When your spouse buys the cheap stuff but eats the good stuff

[Anonymous]

Can you make a cabinet for yourself and get a lock for it? Explain to him that it's because he doesn't have time to pay attention to that stuff.

[Anonymous]

Here's what no one has the heart to tell you:

He knows exactly what he's doing. He's playing a game of "What can I get away with? How can I nickle and dime this dummy and play the fool when she brings it up?" He's eating your apples deliberately and is perfectly capable of telling the difference. He gets a sadistic or selfish kick out of being the one in the household to eat all the "good stuff" and leave you with the junky stuff. He's a fundamentally selfish, anti-socially competitive person.

And deep down inside, you know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost feel like this has to be a troll. What person in their right mind buys red delicious apples?

+1,000

Why do they even grow these anymore?

Yes, this is the bigger and more important question. I can see why an idiot who had never had an apple before might buy a red delicious. Oooh, Pretty! Looks just like what Snow White ate!! ... but why haven't those trees been cut down and burned? Granny Smith can however be good in pie. Good texture. And maybe I'm nostalgic for the Granny Smith we did eat in the 1980s. Althouh a farm fresh MacIntosh or Cortland was SO much better. But thank god we have much better choices now!!

One of my kids likes Granny Smiths and we use them for fondue (they are amazing with cheddar cheese!). Also very good in pies.

Red delicious are awful. They serve no purpose.

[Anonymous]

This Is Why Red Delicious Apples Suck So Hard

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-delicious-apples-suck_n_5b630199e4b0b15abaa061af#:~:text=The%20Red%20Delicious%20apples%20became,a%20change%20in%20their%20taste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This Is Why Red Delicious Apples Suck So Hard

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-delicious-apples-suck_n_5b630199e4b0b15abaa061af#:~:text=The%20Red%20Delicious%20apples%20became,a%20change%20in%20their%20taste.

“He dug it up, but it kept coming up. He was Quaker, and he thought that because of its persistence, maybe it deserved to live.”

They're like the cockroaches of the apple family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost feel like this has to be a troll. What person in their right mind buys red delicious apples?

+1,000

Why do they even grow these anymore?

Yes, this is the bigger and more important question. I can see why an idiot who had never had an apple before might buy a red delicious. Oooh, Pretty! Looks just like what Snow White ate!! ... but why haven't those trees been cut down and burned? Granny Smith can however be good in pie. Good texture. And maybe I'm nostalgic for the Granny Smith we did eat in the 1980s. Althouh a farm fresh MacIntosh or Cortland was SO much better. But thank god we have much better choices now!!

See I think apples are so much sweeter now. Jonagold, Jonathan, Pink Ladies.... all so horrifically sweet and laden with sugar. Almost inedible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost feel like this has to be a troll. What person in their right mind buys red delicious apples?

He mumbled "pie" when I asked him why he bought red delicious, but there was no pie. He's just cheap and on auto-pilot 99.9% of the time.

At restaurants normal couples share meals and desserts, but we can't because it becomes an eating race. No, he was not food insecure growing up. He had a stable, UMC upbringing.

I wish I were a troll but we literally just fought over apples. It's almost as if the apples represent something more troubling in our relationship. I don't want to have to hide the good apples in my house!

- OP

Red delicious apples are terrible for pies, so he's an idiot.

Also, who exactly was going to make this putative pie? Him? HA!

[Anonymous]

I have not read every response, but I glanced through a few. Some people had some great suggestions. Here are mine if you think they would work. My husband also buys things and then eats mine. However, we were able to resolve the issue. And this is what we did.

When I noticed he was not eating certain things that he would buy I would ask him to stop buying them, and gave the reason why. For me, it was apples and bananas. He would buy the wrong type of apple or he would buy too many bananas. I said I will take care of those items so if he goes to the grocery store, to not put them on his list. He no longer purchase those items, they are my responsibility. Another is, if I am looking forward to a certain food that I put in the refrigerator, I would ask him to not eat it because I wanted it. But I would do it in a nice way. I would say something like hey honey if you happen to notice such such in the refrigerator, can you save it for me. If I don't say that, he will more than likely eat it. But if I ask him not to, he is more than happy not to.

I hope you are able to get your issue resolved.

[Anonymous]

Funny - even when I buy “good” apples, my husband inevitably picks the oldest mushiest one in the bottom of the drawer and then complains about how I bought bad apples!

Just buy more good apples, more good beer and make a double batch of dressing. Take the fun out of this for him.

[Anonymous]

Take the hint: you're spending too much money on "the good stuff"

[Anonymous]

Hide the good stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This Is Why Red Delicious Apples Suck So Hard

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-delicious-apples-suck_n_5b630199e4b0b15abaa061af#:~:text=The%20Red%20Delicious%20apples%20became,a%20change%20in%20their%20taste.

They make me nauseous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have not read every response, but I glanced through a few. Some people had some great suggestions. Here are mine if you think they would work. My husband also buys things and then eats mine. However, we were able to resolve the issue. And this is what we did.

When I noticed he was not eating certain things that he would buy I would ask him to stop buying them, and gave the reason why. For me, it was apples and bananas. He would buy the wrong type of apple or he would buy too many bananas. I said I will take care of those items so if he goes to the grocery store, to not put them on his list. He no longer purchase those items, they are my responsibility. Another is, if I am looking forward to a certain food that I put in the refrigerator, I would ask him to not eat it because I wanted it. But I would do it in a nice way. I would say something like hey honey if you happen to notice such such in the refrigerator, can you save it for me. If I don't say that, he will more than likely eat it. But if I ask him not to, he is more than happy not to.

I hope you are able to get your issue resolved.

This assumes a reasonable spouse who is not a jerk. Op's spouse claims to have the right to eat an apple a day and pick whichever he wants. I say - own refrigerator for OP in the garage and watch what happens next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what no one has the heart to tell you:

He knows exactly what he's doing. He's playing a game of "What can I get away with? How can I nickle and dime this dummy and play the fool when she brings it up?" He's eating your apples deliberately and is perfectly capable of telling the difference. He gets a sadistic or selfish kick out of being the one in the household to eat all the "good stuff" and leave you with the junky stuff. He's a fundamentally selfish, anti-socially competitive person.

Yikes. This gave me chills.

And deep down inside, you know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's what no one has the heart to tell you:

He knows exactly what he's doing. He's playing a game of "What can I get away with? How can I nickle and dime this dummy and play the fool when she brings it up?" He's eating your apples deliberately and is perfectly capable of telling the difference. He gets a sadistic or selfish kick out of being the one in the household to eat all the "good stuff" and leave you with the junky stuff. He's a fundamentally selfish, anti-socially competitive person.

Yikes. This gave me chills.

And deep down inside, you know this.

Nah, men aren’t that smart. My mom used to count the days—DAYS!—it took my dad to notice when she got a new haircut. He also did stuff like use expensive turbino sugar in coffee cause he’s just clueless.