DH wants to eat fruit cake for breakfast

[LadyinLavende]

To put this in context, I live in France and DH is French.
Last week a friend who was in the UK brought me back a slab of iced fruitcake.
it is in a plastic box and I have eaten a piece every day so what is left is approximately either 3 largish slices or 4 small ones.
This morning DH got in a strop because I said it wasn't reasonable for him to "finish it up" for breakfast (and if I hadn't intervened he would have eaten it all) ..... there was plenty of breakfast food in - French bread (butter, jam, honey, marmite, peanut butter), brioche, cereal....he doesn't even particularly like fruitcake whereas for me it's a real treat and replacing it is not as simple as just going to buy another slab - I had it specially "imported".
He got very moody when I said I didn't think he should eat fruit cake for breakfast....and muttered the whole time he was eating his bread and marmelade. I wouldn't even have begrudged him a piece but I know what he's like... he'd have scoffed the lot.
AIBU?

I really want some fruitcake now.

TatianaLarina I'd lay bets its a poor imitation.

"English" food stuffs sold in German shops (outside the eye wateringly expensive "British Shops" only found in big cities which are stocked with things actually boufht in the UK) are always made in The Netherlands for some reason, and are never, ever quite right - they tend to be incipit, bland approximations which give the impression of being made by someone who has looked at the original foid but never actually tasted it ...

" I said it wasn't reasonable for him to "finish it up" "

I agree this this.

Cake for breakfast-fine.

Eating up something that was bought as a treat for someone else-greedy pig!

It doesn't need eating up-it's not in danger of expiring & needing to then be thrown away!

He can eat what the hell he wants for breakfast but he shouldn’t be polishing off food you love that you’d had brought over specially!

The cake is a gift, presumably made by a friend/relative etc. Homemade cake is always much nicer than shop bought (especially the icing and marzipan). I would guard a homemade fruitcake in my home, never mind if I was abroad!

However, I would eat it at any moment in the day or night. If your DH wants to eat his slice at breakfast then that’s fine, but that’s his forfeit and the other three slices would be mine to eat whenever I wished, in front of him, and not share (unless he’s British too, then it would be an even split).

And if i lived abroad and was brought a clootie dumpling then he wouldn’t even get a crumb! Mine, all mine! 😂

I've been taken right back to the horror of discovering my husband diligently "finishing up" a bottle of ginger cordial that I'd been enjoying very slowly because I liked it a lot and it was a real treat. He'd tried it and told me he didn't like it! [This was several years ago but still shudder at the recollection]

I read the title and somehow knew your DH would be French. My DP is also French and is obsessed with “finishing things up” particularly for breakfast. Never mind that I might have planned to use something for lunch or dinner, if he sees it as leftovers then it’s gone before I realise.
YANBU- hide your cake and tells DH to get his own if he is so keen on cake for breakfast.

3out
clootie dumpling disnae keep. You eat it straight after your Grannie has crusted it by the fire and wished you happy birthday. If there is a wee slice over then it gets kept and fried for my breakfast next morning.

I love Xmas cake for breakfast however I understand your pain, sourcing ingredients can be complicated and difficult not to mention expensive when outside of the U.K.

It hardly matters what time of day you have the cake, so long as you only have it once a day! And it sounds like you've had plenty already.

Not unreasonable to fruitcake for breakfast, very unreasonable to expect to eat YOUR hard-to-come-by fruitcake.

You're being mean to not share. And France, Italy etc. all eat sweet things for breakfast, chocolate croissants etc. You're being a little bit mean and greedy.

You must be very wealthy to afford Marmite in France!
Besides, a decent fruitcake is most of your '5 a day'.
Wants fruitcake and Wensleydale cheese now (both not available in France).

Unreasonable to police what he eats for breakfast, but reasonable to ask him to leave you some.

Everyone is making this too complicated. LTB. Simples.

That said, I recall giving out to my Mum for eating my Ferrero Rochers when I had given birth as I was breastfeeding and constantly starving and they seemed to be the only things I had that I liked. Not my finest moment.
So if you're pregnant or breastfeeding I'd forgive you.

You had already eaten, by your own admission, 3 largish slices but when your husband wanted a piece you deprived him of the pleasure as you wanted the rest for yourself. Selfish...much! So what if he had eaten the rest of it? You had already had a fair share of the cake.

Maybe he really likes it too?

He doesn’t sound like a man who hates fruit cake.

Was he really threatening to eat up the whole remainder of the cake or is that just your interpretation?

I think it's a bit mean though that you weren't even willing to give him a couple of slices when you'd eaten the rest of it yourself.

A lot of English fruitcake is a ‘bland imitation’ of English fruitcake blueskies.

You can buy genuine English fruit cake from Britishcornershop.co.uk which even stocks Waitrose products.

There are plenty of fruitcakes in the UK.

Why do French 'pork sausages and beans' taste like catfood?

OMG I eat what I like for breakfast. No one can tell me otherwise and likewise I wouldn't.

Can you not let him have his cake and eat it - then you can make another one? It seems a petty thing to begrudge him.