to have thought that this was a display of smuggy smuggishness

[cupcakesandbunting]

This morning, went with DS into local Sainsbury's for supplies and we were looking at the cheese and stuff when another mum with two LOs under 3 in her trolley. She also peruses the shelves then says to her eldest child "oh my GOODNESS! There's NO tzatziki!" Little one looks at his mum like she's off her rocker then she says again "There. Is. NO. TZATZIKI!" She then summons a shelf-stacker to moan about there being no tzatziki and explains to him at length that it's all that her two will eat with their crudites all the time doing a terrible cat's bum mouth that suggested that the shelves of hummous/salsa/raita weren't agreeable to her wunderkind's palate.

I almost handed her a tub of humous and told her to get a grip. AIBU aren't I?

gooseberry yoghurt anyone?

I get the feeling that "There! Is! No! Tzatziki!" is destined to become something of a repeated in-joke phrase on here.

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Thai basil is really easy to grow from seed on a windowsill

Tzatziki? Fucking part-timer. My toddler simply won't touch her artisan-baked toast without Patum Pepperium. Did you all hear that? PATUM PEPPERIUM.

Err, not really.

"There! Is! No! Tzatziki!"

"What will they dip their turkey twizzlers in now???!!!"

"the poor mites will have to make do with pot noodle and truffle oils!!!"

Lol Cupcake. Only a bit.

By the way, the Coq a vin boy turned out to be quite a well known opera singer in my home town - another country but I daren't out him. Its all a bit precious though really...

patum pepperium is almost never out of stock (long life, over with fish spreads, next to jams..)

i can well believe it.
I had a woman complain about the lack of blinis. we'd only just run out too...

My kids really love bhajis. can't see me getting stroppy with Asdas if they aren't there though. the running joke in this house is that a balanced diet is bhajis and samosas.

i was 23 before i even knew what tzatziki was... our kids have benefit of much more international cuisine.

Reminds me of my mother (full Country Casuals type) in Waitrose a few years back. They had run out of 2 pt bottles of semi-skimmed. Cue my mother braying loudly:

"There is no milk! It's! Like! Russia! in! here!"

DH and I still use that one.

Speaking of pretentious catchphrases.....

DH and I went away for the weekend and stayed in a 16th century built slightly poncy hotel. As we were in the middle of checking in, a white-haired, distinguished looking gentleman approached the desk, completely interrupted us and bellowed in a very posh accent 'What does ONE have to DO to get a DRINK in this hotel?'

We nearly pissed ourselves and have been saying it to each other ever since.

flibbertigibbet - I too am 'too young' to be exicted by Waitose but it is just so lovely, isn't it?

Never too young to be excited by Waitrose, IMO. I just love those "a pinch of" and "a handful of" jars that they sell. They're overpriced but look so pretty in your cupboards.

I am a marketing man's wet dream

What? - clearly bonkers!

Do your DCs eat that stuff anyway, really?

Should say I mean the tzatziki........

cupcakesandbunting I'm in the Midlands just over the Worcs border and I'm growing 4 different types of basil. So far the slugs haven't munched it.

When it's big enough you can have some.

Fuckinhell, can everyone grow basil but me?! I planted some in my belfast sink with some thyme, sage and marjoram. All the others are thriving but the basil is fecked.

Yes, I'd love some of your basil, Spider

I planted some in my belfast sink with some thyme, sage and marjoram

Ick, that was too Red magazine smuggy for words. I'm sorry

Snort! My thyme is growing in a wicker ex-bathroom bin...

Waste not want not!

I'm in Rednal, I'll let you know when it gets big enough to be harvestable. There's some snazzy purple basil too.

Ah, we are vairy close.

Geographically, I meant. I'm not hiding in your cupboards.

We have a cold frame overflowing with flipping basil if anyone wants some - and my DC will not eat pesto

Genuinely LOL at 'time to go back to work love' - my DH thinks (and barely refrains from saying) that about some most of the mothers at DS's school.

Our family equivalent of 'What? No creme de cassis?! On New Years Night!!!? This is an outrage!' is "THOMAS! Eggy Bread time!" - as hollered across a French campsite every bloody morning by a particularly obnoxious woman when I was ~10. My DM was pregnant with DB2 at the time and he very nearly didn't get given his long-chosen name as a result

I cringe when DS demands "smoked salmon pate wrap" for holiday club packed lunch. It's no use explaining that, since we buy bargain basement whole salmon and DH smokes it, it is actually quite cheap, because that whole process just sounds too poncey for words. I am tempted to put a note in saying "he eats McDonalds too, honest"

Riven - taramasalata is known as "tarama-wotsit" in our house

DD (2.4) is on record as having asked the nursery staff for "blinis and the black stuff". In 30 years she will be wearing a gillet and annoying people in picturesque rural areas.

She doesn't understand why I ask her if she'd like just a wefffer-thin meeent after her dinner.

Oooh, how do you smoke a salmon?

My daughter is your basic common or garden salt fiend. She'd lick the salt cellar if I one let her. This translates into pathetic begging for olives, smoked salmon, chorizo and Brie when any of them make an appearance. Have you ever noticed that poncy food is saltier than non poncy food?

So she's eighteen months old and eating smoked salmon and olives, and my gosh could I seem smugger? Like the above poster, I want to say to people, she'll eat marmite toast and twiglets too, you just don't usually get those sold in cafes.

I was explaining to DH the other day that olives are fucking brilliant because they taste like kicking salt up off the table. Oh god yes. Get me to some olives!

tortoise - you invest in one of these and hope that your neighbours are either not too close, or enjoy their laundry being gently fragranced with slightly fishy oak smoke. The very best results we have had were from running it overnight in significantly sub-zero temperatures.