(Christmas) AIBU to not cook chips with Christmas dinner

[Palomb]

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?

Ergh YANBU. There is a time and place for chips and it is not on a Christmas dinner.

Having said that, I would oblige if it was a child who had food issues, and would literally only eat chips. Or, they had sensory issues or similar.

For an 8yo and 13yo who presumably don't have these issues, I would not be cooking chips. There is no way.

If they can't go one day without chips, they must have a pretty poor diet. Chips every day is not good for anyone, not only that it must be boring as hell eating at theirs!

I had demands at xmas dinner last year from mil to have home cooked yorkshires (was doing it anyway!) (oh and she can't make one to save her life!) and carrot and swede mash (gross but everyone else likes it) but if she had asked me to get the chip pan out I would have told her where to go!

Hell no!!!! Xmas dinner is complicated enough without that!

Op can I just ask, what do you normally cook when they visit? Is it always chips? Do these children actually really have chips everyday?
It is a really tricky situation, like you my initial reaction was hell no, but then when you say your husband is gutted I think I would probably oblige if possible. But I don't think you're a bad host if for holding your ground.
Imagine if the thread had been
AIBU to request the host cooks my kids chips for Christmas dinner?
There would be an unresounding YES VERY!
But for the sake of harmony I'd go with microchips or cook,chips earlier wrap in foil and just bung in oven if possible to get vaguely warm.

Madness. Hide the ketchup too.