Sick of “it’s too hot to eat people”

[Monteah]

Anyone else surrounded by this performative nonsense. Both dh and his mum (staying with us as she has building work going on) pull this crap.

Yesterday we had scrambled eggs and toast for lunch. I snacked on sardines to hold me over to dinner. So not much food at all. Dh and MIL probably snacked more than I did. When I asked dh to go bbq the chicken I had marinated for dinner both he and his mum said they couldn’t possibly eat cause of the heat. Like wtf. We still need energy. MIL is not slim. It’s just bizarre and annoying.

Im a size 8 and still require dinner. Ordered food in for myself in the end.

Are you keeping the person whole? My freezer not that big so would definitely need to be cut up.

I am feeling hungry now. Going to check the larder.

For afters, something light and tangy like a lemon meringue pie, or a Solero.

Cutting up is fine so long as you remember to label and date them.

Do you think they’re making it up OP? What would be the point? I definitely feel less hungry in warmer weather. Shame it’s not hot all the time - I’d be like a whippet🤣 You eat what you want and enjoy it and let other people do as they please.

It's not performative, I bloody love food but have not been able to face cooking or eating dinner for the last few evenings.

I get where OP is coming from. It’s not so much the fact some people’s appetite decreases in the heat, but more the performative banging on about ‘I couldn’t possibly eat in this weather’.

Especially when the people doing this are often eating just as much as others calorie wise, but are just having it in the form of snacks, smaller meals, and often alcohol.

I remember eating a pretty unremarkable meal of salmon, chips and peas on a hot day while a relative droned on about how she was ‘too hot to eat’. All while eating crisps, dips, nuts and drinking at least 3 alcoholic drinks. Which I’m sure added up to a lot more calories than my meal!

Eating - yes. Cooking - not so much!

The men should cook the people. For sure.

Depends what you're eating, I think. A few years back I went for a walk with friends on a boiling hot day and they had a Sunday roast when we stopped off at a pub for lunch. It was the speciality of that particular pub, but even so I couldn't fathom wanting a steaming great plateful of meat, spuds and veg in the heat, and ordered a salad. I was in the minority, though, as most people seemed to be having the roast!

Love OP replying, but valiantly ignoring the whole cannibalism thing

On papaua New Guinea prople used to cook and eat deceased family members.

it’s believed to have caused a neurological disease - Kuru

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

so I’d recommend avoiding the brains

I find I prefer to eat people in winter when it's cold. A nice roast with potatoes and veg.

But it was OK to expect your dh to,stand over a hot fire?

I don’t think being a size 8 means you can never be gluttonous or that being bigger means that any time you are hungry that must be the case?

Not that I think being hungry in hot weather means that you are. I think there’s some relevance in you being smaller in that perhaps it means you get hungry more frequently, but I think that most women tend to compared to men (I think there’s evidence men can keep going in fewer, larger meals, whilst women are more step up for “little and often” in general).

Anyway, none of this means you couldn’t have cooked for yourself or that any of you are wrong.

We have been eating our main meal later in the evening during the hot days, and having less food, and food that doesn’t need cooking, during the day.

I think the cannibalism thing got tired after a couple of posts personally!

Snacking on sardines is arguably weirder than not wanting to cook 🫣

I had oxtail stew last night, chicken curry tonight.
I really can't understand not wanting hot food in hot weather.
I've lived in a hot country, & the locals eat the same sort of meals all year round.

I find it too hot to eat. As soon as the temperature hits 24C, my appetite disappears and I live on fruit, coffee and water. No alcohol either. Or ice cream. They make me feel ill.

Cook the chicken and eat what you need OP. Leave the rest in the fridge for tomorrow with salad.

Why didn’t you just bbq the chicken yourself, though?

@Monteah - some people’s appetites diminish or vanish altogether in hot weather - others don’t lose their appetite. People are different - you aren’t wrong for wanting food, they aren’t wrong for not wanting it.

Make food for yourself, and leave them alone.

I don’t see the big deal, OP. You could have cooked the bbq chicken and eaten yours and saved theirs.

Too hot to put the oven on but not too hot for someone to have to stand over a barbecue? I would not have been standing over a barbecue yesterday and I quite like some heat.

By UK standards its been very hot this week as predicted for the last couple of weeks. Many people are less hungry or want cold food, that is normal in unusually hot weather, not performative. When I had a houseful, the forecast would have had me swapping out hot food for cold/salads on the shopping for exactly this reason.

Why did you not cook the chicken if you wanted hot food, rather than ordering in?

I do find it strange that many people say it’s too hot to eat when it’s 26°C here but on holiday in Turkey, Greece etc when it’s in the high 30’s, those same people are having a full fry every morning and kebabs, Indian or Chinese food for dinner.

Even in the depths of winter I don’t eat people.

Tou could have cooked the chicken yourself? Usually the heat doesn’t affect my appetite but at my PILs over the weekend it was so hot in the dining room I just couldn’t face eating the food.

@TheBirdintheCave @ThatCyanCat it's not a missed comma it's a quotation mark in the wrong place, should be at the end of eat.