AIBU to put 2 small pieces of beetroot on his plate?

[Sapeke1]

Week in week out I cook. Seven days a week with a roast on Sunday the same boring food with the same boring vegetables (peas, carrots) that my family will eat but TODAY I cut a BEETROOT into chunks and steamed it put most of it on my plate but I gave the everyone else 2 small pieces to try. My husband reacted like it was a sheep's eyeball or something, shouting "WHY HAVE YOU PUT BEETROOT ON MY PLATE?" and scooped it into the compost caddy thus undermining any attempts to encourage the kids to try this exotic new vegetable. Should I just stop cooking or what?

[BertrandRussell]

Presumably your dp knows you are phobic?

[BertrandRussell]

The point is there is no suggestion that the OP's dp had any food issues. And he didn't eat it! He saw it on his plate, stood up, shouted and threw it away. In the presence of children. Which is just unacceptable.

[BertrandRussell]

Yes. The shouting would be unacceptable if the person serving you didn't know you had an issue with beetroot. And under any circumstances in the presence of children. I can't imagine being in a relationship with someone who had such an extreme reaction to a foodstuff and not knowing about it.

[BertrandRussell]

But it wasn't a child and he doesn't have food sensitivities!

[Whisky2014]

Mmm I love beetroot.

YANBU.

I cant stand fussy eaters or people unwilling to try stuff.

How about roast parsnips and sweet potato?

[cabbage67]

I feel your pain OP. I used to love cooking but don't really have much pleasure in it anymore and blame my two fussy boys (12& 10) for this. I only want them to try a tiny bit! We've offered them money before just to try food.

[RepentAtLeisure]

I loathe beetroot. It tastes like sweet flavoured mud (I assume, I haven't eaten mud since I was four).

But I am a fairly reasonable adult, so at best I would cut it into small pieces and try to disguise the taste with other food. If I was feeling U I would ignore it. I would not yell and rush to get it off my plate as if it were a spider or a lump of shit...

You need to speak to him about the fact that he is supposed to be a role model to his children. And that he is supposed to be an adult...

[BertrandRussell]

I get that, ficbia. But, unless this is
Going to be the biggest drop feed in recorded history, that does not apply to the OP's husband. And even if it did, and the OP for some reason didn't know, it still isn't acceptable to shout.

[Whisky2014]

Ficbia - you've missed the point and have turned it into something that affects you. Even if the husband does have some kind of taste/texture thing he didn't have to react that way, did he?

[Whisky2014]

Bertrand i mean no offence but by saying I shouldn't shout that's not acceptable you clearly don't get it

WTF?

[pearlylum]

A food aversion is such a first world problem.
I have seen people scrabbling in the dirt trying to rescue grains of rice from a split bag.
I can guarantee they don't have food aversions.

[blushrush]

ficbia, I think the point Betrand is trying to make it that there is an acceptable way of saying 'no' and an unacceptable one.

Yes, if you explicitly told someone you have a food sensitivity and they ignored it for some reason, you have the right to be upset. Remove yourself from the situation, ask for a new plate, excuse yourself from the table and speak privately with the host.

However, shouting, yelling or throwing a fit of rage is not acceptable.

The OP's post does not state anything about food sensitivities, or similar. It sounds as though her husband simply 'didn't like' the beetroot and responded in a very over the top manner. He could have simply ignored it and not eaten it, and then mentioned it to his wife later when the children were not at the table.

Food aversions are terrible. My friend has a serious one with condiments. However, if someone were to accidentally put some in front of her, she would not scream at them, not matter how repelled she was.