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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think my friend shouldn't have eaten my burger?

237 replies

knowledgeablyclueless · 17/04/2024 11:26

Out for dinner a couple of nights ago.

Me and DP, friend and her BF, and another friend.

All paying for our own food.

I ordered a burger but didn't finish it all, so offered it to DP. He said Yes please, but let me finish mine first.

Immediately after that, friend said 'Oh could I try a bite first?' - she ate about half of what was left, then proceeded to offer it to her DP, and when he said no, our friend.

AIBU to think this was fucking weird? Me and DP were both a bit like, Erm, wtf to say something at the time!

OP posts:
susiedaisy1912 · 17/04/2024 16:35

Can't get past other people wanting to bite into a burger that someone else has already been handling and eating. Surely she wasn't that bloody hungry. Grim

Fookintired · 17/04/2024 16:36

I can be a bit of a minger at times, five second rule for dropped food, eating something my kid has left on their plate. This however, is gross even by my very low standards 🤣.

GinandGingerBeer · 17/04/2024 16:40

FTLOG this thread is insane.
Taking a few leftover chips for example = fair enough but getting your hands and mouth round a burger before the op's DH finishes it off is disgusting. 🤮

Baconking · 17/04/2024 16:47

Ledci · 17/04/2024 14:31

I'm probably missing the point here but who wants to eat a burger that other people have taken bites from 🤢

This!

The thought of it is making me feel sick. I never eat anything someone else has had their mouth on, not even my DH or kids

Buffypaws · 17/04/2024 16:53

Yes, yes this was weird.

diamondpony80 · 17/04/2024 17:01

If I'd already offered it to my DP (and it was accepted) then it was rude of her to ask for it. I wouldn't expect him to want it after it had been passed around.

qotsa · 17/04/2024 17:06

This thread makes my head hurt. It's not hard to understand. Yes it's weird and really rude actually. I would've called it out at the time.

Calliopespa · 17/04/2024 17:10

statetrooperstacey · 17/04/2024 11:38

It r sounds like she didn’t fully hear or comprehend the arrangement between you and your DH tbh rather than anything else , also how big was this burger?!!!

Yeah it sounds like Jesus miraculously feeding the 5,000 with the five loaves and a few fish.

I think she must have not heard OP or thought when your DP said not yet that he said no, I’m eating mine. I can’t think of any logical reason she would offer it to the friend ahead of your DP unless she thought that.

How was saliva was on this burger by this stage anyway ?

viques · 17/04/2024 17:12

statetrooperstacey · 17/04/2024 11:38

It r sounds like she didn’t fully hear or comprehend the arrangement between you and your DH tbh rather than anything else , also how big was this burger?!!!

I think it was the burger equivalent of the legendary MN chicken that feeds as many as needed!

GameOfJones · 17/04/2024 17:19

I am assuming she didn't hear you offer it to your DP?

DH and I would share food like that. We have shared worse 🤣 plus if we have paid for it so I think that bit is fine.

Why your friend would want a bite and then offer it around thinking other people would also want a bite is a bit weird. But I think you should just have said "sorry, DP already has dibs on it."

Iwasafool · 17/04/2024 17:21

I'm stuck on the idea of eating someone else's half eaten left over burger. I might pinch a chip of the plate but something someone else has been biting? No thanks.

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 17/04/2024 17:22

trippily · 17/04/2024 11:32

Sometimes I feel like people on mumsnet do not really like their friends? It must be lonely.

😂 i think you make a very good point.

butterpuffed · 17/04/2024 17:26

IncompleteSenten · 17/04/2024 11:53

Yabu OP.

When you offered your spaghetti to your daughter and she said no thanks, it would only have gone to waste if your father hadn't said he'd have it.

It was kind of your father to then offer the rest of it to the stranger dressed in the clown suit sitting at the next table and I'm not sure why you're even mentioning the horse you had tied up at the bar, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with anything.

That made me laugh out loud ! I only read a couple of pages and couldn't believe how so many MNers get so many things wrong .

No doubt OP is just grateful she didn't offer a passing customer some of her dessert .

pimplebum · 17/04/2024 17:32

All that finger mouth sharing is a bit yucky

I'm assuming she didn't hear that your oh had first dibs ?

Not something I'd get in froth about tbh

Justleaveitblankthen · 17/04/2024 17:32

Yuck! All those lips, tongues, gums and teeth sharing the same piece of food 🤢

pimplebum · 17/04/2024 17:33

Slobbering hell !

Janetime · 17/04/2024 17:36

Is it just me that’s cringing like hell over this. All this over some left over burger. How desperately did your husband want it that you need to start a thread about it amd are clearly upset your partner didn’t get a bit of left over burger.

all sharing it out too. 🤯

Ohlookwhoitis · 17/04/2024 17:39

ForestForever · 17/04/2024 15:15

I honestly don’t understand this mentality that if you don’t agree with everything a loved one says and does that “you obviously don’t even like them/ you don’t like them much do you”. Such an odd stance that I don’t believe many people would hold in real life if they’ve got at least half a brain cell. It’s just a nonsense line that gets trotted out on here because people would rather have a really unoriginal dig at the OP because they don’t have the ability to think of anything constructive to say. Either that, or people are just obsessed with making other people feel small because their lives are lacking. In reality, life doesn’t work anywhere close to like this. Rant over.

I would guess that these are the people who are nightmares in real life to deal with. If you don't agree with them they become a victim. Hence the if you don't agree with me then you mustn't like me nonsense.

sandyhappypeople · 17/04/2024 17:41

Who agreed she could have a bite, you or your DH? If it was you, as your DH I'd personally find that really gross and I would not want to eat the remnants of a burger that one of our friends had had their mouth round and would tell her to keep it!!

Either way in any normal situation where you wanted your friend to try it, you'd have cut a bit off and given the rest to your DH.. or your DH could have cut a bit off for her.

It was rude of her though.

Halloweenrainbow · 17/04/2024 17:41

Why did she want everyone to 'try' your discarded burger? Was it something unusual that she thought you just didn't like but that others would?

Ohlookwhoitis · 17/04/2024 17:41

OhSighAgain · 17/04/2024 15:02

So you and your DH paid for a meal each. You didn't want all your meal. Your DH presumably had a full meal.

I can't imagine being so mean spirited as to only offer my unwanted food to my DH and not my friends who I was enjoying a meal with just because DH and I had paid for it.

I would just say something like 'I can't finish this, you lot feel free to take what you like from my plate."

This is the most reaching post ever to try and kick an OP. 😂

Get a life.

fluffi · 17/04/2024 17:41

Sharing is ok if you were all using knives and forks, which I first assumed. But if you were picking them up and taking direct bites that’s a bit gross!

Also where is this amazing place that sells massive burgers?

Boomer55 · 17/04/2024 17:42

Not weird. You didn’t want it. End of.🙄

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 17/04/2024 17:44

Boomer55 · 17/04/2024 17:42

Not weird. You didn’t want it. End of.🙄

But she offered it to her husband who said he did want it.

Ohlookwhoitis · 17/04/2024 17:45

Hoppinggreen · 17/04/2024 16:27

And you/your DH would have been happy to eat if after she had taken a bite out of it?
Grim

FFS what is wrong with people? Of course the OP isn't happy about it HENCE THE EFFING THREAD ABOUT IT!

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