To ask when its legally ok to do this.

[OneSharpGoose]

Four days ago I bought my husband and myself each a bar of chocolate . Mine was plain milk which he doesn't like and his is fruit and nut and its chocolate so I like it too. Anyway mine went within an hour of me getting home. The fruit and nut is still sitting in the fridge lonely very much on view but untouched. AIbu to take a piece, as DH obviously isn't interested? ( who would leave a bar of chocolate untouched for four days?) When legally can I take it back? Is leaving chocolate uneaten so long a red flag? Should I LTB ? If so can I take the chocolate with me?

Why did you buy it for him if he’s not bothered about chocolate?

Is he not contactable?

Whereabouts do you live that chocolate needs to be stored in the fridge in autumn

Legally, if you bought it, it belongs to you. So I’d be putting the kettle on and having a large chunk right now….

I think after 4 days it’s fair game….

Somebody else’s chocolate is never fair game!

You've left it 4 days? All on it's own? I feel like I should report you for cruelty to chocolate it must feel so abandoned that you must consume it to make it feel needed

Can I have some please? I think it’s only legal if you share it with me 🤣

Weeelllll, from your POV, I would gobble up the fruit and nut and deny all knowledge of having consumed it if asked.

From your DH's POV I'd be fuming and consider LTB if you ate it and I'd be telling you I was saving it and part of the enjoyment was knowing it was in the fridge and I could enjoy it whenever I wanted.

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Presumably as you bought one each, they were intended to be eaten together? As he didn't eat his at the same time as you ate yours, he's in breach of contract therefore legally you can eat his too.

I wouldn't know how to store chocolate. Ive never kept it long enough. DH put it in the fridge. Hes a weirdo?

So he doesn’t like chocolate really? Not bothered?

Seems odd to have bought him that when presumably other treats he likes far better?!

I go on and off chocolate, I have to be in the mood for it, but I would be disappointed if I thought I had some and was saving it for when I did feel in the mood and then it was gone.

Maybe he's saving it for the weekend?

I store chocolate in the freezer, I hate the taste of melty chocolate, I like it cold and crunchy.

I bought DH and myself chocolate. White for him and whole nut for me. I don’t like white chocolate. He helped himself to half of mind before even opening his. I was not happy. I had to eat all of kind even though I was saving it whose I wouldn’t have got any of it. I’d leave his alone

It's a contractual obligation with the confectionery company to store chocolate in a fridge after purchase until immediately before eating. Doesn't matter where you live.

I bought it "for him" cos it would have been greedy to buy 2 bars for me and nothing for him. And yes he is contactable but if he wasn't listening ( We've been married 52 years. Chances are he wasn't listening) when I told him it was for him then perhaps its legally still mine. If I then contact him about it I lose the legal loophole. Im sure that's enforceable by law.

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This is so interesting as in this scenario I am your DH. My own DH has eaten treats purchased specifically for me multiple times and it is just never okay! I haven’t left it because I don’t want it; I have left it because I want to savour it during the opportune moment, when the kids are asleep, the house is clean AND I’ve got something good to watch on tv.

im certain he hasn’t forgotten about it. He’s just waiting for the right moment. Don’t eat it! It’s a crime!

Na. I’d suggest Hes deliberately poisoned it to bump you off As he knows youll likely eat it. Only reason it could lie that long. 😜
Do you have life insurance….. 🤣

Just go buy your own. I hate chocolate from the fridge. You can bust a tooth in that stuff lol 😂

So he doesn’t like any other treat food?!

The only offence I see here is storing the chocolate in the fridge

If it was me and you ate my chocolate I would be very, very cross.

I have just finished a bar of Venchi pistachio chocolate that I bought at the end of July.

Luckily my husband knows better than to risk our marriage! Other cardinal sins include making me a weak cup of tea or using the last of the milk.

DH doesn't do treats. He could go a year and not touch it. On the other hand he could pop to the fridge for a cold beer and eat a piece or two. Hes like that. Not normal.

Legal or not I would have scoffed the lot days ago 🤣