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?

And he had no problem scraping it into the compost bin- not a panic rush to the nearest bin- and carry on with his dinner.

Because she treated him like a child and tried to force him to try it.

I know she was trying to give a good impression to her children, something I am desperate to do, essentially she over ruled his own thoughts and feelings and treated him like her own kid

Because she didn't want to draw attention to it in a way that might put the children off. Which an aware father would realise.

She didn't fucking try to force him to have it did she?! She put it on his plate FOR FUCK SAKE.

"Because she treated him like a child and tried to force him to try it."

She just put it on his plate- she didn't force feed him, ffs.

Beetroot is the work of the devil. YABU

Seriously, I'd expect more support from a partner than a school play ground hissy fit

yabu
you know he doesn't like it, yet you put it on his plate. I would have scraped it off it was me(but onto your plate.

Which to some people is a trigger. What part of that is not clear?

It's not all fussy eating you know. Some disorders have only just been discovered so there are plenty of people walking around being accused of being fussy when actually they have an eating disorder

" can't get round the compete lack of understanding of food issues here. They don't go away once you're an adult you know".
I understand food issues as much as someone who doesn't have one can. The OP's husband does not have food issues. He is a jerk.

ficbia, please stop trying to argue with points that can only possibly relate to you.

Your compost bin might be nearest to your dining table, but how in the name of the flying spaghetti monster do you know where the OP's bin is!?

I understand food issues, I do. But the OP's post was not about food issues or sensitivity, it was about her husband's OTT reaction in front of her kids when she's trying to get them to try new things.

As I said before, if he had a food phobia, he would not have been able to eat the rest of the food on the plate. He would have needed a new clean plate at least.

"She put it on his plate. She didn't ask she didn't give him a choice. She just put it on his plate"

She served his dinner. There was beetroot as part of the dinner. He does not have food issues. And he SHOUTED at her. He did not say "oh, beetroot- I don't much like it" or "no beetroot for me next time please" or even just quietly left it. He SHOUTED. There is no planet on which that is acceptable. (He does not have food issues)

What happened to communication between man and wife?

"Dh I'm cooking a roast for tea tonight. Going to see if I can persuade the kids to try a bit of beetroot. Want some on your plate?"

"No thank you wife. Thank you for the roast though. Your cooking is delicious"

It's just because her food issue is related to beetroot.

If this thread was about lettuce would Ficbia have gone on the way she did? No.

OP PLEASE COME BACK!

Because she didn't know whether he likes it or not. Not liking something is not the same as having food issues. And you are completely ignoring the SHOUTING!

Possibly. It's not the beetroot she has issues with. It's the taking away the choice for your married partner

Oh ffs- she didn't "take away his choice". She served the dinner, which she had presumably chosen all of. He didn't have to eat it.
About this shouting..

ficbia, I was going on the information you've been providing, seeing as you believe that the OP is exactly like you in every way, even down to the placement of their bin....

Could you have used the same plate?

"Man and wife?" So, not husband and wife, or man and woman?

She cooked dinner for everyone and maybe wanted to try something new. She gave him a taster. He could have just said no. He didn't, he threw a fit. How is that reasonable behaviour?