I hate sweet potatoes. AIBU

[CheeryB]

I don't like sweet potatoes. There was a time that I could tolerate them, but that was before they got everywhere. Before sweet potato fries and sweet potato mash and all the rest. I could swallow the odd sweet potato. Occasionally.

My husband likes them to a ridiculous degree and cooks them with everything. Roasts them with roasts. Mashes them with mash. Includes them in his turn to cook (4 nights a week). And that's not a problem because they are separate and I obviously don't have to have any, which I don't. He KNOWS I fucking hate them! He KNOWS I never eat them! Because I don't bloody like them.

So. For the the past 3 Fridays he has made a lovely stew for supper.
Chicken, then lamb, then beef. But each time he has included some sweet potato in the mix. Not so lovely for me. Every mouthful includes some sweet potato, which ruins it. I like savoury stews .Sweet potatoes no doubt have their place in certain recipes, but you can't, for example, just drop them into a shepherd's pie or a lasagne or a spag bol (not bowl) without it tasting completely different to what you are expecting.
He has form for messing up traditional dishes.
Boxing day bubble and squeak. He put GARLIC in it!!
I like garlic. I LOVE garlic! But only in its place!
I was just so looking forward to having my (own families) traditional mash and sprout and carrot and cabbage fry up. And the bastard fucked it up with garlic!!

His reasoning is that he only put a very little bit of sweet potato in because he knows I don't like it much. And that he only put a very little bit of garlic in the bubble and squeak because he knows I think it spoils the taste.

So he thinks he is being really very reasonable by putting in only a small amount of the stuff I don't like, be it sweet potato or garlic.

Me: This bubble and squeak tastes of GARLIC!

He: Well I only put a little bit in because I know you don't like it in Bubble and Squeak

So why the fuck do you feel the need to put it in at all? You are either very stupid, or you want to antagonise me!!

We've been married 35 years. I like garlic, but only in its place,
I've almost always not really liked sweet potato. I'm amazed and gutted that he still goes out and buys them every Saturday, I absolutely love every other vegetable, sprouts are my favourite.

I'm going to print off all replies.
He needs to know that if you cook a stew, you should take into account the preferences of your wife/partner of 35 years plus.

Yabu. Sweet potatoes are lovely.

Ltb. I'll have him.

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You a being a tiny bit unreasonable. I adore sweet potato fries, it's awesome in some soups, but I hate it mashed and eating it 4 times a week would be too much for me

Oh and congratulations on your anniversary 🌸🌸

Sweet potatoes are so sickly, they make me feel ill! I really wanted to love them, but I can't, so I'd say YANBU!

I like sweet potatoes. From your thread title I thought you were someone I know, except it would be girlfriend not husband. But you are still NU because I don't put "just a little bit"
of coriander in everything because I know my husband hates it, even though I love it.

Sorry, you are wrong. Sweet potatoes are delicious and so is garlic. Both in stews - yum! Mind you, I love sprouts too, so serve them all I say!

You could always kill him and bury the body in the garden. No more sweet potatoes.

I like them now and then but they are a bit sickly, dare I say too sweet.... However if you don't like his cooking, cook for yourself

Oh and YABU about the garlic, a little bit of garlic, smoked bacon and black pepper are essential for bubble and squeak.

They are over-rated and too sweet for most savoury dishes. YANBU at all.

YANBU. It's unreasonable for him to put it in stew knowing you don't like it. You can't pick it out.

I used to like them, then during my second pregnancy I ate so many I think it was five years before I could even think about eating them again. Genuinely made me feel sick to my stomach.

Love em again now, but if I do them with a roast I always make sure I do normal spuds too for husband that doesn't like them.

I know this is semi-lighthearted but it's horrible when a food you don't like it regularly served up.

You’ve been married for 35 years! And you’ve only just realised that sweet potatoes are the devil’s food? Oh my days. I really think that you need to suck it up . Don’t you remember your marriage vows.. ‘ thou shalt eat thy partner’s sweet potato shite ‘till death do you part?’
YABU!

No, I really dislike them and I don't understand the craze at all.

I don't like sweet potatoes either. I'd be pissed off if someone I lived with knew that and still tried to put them in dishes

YANBU. He could cook a portion on the side for himself and keep them out of what you are eating.

YAB a liitle U. He should be able to cook whatever he wants to eat. But he is U too, as he should let you know that he is making something you might not like so you can make something else.

Sweet potatoes are the food of the gods and should be eaten at every possible opportunity.

HTH.

YANBU.

I don’t like sweet potatoes either. I don’t have a particularly sweet tooth, and I’m not a big fan of anything sweet as part of a savoury meal, eg cranberry sauce with turkey.

Refuse to eat anything which contains them until he gets the message.

Don’t blame you I also can’t bear them. Selfish!

I don't like them either...just a food fashion and on every menu at present....

YANBU they're horrible and if you don't like them, you won't be able to enjoy a dish even with just a few of them in there. Why can't he just cook them separately for himself and put perfectly nice savoury potatoes in a savoury stew?

You are being completely unreasonable. What sort of evil person doesn’t like sweet potatoes anyway! Next you’ll be saying plantain isn’t your thing 🙄 🤤

Yanbu I hate them. So sweet and ditto butternut squash

@CheeryB YANBU!

Weirdly, the first few times I tried them (a friend gave them to me 3 or so years ago,) I thought they were OK. Different and OK.

But by the 4th or 5th time I tried them, I'd had enough. Wouldn't want them again. Too sickly sweet IMO.

Yabu for not liking sweet potatoes because they taste amazing. But your husband ibvu to put them in meals so often when he knows you don't like them especially in something like stew where it's hard to pick it out. He is also bvu to ruin bubble and squeak with garlic.