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DH and hobnobs

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ComeTheFuck0nBridget · 09/10/2021 10:02

DH doesn’t like chocolate biscuits. “He can eat them” if there’s nothing else, he says, but prefers plain. He’s a bit snobby about it, actually. I only like the chocolate ones, a plain one isn’t worth it to me.

I got us both a pack of hobnobs in our Tesco delivery yesterday. His plain, mine with chocolate.

Tidying up this morning to find HALF of the entire packet of the chocolate hobnobs gone, and the plain packet unopened.

Something like this happens practically every time I get some and drives me absolutely mad. WIBU to put half the packet of plain hobnobs out on the bird table for the birds? (Lighthearted… maybe Grin )

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Therealjudgejudy · 09/10/2021 10:58

Yanbu, however now I'm craving Chocolate Hobnobs..

MmeD · 09/10/2021 11:00

@SilverTonguedDevil

Shock
GooodMythicalMorning · 09/10/2021 11:08

Just buy chocolate next time as you wont eat plain but he'll clearly eat chocolate one. and yes, they're much more superior.

Hadjab · 09/10/2021 11:13

You’re both unreasonable - hobnobs are yuk

GooodMythicalMorning · 09/10/2021 11:52

@Hadjab

You’re both unreasonable - hobnobs are yuk
Shock
Jeremyspoke · 09/10/2021 11:57

I'm not buying the 'didn't read the packet' theory, any self respecting hobnob fan knows the chocolate ones are blue and the plain are orange surely? Confused

bigbluebus · 09/10/2021 11:57

This would be my DH too! Only he usually says he doesn't really like sweet things - cake, biscuits, chocolate, sweets. Without fail, the minute I buy sweets (especially for a long car journey to prevent travel sickness) he will ask for a sweet every time I have one. The other day he was complaining as he "just fancied a biscuit " as there weren't any in the cupboard (as me and DS eat them if they're there and neither of us need them!).
Perhaps you can melt some chocolate OP, and coat half of your DHs packet of hobnobs and eat them!

DrSbaitso · 09/10/2021 12:00

Buy two packs of chocolate ones in future.

Why on earth does he want to pretend he doesn't prefer them? What's to be snobby about?

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ComeTheFuck0nBridget · 09/10/2021 12:03

He definitely didn't get the packets mixed up! One is blue and one is orange and he has the plain ones often, he knew.

The armchair psychologist in me wonders if he does it because if he eats the chocolate ones first, knowing I won't eat the plain ones, he ends up with a packet and a half to himself (or more - if I get one to have with a cup of tea he'll ask for one too!) and not just one packet?

It just drives me mad, the last time I had some I was rationing them nicely over the week, he said he was going to have one when there were about five left and then when I went the next day to get a couple there was only one left! Id been looking forward to a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits after a really shit day at work and I just had one. I was gutted!

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SunShinesBrightly · 09/10/2021 12:06

@Jeremyspoke

I'm not buying the 'didn't read the packet' theory, any self respecting hobnob fan knows the chocolate ones are blue and the plain are orange surely? Confused
You are right! 😂 My DH is very basic though. He would just see ‘packet of biscuits’ and start eating.
SunShinesBrightly · 09/10/2021 12:07

The armchair psychologist in me wonders if he does it because if he eats the chocolate ones first, knowing I won't eat the plain ones, he ends up with a packet and a half to himself (or more - if I get one to have with a cup of tea he'll ask for one too!) and not just one packet?

Never ever buy anything ‘just for him’ again.
B’tard.

TokyoTen · 09/10/2021 12:10

Unless you are 20 miles from a shop just buy some more. If you are more than 20 miles but a ton and hide it.

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ComeTheFuck0nBridget · 09/10/2021 12:11

@bigbluebus that's not a bad idea actually!

@drsbaitso i don’t understand it myself, but he can be a bit funny with a few things in a similar way, some examples: squash is okay but fizzy pop isn’t, biscuits are okay but chocolate ones aren’t, cornflakes but not Frosties, no butter on sandwiches etc etc. Which is fine if he was worried about the extra sugar for himself or whatever but it seems a bit more snobby than that

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DrSbaitso · 09/10/2021 12:12

Even if he didn't read the packet, he would have realised once he opened it! Come on, people.

The armchair psychologist in me wonders if he does it because if he eats the chocolate ones first, knowing I won't eat the plain ones, he ends up with a packet and a half to himself (or more - if I get one to have with a cup of tea he'll ask for one too!) and not just one packet?

Quite likely. Why doesn't he just admit he likes them? Just buy chocolate in future, he can hardly claim he doesn't eat them!

ColonelNobbyNobbs · 09/10/2021 12:13

That would drive me insane OP. I would hide them. I would never steal my husband’s biscuits and vice versa!

I am the snack pilferer in my house (crisps mainly though) and have come to an agreement with DH that his crisps are kept separately from mine to make sure I don’t eat them all on him.

DrSbaitso · 09/10/2021 12:14

[quote ComeTheFuck0nBridget]@bigbluebus that's not a bad idea actually!

@drsbaitso i don’t understand it myself, but he can be a bit funny with a few things in a similar way, some examples: squash is okay but fizzy pop isn’t, biscuits are okay but chocolate ones aren’t, cornflakes but not Frosties, no butter on sandwiches etc etc. Which is fine if he was worried about the extra sugar for himself or whatever but it seems a bit more snobby than that[/quote]
Well, the worst snobs are the ones with nothing to be snobby about, and to be honest that's most of them. Just tell him that since he clearly likes the chocolate ones, and since you don't appreciate having half of yours snaffled, you'll be buying only chocolate in future. He can get his own plain ones if they mean that much to him.

SilenceOfThePrams · 09/10/2021 12:28

Take the plain ones, smash them up but still with lumps, mix with melted dairy milk and butter and make your own tiffin.

Missing the point of the thread I know…

PartyStory · 09/10/2021 12:46

I realise this is a lighthearted thread but I’m always confused by threads like this. For me, this is really weird behaviour. I could understand him eating it and then giving a reason and apologising when you notice but no reason? Is he a child?

Why not just ask him? And keep making him explain every time he does it. It’s not like he’s five and is limited in what he is allowed, there’s no reason to be like this.

Honestly, for me it seems selfish, whether he means it to be or not. I’m not sure why threads like this play it as a cute thing if it happens regularly.

CaddieDawg · 09/10/2021 12:49

It sounds to me like this is a hangover from his childhood rather than his preferences...my gran and grandad only ever buttered one side of a sandwich at most, only had plain biscuits with tea etc and chocolate ones were for when guests were round, if they ever had fizzy juice in they'd drink a thimble amount then going back to diluting juice. I'm not sure where they got it from as they weren't healthy eaters or posh in any way, I actually think it's more of a rationing nice things sort of mindset?

SpacePotato · 09/10/2021 12:51

Pure greed. Nothing else.
He knows damn well that it means more for him and less, or none, for you.

Just buy chocolate in future. If he didn't like them he wouldn't eat them.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 09/10/2021 13:05

@rwalker

Easy answer by 2 packets of plain and a jar of nutella make your own chocolate ones .
Peanut butter on one, Nutella on the other, then sandwich them and enjoy.
NoSquirrels · 09/10/2021 13:11

Your response is oddly confrontational for a lighthearted hobnob thread.

Lighthearted! He ATE HER CHOCOLATE HOBNOBS Shock

OP, in future buy ONLY chocolate ones.

user1493494961 · 09/10/2021 13:13

DH does this, I hide my stuff now.

2020nymph · 09/10/2021 13:20

I would have to call him out on it and sent him for replacements!

I have food intolerances. I keep my food separate otherwise the monsters I live with (DH and DSs) eat them and leave me with nothing. I caught DS3 with biscuit four of my biscuits, I only went to the loo!

mumofmunchkin · 09/10/2021 13:23

Only buy chocolate ones in future. When he questions it just say "you ate the chocolate ones first last time so I assume you like them better"