# My wife wants one thing, I want the opposite (food related) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905 "2011-02-28T11:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/121 "2011-03-04T21:07:34Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > To me, the oddest thing about this thread is its title… I thought it was going to be a disgreement about _what_ to eat, not _how much_ of it. > > How is one chicken the “opposite” of two chickens? I agree! The title is such a disconnect. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/122 "2011-03-04T21:11:21Z")
Where’s the disconnect? She wants to eat thawed chicken and he wants to eat frozen chicken. Seems quite the opposite to me. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/123 "2011-03-04T21:20:57Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Today, my wife defrosted two chickens that I was saving. I told her, if you want to defrost them, just defrost one. Then, I can save the other for a special occasion. She didn’t comply, and defrosted both. These chickens are only on sale once per year, usually in January. The next time I can get then is 2012. > > Would you fight over this? Should I? Why or why not? Dude, a regular old fryer is like what… 3-6 bucks at the store, depending on sale prices? A roaster isn’t much more than that. Go buy more if you want to. Learn how to cook them yourself - that fair can’t be the only place on earth that they cook them like that. We even have a mesquite fired chicken rotisserie restaurant chain here in Dallas, which sounds similar. It’s like halfway between a gas-fired Boston Market chicken and a slow cooked smoked chicken. Unless you’re just completely broke, don’t sweat such small stuff. It’s not worth the likely consequences to your relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/124 "2011-03-04T22:27:42Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > To me, the oddest thing about this thread is its title… I thought it was going to be a disgreement about _what_ to eat, not _how much_ of it. > > How is one chicken the “opposite” of two chickens? He wanted her to only defrost 1 and save 1, she defrosted both. That is the opposite of what he instructed. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/125 "2011-03-05T02:12:06Z")
He hasn’t posted since the 28th. How do you think the fight went? Is **Superhal** sleeping with the chickens? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/126 "2011-03-05T02:16:50Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > He hasn’t posted since the 28th. > > How do you think the fight went? > > Is **Superhal** sleeping with the chickens? Well, apparently, these chickens are his _ **favorite food of all time** _. One might wonder what a StoneButt like her might do to them _besides_ thaw them against his will?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/127 "2011-03-05T03:28:04Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Wasn’t there an Alfred Hitchcock episode about what a disgruntled wife could accomplish with a frozen leg of lamb? I thought that was Zalman King… :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/128 "2011-03-09T04:32:08Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > But even when you’re 19 and full of PMS-induced homesickness and have 3 tests in 2 days and are saving the last pink Peep from the box your daddy went to two stores to buy specially for you as an after-test treat and it’s outright stolen…it’s still not worth fighting about. Damn, this pisses me off just reading about it. I’d say that that it’s worth beating someone to death with a frozen chicken then serving it to the investigating detectives. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/129 "2011-03-09T04:35:22Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Perhaps he should feel lucky she thawed both chickens. Wasn’t there an Alfred Hitchcock episode about what a disgruntled wife could accomplish with a frozen leg of lamb? [Short story, you heathen!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter) ETA: Okay, fine, both (which I knew from the start). I just think it’s a big insult to Dahl to think of his story as only an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” no matter how much I respect Hitch’s art. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/130 "2011-03-09T05:02:19Z")
Wow. I posted my reply before reading all the posts. Why am I surprised that story was already mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/131 "2011-03-09T05:19:51Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > [Short story, you heathen!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter) > > ETA: Okay, fine, both (which I knew from the start). I just think it’s a big insult to Dahl to think of his story as only an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” no matter how much I respect Hitch’s art. 🙂 Same here. Dahl’s short stories are all so wonderfully evil. (And of course, his better known children’s lit is as well.) Hmmm. Feeling inspired to dig out my copy of Switch Bitch! ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/132 "2011-03-09T07:45:40Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Unless you’re just completely broke, don’t sweat such small stuff. It’s not worth the likely consequences to your relationship. Unless you want to fight. Then take your complaint to a message board and see how many people agree with you. If everyone agrees, you can use that as ammunition. If no one does, then just ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/133 "2011-03-09T14:51:58Z")
I was impressed initially, reading where the OP stated “I can save the other one for a special occasion”, meaning it sounded like the chickens were frozen plain old chickens (not special-already-cooked-from-the-fair). And that he had plans to cook that other chicken himself, someday, on that special occasion. Should I have to leave town for six months, and left a frozen chicken in the freezer, the chicken-eater I live would open the freezer door every night, stare at it, close the door, and live on bags of Doritos, boxes of Ho-Hos, and an occasional pizza delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/134 "2011-03-09T15:51:31Z")
> [@ragerdude](#): > > The chickens were Superhalifragilicious-expialidocious. His chicken’s **Superhal** -ifragiliciousexpialolicious. He likes to diss his poop-bird wife but doesn’t think he’s vicious. All you who stalk him thread to thread are Feminazi witches! (He had a chance to join the mob so comply or sleep with fishes!) ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/135 "2011-03-09T16:22:02Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > His chicken’s **Superhal** -ifragiliciousexpialolicious. > > He likes to diss his poop-bird wife but doesn’t think he’s vicious. > > All you who stalk him thread to thread are Feminazi witches! > > (He had a chance to join the mob so comply or sleep with fishes!) Um-diddle-liddle-liddle, um diddle-lie, um-diddle-liddle-liddle, um diddle-lie! ---
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/136 "2011-03-10T13:13:02Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Should I have to leave town for six months, and left a frozen chicken in the freezer, the chicken-eater I live would open the freezer door every night, stare at it, close the door, and live on bags of Doritos, boxes of Ho-Hos, and an occasional pizza delivery. Is the chicken-eater you live with self-sacrificing, or just lazy? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/137 "2011-03-10T13:37:34Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Should I have to leave town for six months, and left a frozen chicken in the freezer, the chicken-eater I live would open the freezer door every night, stare at it, close the door, and live on bags of Doritos, boxes of Ho-Hos, and an occasional pizza delivery. 😃 The chicken-eater I live with would do the exact same thing. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/138 "2011-03-10T15:14:22Z")
> [@SecondJudith](#): > > Is the chicken-eater you live with self-sacrificing, or just lazy? 😃 Oh, definitely lazy! Not to mention clueless about cooking anything. When he was single, living in an apartment complex, we planned a barbeque with some friends out in the back. I went over, and they said they sent him to the grocery store across the street to buy chicken. I went over there to find him in the store hefting a FROZEN TURKEY into the cart. Because the chicken section was ‘too confusing’ and he figured a whole frozen turkey would do for all of us.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/139 "2011-03-15T02:53:38Z")
Bumping this so **Superhal** will see it. I see your recent posts. We know you’re out there. Answer soon or your goose will be cooked! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905/140 "2011-03-15T04:09:15Z")
He’s made it pretty clear that he doesn’t have a good answer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-wants-one-thing-i-want-the-opposite-food-related/572905.md?page=8)