Friend says I'm being "arsed" aibu to think I'm not?

[geereer]

Today me and a friend are going to a near by city for shopping and lunch.
She asks me to book somewhere for lunch last week.
I asked her what type of food she wanted and she said "pub grub"
So I found a place and booked it.
She asked to see the menu
It has bangers n mash/fish and chips/all day breakfast/burgers /mince n dumplings etc
Plus sandwiches /toasties/wraps and salads
Her response "hmm is that the whole menu"
I said yes ..
She said there's not much on ?
I said to her you said you wanted pub grub
She replied "there's no jacket potatoes "
I said "you said pub grub"
She said "yes nice pub grub"
So I said ..ok what meal do you fancy ?
She said "I don't really know,pub grub"
So I said ..ok well why don't you have a look because I've spent all week looking and you can't decide.
She replied
"No need to be arsey,I told you pub grub"
Aibu here to think she's a bit annoying ?

Someone beat me to it but take her to Spud U like

Get her a Mr Potato Head and take yourself off for a lovely lunch somewhere.

She’s being fussy. I’ve found that some places aren’t even serving their full menu anyway for the time being so even if it has it on the website it might not be on offer there! Who wants to eat a jacket potato at the pub anyway? I like things I don’t have at home like proper fried chips and onion rings!

unless you are in a country I know nothing about, trains to have a roof and provide adequate shelter from the rain

This is true.

Even up here in the primitive North, our train carriages have both grooves and walls. It's great! [GRIN]

ROOVES , not grooves - autocorrect you !

Are you sure she's a friend, and you haven't inadvertently taken up with a minor celebrity?

Blooming heck. This is extremely tedious and I'd not want to be using my time with this person.

Anyway, everyone knows 'pub grub' is a packet of cheese and onion crisps opened down the back seam and presented flat on the bar. Which is pretty much a jacket potato.

Are you still bothering to go?! I wouldn’t.

Well sounds like you tell her you will get the train and meet her there.
Don't you just love people who try to spend your money for you.

Can’t believe she’s expected you to search and book a restaurant, after months of lockdown, and it’s all so she can eat a jacket potato.

YANBU your friend sounds like a right pain in the arse!

If you are not planning to eat there PLEASE cancel. so the pub can rebook the table.

With all the limitations on eating indoors no -shows are killing what's left of the hospitality trade

Honestly I've spent all week finding places and her moaning

I would have found one suitable place. If friend didn't like it, I'd have cancelled it and suggested friend look for something she preferred

You aren't arsey, she's fussy and bossy!
Cancel the booking and if you're still going tell her she can book somewhere she likes the sound of and you'll go with it and not moan like her

If I were you I'd go in my own to shop and enjoy my lunch.

Before reading the OP I didn't actively loathe the term "pub grub", but hey, now I do!

Are jacket potatoes pub grub?

Tell her that when you walk around shopping, it's likely to be raining too!

Tell her to sort it then. The place you found sounds exactly what I'd expect for "pub grub".

Tell her you will go by taxi if she pays for it. She sounds unbelievably precious and she won't dissolve if she gets a bit wet.

As for spuds - I love a good pub spud but if I was being so damn particular I would source the pub myself, not expect you to. She is a proper cf!! Does she have previous for this type of behaviour?

I think I 'd be telling her to fuck off, if I'd spent all week looking for places only to have her dismiss then because they didn't serve jacket potatoes.
In she normally so demanding.

Sounds like a decent menu to me, tell her book somewhere else herself or shut up, I'd be getting arsey if she was so picky but vague

Since when did 'pub grub' guarantee jacket potatoes?
I always thought they may be an optional extra, but really it means things that go with chips, all-day breakfast and carvery on Sundays.
She means a cafe and not a pub setting?

She is setting you up to fail there OP, if it hadn't have been the jacket potatoes issue she would have complained because they didn't serve skinny lattes "the way Starbucks does" high maintenance

She wants nice pub grub, i.e. a bit of a gastropub, with a mix of light lunches and proper dinners (I think!).

You've proposed a basic, greasy-spoon-style pub.

She was clear enough when she said 'nice pub grub', the question is when did she say that, rather than just 'pub grub' (which, to me, is fish and chips, ploughmans, nice burgers and yes, probably baked potatoes, not just toasties and sandwiches).

So I don't think it's so much that she's desperate for a baked potato. It's that she wants a cooked lunch, not just a sandwich.