To be disgusted by this?!

[Sabrinatheteenagebitchx]

So i work in a pub, i was serving a family of four (2 kids between 6 and 10ish) the kids were off playing in the play area when i bought over their meals. The kids both had chicken nuggets and chips (no veg) and as soon as i put the plates down the mother poured salt all over both of the kids meals without even asking them if they wanted it!!!

Why? Why why why would you ever do this?! Why do the childen need any extra salt to an already salty meal? She didn't even give them a choice just poured it all over the meals without even asking them. They dont even get a choice in whether they get an addrd salt diet or not. Id never even dream of putting any added salt in mine or my children food. Also any salt for that matter, I wont buy any high in salt foods.

Sorry this is a rant just upset me the children didnt even get a choice in whether they eat salt or not. Start as you mean to go on i suppose...

bloodywhitecat I think I love you

Boris, ah ok, much easier to overdo salt in that case then

Ffs. It’s salt. Not grains of strychnine.

YABU to be disgusted. It’s just a bit of salt!

It just seems unlikely

Well POTS and EDS are largely invisible illnesses, @Sabrinatheteenagebitchx so unless you have x-ray vision you’d have NO clue if the children have these or similar conditions, would you.

My ds 7 asks for salt when we are in a resturant. I cover the hole with my finger and whip it about in the air. He thinks hes got salt so will sit and eat his meal and I know he hasn't lol I feel quite pleased that I've managed to get one over on him

I know nothing we serve will be that healthy thats exactly why the mother shouldnt have added salt.

So it's fine for you to give these children unhealthy food, but it's not fine for their mother to season it? Somewhat skewed sense of health and morality there, OP.

Perhaps that's all you had that her kids will eat, or some other reason you don't know about.

Perhaps your pub's food is lipid and bland - it wouldn't be the first - and she didn't want them to turn their noses up at it after spending money.

More offended/disgusted by your spelling to be fair!

Lighten up. It's just chicken nuggets and a bit of salt!

My kids sometimes ask for salt. I put my finger over the hole and shake it so they think they're getting salt but they're not...People must think I'm a terrible parent.

Disgusted and concerned about our children's future because a stranger added a bit of salt to her child's chips? Christ.

Get a life OP and ditch the holier than thou attitude too.

And I'd say there was approximately 45 grains of salt on each nugget. Unacceptable

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You have absolutely no idea what this child's day to day diet is like or how these people parent. For all you know this could have been a treat meal out and they might eat better than your kids at home. Don't be so precious.

I tend to put very little salt in the food. My mum, where DS often has lunch, the same.
He often picks up and eats large grains of salt from food and prefers to eat salty food.
Better than to eat lots of carbs or sugary things in my book.
I'm also a biologist and don't care much for food fads or scaremongering.

Okay so every other fucker on AIBU gets to ask stupid pathetic things but i want to start a debate and im the bad person.

And to those whole are saying its me giving the kids this food NOPE its the parents ordering it and the company producing the menu. Im just doing my job and serving the food.

And the comment about my kids watching YouTube they would rather play with their toys than watch other children playing with toys.

What condition is that ?

What condition is that ?

Okay so every other fucker on AIBU gets to ask stupid pathetic things but i want to start a debate and im the bad person

No. Anybody that starts a thread like this gets their arse handed to them. It’s not just you OP.

Look it’s Friday, pour yourself a drink and get off MN.

AIBU isnt the place for "debate"

its the place for asking AM I BEING UNREASONABLE

And people are mostly saying, yes YABU!

I dont drink thanks. Im not an alcoholic like most mumsnetters

Yes, YABU, if it's bad for her to do it, it's bad for you to do it and profit from it. For all you know the quality of the food is the reason and she is disguising the taste.

I dont drink thanks. Im not an alcoholic like most mumsnetters

Ahhh, the typical bitchy comments when the thread doesn't go your way.

You didn't start the thread for a debate. You started it in the hope we'd all sit here trashing the parents of this child and justify your judgement of them over one moment of their day that you witnessed.

Out of all the truly heartbreakingly awful things that could happen to those little kids in this mucked up world, salty chips and chicken nuggets doesn't even rank. Perspective, please.

Bloody hell OP what’s wrong with you?
Are you like this in real life?

Well thats what most mumsnetters talk about having a glass of wine or gin.

Of course theres worse things in life. Theres also worse things than 'my MIL said i gained weight' but that still gets posted on here.

Do they?

You can start a thread about whatever you want to OP but there’s no law on here to say that everyone has to agree with you

To be honest I'd find my MIL commenting on my weight a lot more unreasonable that a stranger choosing to put a bit of salt on their kids dinner.