What does this mean? MIL Question

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So my MIL is visiting from a foreign country and she was telling me about her jewellery.

MIL: "Do you wear earrings?"

Me: "No, I don't wear them."

MIL: "My sister also does not wear earrings. She says she doesn't like earrings because the pigs in the province have ears that are tied like earrings."

Was she taking a dig at my weight, like my friends say? Or is this a harmless comment?

Division of labour by skill set all too often means women cooking at least once a day, washing up several times a day, doing the washing and hoovering and shopping several times a week. And men putting the bins out and mowing the lawn once a week, putting oil in the car once a month and putting up a shelf once every 5 years or so. Oh, and updating everyone's laptops and iPads once every few months.

I agree, your friend sounds like she is making sly digs about your weight, trying to sow discord by making it sound like your MIL has, and possibly sounds racist.

When I met my DH his idea of cooking was heating up M&S ready meals. I probably still do most of the cooking, but he was keen to learn and has a couple of signature dishes now.

I wonder if the no left-over things is a cultural issue due to food safety / hot countries? Our fridge is constantly filled with glass containers of meals that I have batch cooked or prepared ingredients for lunches such as poached chicken breasts.

When I was at school (many moons ago) division meant dividing into equal parts whether 2/3 parts or more....

Yeah, I do the cooking, he does the dishes.

Ignore your friend. She's making a dig about your weight not your mil. The leftovers thing is just a comment where humour is lost in translation- i say this as someone who is fully bilingual.

Mil sounds fine.

Probably best that dh does learn to cook some stuff tbh, division of labour is grand and all that but no adult should be unable to prepare lunch. I get dh to change the lightbulbs because we have high ceiling but it’s not that I can’t do it myself ;)

CantChoose thank you for teaching me a new word. I had never heard the word acopic but it sounds like a very useful one especially for some of the useless men that some MNers are lumbered with

Wasn't your mil trying to find out if you wear earrings so she could buy you a present?