He bought chicken burgers

[Mouseylu]

Lighthearted. Yesterday dh went to do food shop. Two lists - one for supermarket, the other for our local butcher. The butcher list had two items on it: chicken and burgers. I wanted a whole chicken and some beef burgers. He bought chicken burgers - items were listed on separate lines as were the supermarket items but somehow he claims it read chicken burgers. Aibu to despair?😫

@itchyfinger

I hate the response "if you want something done properly do it yourself." That just let's men off following basic instruction leaving the women having to do everything. Once I told my DP to "put the sheets in the washing machine" - he put them in, shut the door and that was that. Didnt bother to actually wash them

^This.
It's a simple bloody task and we women shouldn't have to take the poor 'ickle cherub by the hand and walk him through it. He's as fully functioning an adult as we are. It's a stupid, lazy mistake and mistakes happen, but I wouldn't be blaming myself for not making it clearer and I wouldn't be taking over the job myself.

@BlingLoving, I get you!, I do all the cooking DH always thanks me for the meal, every evening I leave the table and sit down, he ALWAYS clears up, properly, no soaking of tins etc (without permission )

@golddustwomen

You're telling me your DH doesn't phone you 50 times whilst he's doing the super market shop ?! I love my oh so much but fucking hell I could strangle him when he's food shopping on his own.

LOL.

I'd strangle him myself if I came across him in a supermarket (in the old days). I don't know why, but the sight of someone 'shopping' but standing in front of the shelves endlessly asking things on a phone really gets my goat.

My husband does pretty much 100% of the grocery shopping (and isn’t a man-child who fakes incompetence to avoid doing his share).

I once added “Always Ultra (Green)” to our shopping list.

He brought back spearmint Extra chewing gum

Not long ago my dh came back with a joint of pork when I’d clearly written GAMMON on the list.
‘I thought it was gammon!’ he said, all injured.
‘No, dear, that why the label says PORK.’

But the ‘best’ was when he once came back from a huge Asda saying they didn’t they have any loo cleaner - no, none at all! No Harpic, no own brand, nothing. ‘Yes, I did look properly!’ (All injured again 😂)

That one went down in the annals, so at least he’s now learned to ASK if he can’t find something.

To be fair to him, chicken could mean breasts, thighs, drumsticks, legs, whole chicken. When I write my list, I know in my head what I'm cooking so if I write chicken, I know if that week I'm getting thighs, breats or a whole chicken. Would he know that chicken on this occasion meant a whole one? Is that what you always buy? If that's the standard every week then he should have known but if it could have been any type of chicken then maybe chicken burgers was the best guess he could make from what you had written?
Grasping at straws here!

Next time he checks the cupboards, fridge and freezer and makes the list himself.
Go on. I dare ya!

If I send dh to the shops to get a few bits you can guarantee I'll get a WhatsApp video call whilst he walks round the store looking for things on the list, bless him

@MereDintofPandiculation

I'm sometimes mystified by DH's additions to the shopping list. This week's contribution starts with the word "Cats" and includes the item "1kg crap dried fruit". I'm not getting the cats. We have three already.

We used to write 'cat fud' on shopping lists, in honour of this great Gary Larson cartoon. I used to worry that if anyone saw it they'd think we were illiterate.

I love the 'crap dried fruit'.

I think he fancied chicken burgers and has played you beautifully.

Many years ago I asked DH for an Enny bag for Christmas (they were very simple and the softest leather).

I unwrapped a gilt covered Jane Shilton monstrosity as I had asked for any bag.

One of my favourite things is when I send dh out to do the food shop, he often misreads what I've written and it's a nice surprise to see what comes home with 🤣

My partner did the opposite last night, I've asked him to pick me up marmite hummus from work all week, he picked me up marmite and hummus. 🙄 Told me to mix them 😂

Aldi used to do really good chicken burgers. Irrelevant I know...

My DH got me a top that was size small. I am a large. He thought the S meant short.

@Luciddreams

My partner did the opposite last night, I've asked him to pick me up marmite hummus from work all week, he picked me up marmite and hummus. 🙄 Told me to mix them 😂

Woah, hang on, you can get marmite hummus?! Where?!

at crap dried fruit
I hope DH doesn't leave our shopping list in the trolley for by one to analyse as I have written 'crappy diet coke' on it. I.e cheap supermarket own brand for cooking the gammon with as opposed to proper diet coke for drinking.

Wow, chicken burgers and marmite hummus.

My world just got bigger.

@SunshineCake

Not harsh to critique when he did it wrong . Ridiculous to think he doesn't do shopping enough so allowed to make mistakes. Embarrassing that you let him off.

Poor thing?

I also hate the position of “ tell him off, send him back out , it’s not good enough etc” . Equally infantilising. People in loving relationship can have a laugh at each other’s and their own mistakes.

@SimonJT

There's a thread called 'it's nice in here' under 'the coronavirus free zone' and a poster links to it. From memory it's available in Tesco and Sainsbury's

I'm a vegetarian and my husband isn't and this is the kind of mistake I used to make when it was my turn to shop. I'm much better now as I have 2 meat eating children as well but do get confused with what mince to get at times. I think it can just be a genuine mistake.

@UghNotThisAgain36

I don't find this funny at all though I know its meant to be light-hearted. Why do people put up with such 'selective helplessness'? Why would you saddle yourself with someone incapable of reading a shopping list? Just smacks of infantilising men. Yuck.

I agree, it's beyond pathetic

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

Wow, chicken burgers and marmite hummus.

My world just got bigger.

Me too. And gammon cooked with crap diet coke. Or any coke, come to that.

I once asked my DSIS to pick up a 20 pack of peroni (beer) and I got 20 packs of pepperoni.

[quote BlingLoving]**@MereDintofPandiculation* And more sensible than those people who reserve their on-line supermarket slot with a £40 bottle of champagne that they have no intention of buying, but risk being the only thing that arrives if they can't got on to update their order.*

(although it was 3 giant bags of dishwasher tabs. So all was not lost)[/quote]
Which is why I put £30 gin on the order, along with bitter lemon and rose lemonade.

That way, if it all goes wrong, at least I feel happier about it by 10pm.