To be cringed out by this (re sharing a takeaway)

[Cloudyonasunnyday]

When me and partner get a takeaway and share it he is obsessive over making sure we get half each, he will literally count pieces of chicken in a curry for example - how would this make you feel ?

Also just to add, if you were splitting a pizza between 2 wouldn’t you make sure each person got the same number of slices that were roughly equal in size? Same with a cake, if you were cutting a cake would you not make sure each slice was roughly the same in size and each person got the same number of slices? I don’t see this as different tbh

How is it tight and fussy to share something equally? Would you rather he randomly spooned it out and one of you gets one-third and the other two-thirds?

The goal is obviously to get equal shares and the best way to achieve that is to count out chicken pieces, or cut down the middle, or whatever.

No, you obviously have to just hack randomly at the cake. Paying attention to portion sizes is ICK-INDUCING and probably GRIM.

Oh dear, I wonder if I'm OCD. I do this, usually things like pieces of filled pasta or how many chunks of meat in something. Things like chips though, I do by sight. It's just that before I did that DP might say how he had very little chicken in his, and I had loads, so I try to count and make it fair. I'm AuDHD.

Yes - a lot of people just scan items on sight for a mental count, don't they. I often do. I wouldn't need to count items to share out loud in most cases, but I would frequently do the counting in my head automatically anyway.

I wouldn’t share a takeaway in the first place. Having my own prevents any greedy sod taking the lions share!

One cuts, the other one chooses, is how I brought up my kids for dividing cake etc.

In my experience the person dishing out usually errs on the side of caution on their portion, so as not to look greedy.

Get the scales out and weigh it accurately- he’ll side eye you then

One of my brothers used to pick out the biggest and best of anything with no regards to anybody else and an ex partner would always offer to dish up food but there never seemed to be a decent amount for either of us so I had to start getting extras ......until a caught the greedy grunt absolutely stuffing his face whilst he was serving stuff out in the kitchen 🐷🐷🐷

Can't be doing with a tight partner but I wouldn't find someone ensuring everyone gets a fair portion of the takeaway something to get my knickers in a twist over like some people on here who appear to be so overdramatic, going on about ick, stingey etc, without knowing the reasons he's doing it.

It's just common sense if you have a curry with lot of sauce and onions and larger chicken pieces so that there are only a few. I would do that when putting serving our takeaway curries. And when I'd shared it out so I had enough I'd put any leftover pieces of chicken on DH's plate, because he is bigger than me and can eat a bigger portion. If I were to split it very equally I'd leave some of mine so it would be a total waste.

I do that, but only because I don’t want my DH thinking I’m ‘diddling’ him out of anything, not because I’m worried im giving him more. Are you sure it’s not the same for him, Or is he like this in general?

"How would you like him to divide the food?"

Ummm maybe like a normal person. Takeaway = lunchbox of rice right? Dish a reasonable amount for both people in a considerate way (ie no penis portions). If there is any left - ask the other person if they want more. If after eating and there is some left and disher wants more, say do you mind if I have some more? Same with the curry. Dish a reasonable amount for everyone with consideration. If any left, again offer to dish up more or if going back in for seconds, ask other person if they are after seconds too then SHARE. Like normal people.

Counting pieces of chicken in a curry is a ridiculous way for an adult man to behave.

Half and half is fine if ordering more of whatever is not an option but COUNTING pieces of chicken. Come on.

Both stinginess and greed are so unattractive.

What on earth does this mean? What do you mean? Why not?

A mans calorific requirements are significantly higher than a woman's.

It used to be that food packets recommended 2000 calories a day for a woman and 2500 for a man.

Now it just says "2000 a day" ambiguously, without reference to anyone - part of the plan to blend / obscure the sexes ever more.

I put out my wife's and my dinner this eve and carefully divided the prawns to ensure I had more 😂

Obviously that's absolutely fine if you eyeballed it, but if you actually counted your wife needs to LTB 😂