to insist my children eat a chocolate biscuit bar nicely

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eg not nibbling along the edge then taking the top layer off with their teeth so they are left with the middle bit, all shiny with saliva and yucky?

YANBU

But having said that, you must absolutely insist that they eat chocolate biscuit bars 'nicely' when you are there only so they can fully appreciate the illicit thrill of nibbling round the edges when you aren't.

but thta's half the enjoyment of eating chocolate biscuit bars.

you spoil sport! let them do it in the privacy of your own home and company.

you KNOW you are being unreasonable!

I eat them like that sometimes
Ds eat niceley though and I take credit for his fab manners

YABU.

You should sit next to my ds when he's eating chocolate, god it sounds disgusting!

YAB so U. And a bit weird.

YABU I do the same thing with a twix lol

And to think that some biscuit designer in a company somewhere designs them specifically with that element of biscuit nibbling in mind too..

tut tut.

Sorry but how else is one meant to eat a chocolate biscuit bar?

I stll do that and I'm 43

eating it as you describe in the post is nicely!! rubbing it on the walls would be something to worry about!!

I think the saying goes... 'don't sweat the small stuff!'

You'll get grey hairs earlier than you're meant to!

But it doesn't taste the same if you do it the boring way.

Were you never a child yourself?

Of course YABU! If they can't do it as children, when can they? Do you insist that they eat their pizza with a knife and a fork too? Never dip their biccies into a drink? You should lighten up, life is for living and enjoying eating a biscuit in a way that is fun is part of childhood (and sometimes adulthood)

Ohh I eat my chocalate bars like that.
I also try to get the top layer of chocolate on a crunchie off in one piece. I like to roll the inside of a bounty bar into a ball after I have got the top choclate layer off(Hopefully in one piece!) I like totake thebase of a vienesse truffle and then crack the shell and have the truffle bit last.
Mars Bars are my speciality though!

YABU, they may be conducting some important consumer research. A lifetime of nibbling the top off chocolate biscuit-bars, has taught me that club biscuits Are Not As Good Nowadays.

Bahlsen biscuits are designed for nibbling the edges,they are almost impossible to eat any other way.

are you on a diet? are you jealous of them and their biscuits!?

UABVU - it's a chocolate biscuit, they are children.

I bet you stop them stiring jam into rice pudding so it goes pink - scratch that - I bet they are not allowed jam in ricepudding!!

i don't understand why it matters

don't watch them if it bothers u

Unless this is AIBU by stealth and they are regularly doing it in front of Her Majesty?

I am all for good table manners but this sounds pretty small beer to me.

When I get a fig roll I like to eat the outside and then make my mind up whether or not to bother with the figgy bit when I get to it. This is all in the privacy of my own home obviously.

5ft5 - "bother" with the figgy bit??

surely thats the point of fig rolls

Yabu. I have never eaten a chocolate bar nicely. Where's the joy?

YABU

It's the law to eat chocolate bars this way. Twas ever thus.

I bet you don't let them mix their ice-cream in the bowl till it goes all creamy and yummy either, do you?