I hate sweet potatoes. AIBU

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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.

YANBU. Never has a vegetable been so overrated.

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

Well this exactly. I feel the same. Maybe we are just a small and special minority

Just tell him you don't like sweet fucking potatoes..... Job done

The only good use for a sweet potato is making a squash and sweet potato soup that's really nice, but alone - nope.

I also wouldn't appreciate rogue SPs sneaking where I'm not expecting them, I don't like mixing sweet and savoury.

Yanbu. They have their place but not where proper spuds should be.

YANBU. They make me slightly queasy. Cannot bear them mixed INTO something, only (just) by themselves. I’d say very Unreasonable of HIM to go sneakily mixing them into stews and casseroles. LTB?

I always ate anything (except bananas) but as I have matured I no longer eat any sweet vegetables. The list now includes parsnips, carrots sweet potatoes and some squash.

However my favourites are sprouts and broccoli. So a lack of sweet tooth is a sure sign of maturity.

I like sweet potato, my DH would probably choke down sweet potato if he was desperately hungry or being polite at a dinner party, but not otherwise. So I don't try to feed it to him because I love the guy and want him to enjoy his dinner. He returns the favor by not feeding me the things I dislike when it is his turn to cook.

It is really strange to deliberately cook things you know someone will dislike, so yes, he is very unreasonable.

No yanbu sweet potatoes are fucking disgusting things. Fuck off with your 'upgrade to sweet potato fries', potatoes should not be sweet, they are disgusting!!

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

I do most of the time. He always does sweet potatoes, but mostly they are separate from the main dish It's when he does a "stew" which is full of sweet potatoes that I have an issue avoiding them.

I suppose that I thought, that after 35 years of marriage, he'd have got it by now. It's not like I don't complain about the surfeit of sweet potatoes. I simply do not like them. He knows that. So when he makes a stew, why does he fill it with sweet potatoes? Which he aabsolutely knows beyond any shadow of a doubt, that I don't like.
Not only don't Iike it, but if I taste sweet potato it will put me off eating the entire thing.

I'm with you OP. Hate them.

OP what doesn't he like? Maybe you could fill all your dishes with that particular ingredient....

I generally dislike sweet and savoury mixed (no sweet and sour for me) so I am not a fan. I don’t find the purple ones so bad, they taste more like Jerusalem artichokes.

Just tell him you don't like sweet fucking potatoes..... Job done

I fucking did. Several years ago, I genuinely think that he has something else going on in his head, Like he's always on broadcast, never on receive. He simply does not listen.

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Garlic in bubble and squeak is inspired. Going to try that.

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

Snap. I think that might be part of it. But. Whatever!

We all have our reasons..

They are ok in chunks, but mashed they have a revoltingly slimy consistency imo.

Yanbu, i don't mind sweet potato but if i didn't like them and dh kept bloody cooking with them I'd go nuts! I like bell peppers but i don't cook with them when dh is eating as he really doesn't like them. I just make them when he's out.

YADNBU sweet potatoes are vile and revolting.
Just keep adding a little bit of a food he finds revolting into everything you cook for him. Or try this,
Cat/dog food in a pie
Salt in an apple pie
Salt in custard
Yogurt in tea/coffee
Ditto salt
Chilli powder in a cake
Prunes with a bacon sandwich
Sultanas in an omelette
If he complains, tell him it's just a little bit

I could stand the odd bit of sweet potato mash in a situation where you'd have ordinary mash but sticking it in things would annoy me too. It would be like me bunging red chillies in everything I cook when DH isn't a fan of very spicy food. Mushroom risotto with red chillies isn't a thing.

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

KatherineJaneway

That's the most sensible answer I've seen. He';s been doing it for 35 years .So I am not being unreasonable to be,quite severely, pissed off when my dislikes are totally ignored.
He made a lamb stew tonight, He made the effort and it would have been nice But it was sweet potato heavy, It was all I could taste,

And he put all sorts of extraneous shite in it.

His lamb casseroles are garlic heavy. He overspices everything,

I can live with that, I suppose

I love sweet potatoes but putting them in spag bol??? Big no, no!!
I see your point OP.

I hate them and they make your teeth feel odd. Then there is the texture and taste yanbu. Blergh!

garlic in bubble and squeek is a must though so your bu on that one.
and garlic is always gooood.

sweet potatos meh.think they are only nice when roasted with red onions.

I enjoy sweet potatoes but would not be enjoying them if I had them four nights a week or as a surprise ingredient in spaghetti Bolognese.

Would he be open to roasting or mashing some in a batch and then doling them out to himself through the week?

I'd hate to miss out on potentially tasty food because it's been spoiled by something I don't like.

As a pp said, if he didn't like coriander or something you wouldn't be putting it in every meal you cooked.