Here's A Rather Terrible Story / myLot

Boise, Idaho

August 10, 2022 4:38pm CST

One of the hosts on QVC(am watching Gourmet Holiday)tells the story about when she was first married. Her in-laws were coming to dinner and she was nervous, sweating, and trying to make a good appearance. She says she fixed a chicken dish. That next Christmas holiday she got a cookbook from her in-laws. Oh gosh! I would have felt horrible. How would you have felt?

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (97912)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

11 Aug 22

The cookbook might only be that they wanted here to have more ideas for delicious dinners not that they did not like what she made,

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189793)

• Boise, Idaho

11 Aug 22

I hope that was the case.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99367)

• Atlanta, Georgia

11 Aug 22

No, I wouldn’t have felt horrible. I would have been happy that they gave me a gift.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189793)

• Boise, Idaho

11 Aug 22

She must have been self conscious.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99367)

• Atlanta, Georgia

11 Aug 22

@celticeagle She probably did.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (51811)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

11 Aug 22

Unless there was a nasty note accompanying the cookbook, I wouldn't give it too much thought. Sometime ago, I worked with a girl who said what she wanted for Christmas: a Robin Cook book, and I immediately thought "Why would you want to cook a robin?"

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189793)

• Boise, Idaho

11 Aug 22

LOL I know of Robin Cook. Not a cook.

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MARILYN

@Marilynda1225 (91013)

• United States

11 Aug 22

I'm assuming they weren't thrilled with her cooking hence the cookbook as a gift. I remember when I was first married I didn't know how to cook much either. Thankfully I learned as time went on

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189793)

• Boise, Idaho

11 Aug 22

That is how I took it and the host telling the story did too.

Terri Doss

@gtdoss (1013)

• United States

10 Aug 22

Looking at it from the brighter side, maybe they gave her a cookbook because they thought she really liked to cook, since she did fix a dish for them for the holidays, LOL! But I might have taken it negatively, too.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189793)

• Boise, Idaho

11 Aug 22

You never know.

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (112717)

• United States

11 Aug 22

I probably would have just laughed it off. My wife does not cook, and when I met her she had all these pots and pans and when I asked her what she used them for, she said they were a joke Christmas gift. They were all unused. lol

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189793)

• Boise, Idaho

11 Aug 22

How funny.

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (40020)

• Toccoa, Georgia

10 Aug 22

I would have been offended.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189793)

• Boise, Idaho

11 Aug 22

I think I might have been too.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502148)

• Italy

11 Aug 22

If she talked about wanting to learn to cook better it was a nice gift, if not it was an offensive gift.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (222222)

• United States

11 Aug 22

A cookbook is always a good gift for someone who likes to cook. Maybe they just thought she'd appreciate it. I wouldn't have been offended by it.

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Diana B.

@BloggerDi (3121)

• United States

10 Aug 22

It depend on how well I knew them and vice-versa. I can understand her feeling terrible, but hopefully they just assumed she loved cooking so a cookbook was a great gift!

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189793)

• Boise, Idaho

11 Aug 22

I can see where that could be the case.

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