If you were given a shopping list with dairy milk on it what would you buy?

[Katieweasel]

Would you buy the much needed treat your DW had looked forward to eating all day. Or would you, like my DH, buy 6 pints of milk assuming the "dairy" was to differentiate between different varieties of milk! First and last time DH is entrusted to do the weekly shop unsupervised!

Next time ask for Fair trade chocolate to ensure farmers and growers benefit from hour treat. I visited a fair trade cocoa farm in Ghana and saw first hand what a difference it makes . Non fair trade cocoa may be produced unethically. But, I agree, I'd have known you meant chocolate.

Chocolate, but YABU to be not to write it

Chocolate

I did shopping for a friend who was shielding. She never write just dairy milk. She wrote “ chocolate bar dairy milk or similar”. Sometimes she’s add either plain or with nuts. So I think he can be forgiven to think you wanted milk

Definitely chocolate

I find it staggering that anyone could think it was anything other than chocolate.

LTB

I'm not sure what's worse.... the fact hour DH did this or so many on here would do the same?

I despair!

LOL genuinely when I read this my immediate thought was ‘I’d get green top milk as I wouldn’t be sure if they wanted blue or red’ duh me

I would have definitely thought chocolate.

I would use cow's milk if I wanted to differentiate from say oat milk.

Think he did you a favour, dairy milk is vile.

ah you see i understand the confusion as i have a dairy free child so i put cow milk and soya milk when i send my teenage son out. But he reads the list before he goes and would ask if i meant chocolate (though i usually put choc after if i mean the bar, because he is a boy and they just do what is on the list and if you leave room for confusion, they will get confused! We did have similar though he did check with me before he left as i used to put dairy milk and soya and he thought i meant the choc not the milk (not much good for breaky in the morning!) that's why i put cow milk now.

LTB!

Personally I’d have thought it was an odd way to write down milk on a shopping list and would have queried it...but as a chocolate connoisseur 🤭 I know damn straight that’s chocolate 🤣🤣

I'd say "Grab me some chocolate please" 🤷‍♀️ does anyone actually call it dairy milk?!

😂😂😂 oh dear OP i thought of chocolate but I can see why he thought milk.
I sent DP to the shop for honey once and he came back with marmalade because "it looked similar" 🤣

Marmalade for honey. Fantastic. I once asked for fresh ginger. Husband came back with three mahoosive pieces. There was a sad old man looking longingly at the empty tray after he grabbed them. Poor old man, they lasted us months, had to freeze some. This was after the garlic fiasco when he came back with a whole string of them like I was an entire Italian restaurant. I joked I would send him shopping with a striped top and a beret.

I'd have assumed the chocolate. If I write "milk", I know to get cows milk and plant-based milk. If I write "dairy milk" it's because I know I'm greedy and love chocolate so automatically know what I mean

It's obviously chocolate you want.
More specifically it's Cadbury's, not some other brand.
Or he could be deliberately misinterpreting to get out of being sent out in future!

The chocolate

@MiddleAgedBlokeHere

It's obviously chocolate you want. More specifically it's Cadbury's, not some other brand. Or he could be deliberately misinterpreting to get out of being sent out in future!

I think the OP probably realised this in the 3 months since she posted

The Cadbury’s chocolate in the purple wrapper, obvs 🙄

Who calls milk ‘dairy milk’?! It’s just milk! You wouldn’t write ‘tree apples’. LTB immediately.

Oh stop resurrecting zombies!!!!

My dad came to visit me in 2019 and asked if I wanted him to bring anything. I had one request. Dairy milk. Just plain Dairy Milk. Not whole nut. Not fruit and nut. Just plain. He landed at the airport and said “I’ve brought chocolate for you”. We got up the house and me presented me with...a box of Thornton’s. He said “Pauline (his new wife) said these are much better than Cadbury’s so I got these instead.” I told him to give them to Pauline then.