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

Tigsteroonie

PhylPho wrote: »

Wincarnis is slightly more hard-core. It's the British answer to France's absinthe. Unfortunately, the latter has been banned and the former isn't widely available in the UK anymore, though on any Thomson Gold holiday it's quite usual to see people doing something called the hokey-cokey as a result of consuming Wincarnis infused with Phyllosan. It's one of the reasons Mrs P and I now holiday only with Club 18-30.

FYI, absinthe was never really banned in the UK. And I have a bottle on my kitchen shelf just now, for when the going gets tough

meritaten

Does Absinthe really make the heart grow fonder? or does excessive consumption make you forget their transgressions?

I am gutted that the OP (forget his name sorry) didnt remember me as one of his 'proposals to' - but never mind - have had loads since been on mse, or would that be because of OH using my name on another site?

ailuro2

PhylPho - I live in Dundee, and I remember the original Keiller's factory ( the one that made the original Dundee Marmalade) it shut down many years ago.

The key to the label is Dundee Marmalade, Made in Scotland.

If you do a little Googling you'll find that Dundee Marmalade is indeed made in Scotland by Mackay's of Arbroath - now Arbroath wouldn't like it if we smoked smokies in Dundee and claimed they were theirs, but it seems to be OK for them to make Dundee marmalade outwith the city boundaries and let you assume it is made in Dundee.:mad:


btw, I'm going to let you all in on a secret - we have different bottles of squeezy mayo in our house - because DH doesn't mind if the mayo has been left out overnight ( or the brown sauce, for that matter) whereas I like my condiments to be kept refrigerated.

We don't fight about it, and I doubt he even notices there's a difference. Life's too short to fight about condiments and preserves.
We need to get separate jars or extra spoons and save our strength for more important arguments... like whether trammel is a valid word for a disagreement of this nature.

pigpen

All is blissful in our house.. I don't like marmalade.. though you drop coffee in my pure unsullied sugar and fill it with rancid blobs of brown contaminent woe betide you!! There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING on earth more hideous than a blob of coffee contaminent in my cuppa tea.. we play musical spoons as I have tea and OH has coffee.

The former Mr Pig was awful for double dipping of his contaminated instruments in marjarine, jam, marmite, women.. oops.. off topic.. I had my own jam..

Mankysteve

I'm with the OP wife. I cant stand mixing jam knives and butter knives. Yuk.

Loanranger

PhylPho wrote: »

I'm sorry, but. . . This was how we lost the Empire. Some people here may not have been around in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's era, but I was. And I still remember his epoch-defining Rind of Change speech, about the contamination of marmalade.

Sadly, this was mis-reported by the Daily Mail at that time and has ever since been known as Macmillan's Wind of Change speech. (Misreporting by British media also explains why undergraduates in Modern History -- particularly, those I have lectured -- still babble on about The Suez Crisis, when in fact it was all about Macmillan's ill-advised obsession with suet.)



Castro, in his forthcoming posthumous autobiography, explains that the Bay of Rigs was nothing more than an attempt to mine Cuban oil reserves. To think that JFK may have been assassinated simply because he misread the autocue, tsk tsk

lostinrates

The real problem with butter (I will not have margarine in the house, I don't care if we die early, even typing the word makes me shudder and I will not use the ''f'' word at all. Though I do mix butter with marmite when we are eating a lot of it and store it in an ''f'' packet a friend gave me so I didn't have to buy it.) in marmalade or jam or marmite or tuna in mayonnaise is that I like many people feel compelled to right it. The MSE approach is to use not waste, and the wifely thing to do is to use the best for the husband...so, consequently, one is forced to eat jammy butter with marmite, or marmitey butter with marmalade, or any number of such hideous combinations and never toast/butter/jam/marmalade/marmite/mayonnaise in all its unadulterated glory.

while I know really my husband makes these wasteful and unsightly and potentially shelf life shortening moves simply as an oversight the emotional response is to assume he KNOWS it necessitates me eating the ruined bit and there fore almost never getting a nice clean swipe at the butter, jam, marmalade, marmite or mayonnaise. This of course means he isn't thinking about his actions and what they mean to me, which OBVIOUSLY means he doesn't love me enough, or at all, depending on number of crumbs/size of contaminating smear.

phylpho, the butter/marmalade wastage is not the issue, its your thoughtless treatment of your wife and rather than the waste its that you do not care whether she gets her toast the way she wants it and wish upon her a breakfast of contamination.

flutterby_lil

I bet you put the same spoon in the coffee and then the sugar - I can't stand coffee so hate this!! If you do, I would have divorced you years ago lol.

Hope you have managed to sort something out