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To correct my work colleague

242 replies

DarkRosaleen · 14/06/2018 16:38

We’re having bangers mash beans and onion gravy for tea.
She insists peas are superior to beans and gravy should never be combined with beans as you can’t have two sloppy things on the plate. She is so very very wrong.

OP posts:
critiqueofeveryday · 15/06/2018 10:09

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo, wrongness.

Beans belong on ketchuppy meals. Gravy belongs with roasty meals. You are messing with the sacred food categories and the God of food will give you gastroenteritis for your blasphemy.

LeighaJ · 15/06/2018 10:16

(bangs gavel) Sorry OP, the good people of MN have definitely sided with your correct colleague.

cjferg · 15/06/2018 12:41

I fucking love gravy but putting it on beans would be an abomination. Would you not need to eat out a bowl???

Bubbletrouble43 · 15/06/2018 13:21

bangers mash and beans OR bangers mash and gravy with maybe peas but beans and gravy on the same plate, juices potentially colliding is evil. Just plain disgusting.

MostlyInnocent · 15/06/2018 14:17

Just serve it in a pasta bowl. avoids the 2 sloppy things on a plate. BUT FYI , you are wrong. Banger and Mash with Onion Gravy must not be served with beans or peas. Just have some fruit or something for afters.

kateandme · 15/06/2018 17:15

but surely your mixing too sauces.you either have a tomatos based sauce with things or a gravy based sauce with things or a cheese or a white.to mix two together.ooooh it pushing limits my brain doesn't like

resignedtoresigning · 15/06/2018 17:19

Beans and gravy are NOT friends!! I like both those things very much but they are not suited to being dinner buddies.

dragonara53 · 15/06/2018 17:34

liz70 that made me chuckle, beans farted straight out of Satan's arse. 😂😂😂

shabbyshibby · 15/06/2018 17:35

'Tea' is a hot refreshing beverage ducks for cover

dragonara53 · 15/06/2018 17:36

Bangers n mash, thick onion gravy and Yorkshire puddings. Luvly 😃

Caaarrrl · 15/06/2018 17:40

It's the mash that is the issue. It should be sausages, chips, beans and gravy. Yummy.

wtffgs · 15/06/2018 17:44

Beans and gravy?! Envy

Peas are the right veg here.

Team Colleague Grin

iwishicouldbelikedavidwatts · 15/06/2018 17:47

yabvu

melonscoffer · 15/06/2018 17:48

Beans as in baked beans?
Or green beans, or butter beans or any other bean?

TheReluctantFundaFeminist · 15/06/2018 17:48

Sorry OP. Your colleague is correct and you must resign immediately.

who the actual fuck mixes beans and gravy?

melonscoffer · 15/06/2018 17:48

OP does not say it is baked beans.

melonscoffer · 15/06/2018 17:49

Could be some sort of other sloppy sauced bean.

melonscoffer · 15/06/2018 17:51

Baked beans are disgusting.
Peas rule.
If your family likes your cooking then carry on.
Prepare to be wrong in the outside world.

DextroDependant · 15/06/2018 17:51

Beans and gravy together is gross

Xiaoxiong · 15/06/2018 17:54

This always reminds me of that great Peter Kay sketch: www.facebook.com/PeterKayClips/videos/1183459148371516

I don't understand what the beans are doing there anyway. The bangers are the protein, the mash is the starch, the gravy is the umami and I assume you've got something green on the side too like some lovely kale or green beans. What function do the beans serve???

Patsyanna · 15/06/2018 17:55

My OH will have pie and potatoes with gravy on and put salad cream on cauliflower on the same plate!!!

Bettyfood · 15/06/2018 18:03

Is that "Haven't you got owt moist?", Xiao?

Xiaoxiong · 15/06/2018 18:04

Betty that's the one Grin I couldn't find a clip that would play that wasn't on FB, sorry...

Trialsmum · 15/06/2018 18:04

Beans and gravy should never touch! 🤢

Xiaoxiong · 15/06/2018 18:06

DH and I now yell "hast tha' nowt moist" at each other when he wants curry sauce with chips... I like tartare sauce and he says I embarrass him with my forrin ways.