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Sick of “it’s too hot to eat people”

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Monteah · 27/05/2026 11:29

Anyone else surrounded by this performative nonsense. Both dh and his mum (staying with us as she has building work going on) pull this crap.

Yesterday we had scrambled eggs and toast for lunch. I snacked on sardines to hold me over to dinner. So not much food at all. Dh and MIL probably snacked more than I did. When I asked dh to go bbq the chicken I had marinated for dinner both he and his mum said they couldn’t possibly eat cause of the heat. Like wtf. We still need energy. MIL is not slim. It’s just bizarre and annoying.

Im a size 8 and still require dinner. Ordered food in for myself in the end.

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aquitodavia · 27/05/2026 13:05

People are just different. I can't eat much beyond salads right now, and I'm certainly not doing it performatively to annoy you! When I live in hot countries which I have done several times I also tend to lose at least half a stone pretty quickly for this reason.

GreyCarpet · 27/05/2026 13:05

IWasTangoed · 27/05/2026 13:04

I'll bear that in mind when it's the end of days, but just a bit stuck on what condiments would go best with human meat? Ketchup or mustard?

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Bit of apple sauce. Like pork.

I'd assume!

KnitWitsAnonymous · 27/05/2026 13:05

I love children but I couldn't eat a whole one . . .

ChalkOutlines · 27/05/2026 13:04

Monteah · 27/05/2026 11:29

Anyone else surrounded by this performative nonsense. Both dh and his mum (staying with us as she has building work going on) pull this crap.

Yesterday we had scrambled eggs and toast for lunch. I snacked on sardines to hold me over to dinner. So not much food at all. Dh and MIL probably snacked more than I did. When I asked dh to go bbq the chicken I had marinated for dinner both he and his mum said they couldn’t possibly eat cause of the heat. Like wtf. We still need energy. MIL is not slim. It’s just bizarre and annoying.

Im a size 8 and still require dinner. Ordered food in for myself in the end.

If they’re not hungry, they’re not hungry. However if they kept snacking, or going back to the fridge or worse, asked for some of your food YANBU.

rolloverbeethoven · 27/05/2026 13:04

Ds has pointed out that it was boiling hot in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and they had no trouble eating people.

IWasTangoed · 27/05/2026 13:04

Frequency · 27/05/2026 11:35

How many meals can you make out of one person? If a MN chicken can feed a family of five for a week, an entire person must last a year, at least.

I'll bear that in mind when it's the end of days, but just a bit stuck on what condiments would go best with human meat? Ketchup or mustard?

GreyCarpet · 27/05/2026 13:03

Monteah · 27/05/2026 12:16

I mentioned our sizes to emphasise the fact wanting to eat in hot weather is not gluttony.

Sound like a you issue, tbh.

I lose my appetite when it's hot. My partner doesn't. I've never associated it with gluttony just difference.

Jellybunny98 · 27/05/2026 13:03

I think this is just a different people thing. I have no appetite when it’s hot, my husband could continue to eat normally at any temp high or low, our daughter takes after him. All just different!

Waitingfordoggo · 27/05/2026 13:02

I don’t think I could fit a person on my BBQ unless they were very small. Also I think it’s probably not legal to BBQ people.

IPM · 27/05/2026 13:02

Monteah · 27/05/2026 12:16

I mentioned our sizes to emphasise the fact wanting to eat in hot weather is not gluttony.

No-one told you it was though.

This is purely down to you and how you feel about yourself and eating.

Anarchy99 · 27/05/2026 13:02

what is it with the slagging off of people who don’t want to eat or be in the heat? Why does it matter?

MsGreying · 27/05/2026 13:01

AuContrairePubicHair · 27/05/2026 11:30

Is there a temperature at which it's ok to eat people?

180'c for 20 minutes a lb plus 25 minutes.

ChampagneCharly · 27/05/2026 13:00

Hahaha!

DaffodilLill · 27/05/2026 12:57

Monteah · 27/05/2026 11:29

Anyone else surrounded by this performative nonsense. Both dh and his mum (staying with us as she has building work going on) pull this crap.

Yesterday we had scrambled eggs and toast for lunch. I snacked on sardines to hold me over to dinner. So not much food at all. Dh and MIL probably snacked more than I did. When I asked dh to go bbq the chicken I had marinated for dinner both he and his mum said they couldn’t possibly eat cause of the heat. Like wtf. We still need energy. MIL is not slim. It’s just bizarre and annoying.

Im a size 8 and still require dinner. Ordered food in for myself in the end.

I never eat people.

Do you @Monteah ?

Tip- If you'd closed the inverted commas after 'eat' it would make more sense.

Newsunflower · 27/05/2026 12:57

OtterandaRock · 27/05/2026 12:09

Turkeys are nasty farmed birds.
Would not touch them with a barge pole.

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But people are usually free range 😁

xogossipgirlxo · 27/05/2026 12:57

Fair enough, maybe they craved something cold? I could not bear cooking and hot food in weather we had on Monday. Mentioning mil’s weight is rather odd

SnappyCat26 · 27/05/2026 12:56

Depends on how you like them - BBQing the relatives would do great on a sunny day, or put 'em in the fridge-freezer if you like 'em cold! 😂

IPM · 27/05/2026 12:56

God, people are so weird about food and what others do/don't eat on Mumsnet.

If it's too hot to eat then it's too hot to eat.

It doesn't mean it's 'performative' 🙄

ForTipsyFinch · 27/05/2026 12:56

I lose my appetite in the heat and I’m a hefty size 16. It’s certainly not about performing some kind of tiny bird like appetite 🤣 I very much enjoy food, but I just don’t feel very hungry when the temperature feels like the arsecrack of hell. I’ll just have sandwiches or cereal I don’t fancy anything more than that. I don’t think this is unusual at all.

Mangochutney33 · 27/05/2026 12:56

@TheBirdintheCave @ThatCyanCat it's not a missed comma it's a quotation mark in the wrong place, should be at the end of eat.

tealandteal · 27/05/2026 12:56

Even in the depths of winter I don’t eat people.

Tou could have cooked the chicken yourself? Usually the heat doesn’t affect my appetite but at my PILs over the weekend it was so hot in the dining room I just couldn’t face eating the food.

Dixie81 · 27/05/2026 12:54

I do find it strange that many people say it’s too hot to eat when it’s 26°C here but on holiday in Turkey, Greece etc when it’s in the high 30’s, those same people are having a full fry every morning and kebabs, Indian or Chinese food for dinner.

C8H10N4O2 · 27/05/2026 12:53

Monteah · 27/05/2026 12:04

Didn’t want the oven on heating the house up

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Too hot to put the oven on but not too hot for someone to have to stand over a barbecue? I would not have been standing over a barbecue yesterday and I quite like some heat.

By UK standards its been very hot this week as predicted for the last couple of weeks. Many people are less hungry or want cold food, that is normal in unusually hot weather, not performative. When I had a houseful, the forecast would have had me swapping out hot food for cold/salads on the shopping for exactly this reason.

Why did you not cook the chicken if you wanted hot food, rather than ordering in?

FlapperFlamingo · 27/05/2026 12:51

I don’t see the big deal, OP. You could have cooked the bbq chicken and eaten yours and saved theirs.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 27/05/2026 12:51

@Monteah - some people’s appetites diminish or vanish altogether in hot weather - others don’t lose their appetite. People are different - you aren’t wrong for wanting food, they aren’t wrong for not wanting it.

Make food for yourself, and leave them alone.