

That is offensive to mine eyes. YADNBU

If the slice is so thin it doesn't hold its integrity (as in this photo) the slice is too thin.

YANBU.

Your MIL must be related to mine! Except it's just the women that get a slice that size oh, and she doesn't bake. The men get normal slices.

I'd be happy with the size of cake if I had cut it myself. I would not be happy with having that size of cake imposed upon me. It's a power thing.

If cutting a slice of cake for somebody else I would do café portions. That's only polite.

OP you must be my SIL. That's exactly the kind of portion my MIL doles out on the rare occasion there's ever cake. I'm a bit overweight and God love her, I've been married to DH for 15 years and she still retains some optimism that penis portions and chats about how a small piece of good chocolate tastes just as good as a larger piece of cheaper chocolate are going to have any effect on my weight.

In defense of your MIL though it looks like a lovely cake, and to be fair an elevenses slice of cake is not the same beast as a proper teatime slice of cake.

I fear your MIL must think you are fat.

That is a homeopathic dose of cake. It is a pointless and therefore insulting helping.

Is MIL hoping to keep/take whatever's left home with her so that the cake can live to fight many other days on a microscope slide?

Since we're on the subject, can anyone please tell me something I've always wondered ...

Is "sliver" pronounced slivver or sly-ver?

I think I'd have started laughing, its not worth opening your mouth for.
Are you sure it wasnt for a child? did you take your children?

I think many people have got portion slices wrong for years. Older people seem to be able to manage their intake better than younger ones. I've seen more overweight 50 year olds and younger than those in their 70's and above. It's interesting as many people who have lied through rationing would be understood if they'd gone mad in this world of plenty we now have.

If you'd like more tell her how delicious it was and can you please have another slice.

If that's what you get when you ask for a medium slice, you' better ask for extra large next time.

Puzzled, for what it's worth I'd pronounce it slivver . Slyver sounds uncomfortably like saliva.

Lolling at the usual competitive "oh I couldn't possibly manage that amount all at once", almost imagine the sucked in cheeks while kidding themselves on while typing sanctimoniously. Never fails on here.

It's stingy but in my house I'd rather offer a larger slice and let my guest choose to eat what they want and leave the rest (or not)