He bought chicken burgers

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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?😫

@RB68

I put baking pots once and he came back with cake cases...

My Dad once gave me a shopping list with pots on it. I texted him to ask 'Pots of what?'. It was potatoes.

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.

so true, I hate even more the boast that only women can be competent in the kitchen and chores area, and that that they are the only ones doing it RIGHT, and DH must do strictly as told.

It’s not necessarily a man-child, or hoping-she-won’t-ask-again thing. My dh really likes food shopping - he’ll go to M&S and pick up various treat-y things I’d never buy - I usually stick to Asda.

He’s far from thick and very competent at all sorts, so I’m at a loss really.

Leave him. Now!

Technically you wrote "chicken burgers" and that's what he bought

If you wanted a whole chicken surely you would have written that?

And our butcher does beef burgers, chicken burgers and pork burgers...

If you can't be specific then be prepared for the person doing the shipping to choose

@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.

[adds Beagle Puppy, 8 weeks old to the shopping list]

I'm guessing the dried fruit means 'cheap', rather than super fancy. That went on the list for bird food, along with suet, bread and apples (plus some stewing steak, carrots and onions). DP was slightly crestfallen when he realised he had been shopping for Blackbirds, rather than my planning to make bread pudding and a stew with dumplings.

He now buys two boxes of suet so we have one as well.

We have a system, when we are running low on something either of us puts it on the list plus anything we particularly fancy or need for a recipe. Whichever of us does the shopping takes the list and is free to add things of their own choosing. It's not a gendered job in our house, neither is washing, ironing or hoovering.

He tends to buy fancy stuff and calls my shopping 'austerity shopping' though.

• @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. *

All is not lost...

Blimey, everyone makes mistakes in this house and we don’t immediately LTB.

Dh does most of the grocery shopping and we both contribute to the list. One time I had written Simple soap, as in the brand, and he came back with tomatoe soup. He interpreted it as simple soup

Technically you wrote "chicken burgers" and that's what he bought

no. A list is a normal thing for shopping, one item, one line

chicken
burgers

is no more "chicken burgers" than it is Lego Death star

haha so of these are very funny.

I once wrote a list fir DH which included Cheerios, my writing is rubbish so he read it as cherries and came home with a box of fresh ones yummy.

Mine went out to buy stuff for a BBQ a few years back and picked up what he thought were “Scotch Beef Burgers” but turned out to be “Scotch Bonnet Burgers”.
He INSISTED he’d meant to pick those ones even though neither of us like spicy food and proceeded to eat three while I had one smothered in creme fraiche. Bless him he did have a sweat on at the end! 😂

Are you sure it was 'accidental'?

@Alfr

A friend of mine was sent out to get a chicken, and came back with a Ferrari. His wife gets food delivered now

I went out to get some eggs and came back with no eggs but a new car ordered. It wasn’t a Ferrari though!

That's easily done (accidental car buying), I once went to the gym and inadvertently bought a Fiat 500.

Oh bless! 😂 mistakes happen, I can see that happening to either of us.

We once had that ‘cat fud’ card (when we still had dog and cat) - it’s a classic.

And what about those people who ‘accidentally’ become landlords -they just wake up one morning and whoops! - someone’s living in their property! How the fuck did that happen?

@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.

I think your DH is ALWAYS just in front of me at the supermarket I'm usually wanting to strangle him too.

I love these. I remember when I was a kid my friend's dad (who was normally a competent shopper) went to the shop with her mum's list for a big Christmas party they were hosting. She wrote '36 mince pies' on the list. He read it as 36 twix bars. His kids were delighted!

Once on a list I wrote squash, assuming DH would come back with cordial, he came back with a giant butternut squash.

What amazes me is that he has never cooked so I truly suprised his mind went there, but anyway I drank water and made some lovely soup.

My highly intelligent, fairly high earning DH..

My highly intelligent and very high earning DF once*

Wow,how much??!!
Shopping mistakes must be extremely rare in high paid intelligent types! How funny

I want a chicken burger now

its called sarcasm @Notimeforaname. I was simply pointing out that they are not infantalised by my mother or me.