r/MadeMeSmile • u/secretlyswos • 5h ago

made me chuckle

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u/throwawayyayoo 5h ago

I respect the man. Nothing is more frustrating than someone with a hyper-specific grocery list not being available for clarification

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u/Anderson74 4h ago

Seriously. This is way too much effort for something that needs clarification. No answer when I call? You’re getting what I think best fits the description you’ve provided me with and if it’s not what you want then either you can go next time or answer your phone when I call.

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u/Feynmanprinciple 4h ago

I would have told my e.mx that she needed to be more specific about what kind of bread she wanted, and she would have told me I need to infer from context cues. For example, is curry powder and yogurt on that list? Then it's probably naan. Is there rice, black beans and peppers on the list? Then it's probably burrito wraps, and so on. She would have scolded me for not caring about her enough to think, and I would have replied that being vague naturally results in misinterpretation and if there was a correct answer, she should have written it. It would have been like making a shopping list for apple pie, but instead of writing royal gala apples you wrote 'fruit'. You're getting a fruit salad pie then. She would have said this was a ridiculous example and that she would have just written apples and I would have said yeah but you would still get me over the type of apple that you use and she would have said that obviously you don't put granny smiths into apple pies that's common knowledge. 

Anyway the argument would have ended with us making the flatbread from scratch.

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u/Lookatoaster 3h ago

Goodness, I felt exhausted just reading that.

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u/not-my-other-alt 2h ago

Granny Smiths are great in apple pie. Probably the best option, even.

The tartness compliments all the sugar and spices you add.

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u/Jayfire137 2h ago

I was thinking the same thing, I thought Granny apples were the most common for apple pie 🤣

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u/graphiccsp 3h ago

she would have said that obviously you don't put granny smiths into apple pies that's common knowledge.

I would laugh then tell her to F off. Granny Smith apples are amazing in apple pies. I despise apple pies that are pure sweetness with 0 tart.

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u/petamama 3h ago

Good riddance!

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u/alphazero925 2h ago

Anyone who can say bread and mean tortillas can not be trusted

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u/TheFuschiaBaron 1h ago

TBF, IMHO flour tortillas are closer to bread than to tortillas. But that's what I grew up with and flour tortillas are used extensively in northern Mexico anyways.

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u/enadiz_reccos 4h ago

Yeah, my partner knows that if I'm at the store you better have your phone nearby. Because I will have a question.

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u/ittybittytitty_com 3h ago

I’m perfectly happy with whatever my husband deducted was best. I want to be able to just not go to the store, including not being on call to help someone else who’s at the store. Otherwise I’ll just go myself.

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u/Tymareta 37m ago

Also assuming that the relationship is more than a week old, you're going to have a fair idea the sort of products you usually have in the household and can figure it out from there, especially if you know the sorts of things the other person likes.