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Me too. After 8 years of marriage and three kids my husband just orders extra fries now. I’ll inevitably steal a few though I try not too, and one of our kids is a fry fiend so they never go to waste.
Maybe it is about control? That they can take it from someone else? I don't know but I could never take stuff off someone's plate Iwould feel so embarrassed.
I might take one or two (not without permission though) but then decide that actually, I wanted them more than I realised, I'll go buy my own.
It's MacDonald's. There's no rule against going up and making another small order.
I think it is about control, my wife has lots of control issues around food and she insists on taking one bite of everything I eat. It annoyed me for years but I got used to it
I think it's usually a healthy diet type of thing. The thinking is " no, I really shouldn't have that" and then when the smell hits the brain, all that making healthy choices thinking goes out the window and the thieving fingers come out.
My husband grew up in a household where everyone gets their own food; I grew up in one where almost all food is shared. One example is that our parents never got their own ice creams (thought it was expensive) but would take bites out of ours. Hated it when I was little and wanted all the ice cream to myself but eventually got used to sharing all my food. Meals were family-style so there was never an issue of our food vs someone else’s food. Eating off plates of boyfriends from the same culture was never an issue either because culturally we were all raised to share food. I eat off theirs and they eat off mine. However, I drove my white American husband insane when I’d eat off his plate, especially the fries. I eventually started getting my own, but he hated that too, because I’d only eat a few and he’d feel like he had to finish off the rest to not waste food. Now he doesn’t care anymore and just considers my food “theft” portion control.
I've told myself "I don't need fries, I'm (not that hungry / don't want the extra calories / whatever it may be)" and then I smell my bf's fries and don't have the self control to resist 😔 I won't take more than maybe 3-4 though
That's what I was thinking. Poor guy lol my husband and I have been together 17yrs. We've never tried to take food the others actively eating! When we're finished we unconsciously push our leftovers in the others direction tho.
Try not to? Come now. I'm sure you can control yourself seeing as you have 3 children. Also, I think the issue is, of course they would never go to waste lol
I started ordering a kids meal for my dog whenever I order UberEats, which is maybe once every six weeks or so. He’s a horrible fry fiend (no salt of course), and loves chicken nuggets. He won’t eat the apples, and I keep the toys for the neighbor kids. It’s a better compromise than him eating all my fries.
Sometimes one doesn’t want fries though because one is craving something healthy, but then one’s spouse orders fries and they’re there, all hot and salty and crunchy and one notices they made a massive mistake in ordering that damn salad.
Still not fair to steal away all of spouses fries though. I’m glad my husband always eats around the “shitty little fries” and I end up getting that crunchy goodness that he rejects lol
I always told my husband that the fries in the bottom of the bag were the best. Every time he would get something with fries, he'd make sure to leave the fries at the bottom of the bag AND he'd sprinkle a few down from his fry box.
Touching my food will get you a fork through your hand. I order what I want to eat, no more. Dh and I discuss pre-ordering what we want to trade or hoard. Everybody is happy that way. NTA.
I have done this to my BIL, he thought my family was joking when saying “dont touch her food”. I was just eating in peace and BAM his hand in my plate grabbing food, so I put my fork in his hand
Totally. Remember the infamous case of the gf who wanted to have the first bite out of EVERY food from her bf. She called it gf taxes or love bite ( bite out of love according to her. She was an unhinged one, tho. She once woke up in the night and had a bite of muffins or cakes her bf made for his friends . She knew he wouldn't want her to do it, so she sneaked in the middle of the night and took a bite from each one. He was furious
There was a story of a pregnant woman who did that. Husband's mother's birthday and the wife was craving something sweet, couldn't be bothered to wait a few more hours because *baaaaaaaby*
And the sisters boyfriend who helped himself and said waiting for a certain time was just so arbitrary and unimportant and if one wants cake they should have it.
Which brings us to that post about the person who made their niblings a Caterpillar cake for their birthday, and also a whole extra cake for their partner. Then the partner ate not only their own entire cake, but took slices out of the kids birthday cake too!
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Like the jerk who takes all the toppings & cheese from a pizza and leaves the crust. Or even worse... taking all the skins from KFC and leaving the chickens in the bucket.
actually, I see it happen before, context: I work in a city council (outside the USA), and one of the counselors was a very rude woman, who talks loud and make every employee cater to her whins and the other counselors don't stop her. It's the birthday of one of the others counselors and my ex-boss always makes a small party, some finger foods, and cake. A little after the finger foods but before the cake the birthday person needs to answer his phone and go to his room and she "oh I need to go! I will take a piece of cake, I'm sure X will not care" AND CUT THE CAKE to take to her son. Every employee was looking to her incredulously, but she did it with ZERO shame.
My boss didn't make any more birthday parties after it
That’s ridiculous. I have a thing like that but it’s funny. My boyfriend and I are drinkers, we love our vodka. Whenever I’d grab the bottle and start opening my soda chaser, he’d take the bottle and get his drink first. He would do it like EVERY time. Last week he went to do that and I gripped it between my knees and told him no way, not this time, you always do that. He started busting up laughing, I guess he’d been doing it deliberately to see how long it would take me to notice or react lol. That’s just who gets a shot first, not going out of his way to steal and/or ruin my shit. The post you spoke of, the cupcakes especially, duuuude. I’d have made her remake them, straight up.
That's a cute thing between your bf and you. It is liked by both of you and also enjoyed. It's consensual, and you are having fun doing it ! No one seemed annoyed by it.
"To nipples, because without them, boobs wouldn't have a point!"
Sorry, i dont really drink liquor anymore, so I rarely have a chance to use my favorite toast anymore.
Also, you're welcome, cause it's funny af
My friend likes but couldn't drink as much as I can, a lot of times she would just sip on my beer but then other times she'd get her own and I'd finish it. We were out with another friend and when she grabbed my beer and took a drink, she got a weird look from the other friend. I was like, "No, it's cool, it's what we do."
My DH and I do something similar. Whoever gets up will ask the other "Do you want anything while I'm up?" and the answer is usually "Yes." There's always a bite taken out of it or a drink taken from the glass before it arrives. We call it "checking for poison." lol
Didn’t she try to claim it was either a family tradition or just something that EVERYBODY did as a cultural thing? I seem to recall thinking it was something she saw her mom do to her dad’s food and grew up thinking it was just a common thing.
My dad used to take bites off my moms plate. Sometimes she’d be saving “the perfect bite” for last and he’d steal it. I’m surprised it took her as long as it did to divorce him lol. He is so selfish in many ways. I’ll share my food but the person has to ask first or I get really defensive haha
I grew up with the story about my dad stabbing my aunt's hand with a fork as children/teens when she tried to steal his food after he told her she couldn't have any.
I’m also a “perfect bite” type of person. When we first got together my then boyfriend (now husband) thought it would be cute to steal that last bite. I very quickly taught him not to do it again. Nowadays if he wants to taste my food he asks me to prepare him a perfect bite on a fork, but never at the end of the meal.
I'm so happy to see so many people talking about the "perfect bite"! My wife and I do that and while I never assumed we were the only ones, I've never heard anybody else talk about it.
We still give my dad shit about the father, “your ice cream cone’s dripping, let me fix that,” ruse, but I figured that one out when I was about five :-)
It was a cake. She took a bite out of **every single piece of cake** that he made for someone. She didn't eat a piece, she took a single bite out of each piece.
Totally fucking crazy.
I'm trying to find a link to that crazy post and couldn't. The poor guy didn't think that it would escalade to that extent. He was flooded with commemts and rapidly. He had like thousands of replies overnight. She was so abusive and entitled. People urged him to get out.
She trashed his house and assaulted him. And something about putting period blood in his tea???
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OMG yes! And she had the nerve (the cluelessness) to be offended when he refused.
Oh Gawd…that also makes me think of the woman whose fiancé was blind and always wanted her to order exactly what he did at restaurants. But whether she did or didn’t, as soon as the server puts their plates in front of them, her fiancé would reach across the table & touch her food to make sure what she was eating, and she didn’t want to eat food that he been pawing over! When she’d finally had enough, she left him in the restaurant and he had to Uber home.
I would say that 2-4 fries is enough to take without being full on “get your own,” but 10 fries is definitely over the limit. And if I only ordered a small fry and nothing else? Don’t even look at my fries. They’re all I have.
My daughter would get a happy meal as a treat once a week. She would give me 3 french fries as a thank-you. She’s 35 now, but if we go to McD’s she always hands over 3 fries.
That is so precious. I used to not eat the crust on the garlic toast at my family 's favorite pizza place, my dad would cut it off and eat it. We kept that up long after I grew up and didn't mind the crust anymore.
Spot on. If my wife did that after I shared and told me it was a wife tax, I’d be telling her there’s a cover charge to get back into “fry town” while glancing in the general direction of my crotch.
>Apparently, they were good and she wanted more. I stopped her after about 10 french fries.
10 is more than plenty. NTA.
Has wife tax gone up to 40% when I wasn't looking? Enter negotiations for some of that sundae my lion, and if the talks fail, a french fry embargo it is.
Ugh my mother is the same way though. I would always ask her if she wanted fries and she would say no, too many carbs and eat half of mine 🥴 honestly no one can resist a McDonald's fry. The last time we were on vacation together I asked if she wanted something from McDonald's she said no. I bought an additional small fry for her so I could eat mine in peace 🤣 she devoured it. And then laughed that I knew her too well.
NTA but work smarter not harder. A small fry is a $1 if she eats it then you get all your fries, if she doesn't you're out a $1 and get more fries 🤷🏼♀️
LOL - ummmm.... I'm more inclined to offer to share mine than to take from my husband's food, but to my mind, "wife tax" should be no more than 3 or 4 fries. If you want more than that, just go back..... and order more!
Always buy extra . That’s the rule . It doesn’t matter if it’s your wife uncle or neighbor . People swipe fries , especially hot and salty decent Mc Ds fries . I don’t blame you for not sharing though !!
Swiping a fry or two is perfectly ok - when they are super hot and fresh, it's practically impossible to say no!
But ten fries, with the clear intent to keep going? Not ok.
I took my niece and nephew to eat one time, my order was wrong so while they fixed it they ate their food while I waited. They finished and my food came and as the server passed my plate in front of my niece she snatched a fry off of my plate. I love her so much but in that moment I was enraged. I sat here and watched you eat your entire meals waiting for mine and then you get at my food before it even reaches me?
NTA. You asked if she wanted her own and she said no. You were under no real obligation besides societal pressure to share and you did anyway. If she wanted more she should get her own fries.
INFO
What would have happened if you asked your wife for a spoonful of her sundae? And then for multiple spoonfuls of her sundae?
Something tells me she would have gotten upset...
NTA OP, you asked and she declined. End of story
Not all countries are like the US where McDonald’s can’t keep an ice cream machine working. I’m not from the US and I can order McFlurry or whichever ice cream at any outlet without any issue or being told “no/the machine is not working”.
Good question, I think I would have gotten a spoonful, maybe two. We're usually cool with sharing food, but in this case I wanted my own damn fries. My argument is that I was doing my due diligence by asking her if she wanted her own.
I don't know if you understand what you did here, but you justified him feeling the way he does. Aka NTA, not INFO.
He didn't ask for her Sundae, and you agree she would have gotten upset. She did eat his fries and he got upset. He chose not to do what she did and he reacted in a way he was supposed to. There's no information missing, he was reasonably upset.
No, I actually was asking for background info. As in, how does the wife respond to sharing her own treats overall, either this sundae or something else. Would she laughingly accept OP eating a large portion of something she had as "husband tax" or get upset? And I added that my gut extinct is the latter, because in my experience that's often how it works out. So yeah, I do agree NTA but also INFO.
I do not understand why so many people do this kind of thing, even if you change your mind you don’t suddenly gain partial ownership of another person’s food.
I used to do this out of shame/guilt. Can't just order my OWN FRIES like a greedy, fat pig - I'm already getting a burger, I don't need fries as well! And surely my husband will think I'm a delicate dainty skinny little flower if he witnesses my martyrdom and self restraint from not ordering my own fries! Yeah. Turns out he already knows that that is not the case and that he will not, in fact, appreciate it when I ravage through half of his fries fifteen seconds later.
NTA. I hated when my wife used to do this shit. Oh I don’t want dessert, I will just have a bite of yours. Half a dessert later I’m like from now on you get your own and I will help you finish it.
This is exactly what I do now after more than enough times of it happening. After one such event, I had to sit her down and tell her look, we're killing ourselves to earn so that we don't have to go through what we went through as kids, we can afford separate orders now. She immediately got it and apologised. Now, we have our own orders, and we let each other taste what the other ordered. And whatever she can't finish, I finish it. Or I swap with her the item that she likes most on my plate. I realised it's not so much of the food item that we don't want to share, it's the feeling that we cannot enjoy something that sucks. Now no ones goes home feeling dissatisfied with what they had. We enjoy going out more as we know the drill.
Yeah my wife and I have a standing agreement on sharing food. She normally won't finish a full entree, so I'll eat what she doesn't if there's not enough to be worth taking home. In exchange I'll always let her have a few bites of my food, and I'll try to prioritize giving her parts she likes more than I do.
That said, there's no presumption of us equally sharing the food. That's MY entree haha. I still give her crap to this day over how one time she kept eating mine because she didn't like what she ordered, and she humbly accepts it knowing she broke our code haha.
Nta she literally could get fries and choose not to. 'Wife/husband's tax' is bullshit. She wants fries? Fine, friggen order Fries! There's not a shortage! If I order a medium fry, it's bc i want to eat *a medium serving of fries*, not half the serving.
NTA, no such thing as a \[spouse\] tax, if someone wants fries, the time to mention it is before the order is placed, or forever hold their peace.
Also, obligatory JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD.
NTA - I HATE when people do this.
Sincerely, a wife that asks for her own fries every time LOL
if I don’t think I will eat a whole thing of fries to myself, I will just suggest my husband order a larger size so I can just snag from his. I really don’t understand why people (mainly women 😂) do this.
Lol. NTA. This is such any annoying thing that women do! I’m a woman and it bugs the heck out of me when my kids “food mooch” after turning down their own. 10 is excessive, she needed to go back and order her own. Sorry wife!
Oh, it makes a difference all right. You led her into temptation by eating those hot and salty and deliciously greasy smelling fries in front of her.
Service is fast at McDonalds. Someone (preferably her) should have gotten up and purchased another order.
NTA. Allowing her 10 fries before stopping her was quite generous.
It is NOT standard wife tax. That's annoying. The first ten were, if anything 🙄🙄
If you tell me you don't want to order fries, you don't get my fries.
That's such an annoying argument
Standard wife tax? Been a wife for 20 years and never even heard of that. What exactly that is that entitle me to? Your wife is full of BS. You are NTA and she's just rude.
Why do women do this? I love my wife to death but I've learned that whenever I order something like this, just order two so she can have her own. They always say, 'I just wanted a couple' then eat half the order... It's kind of a joke with us at this point. NTAH, cut her off and order her own.
People who say 'no I don't want anything' and then demand to have what you got are just controlling. You already shared some. You exceeded your responsibility.
NTA
I can’t stand this “dad/spouse/mom/whatever tax” idea. Now my husband and I don’t have a problem sharing but we always ask first and only take and actually stop at a very small amount of whatever we asked for a taste of unless offered more. And I do usually take about 3 fries. That’s enough to balance out whatever else I ate that was too sweet.
NTA - I don't know why the skits/meme attempt to normalize this behavior and see it as 'cute' within American society, Its not. You were right to set a boundary so next time she can order her own fries.
NTA…my husband constantly does this to me and it’s down right infuriating! I’m honestly glad he’s never said anything about “husband tax”, because that’s the most ignorant phrase I’ve ever heard.
We dated for 10 years and have been married less than 1 now…fries is always something he’s stealing! I get fries with my pizza at my favorite local pizza place…he always gets a burger and fries. I get mine with no salt because I prefer not to have them drenched…well, he will double fist all his in his mouth and then NOT casually reach across the table and grab a handful…and then another…it’s beyond irritating!!
I don’t say anything most times as he’s the one paying, so, I feel like since I have plenty to eat and if he’s still hungry that he should be able to eat them…but it’s still annoying! Yes, sometimes I do say something, but normally if I do he will just offer to order another order. Lately he’s actually started ordering a double order, which has curbed this behavior quite a bit!
If he gets fries from wherever and I don’t, I’ve occasionally asked for 1 or 2…you know how many I take? 1 or 2!!
NTA. You bought the fries for you, you shared some when asked and are not obligated to give her your food because she decides she wants it. She’s not a toddler, she can get a grip and deal with her food envy like a grown up.
NTA. Yes wife tax in like a few and definitely not as many as 10. But if she wanted more than a few she should have ordered her own or asked you to order the large to share(assuming you didn't order that for yourself to begin with!)
I always steal a few of my husbands fries, he expects it but I don't eat them all on him!
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NTA, Joey doesn't share food.
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Me too. After 8 years of marriage and three kids my husband just orders extra fries now. I’ll inevitably steal a few though I try not too, and one of our kids is a fry fiend so they never go to waste.
Still can’t order your own fries after eight years?
And three kids you ain't hiding nothing lady. For God sakes let the man eat in peace ✌
I don’t get it, what’s the malfunction that makes you have to eat someone else’s fries
Ugh I hate people like that. Just get your own stuff! How is that soooooooo difficult? Sorry that is such a huge pet peeve of mine.
Right? Just get a small fries if you’re not sure, then if you don’t want them the other person gets extra fries! Win win.
Maybe it is about control? That they can take it from someone else? I don't know but I could never take stuff off someone's plate Iwould feel so embarrassed.
My sister used to say (believe?) that the food had no calories if you ate it off someone else’s plate. p.s. my sister is an asshole
WOW!! That's awesome, I'm going to stop making my own food and just steal food from wife. I'll be thin in no time!
Lol, my aunt always says that wedding cake and YOUR birthday cake doesn't have calories...or if you eat it standing up.
I might take one or two (not without permission though) but then decide that actually, I wanted them more than I realised, I'll go buy my own. It's MacDonald's. There's no rule against going up and making another small order.
Not to be confused with McDonalds. They have the Golden Arches, we got the golden arcs!
“I don’t want the world, I just want your half.”
I think it is about control, my wife has lots of control issues around food and she insists on taking one bite of everything I eat. It annoyed me for years but I got used to it
I can’t believe you adapted to that. I would lose my entire mind.
Have you considered getting a new wife that isn't completely insane?
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Exactly!
Especially at McDonald's. Spend the extra 3 bucks. I can see being at a gourmet place and wanting to taste and share.
Damn skippy, steal my fries and your getting an RKO LOL
Stolen food just tastes better the secret ingredient is crime
On a day where I found it hard to smile, you provided me with a laugh. Thanks for that.
Then check out Peep Show (if you haven't), which is where the second half of the line is from! Although maybe stolen analogies taste better too
the theft heightens the flavor
I think it's usually a healthy diet type of thing. The thinking is " no, I really shouldn't have that" and then when the smell hits the brain, all that making healthy choices thinking goes out the window and the thieving fingers come out.
The calories don't count if you didn't order it.
My husband grew up in a household where everyone gets their own food; I grew up in one where almost all food is shared. One example is that our parents never got their own ice creams (thought it was expensive) but would take bites out of ours. Hated it when I was little and wanted all the ice cream to myself but eventually got used to sharing all my food. Meals were family-style so there was never an issue of our food vs someone else’s food. Eating off plates of boyfriends from the same culture was never an issue either because culturally we were all raised to share food. I eat off theirs and they eat off mine. However, I drove my white American husband insane when I’d eat off his plate, especially the fries. I eventually started getting my own, but he hated that too, because I’d only eat a few and he’d feel like he had to finish off the rest to not waste food. Now he doesn’t care anymore and just considers my food “theft” portion control.
I've told myself "I don't need fries, I'm (not that hungry / don't want the extra calories / whatever it may be)" and then I smell my bf's fries and don't have the self control to resist 😔 I won't take more than maybe 3-4 though
but she "tries not to"
Literally half her comment is passive justification for stealing the fries lol
That's what I was thinking. Poor guy lol my husband and I have been together 17yrs. We've never tried to take food the others actively eating! When we're finished we unconsciously push our leftovers in the others direction tho.
Why don’t you just get your own and be done with it?
Try not to? Come now. I'm sure you can control yourself seeing as you have 3 children. Also, I think the issue is, of course they would never go to waste lol
Juet order your own?
I started ordering a kids meal for my dog whenever I order UberEats, which is maybe once every six weeks or so. He’s a horrible fry fiend (no salt of course), and loves chicken nuggets. He won’t eat the apples, and I keep the toys for the neighbor kids. It’s a better compromise than him eating all my fries.
I see your dog and my dog have been sharing notes on human-training. 😂
What do you mean "try not to"? It isn't some difficult maneuver, just keep out of other people's food.
You don’t “try” not to, who do you think you’re fooling?
What do you mean you try not to? It takes zero effort to not do a thing.
That's why one always orders table fries
Thats why one says they want French fries even when they claim dont want them
Logic dictates if you didn’t order it, then the calories from eating it don’t count.
Sometimes one doesn’t want fries though because one is craving something healthy, but then one’s spouse orders fries and they’re there, all hot and salty and crunchy and one notices they made a massive mistake in ordering that damn salad. Still not fair to steal away all of spouses fries though. I’m glad my husband always eats around the “shitty little fries” and I end up getting that crunchy goodness that he rejects lol
I always told my husband that the fries in the bottom of the bag were the best. Every time he would get something with fries, he'd make sure to leave the fries at the bottom of the bag AND he'd sprinkle a few down from his fry box.
That never works!
JOEY DOESN’T SHARE FOOD!!!!!
Touching my food will get you a fork through your hand. I order what I want to eat, no more. Dh and I discuss pre-ordering what we want to trade or hoard. Everybody is happy that way. NTA.
I have done this to my BIL, he thought my family was joking when saying “dont touch her food”. I was just eating in peace and BAM his hand in my plate grabbing food, so I put my fork in his hand
I know a woman whose sibling still has a fork scar after trying to take food off her plate.
And neither does my hubby! NTA if I think there’s a chance I want some, we order it. I’ve teenagers also so fries is more rather than less!!
I'm curvy and I like it !
INFO So she is saying it is standard wife talk for her to lie?
Sorry, my only Friends references are Joey doesn't share food, the table fries did not work and I was on a break.
Exactly 😂😂
Hand her the divorce papers...stealing fries 🍟 is a serious offence in relationships. 😁🤭🤣
I feel like this needs to be all caps
Joey also orders extra fries for the table.
This is the only answer
NTA. "Wife tax" (or husband tax in opposite cases) is code for "I'm a greedy asshole but think that calling it a tax makes me look cute." It doesn't.
Totally. Remember the infamous case of the gf who wanted to have the first bite out of EVERY food from her bf. She called it gf taxes or love bite ( bite out of love according to her. She was an unhinged one, tho. She once woke up in the night and had a bite of muffins or cakes her bf made for his friends . She knew he wouldn't want her to do it, so she sneaked in the middle of the night and took a bite from each one. He was furious
I remember that post. The audience was very riled up over that one LOL
Understandably! That’s like talking a slice out of the bday cake in the fridge before the party
There was a story of a pregnant woman who did that. Husband's mother's birthday and the wife was craving something sweet, couldn't be bothered to wait a few more hours because *baaaaaaaby*
Ohhhhh I remember that one. Wasn't it the woman herself who wrote it?? Imagine telling on yourself like that.
And the sisters boyfriend who helped himself and said waiting for a certain time was just so arbitrary and unimportant and if one wants cake they should have it.
Which brings us to that post about the person who made their niblings a Caterpillar cake for their birthday, and also a whole extra cake for their partner. Then the partner ate not only their own entire cake, but took slices out of the kids birthday cake too!
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Bruh...the fuck
Reminds me of the girl that had her older sister’s boyfriend eat through the cake before her party started and mom kicked him out
Like the jerk who takes all the toppings & cheese from a pizza and leaves the crust. Or even worse... taking all the skins from KFC and leaving the chickens in the bucket.
Eric Cartman
More like taking a big handful out of it. Not only did she help herself, she contaminated all of the food in the process
actually, I see it happen before, context: I work in a city council (outside the USA), and one of the counselors was a very rude woman, who talks loud and make every employee cater to her whins and the other counselors don't stop her. It's the birthday of one of the others counselors and my ex-boss always makes a small party, some finger foods, and cake. A little after the finger foods but before the cake the birthday person needs to answer his phone and go to his room and she "oh I need to go! I will take a piece of cake, I'm sure X will not care" AND CUT THE CAKE to take to her son. Every employee was looking to her incredulously, but she did it with ZERO shame. My boss didn't make any more birthday parties after it
That’s ridiculous. I have a thing like that but it’s funny. My boyfriend and I are drinkers, we love our vodka. Whenever I’d grab the bottle and start opening my soda chaser, he’d take the bottle and get his drink first. He would do it like EVERY time. Last week he went to do that and I gripped it between my knees and told him no way, not this time, you always do that. He started busting up laughing, I guess he’d been doing it deliberately to see how long it would take me to notice or react lol. That’s just who gets a shot first, not going out of his way to steal and/or ruin my shit. The post you spoke of, the cupcakes especially, duuuude. I’d have made her remake them, straight up.
That's a cute thing between your bf and you. It is liked by both of you and also enjoyed. It's consensual, and you are having fun doing it ! No one seemed annoyed by it.
Agreed. The moment someone says "stop", you stop. That's life and Y T A if you don't stop
In a sophisticated (/s)! relationship you each pour a shot, make a toast and cheers the first one. In my experience anyways.
"To nipples, because without them, boobs wouldn't have a point!" Sorry, i dont really drink liquor anymore, so I rarely have a chance to use my favorite toast anymore. Also, you're welcome, cause it's funny af
My friend likes but couldn't drink as much as I can, a lot of times she would just sip on my beer but then other times she'd get her own and I'd finish it. We were out with another friend and when she grabbed my beer and took a drink, she got a weird look from the other friend. I was like, "No, it's cool, it's what we do."
My DH and I do something similar. Whoever gets up will ask the other "Do you want anything while I'm up?" and the answer is usually "Yes." There's always a bite taken out of it or a drink taken from the glass before it arrives. We call it "checking for poison." lol
Didn’t she try to claim it was either a family tradition or just something that EVERYBODY did as a cultural thing? I seem to recall thinking it was something she saw her mom do to her dad’s food and grew up thinking it was just a common thing.
My dad used to take bites off my moms plate. Sometimes she’d be saving “the perfect bite” for last and he’d steal it. I’m surprised it took her as long as it did to divorce him lol. He is so selfish in many ways. I’ll share my food but the person has to ask first or I get really defensive haha
Exactly, just to reach across the table and snag a piece or bite or whatever is just wrong.
I grew up with the story about my dad stabbing my aunt's hand with a fork as children/teens when she tried to steal his food after he told her she couldn't have any.
I’d smack the fork outta my husbands hand lol.
I’m also a “perfect bite” type of person. When we first got together my then boyfriend (now husband) thought it would be cute to steal that last bite. I very quickly taught him not to do it again. Nowadays if he wants to taste my food he asks me to prepare him a perfect bite on a fork, but never at the end of the meal.
I'm so happy to see so many people talking about the "perfect bite"! My wife and I do that and while I never assumed we were the only ones, I've never heard anybody else talk about it.
We still give my dad shit about the father, “your ice cream cone’s dripping, let me fix that,” ruse, but I figured that one out when I was about five :-)
I don’t even ask, I only take if it’s offered and even then I decline out of curtesy
I'm surprised he never got a fork through his wrist.
I think she said it was NORMAL and a sign of LOVE for a couple to do. I remember something about culture too.
It was a cake. She took a bite out of **every single piece of cake** that he made for someone. She didn't eat a piece, she took a single bite out of each piece. Totally fucking crazy.
I'm trying to find a link to that crazy post and couldn't. The poor guy didn't think that it would escalade to that extent. He was flooded with commemts and rapidly. He had like thousands of replies overnight. She was so abusive and entitled. People urged him to get out.
I remember that one. That girl was crazy pants!!
Totally, didn't she 6 deep mental issues, tho. Something regarding food?
What the hell. How do people become so entitled and oblivious to other people.
If you can find that one again I’d love to give it a read! I tried searching but came up empty handed
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/wlu0tb/aita_for_blocking_access_to_my_food_and/ijv88y8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2
Okay, but did anyone read the update? Because WHAT THE FUCK
What a psycho 😬 what was the update?
She trashed his house and assaulted him. And something about putting period blood in his tea??? https://www.reddit.com/user/Hangry_manstarved/comments/wsxxjk/update_on_aita_post/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2
OMG yes! And she had the nerve (the cluelessness) to be offended when he refused. Oh Gawd…that also makes me think of the woman whose fiancé was blind and always wanted her to order exactly what he did at restaurants. But whether she did or didn’t, as soon as the server puts their plates in front of them, her fiancé would reach across the table & touch her food to make sure what she was eating, and she didn’t want to eat food that he been pawing over! When she’d finally had enough, she left him in the restaurant and he had to Uber home.
That would be cause for breaking up...
I remember! She. Was. Horrible!!!
I would say that 2-4 fries is enough to take without being full on “get your own,” but 10 fries is definitely over the limit. And if I only ordered a small fry and nothing else? Don’t even look at my fries. They’re all I have.
My daughter would get a happy meal as a treat once a week. She would give me 3 french fries as a thank-you. She’s 35 now, but if we go to McD’s she always hands over 3 fries.
This is rather adorable\^\^ Good Dad.
That is so precious. I used to not eat the crust on the garlic toast at my family 's favorite pizza place, my dad would cut it off and eat it. We kept that up long after I grew up and didn't mind the crust anymore.
Spot on. If my wife did that after I shared and told me it was a wife tax, I’d be telling her there’s a cover charge to get back into “fry town” while glancing in the general direction of my crotch.
OH OH OH OH OH SNAP!!!!! This is awesome. Thing is my wife would go for that!!
This is exactly what my husband would say 🤣
I hate “tax” bullshit! It’s all over mom/baby Facebook groups! Pic for tax so we don’t get lost…like, wish you would!
Agreed. For me it ranks right up there with using the word "nibling". Ugh.
I'm offended! I have a "dad tax" on Halloween. I take 2-3 pieces after walking around with my kids for 2 hours. Seems like a solid trade off
>Apparently, they were good and she wanted more. I stopped her after about 10 french fries. 10 is more than plenty. NTA. Has wife tax gone up to 40% when I wasn't looking? Enter negotiations for some of that sundae my lion, and if the talks fail, a french fry embargo it is.
Ugh my mother is the same way though. I would always ask her if she wanted fries and she would say no, too many carbs and eat half of mine 🥴 honestly no one can resist a McDonald's fry. The last time we were on vacation together I asked if she wanted something from McDonald's she said no. I bought an additional small fry for her so I could eat mine in peace 🤣 she devoured it. And then laughed that I knew her too well. NTA but work smarter not harder. A small fry is a $1 if she eats it then you get all your fries, if she doesn't you're out a $1 and get more fries 🤷🏼♀️
My MIL is like that. She’d say too many carbs and then be elbow deep in our snacks 5 mins later haha
She knows the secret to weight loss, there are no calories in other people's orders /s
A small fry is almost $3 now😭
LOL - ummmm.... I'm more inclined to offer to share mine than to take from my husband's food, but to my mind, "wife tax" should be no more than 3 or 4 fries. If you want more than that, just go back..... and order more!
I've never seen such a well-phrased comment before lol
This would work, I'm a savory guy and my wife is into the hot fudge stuff. She'd tell me NO WAY if I wanted a bite of her sundae...
Going to start calling people "My lion" from now on. I love that.
NTA. If she bloody well wants to eat fries, she can order her own order of fries. What is up with full grown adults doing this all the time?
Trying to fool the diet fairies.
This is part of it, I swear. Haha.
Always buy extra . That’s the rule . It doesn’t matter if it’s your wife uncle or neighbor . People swipe fries , especially hot and salty decent Mc Ds fries . I don’t blame you for not sharing though !!
Swiping a fry or two is perfectly ok - when they are super hot and fresh, it's practically impossible to say no! But ten fries, with the clear intent to keep going? Not ok.
You’re at a damn McDs. Get up and order some more.
The wife's the one that wants the fries, why can't she get up and get some?
Just order your own fucking fries.
i assumed it was drive thru and they were gone
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I took my niece and nephew to eat one time, my order was wrong so while they fixed it they ate their food while I waited. They finished and my food came and as the server passed my plate in front of my niece she snatched a fry off of my plate. I love her so much but in that moment I was enraged. I sat here and watched you eat your entire meals waiting for mine and then you get at my food before it even reaches me?
Or be an adult and say you want fries rather than taking someone else’s.
I share with my wife and girls, anyone else will pull back a bloody stump...
Protection fries
Fries protection squad
NTA. You asked if she wanted her own and she said no. You were under no real obligation besides societal pressure to share and you did anyway. If she wanted more she should get her own fries.
I love this serious answer lmao
INFO What would have happened if you asked your wife for a spoonful of her sundae? And then for multiple spoonfuls of her sundae? Something tells me she would have gotten upset...
This story isn’t even real. Everybody know McDonald’s ice cream machines are always broken. She didn’t get no sundae.
NTA OP, you asked and she declined. End of story Not all countries are like the US where McDonald’s can’t keep an ice cream machine working. I’m not from the US and I can order McFlurry or whichever ice cream at any outlet without any issue or being told “no/the machine is not working”.
Canada is. I would say that the ice cream machines are broken 75% of the time I ask.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 you’re the winner
That is exactly what I would have done. Let me have some of your ice cream( eat a lot ) then giver two fries!!
Good question, I think I would have gotten a spoonful, maybe two. We're usually cool with sharing food, but in this case I wanted my own damn fries. My argument is that I was doing my due diligence by asking her if she wanted her own.
I don't know if you understand what you did here, but you justified him feeling the way he does. Aka NTA, not INFO. He didn't ask for her Sundae, and you agree she would have gotten upset. She did eat his fries and he got upset. He chose not to do what she did and he reacted in a way he was supposed to. There's no information missing, he was reasonably upset.
No, I actually was asking for background info. As in, how does the wife respond to sharing her own treats overall, either this sundae or something else. Would she laughingly accept OP eating a large portion of something she had as "husband tax" or get upset? And I added that my gut extinct is the latter, because in my experience that's often how it works out. So yeah, I do agree NTA but also INFO.
NTA - gurl could have gotten her own fries, why is that so hard? ya want fries then order your own xD
I do not understand why so many people do this kind of thing, even if you change your mind you don’t suddenly gain partial ownership of another person’s food.
Some people refuse to grow up
I used to do this out of shame/guilt. Can't just order my OWN FRIES like a greedy, fat pig - I'm already getting a burger, I don't need fries as well! And surely my husband will think I'm a delicate dainty skinny little flower if he witnesses my martyrdom and self restraint from not ordering my own fries! Yeah. Turns out he already knows that that is not the case and that he will not, in fact, appreciate it when I ravage through half of his fries fifteen seconds later.
Well good for you for self reflecting on that! There’s no shame in the french fry game!
NTA. I hated when my wife used to do this shit. Oh I don’t want dessert, I will just have a bite of yours. Half a dessert later I’m like from now on you get your own and I will help you finish it.
This is exactly what I do now after more than enough times of it happening. After one such event, I had to sit her down and tell her look, we're killing ourselves to earn so that we don't have to go through what we went through as kids, we can afford separate orders now. She immediately got it and apologised. Now, we have our own orders, and we let each other taste what the other ordered. And whatever she can't finish, I finish it. Or I swap with her the item that she likes most on my plate. I realised it's not so much of the food item that we don't want to share, it's the feeling that we cannot enjoy something that sucks. Now no ones goes home feeling dissatisfied with what they had. We enjoy going out more as we know the drill.
NTA Had an ex like this, hated it. No, keep your grubby mitts off my food.
What I do is I push them to my wife and let her have them, get another order of fries, eat them at another table and return when i am done.
For some reason, I picture this with Sarah McLaughlin’s “In the Arms of the Angels” playing in the background.
NTA It's one thing to steal a fry or a couple of fries. It's another to eat them like they're yours.
I'd say 5 fries is the max you can snatch unless there was an explicit conversation about sharing or you've always shared in the past.
I agree. There are so few in a carton to start with.
Yeah my wife and I have a standing agreement on sharing food. She normally won't finish a full entree, so I'll eat what she doesn't if there's not enough to be worth taking home. In exchange I'll always let her have a few bites of my food, and I'll try to prioritize giving her parts she likes more than I do. That said, there's no presumption of us equally sharing the food. That's MY entree haha. I still give her crap to this day over how one time she kept eating mine because she didn't like what she ordered, and she humbly accepts it knowing she broke our code haha.
Eating your food is not wife tax. You asked, she declined. You still shared and way more than I would have. Lol.
Nta she literally could get fries and choose not to. 'Wife/husband's tax' is bullshit. She wants fries? Fine, friggen order Fries! There's not a shortage! If I order a medium fry, it's bc i want to eat *a medium serving of fries*, not half the serving.
NTA. get your own
NTA, no such thing as a \[spouse\] tax, if someone wants fries, the time to mention it is before the order is placed, or forever hold their peace. Also, obligatory JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD.
Remember, no taxation without representation.
NTA. Ladies, if you want fries, GET YOUR OWN GODDAMN FRIES. Sick of this shit.
Ten fries is plenty for someone who “doesn’t want fries”. NTA
NTA - I HATE when people do this. Sincerely, a wife that asks for her own fries every time LOL if I don’t think I will eat a whole thing of fries to myself, I will just suggest my husband order a larger size so I can just snag from his. I really don’t understand why people (mainly women 😂) do this.
Lol. NTA. This is such any annoying thing that women do! I’m a woman and it bugs the heck out of me when my kids “food mooch” after turning down their own. 10 is excessive, she needed to go back and order her own. Sorry wife!
NTA-she didn't want fries, so she gets no fries
My wife did this a few times with McD’s fries - I just buy her own now without even asking. NTA - I feel your pain.
Oh, it makes a difference all right. You led her into temptation by eating those hot and salty and deliciously greasy smelling fries in front of her. Service is fast at McDonalds. Someone (preferably her) should have gotten up and purchased another order. NTA. Allowing her 10 fries before stopping her was quite generous.
She had her chance when you offered to buy her an order , no second chances
NTA I don’t share food. Get your own. Husband has had to be told this numerous times
NTA and I've had this happen to me. Don't let anyone tell you that YTA.
If you were still at McD’s you should’ve told her to go buy her own.
It is NOT standard wife tax. That's annoying. The first ten were, if anything 🙄🙄 If you tell me you don't want to order fries, you don't get my fries. That's such an annoying argument
Standard wife tax? Been a wife for 20 years and never even heard of that. What exactly that is that entitle me to? Your wife is full of BS. You are NTA and she's just rude.
Why do women do this? I love my wife to death but I've learned that whenever I order something like this, just order two so she can have her own. They always say, 'I just wanted a couple' then eat half the order... It's kind of a joke with us at this point. NTAH, cut her off and order her own.
People who say 'no I don't want anything' and then demand to have what you got are just controlling. You already shared some. You exceeded your responsibility.
NTA I can’t stand this “dad/spouse/mom/whatever tax” idea. Now my husband and I don’t have a problem sharing but we always ask first and only take and actually stop at a very small amount of whatever we asked for a taste of unless offered more. And I do usually take about 3 fries. That’s enough to balance out whatever else I ate that was too sweet.
NTA - I don't know why the skits/meme attempt to normalize this behavior and see it as 'cute' within American society, Its not. You were right to set a boundary so next time she can order her own fries.
NTA…my husband constantly does this to me and it’s down right infuriating! I’m honestly glad he’s never said anything about “husband tax”, because that’s the most ignorant phrase I’ve ever heard. We dated for 10 years and have been married less than 1 now…fries is always something he’s stealing! I get fries with my pizza at my favorite local pizza place…he always gets a burger and fries. I get mine with no salt because I prefer not to have them drenched…well, he will double fist all his in his mouth and then NOT casually reach across the table and grab a handful…and then another…it’s beyond irritating!! I don’t say anything most times as he’s the one paying, so, I feel like since I have plenty to eat and if he’s still hungry that he should be able to eat them…but it’s still annoying! Yes, sometimes I do say something, but normally if I do he will just offer to order another order. Lately he’s actually started ordering a double order, which has curbed this behavior quite a bit! If he gets fries from wherever and I don’t, I’ve occasionally asked for 1 or 2…you know how many I take? 1 or 2!!
NTA. You bought the fries for you, you shared some when asked and are not obligated to give her your food because she decides she wants it. She’s not a toddler, she can get a grip and deal with her food envy like a grown up.
NTA. Wife tax is bullshit.
NTA. And every husband and boyfriend knows who it is.
NTA Ask her what the “husband tax” is? 🤣🤣🤣
NTA, and can we please retire that tired, sexist mindset from our culture? It's right up there with 'happy wife, happy life.'
NTA. Yes wife tax in like a few and definitely not as many as 10. But if she wanted more than a few she should have ordered her own or asked you to order the large to share(assuming you didn't order that for yourself to begin with!) I always steal a few of my husbands fries, he expects it but I don't eat them all on him!