My wife wants one thing, I want the opposite (food related)

[Renee]

What are you talking about? It’s been 15 minutes since your last post. It’s almost midnight here on the east coast.

You’re acting like everyone is wildly misinterpreting you and putting words in your mouth, but in the other thread you said:

[QUOTE=Superhal]
I’m trying the compliment thing as mentioned in this thread with interesting results. Everybody knows it’s a lie but everybody feels better. I never would have thought it would work.
[/QUOTE]

And that’s not even close to the most offensive thing you said in that thread. Every time you open you metaphorical mouth I feel more and more sorry for your wife.

[alice_in_wonderland]

Ok, so I’ll respond (sorry for having a life that doesn’t revolve around your latest marital woes).

I still don’t get it. What were you saving the chickens for? Did she eat them both? Did you get to have any? Perhaps she doesn’t care for freezer burnt chicken.

Really, this whole thing is bizarre. Is there a reason, other than you being contrary, that she shouldn’t have defrosted the chickens? LIke, you’re having people over this weekend and were going to serve one?

Still, I can’t imagine why you would get in a fight over chicken and I also think you should ask your wife why she did it. If threads don’t go the way you expected/hoped, you’re at least partly to blame for not actually posting all of the relevant information.

[multimediac17]

As much as it isn’t worth fighting over, I would be totally frustrated that she defrosted both chickens.

Was it for a meal for just the two of you? Did you both have to sit there eating an entire chicken each? In my mind I’m seeing a very awkward dinner in which you’re both sitting with a giant whole chicken on your plates, you seething with chicken-related anger and your wife obliviously munching away.

[Inner_Stickler]

Quite often when I don’t understand one of my personal relationships, I ask people on the internet about it, because I don’t know why.

Buy the stuff to char chicken the special way at home so you do not have to bow to the whim of fair people, we all know how flaky they are, and you don’t have to worry about going a whole year without chicken. You’re welcome.

[Girl_From_Mars]

@Superhal

They are only available once per year. They are cooked over an open fire using special charcoal. Similar chickens are available year round, but they don’t use the same cooking technique. Other chickens are usually cooked on gas and/or using a turning machine so there’s no char. This chicken (sold at a fair) is the only chance to get it cooked the right way. This year, I bought 6, ate 4, saved 2.

Except for this one fair (held in early February), nobody else has these chickens cooked the way they are supposed to be cooked. The gas machine with spits is the usual way.

Can’t you just cook this at home? A charcoal BBQ is pretty easy and cheap to set up - they have them roadside throughout Asia and parts of the Middle East.

And you don’t appear to have answered the question of what your wife said when you asked her why she had defrosted 2 rather than 1.

[sandra_nz]

@Superhal

Wow, where’s everybody? Now that I’ve responded, where’s the responses? It’s been like 2 hours since I got off work. I guess you guys posted before bedtime, slept, then went to work?

Gee, I wonder what I was doing?

Still waiting for my questions to be answered, as I’m sure are many others.

[Nava]

@Zsofia

Frankly I’d agree with that assessment, considering she still puts up with him!

Two words: green card.

[Nawth_Chucka]

@Superhal

They are only available once per year. They are cooked over an open fire using special charcoal. Similar chickens are available year round, but they don’t use the same cooking technique. Other chickens are usually cooked on gas and/or using a turning machine so there’s no char. This chicken (sold at a fair) is the only chance to get it cooked the right way. This year, I bought 6, ate 4, saved 2.

Except for this one fair (held in early February), nobody else has these chickens cooked the way they are supposed to be cooked. The gas machine with spits is the usual way.

You ate 5 chickens in February? By yourself? Maybe she was mad you wouldn’t share.

[Autolycus]

The chickens are restless.

[Freudian_Slit]

@Superhal

In the 2nd part of your post that I deleted, you continue to take words out of context AND CHANGE THE INTENDED MEANING to something completely different.

Explain what words I took out of context.

[Zsofia]

Yeah, dude, I’m not stalking you, you’ve just popped up on my radar with three threads recently. Allow me to explain why.

Thread 1:
Us: Hey, Superhal, try complimenting your wife once in a while. Tell her she’s pretty, tell her she’s smart, tell her something you like about her.
You: Oh, so… lie?

Thread 2:
You: My wife and I can’t think of anything to do with each other that isn’t in front of the TV. We don’t actually like spending time together where we have to interact.

Thread 3:
You: I need to know if I should pick a huge fight over these chickens.
Us: WTF? Dude, chickens? Are they chickens made out of gold?
You: Yes, they are special chickens. Now, tell me - I need to know if I should man the barricades for this one. Not because I want to know what’s best for our relationship but because I want you to tell me how wrong she was.

It just kind of stands out in my brain, is all.

[Count_Blucher]

@Freudian_Slit

I have to know what kind of special chickens are only available once a year.

They’re the stuff that dreams are made of…

@Freudian_Slit

Yeah, the use of “comply” there skeeved me as well…

Agreed: its never smart to take Marital Advice from an ED209. I mean, what’s her only logical response?

“Dick, I’m Very disappointed…”

[kenobi_65]

Would I be disappointed? Probably, at least a bit. Unless I really believed that she did it to spite me, it simply wouldn’t be worth a fight – IMO, very, very few things are, and a BBQ chicken, no matter how tasty, just doesn’t rise to that level.

[Sleeps_With_Butterflies]

@Superhal

These people, who purposely misunderstand, now appear to be trying to derail another thread.

BS. You’ve derailed your own thread by only responding to people you believe to be misunderstanding you. A lot of other people responded to the lunacy of your OP with thoughtful questions and comments yet you have ignored them completely.

You started a thread that is bizarre as can be and then respond with more strangeness and never return to answer question but only to bitch about a few comments? Pretty ridiculous and rather childish.

[purplehorseshoe]

I didn’t know I was cyber-stalking anyone, but Zsofia pretty much summed up my thought process nicely.

So, Hal: what’d she say to you? Her response will probably tell us a bit.

[Autolycus]

@kenobi_65

it simply wouldn’t be worth a fight – IMO, very, very few things are, and a BBQ chicken, no matter how tasty, just doesn’t rise to that level.

I dunno… I still mourn the demise of Kenny Roger’s Roasters. Mmmm…

[Cat_Fight]

@multimediac17

Was it for a meal for just the two of you? Did you both have to sit there eating an entire chicken each? In my mind I’m seeing a very awkward dinner in which you’re both sitting with a giant whole chicken on your plates, you seething with chicken-related anger and your wife obliviously munching away.

These are pretty good questions. If it’s her job to cook and the OP’s telling her what and what not to do without actually cooking himself… the passive aggressiveness, it may have a source.

[Nawth_Chucka]

I’m stunned we haven’t heard from **Pullet **yet, really.

[Pyper]

@Nava

Two words: green card.

I’m getting that feeling more and more.

[llcoolbj77]

I’ve never been more interested in what two strangers on the internet fight over in all my life. For reals. I am going to think about it now… and damn if I don’t check on this thread first thing when I get to work tomorrow.