Fussy Visitors

[jackie j]

Years ago we were regular vistitors to some friends and I always loved her food she was a very good cook and we always had extravagant ,eals at hers. They also came to us a lot when I did plain old roast much easier as both our familys got bigger 3 kids for her and 4 for me 11 of us in total. One day I thought the kids might like to have bananna custard at tea time and her husband said why dont we ever get bananna custard at home ? her reply was if you want it you make it, It was beneath her to make such simple food and her husband thanked me for such lovely plain simple food cos he was fed up with the muck she made !!! The look on her face I'm surprised they are still together.

[MaureenHall]

For those people who will only eat "supermarket / mass produced" food, scrounge some empty containers from neighbours and fill them with your own recipes. Yes, they will notice the difference and when they ask, you can tell them what you did

[Flytrap]

I think it is the fear of the unknown.
My parents only eat what they know. For example, they will not touch anything with garlic in as it's "that foreign muck'.
Took them to France for a week a few months ago (only second time abroad for them). In a Creperie one lunchtime, we all ordered Crepes that had potatoes in it. As soon as it was served I could smell the garlic. I didn't say anything. Each mouthful tasted strongly of garlic. I still didn't say anything. They ate every last piece and said it was really tasty. Had to tell them they had just eaten gralic!!! My Mum said that she thought she could smell garlic but thought it was coming from the next table.

[Snadger]

I've had chooks for some month's now but OH and rest of family have just realised it's 'hip' to have ones own chuckie eggs. She's been watching some cookery program where the cook has her own chickens and won't use supermarket eggs.
Now OH can't get enough of 'real' egg omelettes and egg derived dishes! Thank goodness the penny has eventually dropped!

[FionaH]

I sneak garlic into FiL food. He says he HATES the stuff. Never notices when he eats and says the food is delicious.
I wait for him to say it was lovely then tell him it had garlic in!

[SlugLobber]

I think it annoyed me more that she wouldn't try stuff, just said she didn't like it.

janeyo

Exactly what happened with OH's Dad, so I told him that the Baked vanilla cheesecake was, erm, baked vanilla cake. He went back for seconds, as he did with tiramisu (reckons he doesn't like ANY cheese, including cheesecake...)

ETA: In response to OWG, my ex told me after 3 years together that he didn't like pesto. I pointed out to him that two of his favourite home-made dishes (spag bol and tagliatelle sauce) had loads of the stuff chucked in. He was rather embarrassed and I still remind him of that, now, 4 years after splitting up, ha ha!

[nelliegemini]

My FIL, who comes to us every Christmas, is an avid autocondimator - we put salt and pepper on the table just for him and he loads it on until the food is encrusted (while me and OH look on with our mouths open).

I once forgot to put the s&P out and he just ate his food with no comment. Course, this is the same guy who seeing me check the cooking times for the goose in a cookery book said that when he bought MIL a cookery books she was insulted as 'only people who don't know how to cook need cookery books'.

It's going to be a blue christmas

[Glutton4...]

We have a 'friend' who claims to be a vegetarian. Now, nothing wrong with that, if it's how you want to live.

Funny though, when we all go away together she readily tucks into a full fry-up for breakfast (if someone else is cooking one). Lunchtime she'll happily eat McDonalds (I wont touch it, personally). OK I know there's not a lot of meat in there really, but you get the gist. When it comes to Sunday dinner, we all love a Roast, so usually find the nearest Carvery, or proper Pub, where she'll pig into a full plate of everything except the meat.

She eats the roast Potatoes, and gallons of gravy, without a thought to how it's produced or what its cooked in.

Nutter...?

[janeyo]

I'm a veggie and I always ask what's in things in restaurants etc. The waiting staff never know and we always have a massive wait while they try and find out... you'd be amazed how much meat stock goes into 'vegetable' soups!
I did once get served a mushroom stroganoff with beef in it. When I sent it back they didn't even apologise! And I've had veggie spring rolls with pork in.... the list is endless

janeyo

[Alice]

Well there's nothing new in the world.
When the Pilgrim Fathers arrived in America they nearly died of starvation surrounded by luscious food but wouldn't eat it because it wasn't what they were used to.
They were saved by the Indians.
Maybe that was their first mistake.

[BrideXIII]

Well there's nothing new in the world.
When the Pilgrim Fathers arrived in America they nearly died of starvation surrounded by luscious food but wouldn't eat it because it wasn't what they were used to.
They were saved by the Indians.
Maybe that was their first mistake.

well it was definitely a mistake on the indians part

[BrideXIII]

We have a 'friend' who claims to be a vegetarian. Now, nothing wrong with that, if it's how you want to live.

Funny though, when we all go away together she readily tucks into a full fry-up for breakfast (if someone else is cooking one). Lunchtime she'll happily eat McDonalds (I wont touch it, personally). OK I know there's not a lot of meat in there really, but you get the gist. When it comes to Sunday dinner, we all love a Roast, so usually find the nearest Carvery, or proper Pub, where she'll pig into a full plate of everything except the meat.

She eats the roast Potatoes, and gallons of gravy, without a thought to how it's produced or what its cooked in.

Nutter...?

LOL i have a vegetarian friend that eats bacon sandwiches, she reckons bacon should be reclassified as a vegetable, cos even a rabbi can't resist them. i have to agree.

[Rhona]

My MIL is brilliant with vegetarians - once she was trying to persuade one to have some of her lovely pea and ham soup and saying "...but...but they're only lardons?"

[piskieinboots]

I was a veggie for 18 months way back in my fitness instructor days of the late '80s - the one thing that broke me .....a bacon sarnie after a night on the pop!

[Two_Sheds]

My MIL is brilliant with vegetarians - once she was trying to persuade one to have some of her lovely pea and ham soup and saying "...but...but they're only lardons?"

I ordered lardons in France ... it was the only thing on the menu that I didn't recognise ... everything in France has meat in it, even the desserts.

I'm a really easy Veggie to have for dinner ~ I'm really really happy with a Baked Potato and beans/cheese. MiL thinks that's boring and always tries to cook me something with pastry on it (I hate pastry, but they know best)