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to think it is polite to ask first?

137 replies

Brownthosebrownonionsbrown · 06/06/2025 09:03

Fuming

BF (few months relationship) invited me over to his for a meal, home made thai curry, so far so good. He plated it up in the kitchen and brought the food to me with all of the curry and sauce on top of the rice, when I like to have them side by side and have some clean rice as a palate cleanser.

Its just good manners and basic rice etiquette to ask first. I cannot believe I was dating such a neanderthal. He even tried to gas light me, saying that it doesn't make any difference and basically trying to invalidate my feelings and lived experience.

Eugh men

OP posts:
MoominMai · 06/06/2025 10:22

Todayisaday · 06/06/2025 09:46

And you wrote a post becuase you are fuming someone lovingly cooked you a meal and put the curry on top of the rice😂
Have a word with yourself and think about why you might be single. Maybe you are better off being single if you have such uncompromising standards.
In relationahips you have to compromise and do some things in the way your partner might like to do them, as do they. It's about learning to form a partnership, not railroading your exacting standards over another person.

Edited

It’s a joke thread.

Todayisaday · 06/06/2025 10:31

MoominMai · 06/06/2025 10:22

It’s a joke thread.

Oh 😂I thought we had reached new levels of insanity.

MidnightPatrol · 06/06/2025 10:37

How do you cope in restaurants?

Jellycatspyjamas · 06/06/2025 10:44

Totally agree @Brownthosebrownonionsbrown apart from anything else the curry and rice were touching on the same plate. I think you need to LTB.

RafaelBarba · 06/06/2025 10:47

Palate cleanser?

wtf, are you Hyacinth Bucket??😂

Richiewoo · 06/06/2025 10:56

You need to get a life.

MoominMai · 06/06/2025 11:47

Todayisaday · 06/06/2025 10:31

Oh 😂I thought we had reached new levels of insanity.

😁

Viviennemary · 06/06/2025 11:50

You sound like an overfussy entitled pain in the neck. If a man complained about how his food was served he would be rightly lambasted.

BobbyBiscuits · 06/06/2025 11:50

Some clean rice as a palate cleanser?! That sounds deeply bizarre to me. And surely some of the rice didn't have sauce on it?
I bet he'll think twice before cooking for you again!
I wouldn't care tbh.

ChocolateGanache · 06/06/2025 11:52

LTB

ApolloandDaphne · 06/06/2025 11:52

I would be ecstatic if someone had made me Thai curry and wouldn't care where the rice was on the plate!

deadpantrashcan · 06/06/2025 11:55

Sorry, but when I read “Fuming,” I was… not expecting this 😂😂😂

deadpantrashcan · 06/06/2025 11:56

Gaslight over a curry… 🤣🤣🤣

ILoveMyCaravan · 06/06/2025 12:47

I always plate my homemade curry and rice side by side, just neatly touching…

As soon as DH is presented with it he gets his fork and mixes it all together like a cement mixer! Unbelievable! 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Username532687 · 06/06/2025 12:49

The only food my husband ever "cooked" was a microwave curry which he mixed completely together. When I was surprised, he denied mixing it and said it came like that. I later looked at the box and found he lied.

BlotAnExpert · 06/06/2025 12:57

Viviennemary · 06/06/2025 11:50

You sound like an overfussy entitled pain in the neck. If a man complained about how his food was served he would be rightly lambasted.

You sound like someone with no sense of humour 😘

BlotAnExpert · 06/06/2025 12:57

Username532687 · 06/06/2025 12:49

The only food my husband ever "cooked" was a microwave curry which he mixed completely together. When I was surprised, he denied mixing it and said it came like that. I later looked at the box and found he lied.

LTB

Wishimaywishimight · 06/06/2025 12:59

I would always check! DH hates his curry on top of the rice, prefers them side by side however I like it all mixed up together!

It's one of those things you learn about each other as you go along 🙂

Pherian · 06/06/2025 13:00

Brownthosebrownonionsbrown · 06/06/2025 09:03

Fuming

BF (few months relationship) invited me over to his for a meal, home made thai curry, so far so good. He plated it up in the kitchen and brought the food to me with all of the curry and sauce on top of the rice, when I like to have them side by side and have some clean rice as a palate cleanser.

Its just good manners and basic rice etiquette to ask first. I cannot believe I was dating such a neanderthal. He even tried to gas light me, saying that it doesn't make any difference and basically trying to invalidate my feelings and lived experience.

Eugh men

This can’t be real. You sound insane.

BexAubs20 · 06/06/2025 13:01

Surely this is a joke/ for attention post?

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 06/06/2025 13:04

Don't noodle the poor guy over it

Kelticgold · 06/06/2025 13:08

He should use a sausage as a breakwater.

NotTonightDeidre · 06/06/2025 13:10

Renabrook · 06/06/2025 09:12

Get out now, you can't be in the presence of a man without a chaperone

Why does the man need a chaperone? Is OP going to do something untoward in her rice etiquette fuelled rage?

RightOnTheEdge · 06/06/2025 13:13

I don't like my curry covering my rice either OP.
YANBU. Your post made me laugh.
You forgot that you have to put LIGHTHEARTED!!! on posts now for the posters who think all posts must be serious and worthy/have no reading comprehension 🥱🙄

MascaraGirl · 06/06/2025 13:16

I think this counts an emotional abuse. Have you tried the Freedom programme?