DP has gone to work in a bad mood. Is he being ridiculous or is he right?

[Buttr]

Apparently there wasn't enough butter to make his sandwiches.

I'll attatch a photo, please do let me know what you think. I'm not taking him seriously, obviously.

When I said that there quite clearly is enough for two ham sandwiches he said "well I just like alot of butter" and chose to leave without any sandwiches at all and a face like a slapped arse.

I suspect he's got the ump about the fact that my DM had sandwiches here this afternoon and is blaming her for the lack of butter (I never use it)

So just for my amusement..

YABU - there isn't enough
YANBU - there's plenty

I've heard of rounds of sandwiches. The first time I came across it was in the Famous Five books when I was a kid. I've since realised it's a term mor commonly used down south.

It's definitely used in Yorkshire. My Grandad, a builder from Doncaster, used to have four rounds with every meal. That was how the conversation went every day GM: how many rounds Jack? GF: four please.

That's not butter... but anyway, there's enough there for a sandwhich 🤷🏻‍♀️

@FinnyStory

I don't think it's a Northern thing, we're in Essex and my Kentish GPs would have said it, so would my Yorkshire ones. It's probably more old fashioned than regional, I don't think it's something my young adult DC would say.

Yep I’m old !!!🤣

It's a bit like asking for toast and getting one piece

Loads of butter in the tub

Does grate me about peoples high handed attitude to margarine. Some of us have dairy allergies and dont have a choice so always lovely to be reminded we are eating tubs of chemicals

I used "round" in my post. I'm as southern as they come. Mum's family were all Hampshire area, some as far back as 1732 and dad's family were Londoners going back to at least the early 1800's.

1 round is a sandwich made of two slices of bread.

Didn't know that it wasn't a thing everywhere.

I'm in my 50's if that helps. Maybe it is an age thing.

@SeaToSki

Oooo. Im coming over all reminiscent...I live in the land of ‘thou shalt only make sandwiches with mayo’. Butter never touches any ham sandwiches here and I do miss it (when buying a sandwich out, as I make my own home made ones very buttery)

WTAF @SeaToSki - where are you, so I know never to go there?

I'm in the USA. A complete load of sandwich heathens they are..

Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. Glad you can at least eat properly at home!

Re hump/ump controversy - I think Kipling Just So Stories, “How the camel got his hump” may have something to do with the expression. “We all get the hump, cameelious hump, kiddies and grownups too”. (From having too little to do-oo-oo !)

Thinking of the famous five they solved this very dilemma by having ‘tinned butter’. I remember rereading the paragraph incredulously. There you go Op! Lay in lashings of tinned butter and he’ll never have to have a sandwich sulk or strop again!

Get him some butter, that’ll cheer him up, Marge is the absolute pits