He threw my custard away

[DimeBarLady]

And now I can’t stop crying.

Exdh came to stay at mine for the weekend to look after dc’s. Not a long term solution but as he lived in a different city until CV situation dies down we both decided to do this rather than take dc’s on train to stay with him.

All day I have been looking forward to eating a syrup sponge that I got from Sainsbury’s with some custard that was in the cupboard. I warm up my syrup sponge but I can’t find the custard. I text exdh asking if he’d eaten my custard and he replied that he hadn’t but he threw it away as he noticed the BB date was the end of Dec and it looked like it had been in there a while.

Now I’m crying. I have PMT and I just wanted some fucking custard. I can’t leave dc’s at home to go and buy custard and anyway my syrup sponge is cold now. I actually hate him. I’m so glad I’m divorcing him, the absolute bastard.

@RayOfSunshine2013

YABU. Custard is vile

Don’t be ridiculous. Custard is amazing.

Takes one to know one! He’s clearly past his best before date too.

@TeamLannister

Jesus, non stop crying is a bit much. Also, tinned custard is properly disgusting. If you have sugar, milk, cream, eggs & vanilla you could make lovely custard...

Have you ever had PMT?

(And have you ever tried empathy?)

I’d look for the carton in the bin just to see if it’s still full, because I bet the greedy twat has eaten it and lied about it. Nobody throws away food that isn’t out of date yet.

@june2007

Seriusly it,s custard. He thought it was out of date. Tell him not to chuck away any of your food in future, not worth getting angry about.

It is not. It is 'The Custard' and should be respected as such.

Don’t be ridiculous. Custard is amazing. It is, quite literally!

Look up Non Newtonian fluid , you'll be amazed!

You can walk on a swimming pool full of it;
It crawls out of speakers, like little men desperate to escape

I agree TeamLannister - even milk flour and vanilla and some butter or marge would do the trick

OP your ex sounds like a gaslighting shit - recover your pudding somehow and rub it in his face (“yummy, managed to sort the custard crisis!”)

Are you divorcing him for unreasonable behaviour?
Can you add it to the list?

@TeamLannister you may not like tinned custard but you are aware that not everyone likes the same things?

He’s obsessed with out of date food and convinced that every plug socket will spontaneously ignite if not switched off the minute you no longer need it. He definitely wouldn’t have eaten it, he just can’t cope with stuff being in the house that is nearly out of date.

I’m so glad we’re getting divorced. I occasionally miss him. Then when I came back yesterday to find I had to reset the timer on my microwave and oven as he’d switched them off and now I find he’s chucked my custard I’m glad I never gave to spend another day living with him.

Also I’m a peasant and I only like tinned custard unless it’s in a trifle.

How can ANYONE think you unreasonable???

It was IN DATE!!!

(He ate it).

He's an absolute cunt.

Do you have any vanilla ice cream handy? Defrost portion required in microwave and warm slowly to required temp. If splits, you can slake with a bit of cornflour or in extremis, teeny bit of plain flour. X

How is end of December 'nearly out of date' though? It isn't!

Did he arrange all your tins in neat forward-facing rows too? Bet he did!

@june2007

Seriusly it,s custard. He thought it was out of date. Tell him not to chuck away any of your food in future, not worth getting angry about.

He shouldn’t have been rooting through her food being nosy in the first place. It’s got fuck all to do with him, why shouldn’t the OP be angry? He’s interfering!

I wouldn't want him staying at mine interfering with your stuff.

That is the sort of thing my DH might do. Annoying but at least he lives here (we have had multiple conversations about the difference between BBE and Use by but for some reason despite being intelligent he can't quite seem to retain this simple information 😳)

WTF was he thinking throwing away food that had not even reached its BBE date IN SOMEONE ELSE'S HOUSE!!!!

I would be fucking fuming. Make him go and get you custard.

So he threw away your food even though it wasn't out of date? Call him out for that... and for rooting through your cupboards.

Anything else comforting in the house to tempt you?

Do you have a stash of Christmas treats you could loot?

Why are people bothering to post to say custard is disgusting?

Maybe to you it is, but your word is not law and to other people it's warming and tasty.

I don't eat meat. I wouldn't go on a post by someone praising meat and say the OP was being unreasonable because meat is disgusting and I don't want to eat it.

Surprisingly, not everyone likes the same thing.

PMT used to make me feel very much how the OP is feeling now so I can fully understand how someone could get so upset over something like this especially as it's her exh being so high handed with her food in her house.

Maybe it's time to think of a different arrangement for him to see the children OP. You don't need to be made to feel like that by anyone, let alone a soon to be exh.

You should deffo include this episode in the divorce paperwork.

Irreconcilable custard based differences.

@TeamLannister

Jesus, non stop crying is a bit much. Also, tinned custard is properly disgusting. If you have sugar, milk, cream, eggs & vanilla you could make lovely custard...

It’s not about the custard.

Have the bins been taken, then? Because if it's in a tin, I'd be fishing it out!

I love tinned custard. Imagine telling someone who wanted tinned custard "Oh just whip up some Creme Anglais, all you need is cream, butter, sugar, vanilla, and the will to live"

Well, if it's tinned... Go get it out of the bin!!

What an arsehole. Do you want the Mumsnet shovel and a watertight alibi?