DH has been eating crisps he doesn’t want for years

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Ok not really an Aibu - but Dh just came home with a meal deal for us each - so two sandwiches drinks etc, and one packet of salt and vinegar and one cheese and onion.

I don’t like c&o (which he knows) and Dh just leaves his crisps. I said “oh are you not eating the ... he said no I don’t fancy that flavour...

It turns out that he always buys both for me as he still gets confused the by the green/blue packet thing! He’s being doing it for years and I’ve never noticed.

So Aibu to ask - is it really that hard to tell the difference between the two - even though walkers does muddy the waters!

Can't stand salt and vinegar, always have to triple check I'm getting C&O.

@WalkingInTheAir13 try distinguishing between a normal and diet tonic when you’re three gin in!

I can never get my husband the right lucozade, every time I think I’ve got it right I haven’t so now I just don’t buy it for him

@Yummyplainscones
Definitely up for being chauffeur driven, just need a big enough boot for all these crisps!!!

@Poppyolive90 I don’t understand Lucozade either! I can never work out which one is the one I used to get given when I was ill as a kid, and always end up with some strange still orange thing!

My dp does a version of this.

He cannot, absolutely cannot, read packaging in a supermarket. If his usual brand isn't there or there is a change in routine or layout of the shop, he gets really flustered and tries to go by colour (e.g. milk tops, as someone else has mentioned), and fucks it up at least 50% of the time.

A huge part of his job is reading contracts, writing Very Important Memos, and so on. But for whatever reason, domestic reading is a blind spot. It's not that he checks out of domestic tasks - he is the chief shopper of the family, takes charge of a wide variety of domestic drudgery, etc. I think he's just very much a person who relies on routine, not on reading or critical thinking skills, to get through domestic tasks.

It's weird how these blind spots can form just through routine.

I fancy a packet of cheese and onion now!

Meal deals at home? Height of luxurious overindulgence

DH similarly doesn't seem to have absorbed the very very simple and almost universal colour coding of basic household foodstuffs and products ... has to be pointed out to him that non-bio laundry liquid tends to have a blue cap and bio, green (there's a certain internal logic there) and that the low-fat versions of things are often a pastel version of the full-fat. He claims not to notice. I think he just about realises what red, green and blue caps on milk jugs signify. Blue=S&V, red= ready salted, green= C&O would be utterly outside his comprehension, but then he doesn't eat crisps.

OP, I can't get past the fact that your DH brought back meal deals (sandwiches) home for lunch. If you're at home, why not make sandwiches for yourselves at a fraction of the price (and less packaging waste)?? I thought meal deals were fairly crap processed meals you buy when you're out and about, or working.

@iMatter

Where I grew up (in the stone age admittedly) cheese and onion was green and salt and vinegar was blue. I still think the "new" colours are wrong!

Me too, and red was tomato sauce. Salted was dark blue and salt and vinegar light blue.

@GlomOfNit I just really fancied an M&S fancy prawn sandwich I’m afraid. I wfh full time (have done for years) so sometimes a meal deal feels like a weird sort of treat. Bit like an occasional McDonald’s does.

@valtandsinegar

YABU for eating meal deals at home!

That was my thought too! Surely meal deals are for when you are out and need a meal, not for buying and taking home?

It's not a meal. Just an attractive but unhealthy snake.

Snack !!!

@WellQualifiedToRepresentTheLBC sounds similar. Aside from the crisps thing - he doesn’t tend to say quickly work out the light cream cheese from the usual one etc. He also does most of the shopping.

He clearly doesn't care enough about crisps for himself to be bothered...my son is a food is fuel person and doesn't dwell on it.

Don't worry OP, my parents have been married 45+ years. A few years ago in the lead up to Xmas my DM asked us all who wanted smoked or unsmoked bacon for Xmas day breakfast. Ddad says smoked please.
DM: I didn't know you preferred smoked bacon
DDad: You never asked.
Not sure why he never said anything in all those decades...

@RollerDiscoSkates
Apparently the Ready Salted ones were DIscontinued a while ago when the company was brought out :-(
They did have them on Amazon at one Point I know Asda do there own version they are quite yummy

I can't think of a single flavour of crisps I don't like.

When I was a child Golden Wonder were the popular crisps, they sold them in all my local sweet shops - cheese and onion were in green packets. My favourite flavour was Beef and Onion Golden Wonder. It used to annoy me that Walkers cheese and onion were in blue packs, used to it now though.

[quote vanillandhoney]Green walkers have always been Salt and Vinegar.
Blue ones have always been Cheese and Onion.

From their website:

Answer: Contrary to popular belief, Walkers Cheese and Onion have always been in blue packets, and Salt and Vinegar have always been in green packets. We don't have a plan to change this, as it's signature to our brand.

walkers.co.uk/faq/brands-flavours[/quote]
Lays (Walkers) salt & vinegar are blue correct in Europe.

What about the salt and shake crisps with the little blue packets?? I loved those as a kid!

@TreestumpsAndTrampolines no, prawn cocktail crisps are not widely available in Aus AFAIK. A few specially stores catering to expats have them, and Aldi had them 2 years ago for about 5 minutes.

Now I want to try them..

@Mincingfuckdragon2 don't bother they are mank.

@earthyfire it must be golden wonder I remembered then!

He could just read it, but it’s very sweet that he gets both just to make sure you have the kind you like