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To refuse to eat the chicken MIL cooked for us?

116 replies

fedupintheoffice · 26/10/2009 14:18

DH, myself and our DC went to MIL and FIL's yesterday, as we do every week, only this time they offered last week to cook a Sunday dinner which we very gratefully accepted. Until a few months ago I was completely vegetarian for all of my lifehood, until I decided that I would like to eat meat, but strictly only free-range. As I have been with DH for over 20 years, PIL know all these. Even so, I asked DH to remind them last week when they phoned to invite us round, even offered to buy the meat ourselves as I am very aware how much more expensive free-range and organic can be.

So we went yesterday, meal was served, looked very yummy, I was tucking into my mash and veg, when MIL pipes up..."I already had the chicken in the freezer, it's not that fancy stuff you asked for, but it's all the same, isn't it?"...well I politely refused to eat the chicken, MIL told me I was ungrateful and when African kids are starving, I should be happy to have anything infront if me. DH stood up for me but I was really upset, although managed to stand my ground. WIBU?

P.S. I did eat the rest of the dinner, just not the meat.

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fedupintheoffice · 26/10/2009 15:53

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RealityBites · 26/10/2009 15:54

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cupcake123 · 26/10/2009 15:54

I don't know, Sparkle - I think prosaic is good when it comes to trolling. The more outlandish enad exotic the set-up, the more suspicious people are from the outset. I like a bit of subtlety in a troll. I'm a troll connoisseur, me.

cupcake123 · 26/10/2009 15:55

Er, by "enad", I mean "and." Obviously.

fedupintheoffice · 26/10/2009 15:55

Oh the DP and facebook was fo' sho', just he was a recently departed ex. I couldn't give 2 hoots about him now the bastarding pig!

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alwayslookingforanswers · 26/10/2009 15:59

a recently departed ex - but you'd been single a week before

GetOrfMoiLand · 26/10/2009 16:03

Your are OFF YOUR ROCKER.

Heated · 26/10/2009 17:22

Thank you Allnew, but my pertinant and all round marvellous point was completely wasted as 'tis a 'joke' thread. Typical.

ruddynorah · 26/10/2009 18:43

oh ffs

CaptainNancy · 26/10/2009 20:50

How sad and pathetic must your life be, that you need to troll about chicken eating? I really pity you.

mumeeee · 26/10/2009 22:25

You were very rude and unreasonable. She cokked you a nice meal and you refused to eat some of it becuase it didn't come up to your standards.

mejon · 26/10/2009 22:35

She was also living with a daughter who was into communal singing a few weeks ago.

I reported the 'Facebook' and 'No men like fat birds' threads due to the inconsistencies and similarities to MN ages ago but heard nothing and clearly she's still getting through. I was going to come in and unmask her, but Hoochiemama and ALFA got there first!

paisleyleaf · 26/10/2009 22:42

Well spotted HoOoOchieMommaargh!

EyeballsintheSky · 26/10/2009 22:45

I'm very confused...

2rebecca · 26/10/2009 23:04

I prefer free range chicken, but if someone has already bought the chicken then it's dead already so whether or not you eat it is irrelevent surely? I don't get the principal here. Similarly I buy free range eggs but at other people's houses eat whichever eggs I'm given. Refusing to eat the eggs makes no difference to that particular chicken.

MIL sounds unreasonably awkward however. She could easily have left that chicken in the freezer and bought a free range one, or told you in the first place she was just going to cook a battery chicken.
Not sure what her point was, other than showing herself to be deliberately mean to a guest. Wouldn't have done that myself, esp as you offered to bring the chicken.

theworldsgoneDMmad · 27/10/2009 00:01

FGS - if you're going to troll, at least make it funny!

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