To never cook for my parents again (lighthearted)

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Dparents have come to stay for a few days. Yesterday I cooked Nigella's Coq au Riesling, with mashed potatoes, green beans. It was (If I say so myself) delicious.

What did they do? They SMOTHERED (smothered I say!) it with Sweet Chilli Sauce.

Seriously! DFather claims it was 'fusion' cooking.

WIBU to only cook pot noodles from now on?

Exh used to have gravy and fish fingers - boak

Friends DH puts chilli and I mean ghost chillis on everything! They have come for dinner multiple times and he has added chilli to:
Sauerkraut
Meatloaf
Lasagne
Coconut chicken

I give up now. I was miffed at first but now I don't care.

oooh I have a bottle off reisling in the fridge - have looked at the recipe a few times....

'Autocondimenter' love it, a new name to call my husband. His is pepper, until he sneezes. MIL is salt before tasted.

This reminds me of a week on Come Dine With Me where a contestant bought a bottle of chilli sauce with her all week claiming English food was too bland

That tortellini dish sounds delicious.

Sounds a bit teenagery to me OP.

My DS would eat anything with Nandos Lemon Sauce - if I'd let him.

Use up the rest of the sweet chilli sauce by pouring it over a block of cream cheese and scoop it up with Doritos.

Then don't buy anymore until they have left

As long as they put it on their particular portion of the dish, and not the main dish itself; does it actually matter? . My kids put ketchup on just about everything so do I, why would it bother anyone not forced to eat it?
Your cooking could be blander than you think...

DP puts sriracha chilli sauce on everything. He even has a mini refillable bottle on a keyring that he takes everywhere with him

When DS was newborn, MIL came to stay for a few days and was a godsend. On her last evening she made the most fabulous, fabulous vegetarian roast dinner for us all. It looked amazing. She served mine up for me because I was BF DS, and then went '...and here's your gravy!' and poured half a tin of lukewarm tomato soup over the entire lot! I could have wept.

How did they get hold of it to add it? In My Kitchen (says she, hocking up apron) no one may add condiments willy-nilly unless it's a pre-approved condiment for the meal (vinegar on chips, ketchup with fish fingers etc.)

Poor chicken, poor Riesling. Poor you, OP.

I have tomato ketchup with my steak. DH says if I ever do that in public he will leave me.

At our wedding my DH insisted on a bottle of HP brown sauce being placed on the table (along with mint sauce) for the lamb roast dinner, he told me that everyone in Ireland does this.

When I mentioned this to members of his extended family they were baffled, however in DH's family home it's always brown sauce with pretty much any dinner.

I could not be bothered to get worked over what someone else is eating.

It could've been worse. He could've eaten a few mouthfulls and declared it crap and left the rest uneaten.

I'm a bugger like this! Salt on most things, ketchup or mayo on almost everything (not cooked dinner as it has gravy or anything else served with a different sauce, but I don't like 'dry food' so everything not cooked with sauce needs mayo or Ketchup I think.w

My DH also puts salt on everything without even tasting it .

He gets it from his DF, who did the same - until his heart attack.

My main problem (if it is a problem) with someone putting chilli sauce on the meal you cooked is that it would taste absolutely rank .

That is horrendous, OP, YANBU at all. But why on earth did you provide the sweet chilli sauce when they asked for it?

My exILs used to carefully remove the beautiful, perfect, crispy skin from roast chicken. I just stopped giving it to them.

my mrs would have curry sauce with most meals not breakfast though but on that note vinegar on a full fry up lol

Each to their own! I have ketchup on everything including Xmas dinner, Sunday lunches and curries. My food my choice

Ketchup belongs on scrambled eggs... Sweet Chilli does NOT belong on Coq au Riesling (it's a good dish isn't it!)... perhaps instead of never cooking again serve only foods that need sweet chilli. Problem solved! (although then they'll probably add brown sauce or ketchup )

My mother puts salt on everything without tasting. Drives me nuts. Also ketchup on boiled cabbage and tea on bran flakes...

OH has bacon sandwiches with salad cream.

Wrong.

Just. Wrong.

My dad does this with mustard, ketchup and pickle. Drives me mad. There's a fab Terry Pratchett quote about this but phone makes finding it difficult.

MERLY - mayo is an acceptable addition to bacon sandwiches IF, and only IF, lettuce and either tomato or avocado are also included.
But not salad cream, not ever.

Terry Pratchett quote (from Reaper Man, the book, couldn't find it online):

"Mustrum Ricully... ...was a shameless autocondimenter*

*Someone who will put certainly salt and probably pepper on any meal you put in front of them whatever it is and regardless of how much it's got on it already and regardless of how it tastes. Behavioural psychiatrists working for fast food outlets around the universe have saved billions of whatever the local currency is by noting the autocondimenting phenomenon and advising their employers to leave seasoning out in the first place. This is really true."

Arse. RiDcully, obvs. Fat fingers.