Next door (maybe) stole my crumble!?

[jainaproudm]

Have name changed in case my neighbours are on here and this whole scenario is just so bizarre...

I left a tray of just baked crumble on the garden table to cool about half an hour ago, covered in foil.

Just now I looked out the back window and ... It's gone. The whole thing. The way our terrace works, anyone who wanted to enter our back garden would have to come through five others, and the back wall is too high to climb/jump. So I really doubt an aspiring burglar has made it all the way down without being spotted at this time, then decided all they'd take was a crumble? Which leads me to believe it's more likely to be a neighbour, specifically next door...

To preempt any questions:

• It isn't in a fancy Le Creuset pan or anything, just a bog standard Sainbury's ceramic tray.

• I'm home alone and my DH isn't due back until late tonight (plus I have no idea why he would sneak home, hide the crumble and then not come in...)

• It is far too heavy for a fox or giant bird to move even if they did suddenly take a shine to home baking.

• Next door are unlikely to be stealing it out of hunger - this is a pretty expensive area to live (we rent but most others here own and they're not cheap), plus plenty of holidays, nice cars etc. Admittedly here I am guessing as I've no idea what their actual financial situation is, but outwardly at least they don't look on the breadline.

So... What the fuck? My AIBU is WIBU to go and politely ask next door if they thought I was covertly leaving them a gift!?

Someone needs to pen the lyrics to Next Door (Maybe) Stole My Crumble. Maybe in the style of Jolene by Dolly Parton.

See, NOW I need crumble.
Apple crumble with oats, cinnamon and squished hazelnuts in the topping.
Proportion 60% crumble, to 40% Apple
Not too much sugar in with the apples...but some cookers and some eaters will do fine, so some go soft and some stay firm

Custard or ice cold single cream or even ice cream...vanilla, no crappy ingredients like palm oil, thank you.

A glass of Marsala wine

Thank you

Whats all this "it isn't crumble weather" nonsense?

Any and ALL weather is homemade crumble weather.

'SPIDER WILLIES! Plus, it will definitely have been darked on, in the dark shed.'

Crying with laughter here .

However, I feel duty bound to point out that it's July, a bloody heatwave and crumble season start in late September. Shakes head.

has Jim stollen your crimble crumble Jackie?

'Oh, it's a joke thread... '
yeah me too

I have a fat, ginger cat who is forever foraging for food, and live in an area such as you described. I apologise if it was my cat.

Hum the tune of 'I shot the sheriff'

My neighbour hid the crumble
I'm glad I didn't punch her face in

@scrambledsmegs it’s always crumble weather!! However custard is for winter crumble and ice cream is for summer crumble 😁

My thankfully xMIL used to leave food outside to cool down. The dog had been known to nibble on the cassoulet and rats on the apple pie. She still served them, and only if you were there on time would you know about it. My SIL would nudge me and whisper not to eat something and tell me later why

Was it pudding or crumble? I am confused

Oh my god!

I misread your explanation and thought you said the fat ginger lady from next door hid it.

Crimble crumble in this weather? But why didn’t you cool it in the fridge though?

You made crumble in the middle of a heatwave, in the summer???

Of course, YABVVU, OP.

Bake another one next week, leave it in the same place - and put something in it to give them the shits.

I made a black currant and apple one. It went down a treat with my friends. I was BBQing while it was in the oven😁

Crumble is pudding Monty27 - pudding being a generic word for the sweet course at the end of the meal in the U.K.

Maybe he'd seen that movie, American Pie.

Yeah, that's what I thought of when OP mentioned demanding it back.... would not be able to eat the crimbinal crumble without thinking of this.

I'd let them keep it quite frankly.

Love this thread.

I remember occasional threads such as 'What would Victorian Mumsnet have been like?' and quite quickly they degenerate into repetitive jokes.
But this is something that could have happened any time within hundreds of years, and pies disappearing from window ledges was definitely a thing.

And such a nice outcome too! I hope the crumble was still okay.