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.

I don't think it unreasonable that your husband refused to bbq the children.

Oh i came here to say exactly this!

Omg
Where is my head at
I thought this was about sex ..

yabu.

I’m a size 16 and sometimes feel too hot to eat in weather like this. It’s not performative, it’s how I actually feel.

Seems you don’t realise that different people feel differently about things.

But people are so easy to prepare in this heat. Just pop them outside for a bit to finish the slow cooking process. Apparently we are a bit like pork, so I'm thinking slow roasted pulled humans.

Don't forget the bread and a massive salad.

Depends upon the particular MIL, I guess. Mine would have been the equivalent of a quail and requiring significant marinading with gin to get anything much out of her, whereas DP's would have comfortably fed nine for a month with some redcurrant jelly to offset the inherent bitterness and a Pepto-Bismol smoothie for afters.

Well this topic does sound like a modest proposal 😃

YABU for turning 'snack' into a verb. It was a bad enough word when it was only allowed in the noun department.

YAalsoBU for not responding to the amusing posts picking up and running with your accidental suggestion that you eat people.

But YANBU for wanting some actual dinner.

As Noel Edmonds one said:
Britain is too full….

After you…

It's not performative nonsense. If people don't want to eat then that's up to them.

BBQing food in 34 degree heat sounds like a miserable thing to many people.
'Oh it's hot, let's eat hot food around a fire'.

OP was OK with DH standing in the sun besides a hot BBQ.

But -
OP didn't want to make the house hot by having the oven on inside.
OP couldn't be arsed to stand in the sun besides a hot BBQ herself.

OP telling u all she's a size 8 and her MIL 'is not slim'.

OP is a first time poster.

If this isn't a load of goady bollocks I will eat a hat/person.

Eating a snacc
Hot

This is why David Cameron was confused 🐷💋💓

Do the skins need pricking though? 😄

Surely in hell it would be a barbeque rather than a buffet ?

Perfectly fine although the cooking method has to be correct and the temp. Not too hot. As the telecoms engineer found out this morning when he turned up to dig up our garden.

If they're high meat content, probably not, but if you're going for the full crackling experience, you'll need to singe all the hairs off first, stab repeatedly with a salad fork and massage in olive oil, Rosemary and sea salt - I think that's available from John Lewis cosmetics departments and Booths for those who live further north.

😋

Absolutely. You can eat people warm or cold. I prefer a nice people ceviche in this weather.

It is too hot to eat. The thought of cooking and eating hot food or ordering from a sweltering takeaway where who knows how hot the food the food gets when stored in there is an ick.

Surely that's the difference? If you live in a hot climate, you become more habituated to eating people when it's hot.

The UK isn't a hot climate. So when the heat arrives, it hits some people's appetites quite hard.

People make the naicest ham
The naicest ham
The naicest ham
People make the naicest ham
With a hey nonny no 🎶🎶🎶

[To the tune of 'Do you know the muffin man?'. English trad. folk song.]

I am more interested that you snacked on sardines.

Fresh or tinned?
Straight out of the can? Was toast involved?

I am seriously impressed. Puts my bunch of grapes or yogurt in the shade.

You don't think there'd be BOTH buffet AND barbecue??? (Panics)

It's not performative nonsense: hot weather makes me feel sick and I can't eat (humans or human food!).
It may surprise you to hear, but people's appetites differ...

Has OP answered why she ordered food instead of cooking the food she wanted?