A work colleague (I'll call Laura)) was complaining that she was going to have to go to her mums house for dinner, and how her mum was making this certain dish which Laura hated, how she was dreading it as the food made her heave.
I suggested to Laura that she just tell her mum she isn't keen on that dish, and ask if her mum could make something else.
Laura was horrified at the suggestion and I said I couldn't understand why she couldn't politely (without insulting her mum's cooking) just be honest.
Anyway another colleague piped up and said that's because Laura has been well brought up, unlike me.
Anyway it got me thinking to a time once, dh had made some eggs on toast and I said they were a little too runny for me. He went in a major sulk, said I was ungrateful, and I should have just ate them all up whether I liked them or not. He also thinks it's very rude to leave food on your plate including in a restaurant.
So aibu to think that there are times that it's acceptable to politely decline food?
Now I wouldn't dream of going to a meal and telling someone that their cooking is awful. Or complaining about the food at my husbands relatives. But in the case of your own close family, your mother, your husband, it's ok?
In my family we are just honest with each other if we don't like something. Nobody takes offence, no one would want to force somebody to eat anything.
Are we just a rude bunch?