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(Christmas) AIBU to not cook chips with Christmas dinner

179 replies

Palomb · 01/10/2016 18:40

I've just been asked by one of our potential guests via DH if we'll do chips for the kids. My answers was absolutely 100% not under any circumstances.

Dh said I'm being absolutely unreasonable.

Hell will freeze over before I'll cook fries on Christmas Day.

AIBU?

OP posts:
BishopBrennansArse · 15/10/2016 17:40

You never did answer the question of whether there was any disability involved...

FurryDogMother · 15/10/2016 17:42

I'm wondering where they're planning on having their Christmas dinner now they're not coming to you - do you know? They sound like very strange people to me :)

sortthetacheoutbernard · 15/10/2016 17:51

I wouldn't be happy but I think I'd just take one for the team and dh's happiness at being with his family and shove some chips in the oven.

How silly to ruin a family Christmas over a chip or two

Gooseysgirl · 15/10/2016 19:39

YANBU OP, I would also have refused

XiCi · 15/10/2016 23:11

You 'love them to bits' yet they're not coming to you for Christmas because you won't put a couple of chips in the oven? And your DH is now gutted because he won't be with his family? Have you any idea how pathetic this is? And hell will freeze over before you serve a chip at Xmas? Why? A proportion of your guests would like chips so why not provide them and all have a happy day. I'm pretty sure my DH would tell me to get a fucking grip if I was acting like this and rightly so. We're spending our Xmas with fil and it will most certainly be his last one. Certainly puts shit like this into perspective

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/10/2016 09:14

Ooh look someone else presumably offering to provide an industrial oven for the op

What with it being full of THREE other types of potato....

Oldraver · 16/10/2016 10:13

I'm in the 'no to chips at Christmas' camp, though OH said he wouldn't mind when we discussed this thread the heathen

I cant believe they have turned down Christmas dinner for no chips. Are they usually so...........odd ?

OliviaStabler · 16/10/2016 10:17

No chips on Christmas Day. They don't like what is served, they don't eat it, simple as that.

Chattymummyhere · 16/10/2016 10:17

You don't have chips for Chrismas dinner. I have a deep fat fryer and even if my own kids asked for chips it would be a no. If they are that petty to pull out of dinner over chips you've had a lucky escape imagine how picky they could be over everything else.

Putting orders is in is fine for normal things "X really loves green beans/sweet potatoes could we have some with dinner? If you don't have the space I can cook it and bring it with me" normal. "Chips or I am not coming" not normal.

Justjoseph · 16/10/2016 10:20

I would do chips, bloody hell who cares really. It's Christmas people eat chocolate for breakfast.

NoFuchsGiven · 16/10/2016 10:25

No way would I cook chips on christmas day, I don't care who requested it.

HouseworkIsASin10 · 16/10/2016 16:40

Their choice if they don't want to come, they can sit at home and eat chips till the cows come home.

But I wouldn't be making chips for them. They were invited for Christmas Dinner, not Christmas Chips.
It's bad if the kids can't manage without chips just for one day.

LadyMaryofDownt0n · 16/10/2016 16:53

This is why I refuse to go to MILS on Christmas Day. She cooks chips! Ffs not only that but her dinners cold.

Anyway they should put up & eat up, I say that as a parent of a child who detests potatoes.

There's just something so uncivilised about chips on Christmas Day.

potentialqualms · 16/10/2016 16:54

There has to be more to this. They are people you like, people who you are still prepared to cook for on Christmas Eve, despite all this fuss over some oven chips.

As you like them and seem to know them quite well, surely there's a reason the chips are so important?

My initial reaction was no way but as you had planned (and had room for) 3 kinds of potato, I can't see the harm in making one of them something you know your guests really want

BadToTheBone · 16/10/2016 16:58

YANBU I'm usually pretty chilled out but not a chance would I cook chips in Christmas Day!

SecretSaffron · 16/10/2016 17:40

sorry, nrft but no way would I do chips on Christmas day!! I have 6 dc aged 18-8. There will be (and have never been) any chips here on Christmas day! (Admittedly 5 will leave the Sprouts, 2 will leave all Veg, 1 will leave the Turkey and 1 will leave the potatoes.....But none will have chips instead Grin)

SecretSaffron · 16/10/2016 17:42

also, if we were going somewhere else for dinner - no way would I dream of asking for the hosts to cook certain things, and ALL dc would be told to try and eat as much as they could without moaning as that is POLITE and someone had gone to the trouble of making dinner for us!!

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/10/2016 17:49

Yeah Grin

Only on MN would someone demanding chips or refusing to come be deemed as acceptable and the host who couldn't magically produce space in an already full oven or contour up a deep fat fryer to pander to kids old enough to know better somehow be the one who's rude..

In my day We went we said thank you we ate what we could and if need be eat when we got home or befire we left.

Never was chicken nuggets and chips an option on top of an already high catering workload..

foursillybeans · 16/10/2016 17:52

In my book it's more to do with the guests dictating the menu unless it is because of a food intolerance or allergy or complete dislike. If they eat chips, they eat potatoes and have to go hungry if they aren't prepared to eat them in the style cooked.

Jinglebellsandv0dka · 16/10/2016 17:56

My DGM turned up one year at my cousins house with my brother in tow. She had actually bought his fav tinned peas and told her not to put any other veg on his plate but accept those and extra roasties and pigs in blankets. It went down like a heavy shit.

He was 29 Shock

NO CHIPS

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/10/2016 18:06

She had actually bought his fav tinned peas and told her not to put any other veg on his plate but accept those

She that's the trouble half the time isn't it. Even when the host has agreed to tweak the menu it usually transpires it's still wrong as they won't eat anything but a certain brandwhich of course is withheld by said guest.

Again only on MN is a host not providing the exact same item bought from a certain shop served by a particular cashier and never bought on a Thursday , wrong.

GerdaLovesLili · 16/10/2016 18:29

Who discusses the exact contents of their Christmas meal in October? How does this even happen? Shock

BishopBrennansArse · 16/10/2016 18:42

Sometimes even in RL it's a necessity. For instance in case of disability.

Nobody ever did answer that one...

arrrrghhwinehelpswithteens · 22/10/2016 16:14

TBH it sounds to me as if the chips are an excuse of some sort - especially if it's the only reason they have given for not coming, when there are three other types of spud available.

I have hosted vegetarians at christmas and my own best friend is coeliac so I'm no stranger to having various different things cooking, but I'm sorry, chips are definitely not happening with the dinner. Boxing day, fine. Christmas Eve - fine. But not christmas day. And that's with doing most of my cooking the day before so that things just need to heat up in the oven. My MIL would die of shock if someone asked for it, as would my DM.

I feel for you OP that you''ve been put in this position but as I said, I get the feeling there is something else going on here. No-one backs out of having christmas dinner cooked for them just because there are no chips!

Chelazla · 22/10/2016 23:33

I feel really sorry for the husband. How sad a plate of chips is making him "gutted" at Christmas. Personally I think it's really petty to impact your family's happiness for something so silly.