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Not enough breakfast options!

56 replies

Kwasi · 16/03/2024 10:08

DH trundled into the kitchen this mornings and proceeded to complain about there being nothing for breakfast.

We have:
Regular porridge
Chocolate porridge
Ready Brek
Weetabix
Shreddies
Own brand Rice Krispies (he won’t touch own brand cereal)
Eat Natural wholegrain cereal
Fruit
Bread
Jam
Bacon
Eggs
Smoked salmon

But there’s sod all in the house for breakfast!

YABU: How could anyone be expected to eat any of that shit?
YANBU: Go to the shop 5 doors down and get whatever you fancy!

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CaterhamReconstituted · 16/03/2024 10:14

Not unreasonable. But neither is he. It’s just male fridge blindness. He can’t help it, they all have it.

BobbyBiscuits · 16/03/2024 10:14

Lol, what did he want, a pot noodle?
Silly sod. Genuinely ask him what he's getting for you both from the cafe then?

Redshoeblueshoe · 16/03/2024 10:16

Put him in charge of menu planning and shopping for a month.

Hankunamatata · 16/03/2024 10:16

Are you married to a teenager? That's what my teens say when they look in the bursting fridge and cupboards.

What exactly did he want to eat?

MolkosTeenageAngst · 16/03/2024 10:17

CaterhamReconstituted · 16/03/2024 10:14

Not unreasonable. But neither is he. It’s just male fridge blindness. He can’t help it, they all have it.

Ridiculous. Of a course a man is capable of looking in the fridge and seeing what’s in there. It’s purposeful laziness and ineptness voiced aloud in the hope that a woman will feel sorry for him and then use her time and effort to sort breakfast for him whilst he sits around and contributes nothing to the task.

SpringSprungALeak · 16/03/2024 10:17

I couldn't vote with those options!

id have just told him not to be so fucking ridiculous & to get himself some breakfast out of the many available options!!

FOJN · 16/03/2024 10:18

He's being a dick. Don't engage in problem solving for him. If he's too stupid to see what's in front of him or go to the shops and get what he wants then let him go hungry.

Queijo · 16/03/2024 10:19

CaterhamReconstituted · 16/03/2024 10:14

Not unreasonable. But neither is he. It’s just male fridge blindness. He can’t help it, they all have it.

Can we please stop allowing men to be fucking useless with these ridiculous statements.

Unless they have disabilities preventing them, all men are capable of making fucking breakfast.

Criesonsunday · 16/03/2024 10:19

CaterhamReconstituted · 16/03/2024 10:14

Not unreasonable. But neither is he. It’s just male fridge blindness. He can’t help it, they all have it.

What do you think single and gay men do? Just starve to death?

ThreeEggOmlette · 16/03/2024 10:19

There's plenty to eat, he just wants you to do his thinking for him, naming breakfast options until you hit on a tasty treat he fancies.

Do not engage.

Drives me insane.

LoveSkaMusic · 16/03/2024 10:19

Bloody hell, 8 replies in and this thread is already wild!

When a man says there's no food, it's like when women say they have nothing to wear!

It just means there's nothing he fancies. In which case, he can go to the shop. Problem solved.

charliefair · 16/03/2024 10:23

CaterhamReconstituted · 16/03/2024 10:14

Not unreasonable. But neither is he. It’s just male fridge blindness. He can’t help it, they all have it.

Oh for fuck sake he is a grown adult. Stop excusing pathetic behaviour with 'he is a man'

Nonewclothes2024 · 16/03/2024 10:24

CaterhamReconstituted · 16/03/2024 10:14

Not unreasonable. But neither is he. It’s just male fridge blindness. He can’t help it, they all have it.

No they don't, my partner makes us both breakfast 99% of the time.

FlabMonsterIsDietingAgain · 16/03/2024 10:26

Well it won't kill him to miss breakfast will it. If he doesn't fancy any of what's available and doesn't want to go out to get himself something different then he doesn't have to eat.

This isn't your problem to solve.

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 16/03/2024 10:27

LoveSkaMusic · 16/03/2024 10:19

Bloody hell, 8 replies in and this thread is already wild!

When a man says there's no food, it's like when women say they have nothing to wear!

It just means there's nothing he fancies. In which case, he can go to the shop. Problem solved.

The only correct answer among many batshit man-theories.

Myotheripodisayoto · 16/03/2024 10:28

I started at the top of your list thinking "well tbf its a lot of carby cereal"... but then hit the bacon, eggs and salmon and thought "yup he's being a douche isnt he".

CaterhamReconstituted · 16/03/2024 10:29

MolkosTeenageAngst · 16/03/2024 10:17

Ridiculous. Of a course a man is capable of looking in the fridge and seeing what’s in there. It’s purposeful laziness and ineptness voiced aloud in the hope that a woman will feel sorry for him and then use her time and effort to sort breakfast for him whilst he sits around and contributes nothing to the task.

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I know. Sorry, lame joke.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 16/03/2024 10:30

Criesonsunday · 16/03/2024 10:19

What do you think single and gay men do? Just starve to death?

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Love this response!

The rates of starvation in gay men are so sad - the struggle is real 😂

In reality of course many men both gay and straight eat very well indeed without women in the house to spoon feed them.

NuffSaidSam · 16/03/2024 10:30

Was he just having a general grumble? Like when you're feeling a bit grumbly generally and it gets directed towards something but it's not really about that. That's what it sounds like.

I'd have just ignored and let him work through it.

Screamingabdabz · 16/03/2024 10:31

I wouldn’t even stop scrolling on my phone to look up and answer him. Not your problem sister.

Obeast · 16/03/2024 10:35

@CaterhamReconstituted you think all men can't see fridges because their dicks block their line of vision? (Since it's a male thing, apparently)

May I suggest you pick better men to be around?

CaterhamReconstituted · 16/03/2024 10:39

Obeast · 16/03/2024 10:35

@CaterhamReconstituted you think all men can't see fridges because their dicks block their line of vision? (Since it's a male thing, apparently)

May I suggest you pick better men to be around?

I wasn’t being serious. A rubbish joke that nobody picked up on.

To be clear, I don’t genuinely believe that people capable to getting to the Moon are incapable of making breakfast. Of course he should be sorting out breakfast, and make hers while he’s at it!

mitogoshi · 16/03/2024 10:39

What is it he does want? Pastries? Fetch some himself, otherwise all bases covered. I'm guessing it's the cook who is missing Grin

Ginmonkeyagain · 16/03/2024 10:44

I would ignore him. Feeding an adult man is not your job.

If there is nothing he wants in the house he either goes hungry or get up off his lazy arse and buys something he does want.

AmaryllisChorus · 16/03/2024 10:48

He might mean: why did the eggs and bacon not cook themselves in anticipation of my hunger, and present themselves with a round of high protein toast and some token veg to make me feel like I'm in training for an unspecified footie/rugby team/Olympic event?