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!

Chocolate. Every time!

I'd probably call cows milk 'normal milk' if writing a shopping list with plant based milks on it too.

Dairymilk is obviously chocolate

I drink oat milk so defo read that as cows milk not chocolate, I'd have done the same if my dh had written that

I thought full or semi skimmed milk as opposed to almond etc. Agree with pp Moser Roth is much nicer than Dairy Milk. If you wanted chocolate you should have written Dairy Milk chocolate.

The word 'milk' is starting to look funny now and totally wrong. My first thought would have been chocolate though.

I've retrieved the tub of Cadbury's Heroes from the loft that I had hidden out of reach for Christmas. So weekend hasn't been completely ruined. I asked why he thought I'd written both milk and dairy milk and he said he thought we needed lots of milk which is why he bought 6 pints. Plonker.

In direct contradiction to my above statement, DH would come back with cows milk! Which is even more inexplicable as I am not the cows milk drinker in this house! He said he wouldn't even ask what I wanted all the cows milk for! Also he has refused to go to the co op now to the purchase some chocolate 😒

Bit confused - what was the treat and did you want 6 pints of cows milk ?
Otherwise i once made the mistake of asking an ex to pick up some bread for toast and got told they could not find any bread on sale " supermarket has moved the shelves ... " this was pre-covid and when i stopping cooking and popped to the said shop - it was packed with hundreds of loafs in the same place .
Needless to say the ex brought nothing home,did not try elsewhere .
same story when i asked him to go to MandS foodhall " could not find it,no signs,no staff to ask - so i thought it best to wait until 10pm to tell you we have no food in the house "

Definitely the chocolate! I checked with DH and he also said chocolate.

It's a long long time since Dairy Milk has been anything resembling a treat. DH probably thought you couldn't possibly mean the awful stuff the Americans sell as chocolate.

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit

We are a family of 5
DH likes a frothy coffee in the morning, 3 kid’s like cereal.
Kids like hot choc/milkshakes afterschool. Or just drink some milk. Lots of cups of tea
Cheese sauce/custard etc

Chocolate, of course

I'd have bought chocolate

I buy 12 pints of milk a week. Is 6 excessive for a family?

@Katieweasel

I've retrieved the tub of Cadbury's Heroes from the loft that I had hidden out of reach for Christmas. So weekend hasn't been completely ruined. I asked why he thought I'd written both milk and dairy milk and he said he thought we needed lots of milk which is why he bought 6 pints. Plonker.

I have just remembered the tub in the cupboard! Co op trip averted!

@Tigger03

Definitely the chocolate! I checked with DH and he also said chocolate.

Ditto.

He's a keeper

Just asked DH who looked puzzled at the confusion - "chocolate bar obviously " so he's not useless 😉

I got halfway through the thread before I realised omg

I thought the issue was going to be that he'd come back with a small bar, whereas clearly you needed a large one!!

Obviously it meant chocolate, candy believe anyone else thinks they would make this mistake! I make plenty of other stupid mistakes, but this is so weird.

You see, this is the world we live in. In the “old” days we would have known that dairy milk was chocolate, nowadays it’s confusing

My husband knows!

It is very ambiguous. 'Dairy Milk choc bar' would have been clear.

I know someone who gave her DH a list which included loo rolls. He came back with 100 bread rolls. Fuck knows what he thought she was planning to do with them.

I'd buy chocolate and I hope you are joking with it being the last time he does the shopping.