DH ruined my lunch.

[TwigletsAndRadishes]

AIBU? I don't know why I am asking really, I know I am not. I need to vent.

Bought two of those plastic trays of mixed salad from the self service salad bar at Morrisons. All sorts in them. A curried rice thing, a pesto pasta, grated cheese, lettuce/tomato/cucumber, coleslaw, beetroot salad, hard boiled eggs, potato salad, some sort of couscous thing. I did my best to place each different spoonful of stuff into its own corner of the tray with something else layered on top, like lettuce or tomato, or hard boiled egg, so it wouldn't be too much of a mixed up mush and it would still be possible (ish) to separate the different elements onto a plate at home. Ok, so it was never going to be easy/perfect, but not completely impossible.

DH asked if he should dish up lunch. I said yes, if you like.

I came in to find that he's tipped both trays of salad into one huge bowl and mixed the entire lot up so it looked like pigswill. WTF? Why would you even do that? It looked the scrapings off people's plates after they'd finished eating.

I was just incredulous and so exasperated. I said 'what the hell did you do that for? What on earth were you thinking? That's going to be disgusting.'

He was then furious at me for being furious at him. Apparently it was just too difficult to separate the different salads so he had 'no choice' but mix it all together and he just knew I'd moan about it, because I moan about everything. And I shouldn't have asked him to dish up (I didn't) if I don't like the way he does things and I can do everything myself in future because all I ever do is criticise and never say anything positive to anyone.

So he knew I'd moan, but he did it anyway?

He sat there pretending to enjoy his dog's dinner of coleslaw mixed with curried rice, grated cheese, pesto pasta and beetroot with soggy bits of lettuce in it and I took two mouthfuls and felt faintly sick. I don't have sensory issues, I'm not a fussy eater and I am not the type who can't have different foods touching on the plate, but even I have my limits.

I had a tin of soup instead. I am not being unreasonable am I?

It's the same stuff mixed up or separate- I think you may be a little OCD.
Being unable to eat it isn't really normal.

its not

This is such a weird take. If ‘it’s the same stuff, mixed or seperate’ why would anyone bother cooking actual meals or following recipes? Surely you’d just chuck the individual components on a plate?
It’s a well known phenomena that some flavours taste nice together and some don’t. Beetroot and pesto… nice separate, rank mixed together.

Since yesterday about 20:47

That actually sounds delicious...

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"He knew i'd moan"

Sounds like OP has a reputation for criticising everything.

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Sounds like the day my dad made a "chinese" by throwing half the contents of the fridge into a saucepan with a tin of beans
Grey sludge anyone?

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If you have to try to keep everything separate you've definitely got sensory issues!

It all gets mixed up in your mouth and stomache anyway. I admit the lettuce sounds horrible but I'm not fond of lettuce anyway.

If it all gets mixed up anyway, why do we ever bother putting certain ingredients together to make particular meals? Why follow recipes? Why not just put a load of individual ingredients on a plate for them to be mixed in your stomach?
Certain foods taste nice together. Others don’t. That’s not a new concept.

Christ, what has it come to when this is even an argument? Why not just scrape all the family's leftovers into one big bowl over the course of three days then re-heat it for Friday night's dinner?

WTF is the matter with some people?

I am happy to put roast potatoes on the same fork as some meat and gravy, I am happy to mix a potato salad with a mouthful of ham. No problem. Do I want a spoonful of spag bol in the middle of my roast chicken dinner, or a dollop of prawn curry with my greek salad? No. I don't. As I said before, I am not a pig or a dog. I have some standards and functioning taste buds.

There are some right neanderthals on this thread.

In other news, dog food is nutritionally complete for humans. If taste doesn't matter...

You’re the one who started a fight with your husband over absolutely nothing - you can’t go around calling people Neanderthals 😂

It wasn't nothing though. It was an act of thoughtless numbskullery and ineptitude.

Christ what a bloody drama over a bit of salad. You faffed with it, DH couldn’t be arsed to faff. YABU - just eat the fucker

Nah it was over nothing. If a wife had done it to a husband MN would’ve been on the wife’s side. We all know it.

You overreacted babes - quite embarrassing really.

If a woman came on here saying she’d mixed together multiple components of a salad (curried rice, beetroot and pesto pasta for example) into one big slop id say ‘what the fuck did you do that for, do you not have taste buds?’

Thats the point for me.
The H knew OP wouldn't like this and either didn't care or couldn't be arsed, its not about the food per se its about being thoughtless OR even deliberately doing something that he knew she wouldn't like.

Most people would say - why can’t he put out his own salad !!! It’s not your job etc etc

I'm surprised this isn't on the National news.
He clearly should be hung, drawn and quartered, with his disgusting tastebuds placed on a spike on London Bridge.
Surely Diana's divorce lawyers will be in touch soon...

I’m obviously not ‘most people’ 🤷🏻‍♀️

wow check you out miss edgy x