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’ve always found “breakfast food” such a weird concept.

Surely it doesn’t matter what time of the day it goes into your mouth?

{Food is for sharing on the continent.}
Since it is only me and some mice at Chateau 'Clerc I would prefer not to share.

Neither is brioche tbf, brioche is a dessert...

@raisedbyguineapigs have you tried looking for molasses instead of treacle? It's the same thing

You can get all the ingredients for fruitcake in the bio shops, and golden syrup and beef suet etc if you need them are to be found either in the exotic foreign bit of the supermarket or online or if there is a British food stall on your local market.

That said le mari is being a dog in the manger and YANBU it is a question of principle.

I would have told him to get lost too - it’s your cake! I would not be sharing my favourite cake - especially as he wouldn’t appreciate it as such!

Yes...I second the ''it's your cake"
He can try some, but not eat it all just because it's there!
LTB
Give him a

I think yabu to not give him a small slice, but he was bu if he was planning to finish off the whole thing.
I import a lot of things from my home country/make cobbled together versions of thr food with British ingredients, I wouldn't deny DH some but he always checks with me if there's only a little bit left if I need it for something or if he can eat it.

Hmmm

I've eaten fruit cake for breakfast before. It's delicious.

You had already had a fair share of the cake.

It's the OP's bloody cake! If I had a box of my favourite mince pies that were hard to come by because, oh let's say I live in France and they're a British thing, you'd be too right I'd be annoyed at DH for polishing the last of them off for his breakfast just because they were there. The hypothetical mince pies in my hypothetical French house are mine!

Apparently the correct French response to a sulky muttering husband is to shrug nonchalently and say "Bof!"

I usually make a Christmas cake to take to the in laws but was going to sneak an M&S one past them this year-instead I've just gone and ordered all the ingredients to my online shop because of this thread

Well, if he wants some, he can make some- and by make I mean source the ingredients as well. If the OP is feeling generous she can point at a decent recipe.

Why the hell should she have to do it?!

I would've offered 1 piece, he can figure out something else for breakfast.

My DP used to do this, either scoff things I simply couldn't replace (including one occasion where he triumphantly found somewhere that does import it and I said fine, but you buy that and all our groceries for the week out of the £50 we had) .

Or he eats all of insert fiddly traditional recipe and then keeps nagging for more. I've offered the recipe and the kid's help and buggered off .

If fruit cake is that important to you, next time I would ask the friend to bring you the makings of a (or several) fruit cake(s) rather than an actual cake, and thus avoid any "fruit cake running low" crises in future.

Heratnumber7 I appreciate what you're saying, but the OP has said she has no time to bake and not everyone enjoys it anyway.

Plus, enough ingredients would be bloody heavy so her friend might be willing to bring one cake, but not tons of stuff.

@LadyinLavende YANBU at all. To scoff it for breakfast convenience is unfair. Shared and savoured over a cup of tea is entirely different.

As an aside Betty's offer delivery to France for £12 or £13. DH and I send friends a selection of British goodies every Christmas. You would need to be quick to ensure Christmas delivery as we ordered last week and it's due to arrive with them by the 12th of December.