So what does your husband stick in the marmalade each morning?

PhylPho

meritaten wrote: »

I do realise that having to remember to use two different spoons may be a challenge for you (ask your OH to place them in the appropriate jars (or if you are really posh - the sterling silver jam and marmalade bowls), and to put the butter knife NEXT to the butter.
as for crumbs in the marmalade? how on earth do you manage that? next time take as much marmalade as you think you will require then a little extra! you do NOT double dip! the servants will not mind you leaving a glob of marmalade on the plate as they love to lick it off!

Meritaten: you are an absolute treasure and seeing as Tigsteroonie has turned me down, are you likely to be free in the near future?

I have spent this past year reading / hearing about the dangers of double dip and your post is the first that's ever explained it.

Sadly, we don't have any servants and being sophisticated, I tend to view sterling silver jam and marmalade bowls as slightly pretentious. But I do have a Souvenir from Skegness pot handcrafted by a Chinaman in Slovakia (or vice versa) and will now try to find it.

PhylPho

angelicmary85 wrote: »

I would have divorced him years ago! There's nothing I hate more than dishes in the sink!! They either get left at the side of the sink or you do them yourself!

It makes me really angry!!

As for the marmalade...well, I buy seperate jams as himself leaves crumbs in the jar as I really can't stand it but what's worse is when I find jam in the flora...he's obviously spread on piece of toat then put jam on it and then went back to spread his other piece :mad:

Admit it, you're Mrs P posting under a phony user ID. Bad enough I get slagged off in my own kitchen without being ambushed on here. The only reason the unwashed mug was left in the sink overnight was because the cat knocked it in there at 4 a.m.

triggerhappy_2

NO DOUBLE DIPPING!

This was the golden rule in my house when growing up

PhylPho

KimmyCustard wrote: »

Or do what they do in hotels and have a little bowl of marmalade, spooned from said jar, parked next to your plate and you can dig around in it with whatever knife you feel like! This way Mrs P will not have dregs of Forever Flora nor toast crumbs in her jar and you will not have to grunt about the amount of cutlery in the dishwasher.

I'm in the wrong job, should be a marriage guidance counsellor......... )

They don't actually follow this practice in statics at Skegness but I'll see what we can manage because it's such a brilliant idea. You really have saved my marriage -- well, possibly -- and must come round for breakfast some time when Mrs P can empty the contents of an entire canteen of cutlery over us all.

PhylPho

triggerhappy wrote: »

NO DOUBLE DIPPING!

This was the golden rule in my house when growing up

And now George Osborne is posting under a phony ID as well as my wife.

If only someone had said before now that people need to be very careful with marmalade, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today. Gordon Brown has no excuse seeing as how he lived near Dundee.

balletshoes

You guys are priceless :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - I'm rolling about here!!!

PhylPho

balletshoes wrote: »

You guys are priceless :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - I'm rolling about here!!!

I was going to thank you but there's a marriage at stake here. Plus, as has now become apparent, the economic well-being of the entire United Kingdom. I dunno. Some people don't have any sympathy at all.

DVardysShadow

PhylPho wrote: »

By way of explanation: Mrs P and I are about to celebrate 41 years of untrammelled marital bliss. This is due to two reasons:

1) we have never had a trammel, and:

....

So now, in addition to my coffee spoon, now I have a second spoon and two knives by my plate, the second spoon to get a dollup of marmalade, knife number 1 to get a smidgeon of Eternal Life Flora to spread on the toast, and knife number 2 to dip into the marmalade dollup that's landed on my plate (as well as the table) and then layer it atop the Immortal Flora that's atop the toast.

Perhaps it would be less complicated to use a trammel instead?

angelicmary85

PhylPho wrote: »

Admit it, you're Mrs P posting under a phony user ID. Bad enough I get slagged off in my own kitchen without being ambushed on here. The only reason the unwashed mug was left in the sink overnight was because the cat knocked it in there at 4 a.m.

Yes, I am Mrs P

I don't believe your cat story! :rotfl:

thorsoak

Ah, Mr P ....abhorrent as your habit of dipping the marg spoon in the marmalade and then vice versa, may I applaud your heroic attempts to keep one little factory going......

Because Mrs P has to keep on buying more and more Dundee marmalade, a valiant little factory in deepest, darkest Essex is kept hard at it - so much so that Her Maj is about to pay a visit to applaud their efforts (maybe the Dukeburra has the same habits as yourself!)

Here they are, hard at work, keeping the production line going for you :-