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]

"I really wish people would understand that this isn't really something people like me can help."

1. the op's husband isn't like you.
   
2. presumably you could help shouting aggressively?

[Whisky2014]

Because it has nothing to do with the OP!

There's nothing to suggest the husband has any food phobias/taste textures or anything like that at all. But because YOU DO and it's with BEETROOT here you come plodding in to tell us all about your problem. Start your own thread.

The husband was out of order.

[whattheseithakasmean]

Yeah, but even if you think the DH behaved like an arse, that still doesn't make it a feminist issue. Women can be arses about food as well. A man doing something you don't like doesn't equal sexism - it means someone is doing something you don't like.

[NeedACleverNN]

I am fully behind ficbia here as I suffer the same issues.

I cannot physically eat anything I don't like. I will be sick. Simple. I have a very limited diet anyway. It is ridiculous, I know but if it IS a disorder for me than how is that my fault?

Go ahead and stave me. I have gone without eating for days because the thought of food has made me feel ill

[RepentAtLeisure]

I cannot help my reaction. It's involuntary. I might well shout and jump up and rush out gagging.

I sympathize ficbia, and if you want to start a thread about that, please do.

But. This. Thread. Is. Not. About. You. You are derailing, and the OP may not bother coming back because the thread has now become all about you!

[Whisky2014]

I'm going to post a picture of beetroot if she keeps banging on about it.

[NeedACleverNN]

It may not be about her but she is pointing out that forcing food on others who may have a disorder undiagnosed is not fair.

Not everyone can force them self to eat food they don't like. It may be socially polite but it is not physically possible

Yes the reaction was possibly OTT with the shouting but if it's severe enough then I doubt they are going to go "oh beetroot? I don't like that. Please remove it"

[whattheseithakasmean]

In fairness to ficbia beetroot is minging.

[Whisky2014]

But need - the OP will surely know if her hubby has a phobia. Don't you think!?

[NeedACleverNN]

Not always. My family still say I'm just fussy and take the piss. My husband who I have lived with for 5 years so no where near as long as my family is the only one who gets it

[Whisky2014]

No because she maybe gave it to the kids too?

[Whisky2014]

Or maybe because he never eats anything else she wanted to give him a taste?

Stop over analysing.

[blushrush]

If the husband did have a real food sensitivity/phobia, surely he wouldn't have been able to scrape the beetroot off and continue eating the rest of his 'tainted' food?

Sounds like he was just being a baby.

[BertrandRussell]

She gave most of it to herself and two pieces each to the children and her dh to try. If you have been with somebody long enough to have two children with them, you would know if they had an extreme reaction to any fairly common foodstuff. This is not about a man with issues. It is about a jerk.