I can't eat that!
By hvedra
@hvedra (1619)
November 28, 2011 11:12am CST
Have you ever said you had special dietary requirements to avoid someone's bad cooking?
Back when I was a teenager I went vegetarian predominantly to avoid my mother's really bad cooking. Of course she cooked vegetarian food as badly as she did everything else but because she didn't know how to prepare a lot of it was happy to buy me vegeburgers and other ready-meal kinds of things so I didn't have to eat her cooking very often. Later I started cooking my own food and after I moved away from home started cooking meat again - shock horror, it was actually good!
So I've got an extreme example where I claimed a special diet for years because the food at home was so bad, but has there been a time when you've declined and said you couldn't eat something because what was on offer was awful?
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8 responses
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
30 Nov 11
I cannot eat bacon because it doesn't agree with me. There are other foods that I cannot eat either, but that one is the big one. I love food, but sometimes, food doesn't love me.
That's pretty bad!
@celticeagle (189915)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Nov 11
I have never had to do this. My mother was an excellent cook and so was my grandmother. Infact, I miss their cooking. Delicious roasts and bread and made all from scratch. Sorry to hear that your mom was not a good cook. Glad you like meat now. I couldn't eat just veggies.
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@sijabatnaburjut (2171)
• Indonesia
29 Nov 11
I have a story and it was very disappointing. Once, I have a friend of mine and he prepared our dinner with fried mix veg. We were all happy we had something to eat. I did not know really what I ate, the veg were tasteless and crude. They ate voracious while I couldn't eat because the vegetables were crude. No one yelled at it but I was the only complained that the veg were not so nice. The other friend pretended to like eating the food, because he said that he didn't want to disappoint him. I was honest but it didn't hurt him.
@WakeUpKitty (8691)
• Netherlands
28 Nov 11
No I never did and to be honest I would never dare if I would refuse my mother's or grannies dinner/meals.
If you did not finish your plate they gave it back to you at the next meal, and so on. So no matter if you liked it you had to eat it. So we learned to eat everything.
If I don't like to eat something (which is very rare) I will say so.
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@mmgonzales (882)
• Philippines
29 Nov 11
Actually dont have same situation like yours, i lived with my granny, she is so great in cooking! And so i learn how to cook and even i stay
At my friends house I cooked for them. I have no chance on saying i have bad diet just to avoid somebody meal.. Ü
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
28 Nov 11
No but I do have a story my husband likes to tell. His cousin's Mother (an Aunt) couldn't cook very well. His cousin stayed over and was all excited to eat there until she found out my hubbie's Mom was cooking chicken. The cousin's Mom boiled chicken and served it. She boiled the flavor right out of it. So my Hubbie's Mom made oven fried chicken. The cousin adored it. She asked how to make it. She tried to get to his Mom's house after that once a month so she could learn how to cook. She informed her Mom that from now on, she was cooking the chicken.
So his cousin and aunt were like you and your Mom. But luckily, she learned how to cook as a teenager and rescued the family from the horrible cooking.
My Mom was such an awesome cook that very few people could match her. People were always trying to match her. But they couldn't. Part of it was that my Mom (when Dad had a job) always bought the best ingredients.
Glad you learned how to cook. Bet you are, too!
