Do I eat Dylan?

[MonsterX]

Meet Dylan. He is an iced Dylan Dinosaur from Waitrose no less. Hand selected by my child(5) 3 days ago. Dylan lovingly sits on our worktop taunting me and my low carb diet. DS does not want Dylan. DS now prefers hot cross buns and keeps pushing Dylan away.

I've had a really shitty day where DP and I have fallen out and we're currently doing that awkward polite talking I hate. I've just made myself a hot chocolate to take to bed ... Would I be unreasonable to take Dylan with me and eat his head? I'd leave his body. I'm on a diet after all 🤭

Soft gingerbread with just the tiniest bit of icing is the pinnacle of snacks. My dad used to buy me a gingerbread man like that from our local baker’s every Saturday morning and I’d lie in bed eating it and watching The Chart Show. Best part of the week. That baker’s closed down in about 1998 and I’m still mourning the loss.

I only just saw the thread, my local Waitrose closes at 10pm and I'll never make it

It will be open in the morning though

This has the makings of a thread for classics, how do we nominate?

You cant leave poor Dylan without a head, so you need to eat all of him, so his body parts can be reunited and the currently rather blissful smile put back on his face

As a fellow low carber, I don’t think it’s worth it. But I do hate gingerbread.

You will regret it!

I didn't factor that the bin is downstairs so another polite encounter awaits me.

Hide it in his sock drawer and deny all knowledge?

I said you are unreasonable - you need to eat him all!

@PlumpHobbit never fear. He's been eaten... All the remains are sticky parts of his delicious skin. Obviously to avoid the awkward conversation I've stuffed into my bedside drawer. No doubt I'll forget by tomorrow and I'll have an unpleasant shock in the near future.

Although I did like PP's advice of flushing the remains. I didn't want to risk the evidence refusing to make it past the U bend.

Voted YABU only because you need to eat the whole thing!

I think you are going to have to eat the whole Dylan.

You can't leave a headless corpse for your DS to come downstairs to in the morning.

Worse to leave a Dylan head bleeding crumbs on the kitchen counter.

So, yup, sorry - get devouring.

I had a Dylan the other day! He was very nice. (In fact I had two.) Nice to see a biscuit with proper icing and not fondant. Most of the ones I see in Waitrose and M&S trick me that way!

I suppose on the way downstairs to the bin it was a case of 'doyathinkhesawrus?' I'll get my coat......🏃‍♀️

Sugar is water soluble, but just in case, you could wrap it in loo roll......sugar is also quite deliquescent depending on humidity, how steamy is your bedside drawer?

@SapphireSeptember ah nice to see a fellow Dylan appreciator.

I'm now off to sleep. No doubt I'll end up having giant Dylan nightmares.

@quantumbutterfly mean to say I live in the south of England so today pretty warm but not humid. Now the bedroom is bloody freezing.

@MonsterX <waves> I love gingerbread, so I couldn't resist when I saw Dylan in all his sugary glory! Goodnight! Ginger is good for your tummy though, so you shouldn't have nightmares. 😊

Every part of this is how family comedy movies begin.

After the fortnight in the bedside drawer, you can escalate to the U-bend disaster.

Lick him until the icing melts then nibble around the sides.

Honestly don’t waste your calories on that kids crap, get yourself a real biscuit!

Goodness, sounds like foreplay

I need to ask about the hot cross buns.

At this time of year

Because your son didn't want him, he decided to run back to Waitrose where he'll wait with his friends in case your son decides he wants him on another visit.

Any time of the year!

Ok I'll bite 😶, at the risk of dodgy biscuit advice what do you suggest?

My late husband had a similar philosophy, great wodges of cheese eaten standing by the open fridge don't have calories.

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