Irritating husbands

[Tilly2]

My husband has just been into town and I asked him to bring back a pound of stewing beef. I said it would be about £2.50.

He came back with 'just over' a pound of casserole steak which cost £4.98! Honestly. Do you really have to do everything yourself?

[Gavmacp]

It works both ways.
I am a nurse and at one place we did the cooking.
Sent a female auxiliary to buy White wine vinegar came back with malt vinegar. Sent someone out for soya sauce they came back without it as they could not find it there were shelves full, when I went later. We used cheddar cheese all year, I said use the tesco vouchers to buy some nice cheese for
christmas, they bought yes CHEDDAR! They could not make a cheese sauce unless it came out of a packet.
We also did the washing of clients clothes well let's just say I do not know how some brought up their children.

[Tilly2]

I know that most of you think I'm being unreasonable but I'm still stressed out about the Wood Pigeon.

[mccfluff]

i thought he bought casserole steak

i'm very confused now

[Meg888]

If the butcher had no stewing beef, hubby could well have thought he was just getting you a suitable (albeit expensive) alternative - after all, they both take a while to cook - and is there a difference between a stew & a casserole?

[Tilly2]

I use casserole steak for beef casserole cooked with wine, mushrooms, shallots, garlic etc. We would probably have this at weekends as a special meal.

I wanted the stewing beef for what we in the Potteries call 'Lobby'
Lobby is loads of any old vegetables found in the bottom of the fridge and a bit of stewing beef, if you can afford it. You then pour it into a big bowl and eat it with a spoon. Lovely. Oh and you dip your bread in as well.
So casserole steak and stewing steak are very different things in Tilly's kitchen

[baza]

one mans stew is another mans casserole

[ummmm]

I love my OH going shopping. He can't resist a bargain so I'm always stocked up with things like dishwasher tablets, washing powder etc etc.

[cupid04]

Leaving the loo seat up.
leaving whiskers and toothpaste round the basin.
Grumpiness.

[atalanta]

It's called "calculated incompetence". When you are asekd to do soemthing you never wanted to do, do it so badly that you are never asked again. men do it all the time, and far too often get away with it.
Women should mess up their shirt- ironing and twist their ties and "accidentally" leave the men's shoes out in the rain.

[HowardKennitby]

You must understand the genetic imperative here.
You asked(ordered) him to go out and buy something. Man is instinctively a hunter; you should have asked him to go out and kill some stewing steak.
All would have been well with your world.

[DTCwordfan]

is it worth getting stewed up over a piece of dead meat as to your marriage or relationship, unless you enjoy the make-up session?

[DTCwordfan]

cupid, women's pubes in my razor gets me.....it's not all one way, you know.

[FredPuli43]

Blame the butcher. They can be a bit sly. Years ago,one suggested to my young wife how much mince she needed, only for an old dear behind to say " My old man was a docker; he wouldn't eat a quarter of that!" and then start the rest of the queue on the bloke; "Look how he's trying to rob this young girl!"; whereupon he was harangued by what seemed like half the female pensioners in Pimlico!
Women have to learn these things too,you know. We men are mere innocents abroad. How's your man to know the difference between stewing and casserole? The cooking process is much the same,isn't it?